Parliamentary elections were held in Transnistria on 29 November 2020, alongside municipal elections.
Electoral system The 33 seats of the Supreme Council are elected in single-member constituencies using first-past-the-post voting.
Campaign Obnovlenie candidates ran unopposed in 22 of the 33 constituencies.Apathetic Voters Snub Election in Moldova’s Breakaway Transnistria, Balkan Insight, 30 December 2020
Conduct The Russian daily newspaper Kommersant labelled the election as undemocratic and unrepresentative. According to Freedom House "Figures who oppose the local elites linked with Sheriff Enterprises are subject to intimidation and have been mostly silenced in recent years. The territory's persecuted opposition parties did not play a significant role in the 2020 legislative elections, which left the Supreme Council with no genuine opposition." There were also allegations of electoral fraud.
Results Overall turnout was 27.79%, a record low figure, with Camenca District reporting the highest turnout at 40.86%.
Obnovlenie won 29 out of 33 seats in the Supreme Council, maintaining their status as a majority government. Four independent politicians were also elected, all of whom were said to be connected to Obnovlenie and Sheriff, the largest company in Transnistria.Breakaway Transnistria fully under Sheriff's control as Obnovlenie party sweeps board in parliament election, bne IntelliNews, 3 December 2020
23,493 voted "against all" (20.6%). This was a visibly higher percentage than during the previous elections. In fact, in some electoral districts, "against all" exceeded 30% of the votes; e.g., in the 15th district, candidate Andrei Safonov obtained 1,727 votes while "against all" obtained 1,056.
By constituency
Constituency Candidate Votes %1 – SolnechnyAlexander Korshunov 2,173 80.66Against all 521 19.342 – MemorialnyYury Yuryevich Kucherenko 2,256 81.15Against all 524 18.853 – BorisovskyOleg Anatolyevich Petryk 2,612 88.63Against all 335 11.374 – LeninskyAnton Nikolaevich Onufrienko 1,926 71.84Against all 755 28.165 – TsentralnySergey Andreevich Pisarenko 1,597 72.10Against all 618 27.906 – PervomaiskyRuslan Khanifovich Gareev 1,729 73.26Against all 631 26.747 – TsentralnyOleg Sergeevich Leontyev 1,791 78.38Against all 494 21.628 – YuzhnyVladimir Dmitrievich Pelin 3,531 86.19Against all 566 13.819 – SevernyDmitry Vasilievich Ogirchuk 3,210 89.89Against all 361 10.1110 – SevernyOleg Markovich Baev 3,296 67.46Roman Ivanovich Bugra 1,200 24.56Against all 390 7.9811 – TsentralnyBoris Ilyich German 2,741 61.14Andrey Viktorovich Sipchenko 976 21.77Against all 766 17.0912 – KamenskyValery Grigorievich Babchinetsky 1,710 62.59Against all 1,022 37.4113 – KhrustovskoyPorfiry Vladimirovich Shkilnyuk 4,141 81.61Against all 933 18.3914 – MetallurgicheskiyVadim Viktorovich Kravchuk 1,623 47.21Alexander Stanislavovich Budasov 561 16.32Oleg Andreevich Sikorsky 502 14.60Against all 752 21.8715 – KirovskyAndrey Mikhailovich Safonov 1,727 62.06Against all 1,056 37.9416 – MichurinskyYakov Yefimovich Galak 1,882 65.12Against all 1,008 34.8817 – BolshemolokishskyVasily Anatolievich Kunitsky 3,957 72.42Against all 1,507 27.5818 – PopenkskyValentin Nikolaevich Matveychuk 3,448 84.49Against all 633 15.5119 – KrasnyanskySergey Fedorovich Cheban 2,256 66.20Pyotr Dmitrievich Balika 817 23.97Against all 335 9.8320 – PervomaiskyOleg Valerievich Vasilatiy 2,586 71.12Against all 1,050 28.8821 – Slobodzeysky Pavel Viktorovych Shynkaryuk 2,625 90.52Against all 275 9.4822 – SukleyskyStepan Ivanovich Stepanov 2,173 58.56Hryhoriy Vasilievich Horobchenko 912 24.58Against all 626 16.8723 – KitskanskyIgor Teodorovich Yarych 2,298 79.99Against all 575 20.0124 – ParkanskyIvan Vasilievich Nedelkov 2,632 71.79Against all 1,034 28.2125 – ZapadnyGalina Mikhailovna Antyufeeva 2,608 69.83Against all 1,127 30.1726 – BorodinskyVadim Georgievich Lipsky 1,714 63.58Against all 982 36.4227 – PartizanskyEvgeniy Viktorovich Gushan 1,941 65.27Against all 1,033 34.7328 – TsentralnyIlona Petrovna Tyuryaeva 2,064 65.23Valery Nikolaevich Shemyansky 477 15.08Against all 623 19.6929 – OdesskyIgor Semyonovich Buga 1,539 43.85Nikolay Anatolievich Malyshev 1,296 36.92Against all 675 19.2330 – KirovskyGrigory Ivanovich Dyachenko 2,110 60.15Sergey Sergeevich Malaman 497 14.17Lyudmila Alekseevna Morozova 249 7.10Against all 652 18.5931 – KrasnodonskyVadim Fedorovich Levitsky 1,956 55.87Aleksandr Sergeevich Markelov 912 26.05Against all 633 18.0832 – KomsomolskyAndrey Viktorovich Mezhinsky 1,881 57.10Alexander Vladimirovich Shtembulyak 819 24.86Against all 594 18.03 33 – VostochnyViktor Mikhailovich Guzun 1,811 81.65Against all 407 18.35
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