Alexandr Veshnyakov, Central Election Commission head, made a tentative review of the results of the voting that took place on Sunday, October 8: "As you all remember, about 14 million voters were eligible to vote in elections of different levels. On average, the turnout in elections to the legislative assemblies in the regions of the Russian Federation was 35.6 percent. The smallest turnout was in the Sverdlovsk Oblast (about 27.9 percent) and the highest turnout was in the Republic of Tyva (52.2 percent)."