Moscow, November 29, 2007 Facing the parliamentary elections, Russian Public Opinion Research Center (VCIOM) presents information concerning how the exit poll is going to be carried out.
The exit poll will be carried out at 1 200 polling districts in 57 regions of the country. At exits from polling stations, two interviewers will address the persons that have just voted with a question as to who they have just given their vote, they will also write down the respondent's age and sex.
As, according to the Russian legislation, it is forbidden to make the results of surveys like this public until 21:00, the party that requested the research (the First channel) will manifest its results a little after 21:00 on December, 2nd this year. From this time on the exit poll results will also be available at VCIOM's Internet page:
<link wciom.com/info/exit-poll.html>exit-poll.wciom.ru</link>
.The exit poll carried out by VCIOM will take place in the following regions:
1. | Altayskiy kray |
2. | Arkhangelsk region |
3. | Astrakhan region |
4. | Bashkortostan Republic |
5. | Belgorod region |
6. | Bryansk region |
7. | Vladimir region |
8. | Volgograd region |
9. | Vologda region |
10. | Voronezh region |
11. | Ivanov region |
12. | Irkutsk region |
13. | Kabardino Balkarsk |
14. | Kaliningrad region |
15. | Kaluga region |
16. | Kemerov region |
17. | Kirov region |
18. | Krasnodar region |
19. | Krasnoyarsk region |
20. | Kurgansk region |
21. | Kursk region |
22. | Leningrad region |
23. | Moscow |
24. | Moscow region |
25. | Murmansk region |
26. | Nizhny Novgorod region |
27. | Novgorod region |
28. | Novosibirsk region |
29. | Omsk region |
30. | Orenburg region |
31. | Orel region |
32. | Penza region |
33. | Perm region |
34. | Primorsky kray |
35. | Pskov region |
36. | Republic of Buryatia |
37. | Republic of Karelia |
38. | Komi Republic |
39. | Republic of Tatarstan |
40. | Udmurtia Republic |
41. | Rostov Region |
42. | Ryazan Region |
43. | Samara Region |
44. | St. Petersburg |
45. | Saratov region |
46. | Sverdlovsk region |
47. | Smolensk region |
48. | Stavropol kray |
49. | Tver region |
50. | Tomsk region |
51. | Tula region |
52. | Tyumen region |
53. | Ulyanovsk region |
54. | Khabarovsk region |
55. | Chelyabinsk region |
56. | Republic of Chuvashia |
57. | Yaroslavl region |