On Sunday, February 8, elections of regional council deputies were held in the Turiisk multi-mandate electoral district of Volyn Oblast. The head of the education department of the Volyn Oblast State Administration, Ivan Vasyliovych Dziamulych, celebrated victory in the elections with 34.6 percent of voters' votes.\nIn total, seven candidates competed among themselves for the right to take the seat in the regional council of the late deputy Sviatoslav Hryshchenko. One more — Yevhen Oles, first deputy head of the Turiisk District State Administration — withdrew his candidacy from registration.\nAs reported from the Volyn Oblast Territorial Commission, on Sunday in Turiisk Raion voter turnout was 75.17 percent (16,167 people), the total number of voters was 21,506 people. District election commissions (there were 70 of them) distributed 16,269 ballots, of which 567 ballots were declared invalid (3.5%).\nThe votes were distributed among the candidates as follows: Ivan Dziamulych — 5,592 votes (34.59%), Bohdan Shyba — 5,155 votes (31.88%), Ivan Kostrovskyi — 2,577 votes (15.94%), Oleksandr Hlavatskyi — 1,539 votes (9.51%), Valerii Cherniakov — 1,271 votes (7.86%), Olena Prystupa — 713 votes (4.41%), Volodymyr Koshatiuk — 550 votes (3.4%). 551 voters (3.41%) did not support any candidate.\nIt is worth noting the tense struggle in the district between the government representative Ivan Dziamulych and the "Our Ukraine" member Bohdan Shyba, the difference between whose results was 439 votes, which amounts to 2.71%.\nOverall, no gross violations at the polling stations were recorded by observers.\n