Russia's Regional Elections: Liveblog

Sobyanin just spoke to a crowd gathered for him in Bolotnaya Square in Central Moscow. "We have organized the most honest and the most open election in the history of Moscow," he said.

As David Herszenhorn points out here though, he did not exactly declare victory.

Explainer: There are two counts going on right now. The official one, from the Central Election Commission, has Navalny at about 25% and Sobyanin at 53%, The other, from The People's Electoral Commission, has Sobyanin right around or just below 50 percent. The former is a tabulation of the official count from Commission members at stations and the latter is done by election observers themselves.

On Twitter, Navalny's campaign manager says, "Turnout has not been announced, but a political decision has obviously been made." He ends his Tweet with a common Russian curse-word.

From RFE/RL's rundown of the day so far: According to preliminary results, United Russia party gubernatorial candidates are winning in Moscow Oblast, Vladimir Oblast, Khabarovsk Krai, Zabaikalsky Krai, Khakasia, and Magadan Oblast.

Making a statement at his headquarters, Navalny says he is convinced falsification is happening now. Demands data from the Central Election Commission.

Opposition candidate Roizman now leading by 2 percentage points in Yekaterinburg, but only 5,000 votes separate him from his opponent, Yakov Silin.

Refocusing quickly on regional elections - although exit polls show opposition candidate Roizman with a 10 percent edge in Yekaterinburg, the latest reported official count has him down by two percent. Mikhail Prokhorov, the billionaire leader of Civic Platform, says Roizman win by a margin of 7 percentage points.

According to Interfax, a source in the Sobyanin campaign said Navalny got higher than expected results because of low turnout.

"The turnout in these elections was very low, and the ardent supporters of Navalny turned out," he said. Navalny led a very active campaign, which allowed him to not only mobilize the protest vote, but also supporters of the Communist parties and others. Meanwhile, the mayor made the decision not to actively participate in the political campaign and instead focused on the affairs of the city.