Exit polls showed acting mayor of Moscow Sergei Sobyanin would secure victory in the first round of a mayoral election in the Russian national capital Sunday. Official pollster VTsIOM reported late Sunday that Sobyanin garnered 53 percent of the vote. His major rival, opposition leader Alexei Navalny, got 32 percent of the vote, while Communist Party candidate Ivan Melnikov came in third, receiving 8 percent of the vote. Moscow city elections commission chairman Valentin Gorbunov told Interfax news agency that the turnout rate of the mayoral election was about 30 percent.