The Single Voting Day has ended in Russia. Elections were held in 80 of 85 constituent entities of the country. At exactly 22:00 the sites were closed in Moscow. Earlier, the Asian part of Russia has already summed up the preliminary results of local elections. The turnout on average in the country, according to preliminary data, was more than 60%. And, as noted in the CEC, the elections were the most transparent and calm.

This Sunday, September 9, residents of 22 regions elected governors, heads of republics or regions. These are, in particular, Moscow, Kemerovo, Nizhny Novgorod, Samara regions, Krasnoyarsk region, Primorye and others, in the capital, Muscovites elected a mayor.

Indirect elections were also held in a number of regions: the heads of the subjects of the federation, such as in Dagestan, were elected as deputies of local parliaments. Three heads of regions have already taken office. So, Yunus-Bek Yevkurov became the head of Ingushetia for the third time, Vladimir Vasiliev became the head of Dagestan (before that he was in the status of interim acting), and Dmitry Artyukhov was approved by the governor of the Yamal-Nenets Autonomous Okrug (thirty-year-old Artyukhov is the youngest head of the region at the moment ).

In some areas, the existing ones showed their leadership to competitors by a significant margin. governors... So, after processing 2.47% of the protocols in the Moscow region at 21.40 Moscow time, the current governor of the Moscow region, Andrei Vorobyov, takes the first place - he has 65.28% of the votes. Konstantin Cheremisov receives 13.39% from the Communist Party of the Russian Federation, Lydia Belova from the Green Alliance - 6.35%, Kirill Zhigarev (LDPR) receives 5.12% so far. Boris Nadezhdin from the Growth Party is gaining 4.39%, Igor Chistyukhin from the SR - 3.55%.

According to preliminary data, the acting head of the Magadan region Sergei Nosov received more than 81% of the vote. Acting governor of Chukotka Roman Kopin gains more than 57%, his colleague in political status from the Krasnoyarsk Territory, Alexander Uss, received more than 62% of the votes, and the acting head of the Novosibirsk region, Andrei Travnikov, received 65% of the votes in the elections.

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According to the CEC, in the elections for the governor of the Khabarovsk Territory, the current head of the region, Vyacheslav Shport, and Sergey Furgal, nominated by the Liberal Democratic Party, won 35% of the vote each. According to the law "On Basic Guarantees of Electoral Rights", if none of the candidates receives more than 50% of the votes, a second round of elections will be held.

The head of the CEC, Ella Pamfilova, said that a second round of elections is possible in some other regions. At the same time, she did not specify what specific subjects of the federation were in question.

“The campaign is very competitive. And at the municipal level, and at others, such passions are simmering! In some places the candidates are going head to head, and in some places, most likely, there may be a second round, ”she said.

Regional election commissions should not rush to summarize the voting results, they should first of all consider the complaints received, Pamfilova stressed. The counting of votes should be conducted under video surveillance, and the chairmen of the commissions should announce the results of the elections only in the presence of observers, the head of the CEC added.

Another campaign this Sunday was elections in 16 Russian regions to local parliaments... The election was conducted for almost 800 mandates - almost 7.5 thousand candidates applied for seats in the legislative assemblies.

Party-wise in most regions in the elections to the local parliament wins " United Russia". However, in the Irkutsk region, the Communist Party of the Russian Federation is in the lead in voting in a single constituency: 34.1% of voters voted for candidates from its list. And at the same time, 26.7% are in favor of United Russia. The LDPR is in third place with 16.2% of the vote.

In Khakassia, the parties of the Communist Party of the Russian Federation and United Russia gained almost equal numbers of votes on the lists: 29.6 and 30%, respectively.

In addition, the elections of deputies ended today to city councils,held in 14 administrative centers of the regions. And also in six regions of the country, voters voted for by-elections to the State Duma.

What awaits Moscow after the elections? The construction of the metro will continue. Plastic trees and colored shavings await Moscow. In general, development and improvement will be carried out for absolutely crazy money, on the one hand, and on the other, neglect by the Muscovites themselves. Why change what works? If people can be ignored, then we will.

At the same time, institutions for interaction with residents will develop. Somewhere they will, of course, work, because there are many episodes where they actually work. But, most likely, there will be a lot of fictitious components when they make inflatable buildings and hold hearings with a pre-prepared extras, which are not always related to this area. What we know well, what we are already facing, will continue.

If people understand that Sobyanin, without speaking out about the pension reform, supports it, then, of course, other candidates will have the opportunity to gain a noticeable number of votes. Thank you very much for the fact that Sobyanin will keep the pension allowances for Muscovites. You could have cut this money from us, but this has nothing to do with stealing from the population of retirement age.

On September 9, over 4.5 thousand referendums and elections will be held throughout Russia, including the heads of 26 subjects of the Federation. Political scientists do not expect intrigue on the most significant of them. The most important thing about the upcoming voting is in the material of RBC

A polling station in one of the horticultural non-profit partnerships (Photo: Anton Novoderezhkin / TASS)

1. Where will the elections be held this Sunday?

On a single voting day in 2018, more than 4.5 thousand elections and referendums of various levels will be held, said Alexander Klyukin, a member of the Central Election Commission, at a meeting of the Federation Council commission on September 4. In 22 regions, residents will elect heads of subjects - in Samara, Nizhny Novgorod, Oryol, Novosibirsk, Omsk, Ivanovsk, Pskov, Voronezh, Kemerovo, Amur, Tyumen, Magadan and Vladimir regions, Primorsky, Altai, Khabarovsk and Krasnoyarsk territories, Chukotka Autonomous Okrug, the republics of Yakutia and Khakassia, in Moscow and the Moscow region. In four more subjects - in the Yamalo-Nenets and Nenets autonomous districts, Ingushetia and Dagestan - local parliaments will elect the heads of the regions. Additional elections of deputies of the State Duma will be held in seven single-mandate constituencies, and deputies of legislative assemblies in 16 regions. Mayors will be elected in four cities, and city council deputies in 12.

First of all - at 23:00 Moscow time on September 8 - polling stations will open in Chukotka, the last - at 22:00 Moscow time on September 9 - will be closed in the capital.

A single voting day appeared in Russian legislation in 2004. Previously, elections at different levels were not synchronized and were held almost every Sunday. In 2012, a law came into force, according to which the second Sunday in September is voting day in elections of all levels, except for the presidential one.

There are no major technical differences between these elections and those of previous years. Among the innovations - the emergence of "summer cottage" polling stations in the regions closest to Moscow, where Muscovites will be able to vote in the elections for the mayor of the capital. There are 209 of them: 183 in the Moscow region, 16 in the Kaluga region, five each in the Tula and Vladimir regions. The head of the Moscow City Electoral Commission, Valentin Gorbunov, said that this measure would help increase the voter turnout by 3%. By September 3, 66,000 applications had been submitted for voting at "summer cottages", said CEC member Alexander Klyukin.

Another technical innovation this year is the regional and municipal elections of observers from public chambers. Previously, public chambers could only send observers to federal elections.

3. Are there other non-technical differences?

Most of the experts interviewed by RBC believe that there are no serious differences between these and last year's elections. According to political scientist Dmitry Fetisov, the campaign demonstrated weaker actions of the opposition in the regions than last year. Despite the drop in the rating of "United Russia" against the background of the pension reform, none of the opponents of the ruling party was able to write a protest against it in their election campaigns.

Nevertheless, there are topics that the opposition was able to take advantage of during the campaign. For example, these are local environmental issues - primarily protests against landfills, says political analyst Alexander Pozhalov.

Another difference is in a more heterogeneous composition of the elected interim heads of regions than a year ago, says regional expert Rostislav Turovsky. The previous cast of candidates generally fell under the definition of "young technocrats", now this cannot be said.

This election also became a record for last years by the number of withdrawn party lists, experts of the Liberal Mission. The number of removed lists reached eight by September 2, and in the future may grow to ten. In the elections to regional parliaments, the lists of Yabloko in the Yaroslavl Region, Rodina in the Trans-Baikal Territory, Communists of Russia in Kalmykia, and For Justice! in Yakutia and the Great Fatherland party in the Nenets Autonomous Okrug. Also, two lists were removed for elections in regional centers - "Patriots of Russia" in Krasnoyarsk and the RPPSS in Yekaterinburg. The registration of the Civic Platform list in Yekaterinburg was canceled due to the retirement of a large number of candidates.

4. How much will the elections cost?

The regional authorities allocate the budget for elections in the constituent entities, so there is no complete data on the cost. However, there is information about the cost of individual elections: for example, it is planned to spend more than 572 million rubles on voting day in Moscow. - 1.3 times more than five years ago.

5. Where is intrigue possible? What to watch out for?

Gubernatorial elections in 2018 - the interim appointed by the president should win, according to experts interviewed by RBC. The second round will not be in any of the 22 regions, they are sure. It is in the pro-Kremlin FORGO fund that competitive elections of heads of regions are “doomed to be the exceptions to the rule” due to the lack of interest from business and regional elites, the authority of the president who appointed the interim, and access of appointees from the government to administrative resources.

However, intrigue can be expected when voting on party lists in legislative assemblies and city councils. According to political analysts, the elections with the most high risks for United Russia will be held in Irkutsk, Ulyanovsk and Vladimir regions, Trans-Baikal Territory and Yekaterinburg, where City Duma deputies are elected.

One of the main reasons for the decline in the rating of "United Russia" in these initially protest regions is the unpopularity of the pension reform, against the background of which the elections will be held. The voters associate the party with the government that proposed this initiative. Earlier, sources close to the Kremlin, RBC, that in the elections in the regions with the most difficult situation, the ruling parties were allowed to use the slogan "United Russia" - the party of the president. " This is supposed to boost the ratings of United Russia ahead of voting day.

6. Why won't there be intrigue in significant campaigns?

In many regions where elections could be competitive, strong candidates voluntarily dropped out of the race. So, in the elections for the head of the Novosibirsk region, the popular in the region mayor of Novosibirsk, the communist Anatoly Lokot, did not compete with the acting head of the region, Andrei Travnikov. Travnikova sources RBC "Varyag" for the Novosibirsk region and stated that Lokot's participation in the elections would lead to at least a second round. For the withdrawal of the candidacy, the Kremlin promised Lokt to keep direct elections in Novosibirsk and not to interfere with his re-election for a new term.

In the Moscow Region, another strong candidate from the Communists is another strong candidate for elections - the director of the State Farm named after V.I. Lenin Pavel Grudinin. He said that a candidate who had not been agreed with the presidential administration would still not have been able to pass the regional municipal filter.

In Moscow, the Communist Party of the Russian Federation nominated a not very well-known candidate - businessman Vadim Kumin. Unlike the 2013 elections, when Alexei Navalny took second place with 27.2% of the vote, the current one will not have a strong liberal candidate either: Ilya Yashin and Dmitry Gudkov could not pass the municipal filter, and Yabloko's attempt to choose its own candidate for mayor ended with an internal party scandal and refusal to be nominated.

Due to the lack of strong competitors for the incumbent mayor, Sergei Sobyanin, elections in Moscow will be "referendum", political analyst Dmitry Fetisov told RBC. Earlier, sources of RBC that in the spring, with the help of VTsIOM, the mayor's office decided to make the image of the mayor more lively and "human". Sociologists recommended that the mayor "to optimize the image" to build his campaign on love for Moscow.

7. What violations were recorded during the election campaign?

Violations of this kind are monitored by the movement in defense of the rights of voters "Golos" - with the help of the "Map of electoral violations". The most tense, according to experts, was the situation with pressure on members of election commissions in the Moscow region. According to Golos, officials in several cities of the Moscow region held meetings with members of local election commissions, where they urged them to ensure a high level of votes cast for the current governor of the Moscow region, Andrei Vorobyov.

Vorobiev to prevent possible abuse of administrative resources. “I myself called the governor of the Moscow region, he promised that he would take strict control in order to suppress the indefatigable efforts of some leaders at one level or another,” said the head of the CEC Ella Pamfilova.

According to Golos, in Moscow, Novosibirsk, Pskov, Ivanovsk, Yaroslavl and Samara regions state employees complained of pressure from their bosses to vote in the elections.

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On Sunday, September 9, elections to federal, regional and municipal authorities were held in the regions. Already from the preliminary results of the vote, it became clear that the situation in the constituent entities of the federation is different, and in some places the ruling party simply could not defend the positions of its candidates.

On the second round

A second round of governor elections is expected in four regions - Primorsky, Khabarovsk Territory, Khakassia and Vladimir region... It can be stated unequivocally that the United Russia party has lost these regions.

IN Khabarovsk Territory current head of the region, candidate from "United Russia" Vyacheslav Shportaccording to the results of processing all ballots, he also became the second, gaining 35.62% of the votes. He was bypassed by a State Duma deputy, a candidate from the Liberal Democratic Party Sergey Furgal, for which 35.81% voted. Even if this victory is at the level of statistical error, it clearly shows the result of the protest vote. For the candidate from the Communist Party Anastasia Salamakha in the Khabarovsk Territory gave 15.74% of the vote. Thus, with the help of the two parties of the parliamentary opposition, it was possible to divide the electorate of the “party in power” and enter the second round of elections. The election commission has already calculated that one more round of voting will cost the regional budget 97 million rubles (!).

The victory of the candidate from the Communist Party of the Russian Federation was unexpected Valentina Konovalova in Khakassia... According to the republican election commission, the 30-year-old communist received 44.8% of the vote. In parallel, on the same day, the communists managed to win the elections to the Supreme Council ( regional parliament), gaining 31.01% of the vote. Even the “Communists of Russia” pulled themselves up, securing their seats in the republican parliament from 8.01%.

The current head of the region, the candidate from "United Russia" Victor Zimin collected only 32.4% of the votes. For a Republican head with a continuous 10-year experience, who scored 63.4% in the previous gubernatorial elections in 2013, this is a fiasco. The third was the candidate from "Fair Russia" Andrey Filyagin with a result of 11.2%. There is even a candidate for the non-parliamentary "Party of Growth" Alexander Myakhar managed to gain 6.6%, which was practically unrealistic for a small party.

In the remaining two regions, the incumbent heads failed to gain the necessary support from half of all voters, so elections are expected in the second round at the end of September.

IN Primorye acting governor Andrey Tarasenko, appointed by the president in October 2017, did not manage to manage the elections. At least the first time. He received only 46.57% of the vote. Part of his electorate, apparently, was selected by the candidate from the Communist Party Andrey Ischenko. The 37-year-old communist won 24.64% of the electorate. He broke away from the results of the other candidates by more than 10% of the vote.

The governor Vladimir region, candidate from United Russia Svetlana Orlova won only 36.34% of the vote in the gubernatorial elections. Slightly less for a deputy of the Vladimir ZakSO, a candidate from the Liberal Democratic Party Vladimir Sipyagin - 31.4% of the votes. The third according to the results was the candidate from "Fair Russia" Sergey Biryukov: gained 17.38%. It can be said unambiguously that this is the result of a protest vote, where the regional authorities have lost confidence. In the last election Orlova gained 74.7% of support.

Fight for turnout

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In several regions Of Russia the turnout was lost. The gubernatorial elections almost ended in a scandal. Novosibirsk region... At 15:00 local time, the turnout was 18.77%. By the end of the day, it managed to reach the final 29.5%. The entire single voting day, the turnout schedule here lagged behind the results of the previous early elections for the governor, held on September 14, 2014. However, the Kremlin's appointee is the current acting interim. governor Andrey Travnikovmanaged to defend their position and gain more than half of the votes to prevent a second round. Travnikov won 64.52% of the votes.

Acting Governor managed to save himself from the second round of elections Altai TerritoryVictor Tomenko... won 53.60% of voters with a rather sluggish turnout in the region of 37.29%. In the last gubernatorial elections, the turnout here was 34.38% and went down in history as the lowest. This is the most protest region in Siberia. At this year's elections, they predicted a turnout of 25% and talked about the possibility of a second round. After the elections Travnikov told reporters that he considered the turnout good.

It turned out to be good at Altai, bad in Voronezh region... The regional electoral commission had to make excuses for a turnout of 42.6%, this is lower than in the gubernatorial elections four years ago, when 53.73% came to the polls. In Voronezh, only 19.4% of citizens came to vote, which is lower even by metropolitan standards. The civic passivity was explained by good weather. But this did not stop the acting governor Alexander Gusev gain 74.02%.

In general, the turnout in the last elections in the country was about 35%. This can be called a normal indicator for regional and municipal elections, which are usually not as popular among Russians as federal ones.

“Sank”Turnout in Moscow. In the capital, the turnout was 30.86%. Five years ago, a little more Muscovites came to elect the mayor - 32.07%. Then the oppositionist was nominated Alexey Navalny, who got 27.24% of the votes at the mayor's office. This time first after Sergei Sobyanin became a candidate from the Communist Party Vadim Kumin.

The Moscow region voted more actively. The turnout in the elections for the governor of the Moscow region was higher than in Moscow. As of 18:00 Moscow time, 31.56% of voters came to the polls, of which 62.52% supported the candidacy of the current governor Andrey Vorobyov... This result is more modest than the results of the mayoral elections in Moscow, at which the current mayor Sergei Sobyaninreceived 70.02% of the votes. The pattern came out interesting: the closer to the Kremlin, the more stable and reliable the result of the government.

On the contrary, in regions with protest voting, voters were active. IN Khakassia, where the protest electorate intensified and the party in power lost its share of support, half an hour before the closure of polling stations, the turnout was 39.1%. Five years ago only 31.71% came to similar elections.

Outcome

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These elections were the most difficult for United Russia. Of course, against the backdrop of the unfolding agenda of the pension reform, no one expected this election campaign to be easy. Political analysts emphasize that the ruling party was saved by maintaining its own agenda and responding to information attacks. Political points were brought by the initiative of the Secretary of the General Council "United Russia" Andrey Turchakwho proposed to abolish pension preferences for parliamentarians. Without this, the situation in the regions with elections would have been even more sad for the ruling party.

The opposition made a key stake during the election campaigns of its candidates precisely on raising the retirement age, which turned many previously loyal Russians away from United Russia. With this agenda, rallies and protests were held throughout the country, which also intensified protest moods in a number of regions.

The opposition (primarily the Communist Party of the Russian Federation, "Fair Russia", "Yabloko") made a serious stake on criticism of the pension reform during most of the election campaigns throughout the country. But the highest results were obtained primarily where a serious anti-rating of the regional authorities (Khakassia) was recorded for a long time, influential representatives of the regional elites (Irkutsk Oblast, Yekaterinburg) are behind the opposition forces, or long-standing socio-economic problems are observed (Zabaikalsky Krai). In such territories, the level of protest voting has traditionally been above the national average.

- Dmitry Orlov, political scientist, CEO of the Agency for Political and Economic Communications (APEC)

Political scientist Dmitry Orlov also saw fatigue from old governors in regions with protest voting. On his Facebook page, he wrote that skepticism towards the "Varangian" in Primorye worked on the result of an experienced player in regional politics Sergey Furgal, earlier passed to the State Duma. General fatigue and dissatisfaction with the current government also affected the result of a very young representative of the Communist Party Valentina Konovalovand in Khakassia.

A protest vote is characterized by voting not for, but in spite of, i.e. often in Russian political reality, the voter ticks off a candidate that he is not particularly aware of. For the choice, it is enough to resist the political monopoly of the ruling party and the current federal agenda of the party that puts forward its stranger. Something like this happened in Vladimir region, where the federal leadership of the LDPR party did not even expect that their candidate for governor would be able to show a good result.

And here is another wonderful variant of a purely protest vote - the Vladimir region. A second round is planned there, in which Vladimir Sipyagin, a candidate from the loyal regional government, the Liberal Democratic Party, may come out with a very good result. It would seem that everyone was taken into account, there is no communist in the elections, the candidates are absolutely predictable. And what happened was a massive protest vote for an unmotivated (yet?) Candidate. Zhirinovsky even confused his name when he came to campaign.

- Alexey Makarkin, First Vice President of the Center for Political Technologies, specialist in the field of political analysts and contemporary history

The verdict for the elections is the same - the ruling party has lost. Doctor of Political Science, Communist Sergey Obukhov has already compared the relative loss of United Russia in terms of the scale of the disaster of the United Russia party in 2011, when only with the help of falsifications, United Russia was able to get a majority in the State Duma, the political scientist believes. But today the protest is not only metropolitan, but ubiquitous and regional. This is the difference between the failure of "United Russia" in 2018. The general background of the deterioration of the socio-economic situation, plus the alarming state into which the society was driven, played a cruel joke with the interim and United Russia. And the results of last Sunday showed that the Communist Party became the greatest beneficiary of the negativity around the pension reform.

Ksenia Shiryaeva

A poll by the Levada Center, conducted on August 23-30, showed a strong increase in protest moods - 53% declared their readiness to take part in mass protests against raising the retirement age (in July it was 37%). The elections have become a kind of barometer of voters' mood. Despite the fact that the opposition has drained the topic of the pension reform, the results are pleasing in some places. The systemic opposition in a number of regions was able to achieve impressive results. Although I cannot call the parties financed from the state budget "opposition", it is the presence of a protest against the "party of power" that is important in these results. So, let's sum up some results. In what regions do they dislike United Russia the most?

Amur region. Of the 28 campaigns for the election of heads and deputies of representative bodies of city and municipal districts, opposition representatives won the majority. An opposition candidate wins the State Duma by-election in the Amur Region.

Prikamye. According to the preliminary results of the elections to the Duma of the Tchaikovsky City District, the Communist Party of the Russian Federation and the Liberal Democratic Party received 13 out of 25 mandates, the remaining 12 went to United Russia. According to Kommersant-Prikamye, 8 candidates will represent the Liberal Democratic Party in the Duma, the Communist Party of the Russian Federation - 5.

Dagestan. One of the main surprises of the municipal elections in Dagestan was the victory of the communists in the city of oil workers. In Izberbash, candidates were nominated from seven political parties. The Communist Party got 42.69% of the vote. Unicorns - 36.39%. "Rodina" closed - 5.24% of the vote. In Kizilyurt, elections to the city council were held: "Party of Growth" 18.97%. Communists - 14.05%.

Kirov. Additional elections were held to the Kirov City Duma and the Legislative Assembly of the Kirov Region. Two candidates were to be additionally elected to both representative bodies. These elections caused an unprecedented excitement among various political forces, and representatives of almost all political parties, even dwarf ones, like the Kirov “Rodina”, showed up. The elections were very important for the governor Igor Vasiliev, his team tried to snatch, whatever it was, a victory for the candidates from United Russia. But residents of Kirov did not vote the way the governor wanted. Another representative of Fair Russia, Mikhail Kovyazin, entered the Kirov City Duma, confidently defeating United Russia and a representative of the “military clan” Alexander Chulkov.

Ekaterinburg. Something unimaginable was happening there the day before, just in the spirit of the 90s. They turned off the light and the Internet at polling stations, called the FSB. For the first time in the history of the City Duma of Yekaterinburg, the “city team” remains in the minority in terms of the number of deputies. Taking into account the mandates received from party lists, 16-17 new deputies are representatives of the team of Vladimir Tungusov and 19-20 deputies are representatives of the "united opposition".

Chita. In the elections to the Legislative Assembly of the Trans-Baikal Territory, she lost 15 seats - instead of the previous 36 mandates, she will receive 21. The Communist Party of the Russian Federation and the Liberal Democratic Party increased their representations from four to 14 and 10 people, respectively. A Just Russia received three mandates. For the first time, one representative of the Party of Cause and the Party of Pensioners of Russia are allowed to enter the regional parliament.

Tyumen region. Residents of Ugra gave the majority of votes to representatives of opposition parties. The representative of the Communist Party of the Russian Federation here scored 21.17% of the total who voted, the Liberal Democratic Party - 20.06%, "Fair Russia" - 9.45%.

Yaroslavskaya oblast. IN city \u200b\u200bcouncil Pereslavl was attended by 10 representatives from the "United Russia", 8 - from the "Fair Russia" and 3 - from the Communist Party. Elections to the Yaroslavl Regional Duma: 32 mandates went to United Russia, 11 to the Communist Party, 3 to the Liberal Democratic Party, 3 to A Just Russia and 1 to Communists of Russia.

The list goes on. I will note the main thing. For the first time in modern history, the gubernatorial elections are in second rounds, and United Russia has lost three legislative assemblies. In four regions, United Russia gained less than 30%. These are Khakassia (25.2%), Irkutsk Region (27.8%), Trans-Baikal Territory (28.3%) and Vladimir Region (29.9%). The situation is different in Moscow. Sobyanin has the best result among the incumbent governors who participated in the elections on a single voting day.

So what do we have - three governors will fight for the governor's seat in the second round. Not bad. And two (Vorobyov in the Moscow region and Kopin in Chukotka) received fewer votes than in the previous elections. I continue to study sociology in Moscow. Sobyanin received the highest percentage of votes received in those areas where the metro has recently arrived or will soon arrive - Novomoskovsky (80.15%), Solntsevo (77.84%), Kosino-Ukhtomsky (75.90%), Novo-Peredelkino ( 75.59%), Nekrasovka (74.84%), Western Degunino (73.19%).

It is a pity that no one presented a real opposition with a clear program at the elections in Moscow. Although summer campaigns are difficult to conduct, and they traditionally have low turnout, the Moscow opposition had a chance, and the regions have demonstrated this.

In September 2017, Russia will host the traditional single voting day, during which governors of some regions, mayors of cities and even two deputies of the State Duma, which began its work less than a year ago, will be re-elected. We figure out who and where we are choosing this time.

What date will the elections be held in September

Elections at various levels, which await Russia in September, will be held on the so-called single voting day, which this time is scheduled for 10 September.

The practice of holding such common days appeared in Russia in 2004. Previously, elections were held in different parts of the country in their natural course, and almost every Sunday someone was re-elected somewhere. To optimize the electoral process and save money, the then head of the CEC, Alexander Veshnyakov, proposed an idea that is still used today.

Single voting day in September 2017: which regions elect the head

Unlike the general for all presidential or parliamentary elections in the country, the re-election of local government bodies does not take place at once, but as the powers of the people who hold elected positions expire. Whether by virtue of the fact that the term of these powers is coming to an end, whether by virtue of voluntary resignation from office, or even by virtue of “forced” resignation, when a person is sent to jail for something by law enforcement agencies.

Let's start with the regions that will re-elect the main official - the local governor. Such elections will take place in the following 16 Russian regions:

1. Belgorod region,
2. Buryatia,
3. Kaliningrad region,
4. Karelia,
5. Kirov region,
6. Mari El,
7. Mordovia,
8. Novgorod region,
9. Perm Territory,
10. Ryazan Oblast,
11. Saratov region,
12. Sverdlovsk region,
13. Sevastopol,
14. Tomsk region,
15. Udmurtia,
16. Yaroslavskaya oblast.

An interesting aspect of the 2017 gubernatorial elections is that only in one region - the Belgorod region - they are being held due to the expiration of the full term of office of the current governor.

For the last 24 years the region has been headed by the “eternal” governor Yevgeny Savchenko, who was elected and re-elected under Yeltsin, and then under Putin. After the elections were canceled, he was appointed to the same position, and after their return, he was re-elected again. Hopes to take the main seat in the region for another five years Savchenko and this time.

With other regions, things are a little more complicated. In 11 regions, the governors resigned artificially in a “voluntary” resignation so that their re-election fell on this September. The fictitious resignation is evidenced by the fact that all of them are successfully running again.

In two regions - the Kaliningrad region and Sevastopol - local heads were appointed by the president to the posts of plenipotentiary representatives of various districts, which freed these seats.

Finally, criminal cases were opened against the heads of Udmurtia and the Kirov regions, and they were dismissed with the wording “in connection with the loss of confidence”.

The most scandalous after the Udmurt and Kirov elections, where the governors were imprisoned, are, of course, the elections of the governor Sverdlovsk region.

The mayor of Yekaterinburg, Yevgeny Roizman, who was once a deputy of the State Duma, was going to run for the highest post in the region, was involved in the problem of combating drugs in his area and various other public work. Roizman has authority and popularity in the region, which, we are not afraid to say, is much greater than the popularity and authority of the current governor Kuyvashev. But, since Roizman is a non-systemic and inconvenient person, he was not registered on formal grounds, using the so-called municipal filter against an undoubtedly popular and well-known politician, supposedly conceived to screen out unknown eccentrics who decided to just appear in the elections.

Roizman called on his voters to boycott such elections, but it is clear that this tactic will in no way prevent Kuyvashev from reelecting, if only because the minimum turnout was canceled a long time ago, and any elections will be recognized as valid.

By the way, in another region - the Republic of Adygea - the head will also change, but he will be re-elected by the local parliament - khase. Such is the legislation in this Russian subject, where the people are not trusted to elect the main person of the republic.

In which regions will the elections to the local parliament be held on September 10

A new composition of local parliaments will be elected in six Russian regions. The term of office of parliaments is the same as for all governors - five years. So, elections to the regional parliament are expected in:

1. Krasnodar Territory,
2. Penza region,
3. Saratov region,
4. Sakhalin region,
5. North Ossetia - Alania,
6. Udmurtia.

The city parliament will be elected in 11 Russian cities - regional capitals:

1. Barnaul (Altai Territory),
2. Vladivostok (Primorsky Territory),
3. Gorno-Altaysk (Republic of Altai),
4. Kirov (Kirov region),
5. Kursk (Kursk region),
6. Omsk (Omsk region),
7. Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky (Kamchatka Territory),
8. Pskov (Pskov region),
9. Tver (Tver region),
10. Cherkessk (Karachay-Cherkessia),
11. Yaroslavl (Yaroslavl region).

In about five thousand other cities that are not regional capitals, elections for local heads and parliaments will also be held.

By-elections to the State Duma on September 10

Finally, the by-election of the State Duma deputies will take place in two constituencies. In general, at the moment the Duma lacks three deputies, and instead of 450 people there are 447. But if the elections in two constituencies were predictable and organized on time, then with one by-election it is more and more difficult.

The fact is that on June 17, a deputy from Saratov, the former mayor of this city, Oleg Grishchenko, died, and there was simply no time left to organize the by-elections on September 10, so Saratov will choose a new deputy a little later.

But in Bryansk (Bryansk single member constituency) and Leningrad (Kingisepp single-mandate district) regions, such by-elections will take place. The reasons for the by-elections are different. Former speaker of the State Duma Sergei Naryshkin, who was elected in the Leningrad region, was appointed to another position, heading the Foreign Intelligence Service. Bryansk deputy Vladimir Zhutenkov resigned voluntarily.

Thus, September 10, 2017 will take place in many ways technical choices, deprived, by and large, of any intrigue. The example of the Sverdlovsk region, where a really competitive rival of the incumbent governor was not allowed, is very indicative - elections in Russia are currently being held so that everything is under the control of the central government, remains predictable and obedient.