2018 Moscow mayoral election

The 2018 Moscow mayoral election was held on 9 September 2018, on common election day. To be elected, a candidate had to get more than 50% of votes. If no one achieved 50%, a runoff would have been held 14 days later, with only the two most successful candidates from the first round participating in the second round.

2018 Moscow mayoral election

9 September 2018
Registered7,216,076[1]
Turnout2,255,698 (30.91%)
 
Sergey Sobyanin official portrait (1).jpg
Vadim Kumin (1).jpg
Candidate Sergey Sobyanin Vadim Kumin
Party Independent Communist
Alliance United Russia
Popular vote 1,582,762 256,717
Percentage 70.17% 11.38%

 
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LDPR Mikhail Degtyarev MoscowTass 08-2016 (cropped).jpg
Candidate Ilya Sviridov Mikhail Degtyarev
Party SR LDPR
Popular vote 158,106 151,642
Percentage 7.01% 6.72%


Mayor before election

Sergey Sobyanin
Independent

Elected Mayor

Sergey Sobyanin
Independent

Sergey Sobyanin, the incumbent Mayor of Moscow, was re-elected for a new term.

Candidates

Nomination and registration of candidates

Candidates can be nominated both by political parties and as self-nomination.

In any case, candidates must pass the "municipal filter" (collection of signatures of municipal deputies). According to the decision of Moscow City Election Commission from 4 June 2018, the number of signatures of municipal deputies in support of a candidate must be in the range of from 110 to 115.[2]

Candidates nominated by the self-nomination procedure, in addition to the signatures of municipal deputies, it is also necessary to collect signatures of voters. The number of signatures of voters should be in the range from 36,081 to 39,689.

Registered candidate

Initially, four candidates were registered to participate in the election, but on 23 July, the Moscow City Court ordered the City Election Commission to register one more candidate.[3][4] Thus, five candidates were registered to participate in the election.

Candidate Parties Office
Mikhail Balakin[A 1] Union of Citizens Member of the Moscow City Duma
from 38th constituency
Mikhail Degtyarev Liberal Democratic Party Member of the State Duma
Vadim Kumin
(Website)
Communist Party Former Member of the State Duma
Ilya Sviridov
(Website)
A Just Russia Head of Tagansky District
of Moscow
Sergey Sobyanin
(Website)
Independent Incumbent Mayor of Moscow

Other candidates

Opinion polls

Date Poll source Sobyanin Kumin Degtyarev Sviridov Balakin Gudkov Yashin Other candidates Undecided Abstention
28-30 August 2018 WCIOM 69.4%13.2%7.8%6.5%1.4%1.7%
6-10 August 2018 WCIOM 65.5%10.1%11.1%7.1%4.3%1.9%
13-23 June 2018 Superjob 63%2%2%2%-----
20 April-3 May 2018 Levada Center 34%<1%<1%4%27%25%
8 September 2013 2013 election 51.4%2.9%44.2%

Result

Ballot of the election
Summary of the 9 September 2018 Moscow mayoral election results
Candidate Party Votes %
Sergey Sobyanin Independent 1,582,762 70.17
Vadim Kumin Communist Party CPRF 256,717 11.38
Ilya Sviridov A Just Russia JR 158,106 7.01
Mikhail Degtyarev Liberal Democratic Party LDPR 151,642 6.72
Mikhail Balakin Union of Citizens UC 42,192 1.87
Total 2,191,419 100.00
Valid votes 2,191,419 97.15
Blank ballots 64,279 2.85
Turnout 2,255,698 30.91
Registered voters 7,296,529

Official results published by the Moscow City Electoral Commission [9]

Notes

  1. Initially, Mikhail Balakin collected the required number of signatures of municipal deputies, but later three deputies withdrew their signatures, and registration was denied due to lack of signatures of municipal deputies, but on 23 July, the Moscow City Court declared the refusal illegal, since initially there were enough signatures and ordered to the City Election Commission to register Balakin as mayoral candidate.

References

  1. УЧАСТНИКАМ ИЗБИРАТЕЛЬНОГО ПРОЦЕССА
  2. Решение Московской городской избирательной комиссии № 57/2 от 4 июня 2018 года «О количестве подписей депутатов представительных органов местного самоуправления в поддержку выдвижения кандидата на должность Мэра Москвы»
  3. За пост столичного мэра в сентябре поборются четыре кандидата – стольких претендентов зарегистрировал Мосгоризбирком
  4. Мосгорсуд обязал МГИК зарегистрировать Балакина кандидатом в мэры Москвы
  5. Решение Московской городской избирательной комиссии № 64/4 от 7 июля 2018 года, 2018-07-07, retrieved 2018-07-09
  6. Решение Московской городской избирательной комиссии № 64/4 от 7 июля 2018 года, 2018-07-07, retrieved 2018-07-09
  7. О кандидате на должность Мэра Москвы С.О. Рамазанове, 2018-07-07, retrieved 2018-07-07
  8. Партия "Зеленые" сняла своего кандидата с выборов мэра Москвы в пользу Собянина
  9. "Данные о предварительных итогах голосования. Выборы Мэра Москвы". Archived from the original on 2018-09-11. Retrieved 2018-09-11.
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