The 2024 Chelyabinsk Oblast gubernatorial election took place on 7–8 September 2024, on common election day. Incumbent Governor Aleksey Teksler was re-elected to a second term in office.
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Background
editIn March 2019 first-term Governor of Chelyabinsk Oblast Boris Dubrovsky announced his resignation and was replaced by First Deputy Minister of Energy Aleksey Teksler.[1] Teksler was previously viewed as the likely replacement for Governor of Murmansk Oblast Marina Kovtun, who resigned two days after Teksler's appointment to Chelyabinsk Oblast.[2] Dubrovsky's resignation was expected as in August 2018 he was indicted for conspiracy by the Federal Antimonopoly Service,[3] Dubrovsky later fled Russia and was charged with abuse of power in October 2019.[4]
Teksler ran for a full term as an Independent and handily won the September 2019 election with 69.30% of the vote, as his nearest challenger, Konstantin Natsiyevsky (CPRF), received just 12.02%.[5] In June 2020 Governor Teksler joined United Russia party,[6] and later this year led the party list in the Legislative Assembly of Chelyabinsk Oblast election.[7]
Candidates
editIn Chelyabinsk Oblast candidates for Governor can be nominated by registered political parties or by self-nomination. Candidate for Governor of Chelyabinsk Oblast should be a Russian citizen and at least 30 years old. Candidates for Governor should not have a foreign citizenship or residence permit. Each candidate in order to be registered is required to collect at least 7% of signatures of members and heads of municipalities.[8] In addition, self-nominated candidates should collect 0.5% of signatures of Chelyabinsk Oblast residents. Also gubernatorial candidates present 3 candidacies to the Federation Council and election winner later appoints one of the presented candidates.
Declared
edit| Candidate name, political party |
Occupation | Status | Ref. | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Eldar Gilmutdinov Communist Party |
Member of Chelyabinsk City Duma (2019–present) Individual entrepreneur |
Registered | [9] | ||
| Vitaly Pashin Liberal Democratic Party |
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Member of Legislative Assembly of Chelyabinsk Oblast (2021–present) Former Member of State Duma (2016–2021) 2014 and 2019 gubernatorial candidate |
Registered | [10] | |
| Stepan Solovyov Green Alternative |
Deputy chairman of Green Alternative party 2024 Samara Oblast gubernatorial election |
Registered | [11] | ||
| Aleksey Teksler United Russia |
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Incumbent Governor of Chelyabinsk Oblast (2019–present) | Registered | [12][13] [14] | |
| Yaroslav Shcherbakov Yabloko |
Businessman 2019 gubernatorial candidate |
Failed to qualify | [15][16] | ||
| Vladimir Medvedev Party of Pensioners |
Sales director veteran of the Russian invasion of Ukraine |
Did not file | [17] | ||
Declined
edit- Valery Gartung (SR–ZP), Member of State Duma (1997–present), Chairman of the Duma Committee on Safeguarding Competition (2021–present), 2000 gubernatorial candidate[18][19] (endorsed Teksler)
Candidates for Federation Council
editIncumbent Senator Margarita Pavlova (Independent) was not renominated.
| Gubernatorial candidate, political party |
Candidates for Federation Council | Status | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Eldar Gilmutdinov Communist Party |
* Konstantin Natsiyevsky, attorney, former Member of Legislative Assembly of Chelyabinsk Oblast (2010–2014), 2014 and 2019 gubernatorial candidate * Izolda Shilova, kindergarten principal * Igor Yegorov, Member of Legislative Assembly of Chelyabinsk Oblast (2011–present) |
Registered | |
| Vitaly Pashin Liberal Democratic Party |
* Aleksey Besedin, Member of Legislative Assembly of Chelyabinsk Oblast (2015–present) * Yelena Kolyada, obstetrician-gynecologist * Yevgeny Reva, Member of Legislative Assembly of Chelyabinsk Oblast (2020–present) |
Registered | |
| Stepan Solovyov Green Alternative |
* Anatoly Kuznetsov, perennial candidate * Vitaly Volchkov, service engineer * Maria Volchkova, homemaker |
Registered | |
| Aleksey Teksler United Russia |
* Sergey Berdnikov, Mayor of Magnitogorsk (2016–present) * Natalya Kotova, Mayor of Chelyabinsk (2019–present) * Milhail Molchan, Head of Oktyabrsky District (1996–2005, 2010–present) |
Registered | |
Polls
edit| Fieldwork date | Polling firm | Teksler | Pashin | Gilmutdinov | Solovyov | None | Lead |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 7–8 September 2024 | 2024 election | 81% | 9% | 5% | 2% | 2% | 72% |
| 6–19 August 2024 | COM | 67% | 6% | 3% | 1% | 2% | 61% |
Results
edit| Candidate | Party | Votes | % | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Aleksey Teksler (incumbent) | United Russia | 1,023,767 | 81.28 | ||
| Vitaly Pashin | Liberal Democratic Party | 118,683 | 9.42 | ||
| Eldar Gilmutdinov | Communist Party | 66,328 | 5.27 | ||
| Stepan Solovyov | Green Alternative | 27,343 | 2.17 | ||
| Valid votes | 1,236,121 | 98.14 | |||
| Blank ballots | 23,469 | 1.86 | |||
| Total | 1,259,594 | 100.00 | |||
| Turnout | 1,259,594 | 48.93 | |||
| Registered voters | 2,574,070 | 100.00 | |||
| Source: | [20] | ||||
Governor Teksler appointed Chelyabinsk mayor Natalya Kotova (United Russia) to the Federation Council, replacing incumbent Senator Margarita Pavlova (Independent).[21]
See also
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