2018 Moscow mayoral election
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{{Infobox election
| election_name = 2018 Moscow mayoral election
| country = Moscow
| type = presidential
| ongoing = no
| previous_election = 2013 Moscow mayoral election
| previous_year = 2013
| next_election = 2023 Moscow mayoral election
| next_year = 2023
| election_date = 9 September 2018
| turnout = 2,255,698 (30.91%)
| image1 = {{CSS image crop|Image =Sergey Sobyanin official portrait (1).jpg|bSize = 120|cWidth = 120|cHeight = 150|oTop = 0|oLeft = 0}}
| candidate1 = Sergey Sobyanin
| party1 = Independent politician
| alliance1 = United Russia
| popular_vote1 = 1,582,762
| percentage1 = 70.17%
| image2 = {{CSS image crop|Image =Vadim Kumin (1).jpg|bSize = 120|cWidth = 120|cHeight = 150|oTop = 0|oLeft = 0}}
| candidate2 = Vadim Kumin
| party2 = Communist Party of the Russian Federation
| popular_vote2 = 256,717
| percentage2 = 11.38%
| image4 = {{CSS image crop|Image =Sviridov ilya (1).jpg|bSize = 120|cWidth = 120|cHeight = 150|oTop = 0|oLeft = 0}}
| candidate4 = Ilya Sviridov
| party4 = A Just Russia
| popular_vote4 = 158,106
| percentage4 = 7.01%
| image5 = {{CSS image crop|Image =LDPR Mikhail Degtyarev MoscowTass 08-2016 (cropped).jpg|bSize = 120|cWidth = 120|cHeight = 150|oTop = 0|oLeft = 0}}
| candidate5 = Mikhail Degtyarev
| party5 = Liberal Democratic Party of Russia
| popular_vote5 = 151,642
| percentage5 = 6.72%
| map_image = 2018 Moscow mayoral election map.svg
| title = Mayor
| before_election = Sergey Sobyanin
| before_party = Independent politician
| after_election = Sergey Sobyanin
| after_party = Independent politician
}}
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.
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.{{Cite web |url=http://www.mosgorizbirkom.ru/en/web/guest/10497 |title=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» |access-date=2018-07-30 |archive-date=2018-06-27 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180627150005/http://www.mosgorizbirkom.ru/en/web/guest/10497 |url-status=dead }}
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.{{Cite web |url=https://echo.msk.ru/news/2239206-echo.html |title=За пост столичного мэра в сентябре поборются четыре кандидата – стольких претендентов зарегистрировал Мосгоризбирком |access-date=2018-07-13 |archive-date=2018-07-13 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180713230518/https://echo.msk.ru/news/2239206-echo.html |url-status=live }}{{Cite web |url=http://www.mk.ru/moscow/2018/07/23/mosgorsud-obyazal-mgik-zaregistrirovat-balakina-kandidatom-v-mery-moskvy.html |title=Мосгорсуд обязал МГИК зарегистрировать Балакина кандидатом в мэры Москвы |access-date=2018-07-23 |archive-date=2018-07-23 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180723102251/http://www.mk.ru/moscow/2018/07/23/mosgorsud-obyazal-mgik-zaregistrirovat-balakina-kandidatom-v-mery-moskvy.html |url-status=live }} Thus, five candidates were registered to participate in the election.
| class="wikitable" style="text-align:center;"
! colspan=3 | Candidate ! Parties ! Office |
| bgcolor=#287319|
|Mikhail BalakinInitially, 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. |Member of the Moscow City Duma |
| bgcolor={{party color|Liberal Democratic Party of Russia}}|
|Member of the State Duma |
| bgcolor={{party color|Communist Party of the Russian Federation}}|
|Vadim Kumin |Former Member of the State Duma |
| bgcolor={{party color|A Just Russia}}|
|Ilya Sviridov |Head of Tagansky District |
| bgcolor={{party color|Independent politician}}|
|Sergey Sobyanin |Incumbent Mayor of Moscow |
=Other candidates=
| class="wikitable collapsible collapsed" style="width:100%" | |||
| colspan=4 | Candidates who fail to complete the registration | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Candidate | Party | Office | Note |
| Ilya Bakov
|General Director of "Royal Pond Group", son of Anton Bakov |Registration was denied because the candidate did not provide the necessary documents{{citation|url=http://www.mosgorizbirkom.ru/documents/10279/15827299/rs_64_4.pdf/f1c7f107-3f68-4da3-9971-d9dad6796d1c|title=Решение Московской городской избирательной комиссии № 64/4 от 7 июля 2018 года|date=2018-07-07|accessdate=2018-07-09|archive-date=2018-07-09|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180709221618/http://www.mosgorizbirkom.ru/documents/10279/15827299/rs_64_4.pdf/f1c7f107-3f68-4da3-9971-d9dad6796d1c|url-status=live}} | |||
| Vladislav Buzarov
|Unemployed |Registration was denied because the candidate did not provide the necessary documents | |||
| Mikhail Butrimov
|Entrepreneur |Registration was denied because the candidate did not provide the necessary documents | |||
| Denis Ganich
|Editor-in-chief of the newspaper "National Course" |Registration was denied because the candidate did not provide the necessary documents | |||
| Alexander Gorlov
|Electrician of the MSTU "Stankin" |Registration was denied because the candidate did not provide the necessary documents | |||
| Dmitry Gudkov
|Leader of the Party of Changes |Registration was denied due to lack of signatures of municipal deputies | |||
| Natalia Dontsova
|General Director of the Moscow Academy of professional Growth |Registration was denied because the candidate did not provide the necessary documents | |||
| Alexander Zakondyrin
|Leader of the Green Alliance party |Registration was denied because the candidate did not provide the necessary documents | |||
| Anton Krasovsky
|Journalist |Registration was denied because the candidate did not provide the necessary documents | |||
| Viktor Kuvshinov
|Pensioner |Registration is denied, as the nominated candidate provided only information about the three candidates for Senators | |||
| Alexander Milovankin
|Leading engineer of LLC Gazprom Inform | |||
| Sergey Mitrokhin
|Leader of the Moscow branch of the "Yabloko" party |Registration was denied because the candidate did not provide the necessary documents | |||
| Alexey Nazarov
|President of the Constitutional Committee on Overcoming the Genocide of the Russian People |Registration was denied because the candidate did not provide the necessary documents | |||
| Dmitry Novikov
|Director of LLC "Nitek" |Registration was denied because the candidate did not provide the necessary documents | |||
| Stanislav Polishchuk
|Leader of the Party of Social Reform | |||
| Sirazhdin Ramazanov
|Leader of the Social Democratic Party | |||
| Sergei Revin
|Leading specialist of the Yuri Gagarin Cosmonaut Training Center |The conference of the regional branch of the party decided to withdraw the candidacy{{Cite web |url=http://tass.ru/politika/5314767 |title=Партия "Зеленые" сняла своего кандидата с выборов мэра Москвы в пользу Собянина |access-date=2018-07-13 |archive-date=2018-06-25 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180625024250/http://tass.ru/politika/5314767 |url-status=live }} | |||
| Ildar Ryazapov
|Leader of the Party of Veterans |Registration was denied because the candidate did not provide the necessary documents | |||
| Alexander Romanov
|Pensioner |Registration was denied because the candidate did not provide the necessary documents | |||
| Valery Ruchnov
|Pensioner |Registration was denied because the candidate did not provide the necessary documents | |||
| Yaroslav Sidorov
|First Secretary of the Moscow City Branch of the Communists of Russia |Registration was denied because the candidate did not provide the necessary documents | |||
| Maxim Slavin
|Unemployed | |||
| German Sterligov
|Businessman |Registration was denied because the candidate did not provide the necessary documents | |||
| Igor Suzdaltsev
|General Director of "ICT Management" |Registration was denied because the candidate did not provide the necessary documents | |||
| Anton Tarasov
|Engineer of LLC "Energotekhservis" |Registration was denied because the candidate did not provide the necessary documents | |||
| Sergey Troitsky
|Rock musician, leader of the heavy metal band "Korrozia Metalla" |Registration was denied because the candidate did not provide the necessary documents | |||
| Ruslan Khaliullin
|Director of the Charity Fund "Fund for Support of Children and Youth" |Registration was denied because the candidate did not provide the necessary documents | |||
| Ilya Yashin
|Head of Krasnoselsky District of Moscow |Registration was denied because the candidate did not provide the necessary documents |
Opinion polls
| class=wikitable style="font-size:95%; line-height:14px; text-align:center"
!style=width:200px; rowspan=2|Date !style=width:150px; rowspan=2|Poll source !style=width:60px|Sobyanin !style=width:60px|Kumin !style=width:60px|Degtyarev !style=width:60px|Sviridov !style=width:60px|Balakin !style=width:60px|Gudkov !style=width:60px|Yashin !style=width:60px|Other candidates !style="width:60px;" rowspan=2|Undecided !style="width:60px;" rowspan=2|Abstention | ||||||||||
| bgcolor={{party color|Independent}}|
|bgcolor={{party color|Communist Party of the Russian Federation}}| |bgcolor={{party color|Liberal Democratic Party of Russia}}| |bgcolor={{party color|A Just Russia}}| |bgcolor=#287319| |bgcolor={{party color|Civic Initiative}}| |bgcolor={{party color|Independent}}| |bgcolor={{party color|Independent}}| | ||||||||||
| 28-30 August 2018
|[https://wciom.ru/index.php?id=236&uid=9287 WCIOM] | 69.4% | 13.2% | 7.8% | 6.5% | 1.4% | — | — | — | colspan=2|1.7% | |
| 6-10 August 2018
|[https://wciom.ru/index.php?id=236&uid=9256 WCIOM] | 65.5% | 10.1% | 11.1% | 7.1% | 4.3% | — | — | — | colspan=2|1.9% | |
| 13-23 June 2018
|[https://www.superjob.ru/research/articles/112119/sergej-sobyanin-pobedit-na-vyborah-mera-moskvy-v-pervom-ture/ Superjob] | 63% | 2% | 2% | 2% | —| | |||||
| 20 April-3 May 2018
|[https://www.levada.ru/2018/05/29/mer-moskvy-i-problemy/ Levada Center] | 34% | — | — | — | — | <1% | <1% | 4% | 27% | 25% |
| 8 September 2013 | 51.4% | — | 2.9% | — | |— | — | — | 44.2% | — | — |
Result
File:Избирательный бюллетень на выборах мэра Москвы 2018.jpg of the election]]
{{election table|title=Summary of the 9 September 2018 Moscow mayoral election results}}
|- style="background-color:#E9E9E9;text-align:center;"
! style="text-align:left;" colspan="2"| Candidate
! style="text-align:left;" colspan="2"| Party
! width="75"|Votes
! width="30"|%
|-
| style="background-color:{{party color|Independent politician}};"|
| style="text-align:left;"| Sergey Sobyanin
| style="text-align:left;" colspan="2"| Independent
| {{formatnum:1582762}}
| 70.17
|-
| style="background-color:{{party color|Communist Party of the Russian Federation}};"|
| style="text-align:left;"| Vadim Kumin
| style="text-align:left;"| Communist Party
| CPRF
| {{formatnum:256717}}
| 11.38
|-
| style="background-color:{{party color|A Just Russia}};"|
| style="text-align:left;"| Ilya Sviridov
| style="text-align:left;"| A Just Russia
| JR
| {{formatnum:158106}}
| 7.01
|-
| style="background-color:{{party color|Liberal Democratic Party of Russia}};"|
| style="text-align:left;"| Mikhail Degtyarev
| style="text-align:left;"| Liberal Democratic Party
| LDPR
| {{formatnum:151642}}
| 6.72
|-
|bgcolor=#287319|
| style="text-align:left;"| Mikhail Balakin
| style="text-align:left;"| Union of Citizens
|UC
| {{formatnum:42192}}
| 1.87
|-
| style="background-color:#E9E9E9;" colspan="6"|
|- style="font-weight:bold"
| style="text-align:left;" colspan="4"| Total
| {{formatnum:2191419}}
|100.00
|-
| style="background-color:#E9E9E9;" colspan="6"|
|-
| style="text-align:left;" colspan="4"| Valid votes
| {{formatnum:2191419}}
| 97.15
|-
| style="text-align:left;" colspan="4"| Blank ballots
| {{formatnum:64279}}
| 2.85
|-
| style="text-align:left;" colspan="4"| Turnout
| {{formatnum:2255698}}
| 30.91
|-
| style="text-align:left;" colspan="4"| Registered voters
| {{formatnum:7296529}}
| style="background-color:#E9E9E9;"|
|-
| style="background-color:#E9E9E9;" colspan="6"|
|-
| style="text-align:left;font-size:90%;" colspan="6"|
|}
Notes
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