Which cities will not have elections. The second round for governors and other surprises brought by the single voting day

A single voting day has started in Russia. On this day (the second Sunday of September) elections of all levels take place. In total, more than 4.7 thousand referendums and elections are planned throughout the country, including the leaders of 26 constituent entities of the Russian Federation. Voting will take place in 80 Russian regions out of 85. In total, more than 31.4 thousand deputy seats and elected positions will be replaced. Nearly 72,200 candidates have been registered in elections at various levels. First of all, at 23:00 Moscow time on September 8, polling stations were opened in Chukotka, the last ones, at 22:00 Moscow time on September 9, will be closed in Moscow.

Where will the elections take place?

On a single voting day, Russians will elect the heads of 22 regions - in Samara, Nizhny Novgorod, Orel, Novosibirsk, Omsk, Ivanovo, Pskov, Voronezh, Kemerovo, Amur, Tyumen, Magadan and Vladimir regions, in Primorsky, Altai, Khabarovsk and Krasnoyarsk territories, in Chukotka Autonomous Okrug, in the republics of Yakutia and Khakassia, in Moscow and the Moscow region.

In four more subjects - in the Yamalo-Nenets and Nenets Autonomous Okrugs, Ingushetia and Dagestan - the heads of the regions will be elected by local parliaments.

In 16 constituent entities of the Russian Federation - Bashkiria, Buryatia, Kalmykia, Yakutia, Khakassia, the Trans-Baikal Territory, the Nenets Autonomous Okrug, Arkhangelsk, Vladimir, Ivanovo, Irkutsk, Kemerovo, Rostov, Smolensk, Ulyanovsk and Yaroslavl regions - elections of regional legislative bodies will be held.

In seven single-mandate constituencies in six regions, by-elections of State Duma deputies will be held. These are the Amur, Kaliningrad, Nizhny Novgorod, Samara, Saratov and Tver regions.

Mayors will be elected in four cities, and deputies of city councils in 12.

Elections in Moscow

On September 9 Muscovites will elect a mayor. All polling stations will open at 08:00. They will work until 22:00 - two hours longer than usual. This was done for the convenience of those who return home from their dachas: this way they will have time to vote before the polling stations close.

"Country" plots

A total of 209 polling stations will open outside of Moscow: 183 in the Moscow region, 16 in the Kaluga region, and five each in the Tula and Vladimir regions. As the head of the Moscow City Electoral Committee, Valentin Gorbunov, all the so-called "dacha" sites are in demand - more than 100,000 people are going to vote there.

In total, 3,808 polling stations will work in the elections for the capital's mayor.

Fair and Convenient Elections

Voters (not only in Moscow) are given the opportunity to vote where it is convenient for them. To vote outside the place of registration, it was necessary to apply in advance.

All polling stations across the country are CCTV cameras. You can follow the elections online. So-called electronic ballot boxes - ballot processing complexes (KOIB) will be installed at some polling stations. At the current regional and municipal elections, the public chambers were allowed to send observers to the polling stations. Previously, they could only do this in federal elections. So, as reported by the chairman of the Moscow City Duma Alexei Shaposhnikov, the public chamber of Moscow plans to send about four thousand observers to the mayoral elections.

A Levada Center poll 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 voter sentiment. Despite the opposition's de facto draining of the topic of pension reform, in some places the results are pleasing. 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", what is important in these results is the presence of a protest against the "party in power". So, let's sum up some results. Which regions 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, representatives of the opposition won the majority. The candidate from the opposition wins at the by-elections of the State Duma in the Amur Region.

Prikamye. According to the preliminary results of the elections to the Duma of the Chaikovsky 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, the LDPR will be represented in the Duma by 8 candidates, the Communist Party by 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 represented by seven political parties. The Communist Party of the Russian Federation won 42.69% of the vote. Unicorns - 36.39%. "Motherland" closed - 5.24% of the vote. Elections to the City Assembly were held in Kizilyurt: "Party of Growth" 18.97%. Communists - 14.05%.

Kirov. By-elections to the Kirov City Duma and the Legislative Assembly of the Kirov Region were held. Two more candidates were to be elected to each representative body. 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 for them. The elections were very important for Governor Igor Vasiliev, his team tried to snatch, no matter what, a victory for the United Russia candidates. But the people of Kirov did not vote the way the governor wanted. Another representative of A Just Russia, Mikhail Kovyazin, made it to the Kirov City Duma, who confidently defeated Alexander Chulkov, a member of United Russia and a representative of the "military clan".

Yekaterinburg. Something unimaginable happened there the day before, just in the spirit of the 90s. They turned off the electricity and the Internet at the polling stations, and 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 obtained 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 LDPR increased their representation from four to 14 and 10 people, respectively. "Fair Russia" received three mandates. For the first time, one representative of the Party of Cause and the Party of Pensioners of Russia pass to the regional parliament.

Tyumen region. Residents of Yugra gave the majority of their votes to representatives of opposition parties. The representative of the Communist Party here scored 21.17% of the total number of voters, the Liberal Democratic Party - 20.06%, "Fair Russia" - 9.45%.

Yaroslavl region. 10 representatives from United Russia, 8 from A Just Russia and 3 from the Communist Party passed to the Pereslavl City Duma. Elections to the Yaroslavl Regional Duma: 32 mandates went to United Russia, 11 to the Communist Party of the Russian Federation, 3 to the LDPR, 3 to Just Russia and 1 to the Communists of Russia.

The list goes on. I will note the main thing. For the first time in recent history, the gubernatorial elections have a second round, and United Russia has lost three legislative assemblies. In four regions, United Russia scored less than 30%. These are Khakassia (25.2%), Irkutsk Region (27.8%), Trans-Baikal Territory (28.3%) and Vladimir Region (29.9%). In Moscow the situation is different. Sobyanin has the best result among the current 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 (Vorobiev in the Moscow region and Kopin in Chukotka) received fewer votes than in 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%), West Degunino (73.19%).

It is a pity that the real opposition with a coherent program was not represented by anyone in the elections in Moscow. Although summer campaigns are difficult to run and traditionally have a low turnout, the Moscow opposition had a chance, and the regions have shown it.

In September 2017, a traditional single voting day will be held in Russia, during which the 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 choose this time.

What date will the elections be 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 single 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 election 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 presidential or parliamentary elections in the country, the re-election of local authorities does not, of course, happen all at once, but as the powers of the people who hold elected positions expire. Whether due to the fact that the term of these powers is coming to an end, whether due to voluntary resignation from office, or even due to “forced” resignation, when a person is sent to jail by law enforcement agencies for something.

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

Belgorod region,
Buryatia,
Kaliningrad region,
Karelia,
Kirov region,
Mari El Republic,
Mordovia,
Novgorod region,
Perm region,
Ryazan Oblast,
Saratov region,
Sverdlovsk region,
Sevastopol,
Tomsk region,
Udmurtia,
Yaroslavl region.

A curious moment of the 2017 gubernatorial elections is that only in one region - the Belgorod region - they are held due to the expiration of the full term of the incumbent 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 cancellation of the elections, he was appointed to the same position, and after their return, he was again re-elected. He hopes to take the main chair 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 went into "voluntary" resignation artificially, so that their re-elections would take place this September. The fictitious resignation is evidenced by the fact that they all successfully run again.

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

Finally, criminal cases were opened against the heads of Udmurtia and the Kirov regions, and they were dismissed with the wording "due to loss of confidence."

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

The mayor of Yekaterinburg, Yevgeny Roizman, who was at one time a State Duma deputy, was going to run for the highest post in the region, dealt a lot with 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, are much more than the popularity and authority of the current governor Kuyvashev. But, since Roizman is a non-systemic and uncomfortable person, he was not registered on formal grounds, using the so-called municipal filter against an unconditionally popular and well-known politician, supposedly conceived to screen out unknown eccentrics who decided to just light up in the elections.

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

By the way, in one more region - the Republic of Adygea - the head will also be replaced, 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 choose the main person of the republic.

Which regions will hold elections to the local parliament on September 10

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

Krasnodar Territory,
Penza region,
Saratov region,
Sakhalin region,
North Ossetia - Alania,
Udmurtia.

In 11 Russian cities - the capitals of the regions - the city parliament will be elected:

Barnaul (Altai Territory),
Vladivostok (Primorsky Territory),
Gorno-Altaisk (Republic of Altai),
Kirov (Kirov region),
Kursk (Kursk region),
Omsk (Omsk region),
Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky (Kamchatsky Territory),
Pskov (Pskov region),
Tver (Tver region),
Cherkessk (Karachay-Cherkessia),
Yaroslavl (Yaroslavl region).

In about five thousand more cities that are not the capitals of the regions, elections of local heads and parliaments will also be held.

By-elections to the State Duma on September 10

Finally, by-elections of State Duma deputies will be held in two constituencies. In general, at the moment there are not enough three deputies in the Duma, and instead of 450 people, 447 people work there. But if the elections in two districts were predictable and were organized on time, then it is more difficult with by-elections alone.

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 by-elections on September 10, so Saratov will elect a new deputy a little later.

But in the Bryansk (Bryansk single-mandate district) and Leningrad (Kingisepp single-mandate district) regions, such by-elections will take place. The reasons for the by-election 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, on September 10, 2017, largely technical elections will be held, devoid, by and large, of any intrigue. The example of the Sverdlovsk region, where a truly competitive rival of the incumbent governor was not allowed, is very indicative - elections in Russia are currently held in such a way that everything is under the control of the central government, remains predictable and obedient.

On September 9, more than 4,500 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 elections - in the material of RBC

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

1. Where will the elections take place this Sunday?

On a single voting day in 2018, more than 4,500 elections and referendums of various levels will be held, Alexander Klyukin, a member of the Central Election Commission, said on September 4 at a meeting of the commission of the Federation Council. In 22 regions, residents will elect heads of subjects - in Samara, Nizhny Novgorod, Orel, Novosibirsk, Omsk, Ivanovo, 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 Okrugs, Ingushetia and Dagestan - local parliaments will elect the heads of the regions. In seven single-mandate constituencies, by-elections of deputies of the State Duma will be held, in 16 regions - deputies of legislative assemblies. Mayors will be elected in four cities, deputies of city councils in 12.

Polling stations in Chukotka will open the earliest - at 23:00 Moscow time on September 8, the last ones - 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 took place almost every Sunday. In 2012, a law came into force, according to which voting day in elections at all levels, except presidential ones, is the second Sunday of September.

There are no serious technical differences between these elections and the elections of previous years. Among the innovations is the appearance of "dacha" 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 Committee, Valentin Gorbunov, said that this measure would help increase turnout in the elections by 3%. By September 3, 66,000 applications had been submitted to vote in the "summer" areas, said CEC member Alexander Klyukin.

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

3. Are there other differences - not technical ones?

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

However, there are topics that the opposition has been able to exploit during the campaign. For example, this is a local environmental issue - primarily protests against landfills, says political scientist Alexander Pozhalov.

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

These elections also set a record in recent years in terms of the number of removed party lists, experts from the Liberal Mission. The number of removed lists reached eight by September 2, and may grow to ten in the future. At the elections of regional parliaments, the lists of "Yabloko" in the Yaroslavl region, "Motherland" in the Trans-Baikal Territory, "Communists of Russia" in Kalmykia, the party "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 RPPSS in Yekaterinburg. The registration of the Civic Platform list in Yekaterinburg was canceled due to the withdrawal of a large number of candidates.

4. How much will the elections cost?

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

5. Where is intrigue possible? What to follow?

The gubernatorial elections in 2018 should be won by the acting president appointed, according to experts interviewed by RBC. There will be no second round in any of the 22 regions, they are sure. According to the pro-Kremlin fund ForGO, competitive elections of regional heads are “doomed to be exceptions to the rule” due to the lack of interest of business and regional elites, the authority of the president who appointed the interim, and the access of appointees from the government to administrative resources.

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

One of the main reasons for United Russia's downgrade in these initially protest regions is the unpopularity of the pension reform, against which the elections will be held. Voters associate the party with the government that proposed this initiative. Earlier, RBC sources close to the Kremlin said that in the elections in the subjects with the most difficult situation, the party in power was allowed to use the slogan "United Russia" - the party of the president. This is supposed to boost United Russia's ratings ahead of voting day.

6. And why will there be no intrigue in significant campaigns?

In many regions where elections could have been competitive, strong candidates have voluntarily dropped out of the race. So, in the election of the head of the Novosibirsk region, the communist mayor of Novosibirsk, popular in the region, Anatoly Lokot, did not compete with the acting head of the region Andrei Travnikov. Travnikov, RBC's sources were "Varangian" for the Novosibirsk region and stated that Lokt's participation in the elections would have led to at least a second round. For withdrawing his candidacy, the Kremlin promised Lokt to keep direct elections in Novosibirsk and not prevent him from being re-elected for a new term.

In the Moscow region, another strong candidate from the communists is the director of the Sovkhoz im. Lenin Pavel Grudinin. He stated that a candidate not coordinated with the presidential administration would still not be able to pass the regional municipal filter.

In Moscow, the Communist Party of the Russian Federation nominated a not-so-famous candidate, businessman Vadim Kumin. Unlike the 2013 elections, when Aleksey Navalny took second place with 27.2% of the vote, there will be no strong liberal candidate for the current elections either: Ilya Yashin and Dmitry Gudkov failed to pass the municipal filter, and Yabloko’s attempt to choose their candidate for mayor ended in an intra-party scandal and the refusal of the nomination.

Due to the lack of strong competitors for the current mayor Sergei Sobyanin, the elections in Moscow will be "referendum", political analyst Dmitry Fetisov told RBC. Earlier, RBC sources said 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 his image" base his campaign on love for Moscow.

7. What violations were recorded during the election campaign?

Violations of this kind are tracked by the movement for the protection of the rights of voters "Voice" - with the help of the "Map of violations in the elections." The most tense, according to experts, was the situation with pressure on members of election commissions in the suburbs. According to Golos, officials in several cities in 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.

Vorobyov to stop possible abuses of administrative resources. “I myself called the governor of the Moscow region, he promised that he would take it firmly under control in order to suppress the indefatigable efforts of some leaders at one level or another,” said Ella Pamfilova, head of the Central Election Commission.

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