| Election Name: | 2013 Moscow Oblast gubernatorial election |
| Country: | Russia |
| Flag Image: | Flag of Moscow oblast.svg |
| Type: | presidential |
| Ongoing: | no |
| Previous Election: | 2003 Moscow Oblast gubernatorial election |
| Previous Year: | 2003 |
| Next Election: | 2018 Moscow Oblast gubernatorial election |
| Next Year: | 2018 |
| Election Date: | September 8, 2013 |
| Candidate1: | Andrey Vorobyov |
| Party1: | United Russia |
| Popular Vote1: | 1,655,479 |
| Percentage1: | 78.94% |
| Candidate2: | Konstantin Cheremisov |
| Party2: | Communist Party of the Russian Federation |
| Popular Vote2: | 161,969 |
| Percentage2: | 7.72% |
| Candidate3: | Gennady Gudkov |
| Party3: | Yabloko |
| Popular Vote3: | 92,977 |
| Percentage3: | 4.43% |
| Candidate4: | Maxim Shingarkin |
| Party4: | Liberal Democratic Party of Russia |
| Popular Vote4: | 52,938 |
| Percentage4: | 2.52% |
| Candidate5: | Nadezhda Korneeva |
| Party5: | Patriots of Russia |
| Popular Vote5: | 47,640 |
| Percentage5: | 2.27% |
| Candidate6: | Alexander Romanovich |
| Party6: | A Just Russia |
| Popular Vote6: | 38,315 |
| Percentage6: | 1.83% |
| Governor | |
| Before Election: | Andrey Vorobyov |
| Before Party: | United Russia |
| After Election: | Andrey Vorobyov |
| After Party: | United Russia |
Moscow Oblast gubernatorial election of 2013 was held on September 8, 2013 as part of the regional elections, where 9 other oblasts held elections. It was also the same day as the mayoral election in the federal city of Moscow.
A candidate to the office must be a citizen of the Russian Federation over the age of 30, and must state to the Moscow Oblast Elections Commission that they do not own any cash or money in banks aboard, thus according to new Federal Law against corruption.
The candidate needs to collect 351 signatures from every 54 cities of the Moscow Oblast, in support of the nomination and shall be made within 20 days of the official publication of the decision to call the election. These signatures are not needed for candidates from registered political parties.
In March 2012, through the approval process of the regional legislature, The Moscow Oblast Duma, Sergey Shoygu was appointed as the Governor of Moscow Oblast.[1] The United Russia party has proposed him to the post of governor and his candidacy was unanimously supported by the Moscow Regional Duma. Shoygu took into office on May 11, 2012, after the expiry of the term of office of the former governor, Boris Gromov.
In May 2012, by the initiative of President Dmitry Medvedev, a federal law has been approved and according to the law, the direct elections of regional governors have returned. The law came into force on 1 June 2012. According to this law the first election of senior officials was scheduled to be held on October 14, 2012 in some regions of the Russian Federation.
Six months after taking office, the governor Sergey Shoygu left after he was appointed as the Minister of Defense, due to the fact that the previous Minister of Defence, Anatoly Serdyukov, was sacked. On November 8, 2012, President Vladimir Putin has appointed Andrei Vorobyov, who previously headed the faction of "United Russia" in the State Duma.[2]
Before the 2013 election, the regional elections were held twice a year - in March and October. Both called single day of voting. During 2012, the State Duma draft law on the single day of voting. The bill was passed in September 2012 and was approved by the Federation Council.
In accordance with the draft law, all the regional elections will be held on the same day - the second Sunday in September. In 2013, therefore, they will take place on September 8. This day will be elected by all the authorities who their governors term expired until September 2013.
After the resignation of Sergey Shoygu from the Gubernatorial office, The Kremlin spokesman, Dmitry Peskov, said that "people will be appointed who will be acting governor until the next single voting day, that is almost a year. There is no other mechanism. "
The decision to call the election shall be made not earlier than 100 days and no later than 90 days before election day, and then should published in the mass media, not later than five days from the date of its adoption. On June 6, 2013 the members of the Moscow Regional Duma approved the election date for governor of the Moscow region, so the elections scheduled for September 8, 2013.
On June 11, 2013, The Moscow Oblast Elections Commission (Mosoblizbirkom) began receiving documents for participation in the elections from potential candidates.
In January 2013, the chairman of the Civil Society Fund and a former head of the internal policy of the Presidential Administration of Russia, Konstantin Kostin said that in his opinion on the election of the governor of the Moscow region of the second round will be: "The fact is that today there is no candidate who could really resist Andrey Vorobiev and the 'United Russia'. We are talking about the scale and the resources and experience of the real work ".
On January 29, 2013, the Acting Governor of the Moscow region, Andrei Vorobyov presented his program of social and economic development until 2015 "Our suburbs", denoting it as the election. According to the deputy chairman of the Duma Committee on International Affairs, Alexander Romanovich, the performance of Andrei Vorobyov - this is the real beginning of the election campaign in Moscow Oblast.
On March 22, 2013 the State Duma passed in the third and final reading of a law granting the subjects of the Russian Federation the right to elect the governor did not direct vote of the region's population, and the local parliament.
On March 27 amendments to the law were approved by the Federation Council. In this regard, the acting governor of the Moscow region, Andrei Vorobyov said retaining direct gubernatorial elections in the region. On April 2 law signed by Russian President Vladimir Putin.
In November 2012 the candidates to Gubernatorial office began to send their documents to the Electoral Commission. The process for receiving documents and signatures was finished in June 2013.
16 candidates were nominated by their respective parties:
6 of them were registered:
|- style="background-color:#E9E9E9;text-align:center;"! colspan="2" style="text-align:left;" | Candidate! style="text-align:left;" | Party! width="75" | Votes! width="30" | %|- style="font-weight:bold"| style="background-color:" || style="text-align:left;" | Andrey Vorobyov| style="text-align:left;" | United Russia| | %|-| style="background-color:" || style="text-align:left;" | Konstantin Cheremisov| style="text-align:left;" | Communist Party| | %|-| style="background-color:" || style="text-align:left;" | Gennady Gudkov| style="text-align:left;" | Independent | | %|-| style="background-color:" || style="text-align:left;" | Maxim Shingarkin| style="text-align:left;" | Liberal Democratic Party| | %|-| style="background-color:" || style="text-align:left;" | Nadezhda Korneeva| style="text-align:left;" | Patriots of Russia| | %|-| style="background-color:" || style="text-align:left;" | Alexander Romanovich| style="text-align:left;" | A Just Russia| | %|-| colspan="8" style="background-color:#E9E9E9" ||- style="font-weight:bold"| colspan="3" style="text-align:left;" | Total| | 100%|-| colspan="8" style="background-color:#E9E9E9" | |-| colspan="3" style="text-align:left;" | Valid votes| || %|-| colspan="3" style="text-align:left;" | Spoilt and null votes| || %|-| colspan="3" style="text-align:left;" | Turnout| || %|-| colspan="3" style="text-align:left;" | Registered voters| | style="background-color:#E9E9E9;" |Source: Избирательная комиссия Московской области |}