| Election Name: | 2024 Chelyabinsk Oblast gubernatorial election |
| Country: | Chelyabinsk Oblast |
| Type: | gubernatorial |
| Ongoing: | no |
| Previous Election: | 2019 Chelyabinsk Oblast gubernatorial election |
| Previous Year: | 2019 |
| Next Election: | 2029 Chelyabinsk Oblast gubernatorial election |
| Next Year: | 2029 |
| Election Date: | 7–8 September 2024 |
| Turnout: | 48.93% |
| Candidate1: | Aleksey Teksler |
| Party1: | United Russia |
| Popular Vote1: | |
| Percentage1: | 81.28% |
| Candidate2: | Vitaly Pashin |
| Party2: | LDPR |
| Percentage2: | 9.42% |
| Image3: | CPRF |
| Candidate3: | Eldar Gilmutdinov |
| Party3: | CPRF |
| Percentage3: | 5.27% |
| Governor | |
| Posttitle: | Governor-elect |
| Before Election: | Aleksey Teksler |
| Before Party: | Independent |
| After Election: | Aleksey Teksler |
| After Party: | United Russia |
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.
In 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]
In 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.
| 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 | 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 | Incumbent Governor of Chelyabinsk Oblast (2019–present) | Registered | [12] [13] [14] | |||
| Yaroslav Shcherbakov Yabloko | Businessman 2019 gubernatorial candidate | align=center bgcolor="#FFD5D5" | Failed to qualify | [15] [16] | ||
| Vladimir Medvedev Party of Pensioners | Sales director veteran of the Russian invasion of Ukraine | Did not file | [17] | |||
Incumbent Senator Margarita Pavlova (Independent) was not renominated.
| Gubernatorial candidate, political party | Candidates for Federation Council | Status | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Eldar Gilmutdinov Communist Party | align=left |
| Registered | ||
| Vitaly Pashin Liberal Democratic Party | align=left |
| Registered | ||
| Stepan Solovyov Green Alternative | align=left |
| Registered | ||
| Aleksey Teksler United Russia | align=left |
| Registered | ||
| style=width:200px; rowspan=2 | Fieldwork date | style=width:150px; rowspan=2 | Polling firm | Teksler | Pashin | Gilmutdinov | Solovyov | None | Lead |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| bgcolor= | bgcolor= | bgcolor= | bgcolor= | ||||||
| 7–8 September 2024 | 2024 election | 81% | 9% | 5% | 2% | 2% | 72% | ||
| 6–19 August 2024 | COM | 67% | 6% | 3% | 1% | 2% | 61% |
|- style="background-color:#E9E9E9;text-align:center;"! style="text-align:left;" colspan=2| Candidate! style="text-align:left;"| Party! width="75"|Votes! width="30"|%|-| style="background-color:"|| style="text-align:left;"| Aleksey Teksler (incumbent)| style="text-align:left;"| United Russia| | 81.28|-| style="background-color:"|| style="text-align:left;"| Vitaly Pashin| style="text-align:left;"| Liberal Democratic Party| | 9.42|-| style="background-color:"|| style="text-align:left;"| Eldar Gilmutdinov| style="text-align:left;"| Communist Party| | 5.27|-| style="background-color:"|| style="text-align:left;"| Stepan Solovyov| style="text-align:left;"| Green Alternative| | 2.17|-| style="text-align:left;" colspan="3"| Valid votes| | 98.14|-| style="text-align:left;" colspan="3"| Blank ballots| | 1.86|- style="font-weight:bold"| style="text-align:left;" colspan="3"| Total| | 100.00|-| style="background-color:#E9E9E9;" colspan="6"||-| style="text-align:left;" colspan="3"| Turnout| | 48.93|-| style="text-align:left;" colspan="3"| Registered voters| | 100.00|-| colspan="5" style="background-color:#E9E9E9;"||- style="font-weight:bold"| colspan="4" |Source:|[20] |}
Governor Teksler appointed Chelyabinsk mayor Natalya Kotova (United Russia) to the Federation Council, replacing incumbent Senator Margarita Pavlova (Independent).[21]