2024 Chelyabinsk Oblast gubernatorial election explained

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
Candidate1:Aleksey Teksler
Party1:United Russia
Candidate2:Eldar Gilmutdinov
Party2:CPRF
Candidate4:Vitaly Pashin
Party4:LDPR
Image5: ZA
Candidate5:Stepan Solovyov
Party5:Green Alternative
Governor
Posttitle:Governor-elect
Before Election:Aleksey Teksler
Before Party:Independent
After Election:TBD

The 2024 Chelyabinsk Oblast gubernatorial election will take place on 7–8 September 2024, on common election day. Incumbent Governor Aleksey Teksler is running to a second term in office.

Background

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]

Candidates

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.

Declared

Candidate name,
political party
OccupationStatusRef.
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
Special Military Operation veteran
Did not file[17]

Declined

Candidates for Federation Council

Incumbent Senator Margarita Pavlova (Independent) was not renominated.

Gubernatorial candidate,
political party
Candidates for Federation CouncilStatus
Aleksey Teksler
United Russia
align=left Registered
Vitaly Pashin
Liberal Democratic Party
align=left Registered

Results

|- 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;"| Eldar Gilmutdinov| style="text-align:left;"| Communist Party| | |-| style="background-color:"|| style="text-align:left;"| Vitaly Pashin| style="text-align:left;"| Liberal Democratic Party| | |-| style="background-color:"|| style="text-align:left;"| Stepan Solovyov| style="text-align:left;"| Green Alternative| | |-| style="background-color:"|| style="text-align:left;"| Aleksey Teksler (incumbent)| style="text-align:left;"| United Russia| | |-| style="text-align:left;" colspan="3"| Valid votes| | |-| style="text-align:left;" colspan="3"| Blank ballots| | |- 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| | |-| style="text-align:left;" colspan="3"| Registered voters| | 100.00|-| colspan="5" style="background-color:#E9E9E9;"||- style="font-weight:bold"| colspan="4" |Source:||}

See also

Notes and References

  1. Web site: Борис Дубровский ушел в отставку. kommersant.ru. 19 March 2019 . 2024-03-27.
  2. Web site: Инсайд: сначала челябинского врио готовили в другой регион. ura.news. 19 March 2019 . 2024-03-27.
  3. Web site: ФАС России возбудила дело в отношении Бориса Дубровского. kommersant.ru. 30 August 2018 . 2024-03-27.
  4. Web site: Челябинский губернатор злоупотребил с дорогой. kommersant.ru. 13 October 2019 . 2024-03-27.
  5. Web site: Текслер победил на выборах губернатора Челябинской области. interfax.ru. 2024-03-27.
  6. Web site: Губернатор Челябинской области Алексей Текслер вступил в «Единую Россию». er.ru. 2024-03-27.
  7. Web site: Алексей Текслер возглавит список «Единой России» на выборах в Челябинской области. er.ru. 2024-03-27.
  8. Web site: Закон "О выборах Губернатора Челябинской области" от 31 мая 2012 года N 338-ЗО (с изменениями на 26 декабря 2023 года). docs.cntd.ru. 2024-03-27.
  9. Web site: Гильмутдинов Эльдар Рафаильевич. chelyabinsk.vybory.izbirkom.ru. 2024-06-17.
  10. Web site: Пашин Виталий Львович. chelyabinsk.vybory.izbirkom.ru. 2024-06-17.
  11. Web site: Соловьев Степан Геннадьевич. chelyabinsk.vybory.izbirkom.ru. 2024-06-14.
  12. Web site: Алексей Текслер планирует идти на второй срок. kommersant.ru. 14 December 2022 . 2024-03-27.
  13. Web site: Челябинский губернатор Текслер заявил, что идет на выборы при поддержке Путина. Видео. ura.news. 2024-04-23.
  14. Web site: Текслер Алексей Леонидович. chelyabinsk.vybory.izbirkom.ru. 2024-06-14.
  15. Web site: «Яблоко» участвует в губернаторских выборах в Калининградской, Тульской и Челябинской областях. yabloko.ru. 2024-06-10.
  16. Web site: Щербаков Ярослав Евгеньевич. chelyabinsk.vybory.izbirkom.ru. 2024-06-14.
  17. Web site: Медведев Владимир Владимирович. chelyabinsk.vybory.izbirkom.ru. 2024-06-22.
  18. Web site: Кто станет будущим губернатором Челябинской области. fedpress.ru. 2024-03-27.
  19. Web site: «Я не шоумен»: депутат Гартунг готов к конфликту с мэрией Челябинска на выборах. Интервью ЕАН. eanews.ru. 2024-05-06.