| Election Name: | 2024 Murmansk Oblast gubernatorial election |
| Country: | Murmansk Oblast |
| Type: | gubernatorial |
| Ongoing: | no |
| Previous Election: | 2019 Murmansk Oblast gubernatorial election |
| Previous Year: | 2019 |
| Next Election: | 2029 Murmansk Oblast gubernatorial election |
| Next Year: | 2029 |
| Election Date: | 7–8 September 2024 |
| Candidate1: | Andrey Chibis |
| Party1: | United Russia |
| Candidate2: | Stanislav Gontar |
| Party2: | LDPR |
| Image4: | RPPSS |
| Candidate4: | Yury Klimchenko |
| Party4: | RPPSS |
| Image5: | CPRF |
| Candidate5: | Yury Vatalin |
| Party5: | CPRF |
| Governor | |
| Posttitle: | Governor-elect |
| Before Election: | Andrey Chibis |
| Before Party: | United Russia |
| After Election: | TBD |
The 2024 Murmansk Oblast gubernatorial election will take place on 7–8 September 2024, on common election day. Incumbent Governor Andrey Chibis is running to a second term in office.
Second-term Governor of Murmansk Oblast Marina Kovtun announced her resignation in March 2019, citing personal reasons.[1] Initially Deputy Minister of Energy Aleksey Teksler was expected to be appointed acting Governor of Murmansk Oblast, however, two days prior to Kovtun's resignation Teksler was appointed acting Governor of Chelyabinsk Oblast.[2] Then-Deputy Minister of Construction, Housing and Utilities and Federal Chief Housing Inspector Andrey Chibis was appointed as Kovtun's replacement.[3]
Chibis ran for a full term nominated by United Russia and won the September 2019 election with 60.07% of the vote against five opponents, including Murmansk Oblast Duma members Maksim Belov (LDPR, 18.27%) and Mikhail Antropov (CPRF, 11.38%), former Apatity mayor.[4] Despite the overwhelming margin of victory (nearly 42 points), it was the third closest gubernatorial election that cycle.
On April 4, 2024 Governor Chibis was attacked and stabbed by a lone assailant after a town hall meeting in Apatity. Chibis survived the attack and was rushed to a hospital in Murmansk for treatment of his injuries,[5] while his deputy Nadezhda Aksenova served as acting Governor of Murmansk Oblast until Chibis's recovery.[6] Two weeks later, on April 18, 2024, Chibis returned to office and the same day held a call with President Vladimir Putin, where the governor expressed his intention to seek a second term and received Putin's endorsement.[7]
In Murmansk Oblast candidates for Governor can be nominated by registered political parties or by self-nomination. Candidate for Governor of Murmansk 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 Murmansk 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. | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Andrey Chibis United Russia | Incumbent Governor of Murmansk Oblast (2019–present) | Registered | [9] [10] | |||
| Stanislav Gontar Liberal Democratic Party | Member of Murmansk Oblast Duma (2021–present) | Registered | [11] [12] | |||
| Yury Klimchenko Party of Pensioners | Pensioner | Registered | [13] | |||
| Yury Vatalin Communist Party | Former Member of Murmansk Oblast Duma (2012–2016) | Registered | [14] [15] | |||
| Karib Gadzhimagomedov Independent | Former construction businessman 2019 gubernatorial candidate | Did not file | [16] | |||
Incumbent Senator Konstantin Dolgov (Independent) was not renominated.
| Gubernatorial candidate, political party | Candidates for Federation Council | Status | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Andrey Chibis United Russia | align=left |
| Registered | ||
| Stanislav Gontar Liberal Democratic Party | align=left |
| Registered | ||
| Yury Klimchenko Party of Pensioners | align=left |
| Registered | ||
| Yury Vatalin Communist Party | align=left |
| Registered | ||
All sums are in rubles.
| Financial Report | Source | Chibis | Gontar | Klimchenko | Vatalin | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| bgcolor= | bgcolor= | bgcolor= | bgcolor= | ||||||
| First | [18] | 50,000,000 | 500,000 | 100,000 | 45,000 | ||||
| Final | TBD | TBD | TBD | TBD | |||||
|- 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;"| Andrey Chibis (incumbent)| style="text-align:left;"| United Russia| | |-| style="background-color:"|| style="text-align:left;"| Stanislav Gontar| style="text-align:left;"| Liberal Democratic Party| | |-| style="background-color:"|| style="text-align:left;"| Yury Klimchenko| style="text-align:left;"| Party of Pensioners| | |-| style="background-color:"|| style="text-align:left;"| Yury Vatalin| style="text-align:left;"| Communist Party| | |-| 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:||}