On the Day of Unified Voting, direct elections of governors will be held in 21 regions of the Russian Federation, elections of deputies of regional parliaments, by-elections of deputies of the State Duma and a number of other election campaigns in 13 regions.
This year, among the 21 regions where direct elections of governors are held are the Republic of Altai, Bashkiria, Kalmykia, Transbaikal, Stavropol, Khabarovsk Territories, Astrakhan, Volgograd, Vologda, Kaliningrad, Kurgan, Kursk, Lipetsk, Murmansk, Orenburg, Samara, Sakhalin, Tula, Chelyabinsk, Kemerovo and St. Petersburg regions.
Some of these campaigns are related to the May personnel changes in the government and presidential administration and will be carried out ahead of schedule. In particular, who resigned from the post of head of Kuzbass. Sergei Tsivilev appointed Minister of Energy of the Russian Federation, former governor of the Khabarovsk Territory Mikhail Degtyarev He became the Minister of Sports of the Russian Federation, heading the Kaliningrad region. Anton Alikhanov He held the post of Minister of Industry and Trade of the Russian Federation, responsible for the Kursk region Roman Starovoit appointed Minister of Transport of the Russian Federation, holding the post of Governor of the Tula Region Alexey Dyumin He received the post of assistant to the President of Russia. Of all these former heads of the region, only Starovoit’s governor’s powers expired in the fall of 2024, so the elections for the head of the region in the Kursk region will take place as planned.
At the end of May, several governors resigned voluntarily, including the head of the Altai Republic. Oleg KhorokhordinHis term as governor expired this autumn, so elections in this region will be held on time. The head of the Samara region also resigned. Dmitry Azarovincreasing the list of regions where the highest official in the field will now be elected.
The governor of the Khanty-Mansiysk Autonomous Region also finished her work as head of the region ahead of schedule. Natalia KomarovaIn the Khanty-Mansi Autonomous Okrug, the head of the region will be elected on September 8 by the deputies of the regional Duma from among three candidates proposed by the President of the Russian Federation. A similar procedure is planned for the election of the head of Ingushetia.
In Crimea and Kabardino-Balkaria, where indirect elections of top officials of constituent entities are also being held, regional parliaments will elect on a single day of voting, which in turn, no later than 45 days later, will determine the new heads of these regions.
In total, elections for deputies to regional parliaments in 13 regions will end on September 8. In addition to Crimea and Kabardino-Balkaria, the elections include the Bryansk, Volgograd and Tula regions, Karachay-Cherkessia, Mari El, Moscow, Sevastopol, Tatarstan, Tuva, as well as the Khabarovsk Territory and the Altai Republic.
On the single election day, by-elections of deputies to the State Duma of the Russian Federation of the eighth convocation will be held in three single-mandate constituencies in the Khakassia, Bryansk and Rostov regions. Deputies to representative bodies of several regional administrative centres will also be elected. In addition, the heads of two administrative centres – Abakan and Anadyr urban district – will be elected. In total, about 4 thousand election campaigns will be held in 83 regions of Russia from 6 to 8 September.
In most regions, voting will last three days. Gubernatorial elections will be held on September 6-8 in Bashkiria, Transbaikalia, Kalmykia, Astrakhan, Volgograd, Vologda, Kaliningrad, Kemerovo, Kursk, Lipetsk, Tula, Orenburg, Samara, Altai Republic, Stavropol and Khabarovsk Territories, St. Petersburg and Sakhalin regions. Residents of Chelyabinsk and Murmansk regions are expected to vote for two days; in the Kurgan region, one day has been allocated for voting – September 8.
In the Kursk region, which the Ukrainian Armed Forces invaded in August, in order to comply with security measures, voters were able to vote early starting on August 28. According to information from the Chairman of the Central Election Commission of the Russian Federation Ella PamfilovaDuring the early voting in the elections for the governor of the Kursk region, about a third of the voters in the region expressed their opinion. For those who fled the bombing to other regions, extraterritorial polling stations were created in Vladimir, Voronezh, Kaluga, Kostroma, Lipetsk, Moscow, Orenburg, Oryol, Ryazan, Saratov, Smolensk, Tambov, Tver and Tula regions. In addition, a number of municipal elections in the Kursk region were postponed.
Remote electronic voting will be carried out in 25 constituent entities of the Russian Federation, and will be used for the first time in the Altai Republic, Kostroma and Smolensk regions, Komi, Mari El and Chechnya.
