2024 Chelyabinsk Oblast gubernatorial election

2024 Chelyabinsk Oblast gubernatorial election
← 2019 7–8 September 2024 2029 →
Turnout48.93%
  Aleksey Teksler Vitaly Pashin
CPRF
Candidate Aleksey Teksler Vitaly Pashin Eldar Gilmutdinov
Party United Russia LDPR CPRF
Popular vote 1,023,767 118,683 66,328
Percentage 81.28% 9.42% 5.27%
Governor before election

Aleksey Teksler
Independent

Governor-elect

Aleksey Teksler
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.

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 		Occupation Status Ref.
Eldar Gilmutdinov
Communist Party 		Member of Chelyabinsk City Duma (2019–present)
Individual entrepreneur 		Registered [9]
Vitaly Pashin
Liberal Democratic Party 		Vitaly Pashin 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 		Aleksey Teksler Incumbent Governor of Chelyabinsk Oblast (2019–present) Registered [12][13]
[14]
Yaroslav Shcherbakov
Yabloko 		Businessman
2019 gubernatorial candidate 		Failed to qualify [15][16]
Vladimir Medvedev
Party of Pensioners 		Sales director
Special Military Operation veteran 		Did not file [17]

Declined

  • Valery Gartung (SR–ZP), Member of State Duma (1997–present), Chairman of the Duma Committee on Safeguarding Competition (2021–present), 2000 gubernatorial candidate[18][19] (endorsed Teksler)

Candidates for Federation Council

Incumbent Senator Margarita Pavlova (Independent) was not renominated.

Gubernatorial candidate,
political party 		Candidates for Federation Council Status
Eldar Gilmutdinov
Communist Party 		* Konstantin Natsiyevsky, attorney, former Member of Legislative Assembly of Chelyabinsk Oblast (2010–2014), 2014 and 2019 gubernatorial candidate
* Izolda Shilova, kindergarten principal
* Igor Yegorov, Member of Legislative Assembly of Chelyabinsk Oblast (2011–present) 		Registered
Vitaly Pashin
Liberal Democratic Party 		* Aleksey Besedin, Member of Legislative Assembly of Chelyabinsk Oblast (2015–present)
* Yelena Kolyada, obstetrician-gynecologist
* Yevgeny Reva, Member of Legislative Assembly of Chelyabinsk Oblast (2020–present) 		Registered
Stepan Solovyov
Green Alternative 		* Anatoly Kuznetsov, perennial candidate
* Vitaly Volchkov, service engineer
* Maria Volchkova, homemaker 		Registered
Aleksey Teksler
United Russia 		* Sergey Berdnikov, Mayor of Magnitogorsk (2016–present)
* Natalya Kotova, Mayor of Chelyabinsk (2019–present)
* Milhail Molchan, Head of Oktyabrsky District (1996–2005, 2010–present) 		Registered

Polls

Fieldwork date Polling firm Teksler Pashin Gilmutdinov Solovyov None Lead
7–8 September 2024 2024 election 81% 9% 5% 2% 2% 72%
6–19 August 2024 COM 67% 6% 3% 1% 2% 61%

Results

Summary of the 7–8 September 2024 Chelyabinsk Oblast gubernatorial election results
Candidate Party Votes %
Aleksey Teksler (incumbent) United Russia 1,023,767 81.28
Vitaly Pashin Liberal Democratic Party 118,683 9.42
Eldar Gilmutdinov Communist Party 66,328 5.27
Stepan Solovyov Green Alternative 27,343 2.17
Valid votes 1,236,121 98.14
Blank ballots 23,469 1.86
Total 1,259,594 100.00
Turnout 1,259,594 48.93
Registered voters 2,574,070 100.00
Source: [20]

Governor Teksler appointed Chelyabinsk mayor Natalya Kotova (United Russia) to the Federation Council, replacing incumbent Senator Margarita Pavlova (Independent).[21]

See also

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