2024 Sakhalin Oblast gubernatorial election

2024 Sakhalin Oblast gubernatorial election
← 2019 6–8 September 2024 2029 →
Turnout41.94%
  Valery Limarenko
CPRF
NL
Candidate Valery Limarenko Pavel Ashikhmin Roman Vedeneyev
Party United Russia CPRF New People
Popular vote 127,336 11,912 11,677
Percentage 80.79% 7.56% 7.41%
Governor before election

Valery Limarenko
Independent

Governor-elect

Valery Limarenko
United Russia

The 2024 Sakhalin Oblast gubernatorial election took place on 6–8 September 2024, on common election day. Incumbent Governor Valery Limarenko was reelected to a second term in office.

Background

In September 2018 Governor of Sakhalin Oblast Oleg Kozhemyako was appointed acting Governor of Primorsky Krai after a political crisis that followed the 2018 gubernatorial election and the resignation of previous acting Governor Andrey Tarasenko.[1] Vera Shcherbina, Chairwoman of the Sakhalin Oblast Government, served as acting Governor until December 2018 when Atomstroyexport president Valery Limarenko was appointed instead by President Vladimir Putin.[2]

Limarenko, despite being a member of United Russia party, ran for a full term as an Independent and faced a spirited challenge from Communist State Duma member from Primorsky Krai Aleksey Korniyenko.[3] Former State Duma member and 2015 gubernatorial runner-up Svetlana Ivanova failed to secure support from CPRF and ran as an Independent but was unable to pass the municipal filter. Limarenko won September 2019 gubernatorial election with 56.14% of the vote with Korniyenko placing second with 24.21%.[4] It was the closest gubernatorial election that cycle.

In April 2024 during a meeting with President Vladimir Putin Governor Limarenko announced his intention to run for a second term and received Putin's endorsement.[5]

Candidates

In Sakhalin Oblast candidates for Governor can be nominated by registered political parties or by self-nomination. Candidate for Governor of Sakhalin 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 10% of signatures of members and heads of municipalities.[6] In addition, self-nominated candidates should collect 0.5% of signatures of Sakhalin 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.
Pavel Ashikhmin
Communist Party 		Member of Sakhalin Oblast Duma (2022–present) Registered [7][8]
Valery Limarenko
United Russia 		Valery Limarenko Incumbent Governor of Sakhalin Oblast (2018–present) Registered [5][9]
Vadim Politsinsky
SR–ZP 		Member of Sakhalin Oblast Duma (2022–present) Registered [10]
Roman Vedeneyev
New People 		Member of Sakhalin Oblast Duma (2022–present) Registered [11]
Sergey Makarov
Independent 		Publishing technician Did not file [12]
Ruslan Vakhitov
Independent 		Community activist Did not file [13]
Yegor Zuyev
Independent 		Businessman Did not file [14]

Candidates for Federation Council

Gubernatorial candidate,
political party 		Candidates for Federation Council Status
Pavel Ashikhmin
Communist Party 		* Yevgeny Anisimov, veteran of the Russian invasion of Ukraine
* Mikhail Cherevik, Member of Sakhalin Oblast Duma (2022–present)
* Sergey Ponomaryov, former Member of Sakhalin Oblast Duma (1996–2008) 		Registered
Valery Limarenko
United Russia 		* Yury Filipenko, Director of the Victory Museum and Memorial Complex (2016–present)
* Vladimir Ikonnikov, Chairman of the Civic Chamber of Sakhalin Oblast (2014–present), Member of the Presidential Council for Civil Society and Human Rights (2022–present)
* Grigory Karasin, incumbent Senator (2019–present), Chairman of the Council Committee on Foreign Affairs (2021–present) 		Registered
Vadim Politsinsky
SR–ZP 		* Yevgeny Filileyev, energy specialist
* Anna Mamot, Sakhalin State University employee
* Feliks Mamot, military prosecutor 		Registered
Roman Vedeneyev
New People 		* Aleksandr Borovikov, Member of Duma of Yuzhno-Sakhalinsk (2022–present)
* Ivan Butakov, Member of Duma of Yuzhno-Sakhalinsk (2019–present)
* Vladislav Glukhov, Member of Duma of Yuzhno-Sakhalinsk (2019–present) 		Registered

Results

Summary of the 6–8 September 2024 Sakhalin Oblast gubernatorial election results
Candidate Party Votes %
Valery Limarenko (incumbent) United Russia 127,336 80.79
Pavel Ashikhmin Communist Party 11,912 7.56
Roman Vedeneyev New People 11,677 7.41
Vadim Politsinsky A Just Russia – For Truth 3,538 2.24
Valid votes 154,463 98.00
Blank ballots 3,153 2.00
Total 157,616 100.00
Turnout 157,616 41.94
Registered voters 375,835 100.00
Source: [15]

Governor Limarenko re-appointed incumbent Senator Grigory Karasin (Independent) to the Federation Council.[16]

See also

References

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