2024 Volgograd Oblast gubernatorial election

2024 Volgograd Oblast gubernatorial election
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Turnout65.71%
  Andrey Bocharov
CPRF
LDPR
Candidate Andrey Bocharov Oleg Dmitriyev Aleksey Kononenko
Party United Russia CPRF LDPR
Popular vote 872,010 85,729 58,757
Percentage 79.68% 7.83% 5.37%
Governor before election

Andrey Bocharov
United Russia

Governor-elect

Andrey Bocharov
United Russia

The 2024 Volgograd Oblast gubernatorial election took place on 6–8 September 2024, on common election day, coinciding with 2024 Volgograd Oblast Duma election. Incumbent Governor Andrey Bocharov was re-elected to a third term in office.

Background

Then-All-Russia People's Front executive committee chairman and former State Duma member Andrey Bocharov was appointed acting Governor of Volgograd Oblast in April 2014, replacing first-term Governor Sergey Bozhenov, who served in office for just two years.[1] Bocharov easily won the election for a full term in September 2014 with 88.49% of the vote.[2] Bocharov ran for a second term in 2019 and overwhelmingly won again with 76.80% of the vote against three registered opponents.[3]

Initially the Governor of Volgograd Oblast was limited for just two consecutive terms so Bocharov would have been term-limited in 2024. However, in December 2021 "On Common Principles of Organisation of Public Authority in the Subjects of the Russian Federation" law was enacted, which lifted term limits for Russian governors.[4] Volgograd Oblast followed suit and lifted the restrictions, which allowed Bocharov to seek another term in 2024.

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

Candidates

In Volgograd Oblast candidates for Governor can be nominated only by registered political parties. Candidate for Governor of Volgograd 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 5% of signatures of members and heads of municipalities.[6] 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.
Andrey Bocharov
United Russia 		Andrey Bocharov Incumbent Governor of Volgograd Oblast (2014–present) Registered [5][7]
Oleg Dmitriyev
Communist Party 		Aide to Volgograd Oblast Duma member
Former member of Volgograd Oblast Electoral Commission (2021–2024) 		Registered [8][9]
Yevgeny Karelikov
Party of Pensioners 		Member of Volgograd Oblast Duma (2019–present) Registered [10]
Aleksey Kononenko
Liberal Democratic Party 		Gas rescue specialist
Perennial candidate 		Registered [11]
Aleksey Vasyutenko
SR–ZP 		Member of Volgograd City Duma (2023–present)
Businessman 		Registered [12]

Candidates for Federation Council

Gubernatorial candidate,
political party 		Candidates for Federation Council Status
Andrey Bocharov
United Russia 		* Galina Generalova, Director of the Volgograd Medical College
* Aleksandr Kolesnichenko, agriculture businessman
* Nikolai Semisotov, incumbent Senator (2019–present) 		Registered
Oleg Dmitriyev
Communist Party 		* Aleksey Burov, Member of Volgograd Oblast Duma (2014–present), 2019 gubernatorial election
* Valery Mogilny, Member of Volgograd Oblast Duma (2019–present)
* Denis Uskov, Member of Krasnoslobodsk City Duma (2019–present), school principal 		Registered
Yevgeny Karelikov
Party of Pensioners 		* Dmitry Ignatov, self-employed
* Anton Kalyuzhny, businessman
* Viktor Yefremenkov, unemployed 		Registered
Aleksey Kononenko
Liberal Democratic Party 		* Yekaterina Donskova, aide to Volgograd Oblast Duma member
* Aleksandr Kuzmin, Member of Volgograd Oblast Duma (2019–present)
* Yulia Rubleva, unemployed 		Registered
Aleksey Vasyutenko
SR–ZP 		* Vladimir Borodin, manager
* Natalya Cherkasova, businesswoman
* Vadim Filin, conservative activist 		Registered

Finances

All sums are in rubles.

Financial Report Source Bocharov Dmitriyev Karelikov Kononenko Vasyutenko
First [13] 32,364 26,399 26,910 501,250 25,091
Final TBD TBD TBD TBD TBD

Results

Summary of the 6–8 September 2024 Volgograd Oblast gubernatorial election results
Candidate Party Votes %
Andrey Bocharov (incumbent) United Russia 872,010 79.68
Oleg Dmitriyev Communist Party 85,729 7.83
Aleksey Kononenko Liberal Democratic Party 58,757 5.37
Yevgeny Karelikov Party of Pensioners 38,224 3.49
Aleksey Vasyutenko A Just Russia – For Truth 24,769 2.26
Valid votes 1,079,489 98.63
Blank ballots 14,928 1.36
Total 1,094,452 100.00
Turnout 1,094,452 61.71
Registered voters 1,773,458 100.00
Source: [14]

Governor Bocharov re-appointed incumbent Senator Nikolai Semisotov (United Russia) to the Federation Council.[15]

See also

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