2004–05 Russian gubernatorial elections

2004–05 Russian gubernatorial elections

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2004 Russian regional elections:   Gubernatorial   Legislative   Gubernatorial and legislative   Gubernatorial and legislative (both of another subject)

Gubernatorial elections in 2004 and 2005 were held in 25 federal subjects of Russia. In several regions these elections were moved from end of 2004 to March 14 to combine with the 2004 Russian presidential election.

On 12 December 2004, at the initiative of Russian President Vladimir Putin, gubernatorial elections were abolished throughout the country. These were the last gubernatorial elections in Russia until September 2012.

Race summary

Federal Subject	Date	Incumbent	Incumbent since	Candidates	Result
Udmurtia [1]	14 March	Alexander Volkov	2000	Y Alexander Volkov (UR) 54.26% Yevgeny Odiyankov 18.89% Against all 14.97%	Incumbent re-elected.
Altai Krai [2] [3]	14 March (first round)	Aleksandr Surikov	1996	Aleksandr Surikov (UR) 47.46% Mikhail Yevdokimov 39.46%	Incumbent lost re-election. New governor elected.
	4 April (runoff)			Y Mikhail Yevdokimov 49.53% Aleksandr Surikov (UR) 46.29%
Krasnodar Krai [4]	14 March	Alexander Tkachov	2000	Y Alexander Tkachov (supported by UR, CPRF, APR) 83.98% Against all 7.62%	Incumbent re-elected.
Arkhangelsk Oblast [5] [6]	14 March (first round)	Anatoly Yefremov	1996	Nikolay Kiselyov 44.99% Anatoly Yefremov (UR) 26.47% Against all 14.80%	Incumbent lost re-election. New governor elected.
	28 March (runoff)			Y Nikolay Kiselyov 75.04% Anatoly Yefremov (UR) 17.54% Against all 6.86%
Voronezh Oblast [7]	14 March	Vladimir Kulakov	2000	Y Vladimir Kulakov (supported by UR) [8] 52.49% Sergey Rudakov (CPRF) 20.13% Galina Kudryavtseva 14.55% Against all 7.65%	Incumbent re-elected.
Kaluga Oblast [9]	14 March	Anatoly Artamonov	2000	Y Anatoly Artamonov 66.86% Aleksandr Safronov 9.13% Against all 12.83%	Incumbent re-elected.
Murmansk Oblast [10]	14 March	Yury Yevdokimov	1996	Y Yury Yevdokimov (supported by UR) [8] 76.99% Against all 10.57%	Incumbent re-elected.
Ryazan Oblast [11] [12]	14 March (first round)	Vyacheslav Lyubimov	1996	Igor Morozov (UR) 28.94% Georgy Shpak (Rodina) 23.79% Vyacheslav Lyubimov (CPRF) 21.08% Pavel Mamatov 10.66% Viktor Milekhin 5.55% Against all 6.14%	Incumbent lost re-election. New governor elected.
	28 March (runoff)			Y Georgy Shpak (Rodina) 53.51% Igor Morozov (UR) 40.32% Against all 5.31%
Chita Oblast [13]	14 March	Ravil Geniatulin	1996	Y Ravil Geniatulin (UR) 68.18% Oleg Yesaulov 14.17% Viktor Shchursky 6.67% Against all 9.53%	Incumbent re-elected.
Koryak AO [14] [15]	14 March (first round)	Vladimir Loginov	2000	Vladimir Loginov 37.43% Boris Chuyev 17.92% Andrey Petrov 16.75% Baurzhan Belbayev 10.65% Nina Solodyakova 7.35% Against all 6.24%	Incumbent re-elected.
	4 April (runoff)			Y Vladimir Loginov 50.88% Boris Chuyev 39.29% Against all 7.16%
Chechnya [16]	29 August	Akhmad Kadyrov (died in office) Sergey Abramov (acting)	2003	Y Alu Alkhanov (UR) 73.67% Movsur Khamidov 8.95%	New president elected to a vacant position.
Pskov Oblast [17] [18]	14 November (first round)	Yevgeny Mikhailov	1996	Yevgeny Mikhailov (UR) 29.71% Mikhail Kuznetsov 18.34% Mikhail Bryachak (RPZh) 8.78% Igor Provkin 8.29% Aleksey Mitrofanov (LDPR) 8.24% Against all 17.43%	Incumbent lost re-election. New governor elected.
	5 December (runoff)			Y Mikhail Kuznetsov 48.83% Yevgeny Mikhailov (UR) 41.40% Against all 8.98%
Ust-Orda Buryat AO [19]	14 November	Valery Maleyev	1996	Y Valery Maleyev (UR) 55.83% Pyotr Khakhalov 37.41%	Incumbent re-elected.
Kurgan Oblast [20] [21]	28 November (first round)	Oleg Bogomolov	1996	Oleg Bogomolov (UR) 35.08% Yevgeny Sobakin (SPS) 23.78% Pyotr Nazarov 23.61% Against all 10.46%	Incumbent re-elected.
	19 December (runoff)			Y Oleg Bogomolov (UR) 49.15% Yevgeny Sobakin (SPS) 40.13% Against all 9.51%
Astrakhan Oblast [22]	5 December	Anatoly Guzhvin (died in office) Aleksandr Glazkov (acting)	1991	Y Alexander Zhilkin (UR) 65.34% Igor Negerev (CPRF) 14.31% Against all 8.31%	New governor elected to a vacant position.
Bryansk Oblast [23] [24]	5 December (first round)	Yury Lodkin	1996	Nikolay Denin (UR) 44.75% Yevgeny Zelenko (SPS) 12.53% Nikolay Rudenok (SDPR) 6.31% Georgy Abushenko (RPZh) 5.87% Against all 20.57%	Incumbent disqualified. New governor elected.
	19 December (runoff)			Y Nikolay Denin (UR) 77.83% Yevgeny Zelenko (SPS) 10.32% Against all 10.62%
Volgograd Oblast [25] [26]	5 December (first round)	Nikolay Maksyuta	1996	Nikolay Maksyuta (CPRF) 41.42% Nikolay Volkov (SPS) 13.18% Oleg Savchenko (UR) 12.93% Yevgeny Golubyatnikov (LDPR) 7.22% Vladimir Goryunov (UR) 7.08% Against all 12.98%	Incumbent re-elected.
	26 December (runoff)			Y Nikolay Maksyuta (CPRF) 51.13% Nikolay Volkov (SPS) 38.63% Against all 9.14%
Kamchatka Oblast [27] [28]	5 December (first round)	Mikhail Mashkovtsev	2000	Mikhail Mashkovtsev (CPRF) 38.37% Boris Nevzorov 23.66% Oleg Kozhemyako 14.27% Aleksandr Dudnikov (UR) 10.44% Against all 7.41%	Incumbent re-elected.
	19 December (runoff)			Y Mikhail Mashkovtsev (CPRF) 49.58% Boris Nevzorov 37.66% Against all 12.12%
Ulyanovsk Oblast [29] [30]	5 December (first round)	Vladimir Shamanov (resigned) Maria Bolshakova (acting)	2000	Sergey Morozov 27.75% Sergey Gerasimov (SPS) 20.87% Margarita Barzhanova (UR) 14.63% Mikhail Shkanov 9.69% Yury Goryachev 8.51% Against all 11.05%	Incumbent resigned from office. New governor elected.
	26 December (runoff)			Y Sergey Morozov 52.81% Margarita Barzhanova (UR) 20.61% [a] Against all 25.16%
Mari El [31]	19 December	Leonid Markelov	2000	Y Leonid Markelov 56.96% Mikhail Dolgov 18.69% Aleksandr Korotkov 10.53% Against all 9.94%	Incumbent re-elected.
Khabarovsk Krai [32]	19 December	Viktor Ishayev	1991	Y Viktor Ishayev 85.34% Against all 5.69%	Incumbent re-elected.
Khakassia [33]	26 December	Aleksey Lebed	1996	Y Aleksey Lebed 59.15% Vladimir Kerzhentsev (CPRF) 11.97% Sergey Yerbyagin 8.55% Against all 10.85%	Incumbent re-elected.
Nenets AO [34] [35]	23 January (first round)	Vladimir Butov	1996	Alexey Barinov 22.41% Igor Koshin 20.69% Leonid Sablin 18.06% Aleksandr Shmakov (UR) 16.22% Against all 8.04%	Incumbent term-limited. New governor elected.
	6 February (runoff)			Y Alexey Barinov 48.45% Igor Koshin 30.47% Against all 20.21%

Bryansk Oblast

Governor of Bryansk Oblast Yury Lodkin was going on his third term in 2004 (fourth if 1993–96 tenure as Head of Administration counted), but was removed from registration "for abuse of office". The application to the regional court was submitted by the candidate from the People's Party Alexander Zhdanov. Lodkin, considered one of the favorites of the campaign, linked his removing from ballot with his Communist Party membership. He accused the United Russia party of “unwillingness to win legally”. ^[36]

Samara Oblast

The elections were set up by the regional court on 19 September 2004, ^[37] after the court recognized that the 5-year term limit, introduced into the Samara Oblast Charter during the 2000 elections, can come into force only after next elections and that Konstantin Titov's term expired on July 2. However, the elections were later canceled by the Supreme Court at the suit of the Central Election Commission.

Nenets Autonomous Okrug

2005 Nenets gubernatorial election

←  2001 January 23, 2005 (2005-01-23)(first round) February 6, 2005 (2005-02-06)(runoff) 2014  →

Candidate Alexey Barinov Igor Koshin Popular vote 9,005 5,663 Percentage 48.45% 30.47%

Governor before election Vladimir Butov Independent Elected Governor Alexey Barinov Independent

Gubernatorial elections in the Nenets Autonomous Okrug were held on 23 January 2005, the second round was held on February 6. Incumbent governor Vladimir Butov  [ ru ], in office from 1996, could not be nominated due to the two-term limit (the Supreme Court of Russia overturned regional act passed shortly before the elections that allowed Butov to run for a third term). In addition he was convicted for beating a traffic police officer. ^[38]

Candidates included: ^[39]

• Alexey Barinov, President of a charitable foundation, former chief federal inspector for Nenets AO, ex-employee of LUKoil
• Viktoria Bobrova, assistant of Nenets AO Regional Prosecutor
• Vladimir Butov, relative and namesake of incumbent governor
• Igor Koshin, member of Nenets AO legislature; former secretary of the political council of United Russia's regional branch, expelled from the party after self-nominating for governorship
• Leonid Sablin, member of Nenets AO legislature, chairman of regional executive committee (1985–90)
• Aleksandr Shmakov, entrepreneur, 2001 gubernatorial candidate

Results

Candidate		Party	First round		Second round
			Votes	%	Votes	%
	Alexey Barinov	Independent	4,362	22.74	9,005	48.87
	Igor Koshin	Independent	4,028	20.99	5,663	30.74
	Leonid Sablin	Communist Party	3,515	18.32
	Aleksandr Shmakov	United Russia	3,157	16.45
	Vladimir Butov		1,091	5.69
	Alexander Bebenin		593	3.09
	Viktoria Bobrova		497	2.59
	Leonid Bogachuk		88	0.46
	Nikolay Kalchishkov		72	0.38
	Vladimir Kislyakov		66	0.34
	Stanislav Bestuzhev		63	0.33
	Nikolay Kirikov		24	0.13
	Alexander Kolesnikov		24	0.13
	Mikhail Nikitsin		23	0.12
	Nikolay Yablokov		17	0.09
Against all			1,566	8.16	3,757	20.39
Total			19,186	100.00	18,425	100.00
Valid votes			19,186	98.55	18,425	99.12
Invalid/blank votes			282	1.45	163	0.88
Total votes			19,468	100.00	18,588	100.00
Registered voters/turnout			30,939	62.92	30,933	60.09
Source: Election Commission of Nenets Autonomous Okrug [34] [35]

Aftermath

On 18 February 2005, Alexey Barinov officially took office. In May 2006 he was arrested on charges of committing fraud. ^[40] On June 2 of the same year, President Vladimir Putin removed Barinov from the governorship and appointed the chief federal inspector for the region, Valery Potapenko as the interim governor of NAO. Later, in 2007, Barinov was acquitted. ^[41]

Literature

• Ivanov, Vitaly (2020). Глава субъекта Российской Федерации. История губернаторов. Том I. История. Книга II [Head of the subject of the Russian Federation. History of governors. Volume I: History. Book II] (in Russian). pp. 250–252.

Notes

1. Replacing Sergey Gerasimov, who was removed from ballot by a court decision.

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