The Mayor of Moscow is the head and the highest-ranking official of Moscow, who leads the Government of Moscow, the main executive body of the city.
Local elections in Kyiv for the post of Mayor and members of Kyiv City Council took place on 25 May 2014, as part of the 2014 Ukrainian local elections. Vitali Klitschko won the mayoral election with almost 57% of the votes, while his party the Ukrainian Democratic Alliance for Reform won 73 of the 120 seats in the Kyiv City Council.
Presidential elections were held in Russia on 18 March 2018. Incumbent president Vladimir Putin was eligible to run. He declared his intent to do so on 6 December 2017, being widely expected to win. This came following several months of speculation throughout the second half of 2017 as, although he was widely expected to run for another term, Putin made evasive comments including that he had still not decided whether he would like to "step down" from the post of president, that he would "think about running", and that he "hadn't yet decided whether to run for another term". Different sources predicted that he would run as an independent to capitalize more support from the population, and although he could also have been nominated by the United Russia party as in 2012, Putin chose to run as an independent. Among registered voters in Russia, 67.5% voted in this election.
In 2010, after the long-standing mayor of Moscow Yuri Luzhkov's resignation, then-President of Russia Dmitry Medvedev appointed Sergey Sobyanin for a five-year term. After the protests sparked in December 2011, Medvedev responded to that by a series of measures supposed to make political power more dependent on voters and increase accessibility for parties and candidates to elections; in particular, he called for re-establishing elections of heads of federal subjects of Russia, which took effect on June 1, 2012. On February 14, 2013, Sobyanin declared the next elections would be held in 2015, and a snap election would be unwanted by Muscovites, and on March 1, he proclaimed he wanted to run for a second term as a mayor of Moscow in 2015.
The 2018 Moscow mayoral election was held on 9 September 2018, on common election day. To be elected, a candidate had to get more than 50% of votes. If no one achieved 50%, a runoff would have been held 14 days later, with only the two most successful candidates from the first round participating in the second round.
Legislative elections were held in Russia from 17 to 19 September 2021. At stake were 450 seats in the 8th convocation of the State Duma, the lower house of the Federal Assembly. Going into the elections, United Russia was the ruling party after winning the 2016 elections with 343 of the 450 seats, and retaining a supermajority. In March 2020, it was proposed to hold a snap election in September 2020 due to proposed constitutional reforms, but this idea was abandoned. On 18 June 2021 Vladimir Putin signed a decree calling the election for 19 September the same year. Owing to the COVID-19 pandemic in Russia, voting in the election lasted for three days, from 17 to 19 September. Final turnout was reported to be 51.72%.
Legislative elections were held in Russia on 18 September 2016. On 5 October 2016 Sergey Naryshkin resigned because of his appointment as Director of SVR. On 14 June, the Central Election Commission scheduled an election in the Kingisepp constituency for 10 September 2017.
This article contains the list of candidates associated with the 2018 Russian presidential election.
Presidential elections are scheduled to be held in Russia in March 2024. In accordance with country's electoral law, the first round will be held on Sunday, 17 March. If no candidate receives more than half the vote, a second round will take place exactly three weeks later, on 7 April 2024. The winner of the election is scheduled to be inaugurated on 7 May 2024.
Sergey Sobyanin is serving as the third Mayor of Moscow since 21 October 2010.
Election to the 7th convocation of the Moscow City Duma took place on the United Voting Day on 8 September 2019. The elections were held under first-past-the-post voting system, which saw 45 deputies being elected in their respective single-member districts amidst the 2019 Moscow protests, which saw huge rallies in support of independent opposition candidates. The term of the new Duma will be five years.
Starting from July 2019 numerous approved and unapproved rallies in Moscow began, caused by the situation with the 2019 Moscow City Duma elections. Widespread public protests were triggered by numerous authorities' violations, claimed by the independent opposition candidates, during the registration procedure. Rallies on Sakharov Avenue on 20 July and 10 August 2019 became the largest political rallies in Russia since the 2011–2013 protests. The July 27 rally established a record on number of detainees: 1373 people were detained. The subsequent appeals of the MCEC's decisions to the CEC by the independent candidates didn't lead to any results.
Civic Initiative is a Russian centre-right political party. From 2018 to 2020, it was known as the Party of Changes. The founder of the party is Andrey Nechayev, who served as Minister of Economic Development from 1992 to 1993.
The 2021 Russian election protests, also known as the "For Fair Elections" protests, began in September 2021 due to alleged large-scale electoral fraud of the 2021 Russian legislative election.
The 2023 Russian elections are scheduled to be held in Russia, in large part, on Sunday, 10 September 2023, with several regions allowing voting on 8 and 9 September. There will be 3 by-elections to the 8th State Duma, 26 gubernatorial elections, 20 regional parliamentary elections, and many elections on the municipal and local level. These elections will also take place in the four occupied Ukrainian oblasts that were illegally annexed on 30 September 2022 amidst the military invasion of the country.
The 2023 Moscow mayoral election will take place on 8–10 September 2023, on common election day. Incumbent Mayor Sergey Sobyanin is running to a fourth term in office.
The 2023 Pskov Oblast gubernatorial election will take place on 8–10 September 2023, on common election day. Incumbent Governor Mikhail Vedernikov is running to a second term in office.
The 2023 Moscow Oblast gubernatorial election will take place on 8–10 September 2023, on common election day. Incumbent Governor Andrey Vorobyov is running to a third term in office.
The 2023 Omsk Oblast gubernatorial election will take place on 9–10 September 2023, on common election day. Acting Governor Vitaliy Khotsenko is running for a full term.
The 2023 Novosibirsk Oblast gubernatorial election will take place on 8–10 September 2023, on common election day. Incumbent governor Andrey Travnikov is running to a second term in office.
