2013 Moscow mayoral election

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2013 Moscow mayoral election
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  2003 September 8, 2013 2018  
Turnout32.3%
 
Sergey Sobyanin 2010-10-15 (1) (cropped) 2.jpg
Alexey Navalny 2 (cropped) 1.jpg
Ivan Melnikov 11 September 2010 (1).jpg
Candidate Sergey Sobyanin Alexei Navalny Ivan Melnikov
Party Independent RPR–PARNAS CPRF
Alliance United Russia KSO
Popular vote1,193,178632,697248,294
Percentage51.37%27.24%10.69%

Mayor before election

Sergey Sobyanin
Independent

Elected Mayor

Sergey Sobyanin
Independent

The 2013 Moscow mayoral election was held on September 8, 2013, as part of the regional elections, at the same time as the elections in Moscow Oblast and other Oblasts were held.

Contents

Elections were held after Mayor Sergey Sobyanin had announced his departure on June 4. The elections were the first time in 10 years that citizens of the federal city of Moscow could choose their mayor by a popular vote. [1]

Moscow is both a city and separate federal subject, according to the Constitution of Russia. [2] Most of federal subjects are headed by governors or presidents, but the office of the head of Moscow is called Mayor of Moscow , according to the Charter of the city of Moscow. [3] Sergey Sobyanin won with 51.37% of the vote in the first round, with Alexei Navalny receiving 27.24% of the vote, significantly more than previously expected by the polls. Sobyanin was declared the winner after the first round. Voter turnout was 33.23%. [4] The total number of registered voters was 7,176,568. [5]

Background

The position of Mayor of Moscow was elected between 1991 and 2004. In 2004, Vladimir Putin suggested a law to abolish direct elections of governors, the Moscow mayor, and presidents of Russian regions. The law was swiftly adopted by the parliament. [6] The new legislation moved the election system to an indirect one in which parliamentary political parties and the President of Russia nominated a candidate who must then have been approved by the Moscow City Duma. Following the 2011–13 Russian protests which followed the 2011 parliamentary election, President Dmitry Medvedev offered to re-introduce the direct elections of the governors and the mayor of Moscow, and corresponding legislation was approved by the Parliament. [7]

On June 5, 2013, the incumbent mayor, Sergey Sobyanin, who was nominated as mayor in 2010, announced his resignation from the post. Russian law allows the mayor to resign and run again for the same office if the president gives his approval. [8] A short time later, Sobyanin confirmed his intention to stand for election.[ citation needed ]

Regulations

A candidate to the office must be citizen of the Russian Federation over the age of 30. Self-nomination of candidates for the post of Mayor of Moscow, and the collection of signatures of 1% of Moscow voters (about 73 000 signatures [9] [10] [11] ) in support of the nomination shall be made within 30 days of the official publication of the decision to call the election. Or alternatively these signatures are not needed for candidates from registered political party. [12]

Each of the political parties (electoral blocks were cancelled in the early 2000s) can nominate only one candidate for the post of mayor. In this case, the candidate can not give consent to be nominated from several polling organizations. The candidate nominated by self-nomination cannot give consent to be nominated in the same election by an electoral association. [12]

A candidate for mayor of Moscow may have up to 100 "trusted representatives". [12] The maximum amount of a candidate's election fund shall not exceed 200 million rubles. In the second round of this amount may be increased by 10 percent. [12]

Municipal filter

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Ballot of the election

All registered candidates are required to pass so called municipal filter introduced be a federal law of 2012: [13] all candidates are required to receive support from at least 6% of elected municipal deputies or heads of municipalities. Those supporting municipal deputies should represent no less than 75% of the federal subject's municipalities. One deputy can only support one candidate. [12] For Moscow 2013 elections it means that every candidate should provide signatures of at least 110 elected municipal deputies representing 75% of all Moscow municipalities. [10] Since most municipalities are controlled by the United Russia party the municipal filter is especially hard to pass for the opposition candidates. [14]

Criteria for election

To be elected a candidate must get more than 50% of votes. If no one achieves 50%, a runoff is to be held in 14 days. Only the two most successful candidates from the first round participate in the second round. [12]

Election date

In a vote held on June 6, 27 members of Moscow City Duma backed the proposed date, and only two voted against it. [15]

Registered candidates

Registration for the election was completed on July 17. [16]

Potential candidates

About 40 persons wanted to participate in the elections. [22]

candidates who failed "municipal filter", not allowed to participate in elections [23]
only stated about their participation

Results

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Navalny result by district
Sobyanin result by district Msk2013.Sobianin.svg
Sobyanin result by district

The results were (turnout was 32.07%): [32] [33]

CandidatePartyVotes%
Sergey Sobyanin Independent [a] 1,193,17852.17
Alexei Navalny People's Freedom Party [b] 632,69727.67
Ivan Melnikov Communist Party of the Russian Federation 248,29410.86
Sergey Mitrokhin Yabloko 81,4933.56
Mikhail Degtyarev Liberal Democratic Party of Russia 66,5322.91
Nikolai Levichev A Just Russia 64,7782.83
Total2,286,972100.00
Valid votes2,286,97298.47
Invalid/blank votes35,6101.53
Total votes2,322,582100.00
Registered voters/turnout7,250,87932.03

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Notes

  1. Member of the United Russia party
  2. Non-partisan, but nominated by RPR–PARNAS