2018 Moscow mayoral election

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.

2018 Moscow mayoral election

← 2013 9 September 2018 2023 →
Registered	7,216,076[1]
Turnout	2,255,698 (30.91%)
Candidate Sergey Sobyanin Vadim Kumin Party Independent CPRF Alliance United Russia Popular vote 1,582,762 256,717 Percentage 70.17% 11.38%   Candidate Ilya Sviridov Mikhail Degtyarev Party SR LDPR Popular vote 158,106 151,642 Percentage 7.01% 6.72%
Mayor before election Sergey Sobyanin Independent Elected Mayor Sergey Sobyanin Independent

Sergey Sobyanin, the incumbent Mayor of Moscow, was re-elected for a new term.

Candidates

Nomination and registration of candidates

Candidates can be nominated both by political parties and as self-nomination.

In any case, candidates must pass the "municipal filter" (collection of signatures of municipal deputies). According to the decision of Moscow City Election Commission from 4 June 2018, the number of signatures of municipal deputies in support of a candidate must be in the range of from 110 to 115.^[2]

Candidates nominated by the self-nomination procedure, in addition to the signatures of municipal deputies, it is also necessary to collect signatures of voters. The number of signatures of voters should be in the range from 36,081 to 39,689.

Registered candidate

Initially, four candidates were registered to participate in the election, but on 23 July, the Moscow City Court ordered the City Election Commission to register one more candidate.^[3][4] Thus, five candidates were registered to participate in the election.

Candidate			Parties	Office
		Mikhail Balakin[A 1]	Union of Citizens	Member of the Moscow City Duma from 38th constituency
		Mikhail Degtyarev	Liberal Democratic Party	Member of the State Duma
		Vadim Kumin (Website)	Communist Party	Former Member of the State Duma
		Ilya Sviridov (Website)	A Just Russia	Head of Tagansky District of Moscow
		Sergey Sobyanin (Website)	Independent	Incumbent Mayor of Moscow

Other candidates

Candidates who fail to complete the registration
Candidate	Party	Office	Note
Ilya Bakov	Monarchist Party	General Director of "Royal Pond Group", son of Anton Bakov	Registration was denied because the candidate did not provide the necessary documents[5]
Vladislav Buzarov	Independent	Unemployed	Registration was denied because the candidate did not provide the necessary documents[5]
Mikhail Butrimov	Russian All-People's Union	Entrepreneur	Registration was denied because the candidate did not provide the necessary documents[5]
Denis Ganich	National Course	Editor-in-chief of the newspaper "National Course"	Registration was denied because the candidate did not provide the necessary documents[5]
Alexander Gorlov	Independent	Electrician of the MSTU "Stankin"	Registration was denied because the candidate did not provide the necessary documents[5]
Dmitry Gudkov	Party of Changes	Leader of the Party of Changes	Registration was denied due to lack of signatures of municipal deputies[5]
Natalia Dontsova	Independent	General Director of the Moscow Academy of professional Growth	Registration was denied because the candidate did not provide the necessary documents[5]
Alexander Zakondyrin	Green Alliance	Leader of the Green Alliance party	Registration was denied because the candidate did not provide the necessary documents[5]
Anton Krasovsky	Independent	Journalist	Registration was denied because the candidate did not provide the necessary documents[5]
Viktor Kuvshinov	Independent	Pensioner	Registration is denied, as the nominated candidate provided only information about the three candidates for Senators[5]
Alexander Milovankin	Independent	Leading engineer of LLC Gazprom Inform	Withdraw[6]
Sergey Mitrokhin	Yabloko	Leader of the Moscow branch of the "Yabloko" party	Registration was denied because the candidate did not provide the necessary documents[5]
Alexey Nazarov	Independent	President of the Constitutional Committee on Overcoming the Genocide of the Russian People	Registration was denied because the candidate did not provide the necessary documents[5]
Dmitry Novikov	Independent	Director of LLC "Nitek"	Registration was denied because the candidate did not provide the necessary documents[5]
Stanislav Polishchuk	Party of Social Reform	Leader of the Party of Social Reform	Withdraw[5]
Sirazhdin Ramazanov	Social Democratic Party	Leader of the Social Democratic Party	Withdraw[7]
Sergei Revin	The Greens	Leading specialist of the Yuri Gagarin Cosmonaut Training Center	The conference of the regional branch of the party decided to withdraw the candidacy[8]
Ildar Ryazapov	Party of Veterans	Leader of the Party of Veterans	Registration was denied because the candidate did not provide the necessary documents[5]
Alexander Romanov	Independent	Pensioner	Registration was denied because the candidate did not provide the necessary documents[5]
Valery Ruchnov	Independent	Pensioner	Registration was denied because the candidate did not provide the necessary documents[5]
Yaroslav Sidorov	Communists of Russia	First Secretary of the Moscow City Branch of the Communists of Russia	Registration was denied because the candidate did not provide the necessary documents[5]
Maxim Slavin	Independent	Unemployed	Withdraw[5]
German Sterligov	Independent	Businessman	Registration was denied because the candidate did not provide the necessary documents[5]
Igor Suzdaltsev	Independent	General Director of "ICT Management"	Registration was denied because the candidate did not provide the necessary documents[5]
Anton Tarasov	Independent	Engineer of LLC "Energotekhservis"	Registration was denied because the candidate did not provide the necessary documents[5]
Sergey Troitsky	Independent	Rock musician, leader of the heavy metal band "Korrozia Metalla"	Registration was denied because the candidate did not provide the necessary documents[5]
Ruslan Khaliullin	Independent	Director of the Charity Fund "Fund for Support of Children and Youth"	Registration was denied because the candidate did not provide the necessary documents[5]
Ilya Yashin	Independent	Head of Krasnoselsky District of Moscow	Registration was denied because the candidate did not provide the necessary documents[5]

Opinion polls

Date	Poll source	Sobyanin	Kumin	Degtyarev	Sviridov	Balakin	Gudkov	Yashin	Other candidates	Undecided	Abstention
28-30 August 2018	WCIOM	69.4%	13.2%	7.8%	6.5%	1.4%	—	—	—	1.7%
6-10 August 2018	WCIOM	65.5%	10.1%	11.1%	7.1%	4.3%	—	—	—	1.9%
13-23 June 2018	Superjob	63%	2%	2%	2%	—	-	-	-	-	-
20 April-3 May 2018	Levada Center	34%	—	—	—	—	<1%	<1%	4%	27%	25%
8 September 2013	2013 election	51.4%	—	2.9%	—	—	—	—	44.2%	—	—

Result

Ballot of the election

Summary of the 9 September 2018 Moscow mayoral election results

Candidate		Party		Votes	%
	Sergey Sobyanin	Independent		1,582,762	70.17
	Vadim Kumin	Communist Party	CPRF	256,717	11.38
	Ilya Sviridov	A Just Russia	JR	158,106	7.01
	Mikhail Degtyarev	Liberal Democratic Party	LDPR	151,642	6.72
	Mikhail Balakin	Union of Citizens	UC	42,192	1.87
Total				2,191,419	100.00
Valid votes				2,191,419	97.15
Blank ballots				64,279	2.85
Turnout				2,255,698	30.91
Registered voters				7,296,529
Official results published by the Moscow City Electoral Commission [9]

Notes

1. Initially, Mikhail Balakin collected the required number of signatures of municipal deputies, but later three deputies withdrew their signatures, and registration was denied due to lack of signatures of municipal deputies, but on 23 July, the Moscow City Court declared the refusal illegal, since initially there were enough signatures and ordered to the City Election Commission to register Balakin as mayoral candidate.