2024 Tula Oblast gubernatorial election

The 2024 Tula Oblast gubernatorial election took place on 6–8 September 2024, on common election day, coinciding with 2024 Tula Oblast Duma election. Acting Governor Dmitry Milyayev was elected for a full term in office.

2024 Tula Oblast gubernatorial election

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Turnout	49.48%
CPRF Candidate Dmitry Milyayev Aleksey Lebedev Aleksandr Balberov Party United Russia CPRF LDPR Popular vote 441,763 38,077 35,183 Percentage 78.53% 6.77% 6.25%
Governor before election Dmitry Milyayev (acting) United Russia Governor-elect Dmitry Milyayev United Russia

Background

Then–Deputy Minister of Defense Aleksey Dyumin was appointed acting Governor of Tula Oblast in February 2016, replacing Vladimir Gruzdev.^[1] Dyumin ran for a full term in September 2016 as an Independent and won the election with 84.17% of the vote.^[2] Dyumin was reelected to a second term in 2021 with 83.58%.^[3]

Dyumin, a close confidant of President Vladimir Putin and one of his so-called "adjutants", has been consistently considered for a potential promotion in defense or security services (as Minister of Defense or potential Minister of Defense Industry) but the governor himself denied those rumours.^[4] On May 14, 2024, President Putin appointed Governor Aleksey Dyumin as his aide in charge of military-industrial complex, sports, and State Council.^[5][6]

After his appointment, Governor Dyumin left Tula on May 14, 2024, leaving First Deputy Governor Dmitry Milyayev as acting Governor until the temporary replacement be appointed by the President.^[7] On May 15 President Putin appointed Dmitry Milyayev as acting Governor of Tula Oblast.^[8]

Candidates

In Tula Oblast candidates for Governor can be nominated by registered political parties or by self-nomination. Candidate for Governor of Tula 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 7% of signatures of members and heads of municipalities.^[9] In addition, self-nominated candidates should collect 2% of signatures of Tula Oblast residents. 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.
Aleksandr Balberov Liberal Democratic Party			Deputy Chairman of the Tula Oblast Duma (2014–present) Former Member of State Duma (2011–2014)	Registered	[10]
Sergey Grebenshchikov SR–ZP			Member of Tula Oblast Duma (2019–present)	Registered	[11]
Denis Ilyukhin Communists of Russia			Member of Aleksin Council of Deputies (2009–2014, 2019–present) Businessman	Registered	[12]
Aleksey Lebedev Communist Party			Member of Tula City Duma (2010–2013, 2019–present) Former Member of Tula Oblast Duma (2013–2019) Brother of State Duma member Oleg Lebedev	Registered	[13][14] [15]
Dmitry Milyayev United Russia			Acting Governor of Tula Oblast (2024–present) Former First Deputy Governor of Tula Oblast (2022–2024)	Registered	[16]
Sergey Bogomolov Independent			Individual entrepreneur	Did not file	[17]
Vladimir Dorokhov Yabloko			Party representative to the Central Electoral Commission of Russia (2023–present) Individual entrepreneur	Did not file	[18][19]

Candidates for Federation Council

Gubernatorial candidate, political party		Candidates for Federation Council	Status
Dmitry Milyayev United Russia		* Konstantin Danilov, head of Rostec office in Tula Oblast (2013–present) * Dmitry Savelyev, incumbent Senator (2016–present)[a] * Nikolay Vorobyov, Chairman of the Tula Oblast Duma (2020–present), Member of the Duma (2009–present)	Registered

Results

Summary of the 6–8 September 2024 Tula Oblast gubernatorial election results

Candidate		Party	Votes	%
	Dmitry Milyayev (incumbent)	United Russia	441,763	78.53
	Aleksey Lebedev	Communist Party	38,077	6.77
	Aleksandr Balberov	Liberal Democratic Party	35,183	6.25
	Sergey Grebenshchikov	A Just Russia – For Truth	27,622	4.91
	Denis Ilyukhin	Communists of Russia	11,651	2.07
Valid votes			554,296	98.53
Blank ballots			8,273	1.47
Total			562,569	100.00
Turnout			562,569	49.48
Registered voters			1,136,990	100.00
Source:				[21]

Governor Milyayev appointed Tula Oblast Duma chairman Nikolay Vorobyov (United Russia) to the Federation Council, replacing incumbent Senator Dmitry Savelyev (United Russia), who was arrested on August 2, 2024, on charges of attempted murder.^[22]

See also

• 2024 Russian regional elections

Notes

1. Senator Savelyev was arrested on August 2, 2024, during a Federation Council session on charges of attempted murder, however, without the official conviction Milyayev is unable to delist Savelyev as his senatorial candidate^[20]