2016 Tula Oblast gubernatorial election

The 2016 Tula Oblast gubernatorial election took place on September 18, 2016, to elect the Governor of Tula Oblast. Election took place concurrently with Federal legislative election and local elections in Single Electoral Day.

2016 Tula Oblast gubernatorial election
18 September 2016
Turnout45.5%
 
Nominee Alexey Dyumin Oleg Lebedev
Party Independent Communist Party
Popular vote 461,411 41,259
Percentage 84.2% 7.5%
Municipal results
Acting Governor before election

Alexey Dyumin
Independent

 Elected Governor

Alexey Dyumin
Independent

Background

Until 2012, the governor of Tula Oblast was not elected, but was appointed by the president of Russia, with the approval of the Tula Oblast Duma. Direct elections were introduced in 2012.

In August 2011, Vladimir Gruzdev became governor. His term expired in August 2016 and he could be elected for a second term; however, Gruzdev resigned from office in February 2016, and Alexey Dyumin became the acting governor until election.

Candidates

Candidates could be nominated by political parties or by self-nomination. To participate in the elections, candidates from the parties had to collect signatures of 7% of municipal deputies and heads of municipalities. Independent candidates, in addition to the municipal filter, still had to collect 2% of the signatures of residents of the region (about 25,000 signatures).[1]

The acting governor, Alexey Dyumin, decided to run for governor as independent candidate, but he was supported by United Russia and Liberal Democratic Party. At the same time, Tula Oblast became the only region in 2016 where the United Russia did not hold a primaries for the selection of a candidate for governor from the party.[2]

According to the law, each candidate had to nominate three candidates for Federation Council, one of whom was to be appointed senator in case of the candidate's victory.[3]

A total of four candidates were registered.

Candidate Party Office Nominees to the
Federation Council
Oleg Veselov Communists of Russia Employee of the branch
of Federal State Budgetary Institution
"Branch of Cadastral Chamber of Rosreestr"
in Tula Oblast		 Irina Matyzhenkova
Alexander Pinayev
Vadim Solovyov
Alexey Dyumin Independent
(supported by United Russia
and Liberal Democratic Party)		 Incumbent Acting Governor Nikolay Vorobyov
Mikhail Gryazev
Dmitry Savelyev
Oleg Lebedev Communist Party Member of the State Duma Nadejda Gribanova
Andrey Kozelsky
Tatyana Kosaryova
Nikolay Ogoltsov Party of Pensioners Chief of department
of corporate protection
of JSC "Gazprom gazoraspredelenie Tula"		 Dmitry Goltyakov
Olesya Kurbatova
Alexander Pustovoy

Results

Alexey Dyumin was elected governor in the first round. After the election, Dyumin appointed Dmitry Savelyev as senator.[4]

Candidate Party Votes %
Alexey Dyumin Independent 461,411 84.2%
Oleg Lebedev Communist Party 41,259 7.5%
Oleg Veselov Communists of Russia 18,673 3.4%
Nikolay Ogoltsov Party of Pensioners 16,023 2.9%
Valid ballots 537,366 98.0%
Invalid ballots 10,799 2.0%
Total 548,165 100%
Turnout 548,459 45.5%
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See also

References
  1. Депутаты поддержали изменения, связанные с выборами губернатора Тульской области. 31.03.2016
  2. Алексей Дюмин самовыдвинется на выборы главы Тульской области. 25.04.2016
  3. Статус и полномочия
  4. Дмитрий Савельев назначен сенатором от Тульской области.
  5. Результаты выборов
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