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.
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". 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.
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. Thus, five candidates were registered to participate in the election.Result
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Official results published by the Moscow City Electoral Commission