Irkutsk Oblast gubernatorial election 2015

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2015 gubernatorial election - first round of voting
Eroschtschenko ( ER )
  
49.60%
Levchenko ( KPRF )
  
36.61%

Yegorowa ( SR )
  
6.76%
Kuznetsov ( LDPR )
  
4.15%
2015 gubernatorial election - second round of voting
Levchenko ( KPRF )
  
56.39%
Eroschtschenko ( ER )
  
41.46%
Result for Sergei Levchenko of the Communist Party of the Russian Federation (red) and Sergei Eroschtschenko of the United Russia party (blue) in the first ballot (left) and in the second ballot (right) according to constituencies
Election winner Sergei Levchenko at the inauguration

The 2015 Irkutsk Oblast gubernatorial election was the governor's first election following the reintroduction of direct elections in Irkutsk Oblast , a Russian federal subject in the Siberian Federal District . The first ballot took place on September 13, 2015, the second ballot followed on September 27, 2015. This was the first election since the general reintroduction of direct elections of the governors of the Russian Federation subjects in 2012 in which no candidate was in the first ballot reached an absolute majority and therefore a second ballot with the two candidates with the most votes had to be held. The election received international attention because, contrary to general expectations, an opposition candidate defeated the United Russia candidate , the "Party of Power".

Starting position

The last direct election of the governor of Irkutsk Oblast took place in July and August 2001, also in two rounds. The incumbent governor Boris Alexandrovich Govorin won the election with 47.63% against Sergei Georgievich Levchenko of the Communist Party of the Russian Federation , who became governor in the 2015 election, but only achieved 45.26% in the 2001 election and lost. Boris Alexandrovich Govorin became governor of the oblast for a four-year term .

In 2003 the Irkutsk Oblast Governor's term of office was extended from four years to five years. In September 2004, Russian President Vladimir Putin proposed that direct elections to governors be abolished across Russia and replaced by elections in the parliaments of federal subjects with candidates proposed by the president. The corresponding draft law was developed and passed in December . In 2005, therefore, there were no elections and Vladimir Putin proposed to the Legislative Assembly of Irkutsk Oblast that the 39-year-old head of the East Siberian Railway , Alexander Georgievich Tishanin , be the new governor, now for five years. His candidacy was unexpected, but in parliament he still received 42 votes in favor and only 2 votes against. From January 26, 2007 to December 31, 2007, Alexander Georgievich Tishanin was also the administrative director of the Ust-Ordynsk Autonomous Okrug . This was incorporated into the Irkutsk Oblast on January 1, 2008.

In April 2008, Alexander Georgievich Tishanin resigned from the post of governor before the end of his term of office, and Vladimir Putin, whose term of office ended in May 2008, appointed Igor Eduardovich Jessipowski of the United Russia party as governor ad interim. The appointment was a peculiarity, since Igor Eduardowitsch Jessipowski was also a member of the State Duma and this combination of offices is not a common political practice. Until September 2008 he combined these two offices. In November 2008, the new President Dmitri Medvedev proposed Igor Eduardowitsch Yessipovsky to the Legislative Assembly of Irkutsk Oblast as the new governor and the proposal was, as expected, approved by parliament.

In May 2009 accident Igor Eduardovich Jessipowski the crash of a helicopter of the type Bell 427 . According to the Oblast Government, he was returning from an inspection trip from Lake Baikal . However, the Irkutsk regional portal Babr.ru reported that the flight was not properly registered. The second pilot therefore refused to take part in the flight, whereupon the helicopter was flown by only one pilot, although this procedure should only be used in extreme cases. This negligence may have led to the crash. The news portal Life.ru also published the information that the flight was not an inspection trip, but a hunting trip in the private helicopter of a relative of Igor Eduardovich Yessipovsky.

Sergei Mikhailovich Sokol was directly appointed governor ad interim, until in June 2009 the Vice-Chairman of the Federation Council and Vice-Governor of Irkutsk Oblast, Dmitri Feodorovich Mesentsev , was also elected governor by the Legislative Assembly of Irkutsk Oblast at the suggestion of the President. On May 2, 2012, President Dmitry Medvedev, whose term of office was expiring, signed a law that provided for the reintroduction of direct elections for governors of federal subjects. The law was to come into force on June 1, 2012, and any governorships that expired after that date should be replaced with a directly elected candidate. Shortly before that, on May 18, 2012, Vladimir Putin became president again and accepted a resignation from Irkutsk governor Dmitri Fyodorovich Mesentsev, whose term of office was supposed to last until June 2014. Sergei Vladimirovich Eroschtschenko was appointed governor ad interim , whose candidacy Vladimir Putin also presented to the Legislative Assembly of Irkutsk Oblast on May 24, 2012. This appointed an extraordinary meeting on May 29, 2012 and elected Sergei Vladimirovich Eroshchenko two days before the entry into force of the new direct election law as governor of Irkutsk Oblast for the following five years. It was the last non-direct election of a governor for a Russian Federation subject.

Although his term of office would have run until May 2017, Sergei Vladimirovich Eroschtschenko announced his resignation in May 2015, but asked President Vladimir Putin for permission to run in the direct election that followed. If a governor resigns, he or she needs the president's permission to run directly again in the next election. Vladimir Putin gave his permission and immediately appointed him temporarily ad interim until the election, for which there was criticism, since a candidate has better chances in the election if the president puts him in the post beforehand. This gives the impression that it is already certain that the candidate will win the election.

Electoral system

All citizens entitled to vote have one vote that they can give to one of the registered candidates. A candidate is elected if he receives more than 50% of the votes cast, i.e. an absolute majority . If no candidate receives this number of votes, a second ballot will be scheduled, in which the two candidates with the most votes from the first ballot will participate. In the second ballot, a candidate only needs to receive a relative majority to win the election. This case can occur because blank ballot papers also account for part of the overall result, so that both candidates receive less than 50% of the votes and, for example, 2% are blank ballot papers. In the first ballot, the empty ballot papers also take up part of the overall result, but there an absolute majority is necessary, taking into account the empty ballot papers; had this not been the case, Sergei Vladimirovich Eroschtschenko would have received the absolute majority (of the completed ballot papers) and no second ballot would have been necessary.

Each registered candidate must have three people who, if the candidate is elected, can become MPs for the Federation Council , the upper house of the Russian Parliament. From these, the elected candidate then selects a person to represent the oblast in the Federation Council.

Municipal filter

In order for a candidate to receive registration, he or she must obtain a specified number of signatures, in this case 257, from members of local parliaments or mayors . These include 40 signatures from members of local parliaments or mayors of rajons and urban districts , which represent the first administrative level below the oblast. The signatures must include signatures from at least 32 urban districts or rajons so that different regions of the oblast are represented. The documents with the signatures for the registration had to be presented between July 14th and 29th, 2015.

Candidates

candidate activity Political party Registration Federation Council candidates
Larissa Igorevna Egorova Employee of the deputies in the State Duma , Andrei Dmitrievich Krutov Just Russia registered Vladimir Buchanzov, Marina Komarowa, Nadezhda Skabelkina
Sergei Vladimirovich Eroschtschenko Interim governor of Irkutsk Oblast United Russia registered Kuzma Aldarov, Viktorija Dwornitschenko, Alexei Moskalenko
Leonid Nikolajewitsch Karnauchow pensioner Russian Party of Pensioners no documents submitted
Oleg Nikolayevich Kuznetsov Director of Gruppa Continent, Member of the Legislative Assembly of Irkutsk Oblast Liberal Democratic Party of Russia registered Dmitri Jerschow, Georgi Lyubenkow, Sergei Magdalinow
Sergei Georgievich Levchenko Deputy Chairman of the Energy Committee as a member of the State Duma Communist Party of the Russian Federation registered Ilya Sumarokov, Vyacheslav Marchayev, Olga Nosenko
Vasily Ivanovich Pronitschew pensioner Patriots of Russia no documents submitted
Artur Nikolayevich Pyanov Editor-in-chief of the newspaper Nascha Sibskana Citizens Platform no documents submitted

Survey

Institute Period Eroshchenko Levchenko Egorova Kuznetsov not a candidate voter turnout
WZIOM August 2015 61.1% 16.6% 13.2% 7.7% 1.5% 40%

Result

Final results of the 2015 Irkutsk Oblast gubernatorial election
position candidate Political party First ballot Second ballot
be right proportion of be right proportion of
1. Sergei Eroshchenko United Russia 270,526 49.60% 288,927 41.46%
2. Sergei Levchenko Communist Party of the Russian Federation 199,702 36.61% 392.942 56.39%
3. Larissa Yegorova Just Russia 36,872 6.76%
4th Oleg Kuznetsov Liberal Democratic Party of Russia 22,626 4.15%
valid ballot papers 529.726 97.12% 681.869 97.85%
invalid ballot papers 15,689 2.88% 15,016 2.15%
be right 545.415 100% 696.885 100%

There were 1,869,451 eligible voters for the first ballot. 545,415 people cast their votes, resulting in a 29.19% turnout . Of the 1,873,267 people eligible to vote in the second round of voting, 696,885 people voted, resulting in a voter turnout of 37.22%.

consequences

On October 2, 2015, the inauguration of the new governor Sergei Levchenko took place. The event attracted media attention because a victory by an opposition candidate over a candidate loyal to the government is very unusual in Russia and has almost never happened before, especially not at a relatively high political level such as that of the federal subjects. The representative of the executive branch of Irkutsk Oblast in the Federation Council of Russia was Vyacheslav Mikhailovich Marchayev, who, like the governor, is a member of the Communist Party of the Russian Federation.

In several elections at the level of the federal subjects on September 9, 2018, second ballots were held. Opposition candidates to established United Russia candidates won gubernatorial elections in several federal subjects. In addition to these, parliamentary elections were also held. While United Russia had an absolute majority in the parliaments of all federal subjects up to this election day, the party lost it in four federal subjects. Irkutsk Oblast is among these. In the 2018 parliamentary elections in Irkutsk Oblast , the Communist Party of the Russian Federation became the governor's most powerful force. Thus, Irkutsk Oblast is the only federal subject in which United Russia is not the strongest faction in the regional parliament. As a result, due to the two regional elections in 2015 and 2018, the situation in Irkutsk is that the Communist Party of the Russian Federation is generally the strongest force.

Web links

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