Mayor election in Moscow 2013

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The 2013 Moscow mayoral election took place on September 8, 2013 in the Russian capital Moscow . On June 5, 2013, incumbent Sergei Sobyanin announced early elections .

Sobyanin was re-elected in the first ballot.

In 2004, after several terrorist attacks , the then Russian President Vladimir Putin abolished the direct election of the mayor and introduced the appointment by the president himself. In response to the protests following the Russian parliamentary elections in 2011 , President Dmitry Medvedev reintroduced direct elections.

Result

Sergei Sobyanin
Alexei Navalny
Ivan Melnikov
Mikhail Degtyaryov
Nikolai Levitschew

Sergei Sobyanin ( United Russia ): 51.37%
Alexei Navalny ( Republican Party ): 27.24%
Ivan Melnikov ( Communist Party ): 10.69%
Sergei Mitrochin ( Yabloko ): 3.51%
Mikhail Degtjarjow ( Liberal Democratic Party ): 2.86%
Nikolai Levitschew ( Just Russia ): 2.79%

1.53 percent of the votes were invalid and the turnout was 32.07 percent.

The favorite was incumbent Sobyanin, who came to around 50 percent in polls before the election. Navalny was around 15 percent, the other candidates between one and six percent.

Individual evidence

↑ Benjamin Bidder: Mayoral elections in Moscow: Putin's confidante tricks the opposition , in: spiegel.de (June 5, 2013), accessed on September 8, 2013.
↑ Frank Nienhuysen: Putin confidant becomes mayor , in: sueddeutsche.de (15 October 2010), accessed on September 8, 2013.
^ Matthias Schepp: Mayoral election in Moscow: Battle of the Giants , in: spiegel.de (September 8, 2013), accessed on September 8, 2013.
↑ Claudia Crawford, Johann C. Fuhrmann, Tassilo Oxenius: "United Russia" versus fragmented opposition , in: kas.de (September 5, 2013), accessed on September 8, 2013.
^ Result, Election Commission of the City of Moscow , accessed on September 11, 2013.
↑ Heath Rasche Kremlin critic against Kremlin favorite ( Memento of 9 September 2013 Internet Archive ), in: tagesschau.de (7 September 2013), accessed on September 8, 2013.

[1] Benjamin Bidder: Mayoral elections in Moscow: Putin's confidante tricks the opposition , in: spiegel.de (June 5, 2013), accessed on September 8, 2013.

[2] Frank Nienhuysen: Putin confidant becomes mayor , in: sueddeutsche.de (15 October 2010), accessed on September 8, 2013.

[3] Matthias Schepp: Mayoral election in Moscow: Battle of the Giants , in: spiegel.de (September 8, 2013), accessed on September 8, 2013.

[4] Claudia Crawford, Johann C. Fuhrmann, Tassilo Oxenius: "United Russia" versus fragmented opposition , in: kas.de (September 5, 2013), accessed on September 8, 2013.

[5] Result, Election Commission of the City of Moscow , accessed on September 11, 2013.

[6] Heath Rasche Kremlin critic against Kremlin favorite ( Memento of 9 September 2013 Internet Archive ), in: tagesschau.de (7 September 2013), accessed on September 8, 2013.