The 2018 Moscow Oblast gubernatorial election was held on 9 September 2018. To be elected outright, a candidate needed more than 50% of votes; if no-one achieved 50%, a runoff between the top two candidates would have been held 14 days later. Andrey Vorobyov, the incumbent governor, took 62% of the vote, and was thus re-elected for a new term.United Russia loses ground, as the Communist Party gains it. Here are the main results of Sunday's regional elections
Candidates Six candidates were registered to participate in the election.
Candidate Party Office Liliya BelovaGreen AllianceAdvisor to the Chairman of the Green Alliance partyAndrey VorobyovUnited RussiaIncumbent Governor of Moscow OblastKirill ZhigarevLiberal Democratic PartyMember of the Moscow Oblast Duma Boris NadezhdinParty of GrowthFormer Member of the State DumaKonstantin CheremisovCommunist PartyMember of the Moscow Oblast DumaIgor ChistyukhinA Just RussiaMember of the Moscow Oblast Duma
Other candidates Candidates who fail to complete the registration Candidate Party Office NoteNikolay DizhurYablokoMember of the Council of Deputies of the ChekhovRejectedAlexey DulenkovPeople's Freedom PartyMember of the Council of Deputies of the Naro-Fominsky DistrictRejectedVladimir RyazanovCommunists of RussiaDoctor-surgeonRejectedAlexander SolonkinNational CourseJournalistWithdrawMaxim ShingarkinRodinaEntrepreneurRejected
Results
|- style="background-color:#E9E9E9;text-align:center;" ! style="text-align:left;" colspan="2" rowspan="2"| Candidate ! style="text-align:left;" rowspan="2" colspan="2"| Party ! colspan="2"| 1st round |- style="background-color:#E9E9E9;text-align:center;" ! width="75"|Votes ! width="30"|% |- | style="background-color:;"| | style="text-align:left;"| Andrey Vorobyov | style="text-align:left;"| United Russia | UR | | 62.52% |- | style="background-color:;"| | style="text-align:left;"| Konstantin Cheremisov | style="text-align:left;"| Communist Party | CPRF | | 12.99% |- | style="background-color:#32CD32;"| | style="text-align:left;"| Liliya Belova | style="text-align:left;"| Green Alliance | GA | | 7.51% |- | style="background-color:;"| | style="text-align:left;"| Kirill Zhigarev | style="text-align:left;"| Liberal Democratic Party | LDPR | | 5.77% |- | style="background-color:;"| | style="text-align:left;"| Igor Chistyukhin | style="text-align:left;"| A Just Russia | JR | | 4.63% |- | style="background-color:;"| | style="text-align:left;"| Boris Nadezhdin | style="text-align:left;"| Party of Growth | PG | | 4.36% |- | style="background-color:#E9E9E9;" colspan="8"| |- | style="text-align:left;" colspan="4"| Valid votes | | 97.78% |- | style="text-align:left;" colspan="4"| Blank ballots | | 2.22% |- | style="text-align:left;" colspan="4"| Turnout | | 38.51% |- | style="text-align:left;" colspan="4"| Registered voters | | style="background-color:#E9E9E9;"| |- | style="text-align:left;font-size:90%;" colspan="8"| Official results
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