The 2024 Volgograd Oblast gubernatorial election took place on 6–8 September 2024, on common election day, coinciding with 2024 Volgograd Oblast Duma election. Incumbent Governor Andrey Bocharov was re-elected to a third term in office.
Background Then-All-Russia People's Front executive committee chairman and former State Duma member Andrey Bocharov was appointed acting Governor of Volgograd Oblast in April 2014, replacing first-term Governor Sergey Bozhenov, who served in office for just two years. Bocharov easily won the election for a full term in September 2014 with 88.49% of the vote. Bocharov ran for a second term in 2019 and overwhelmingly won again with 76.80% of the vote against three registered opponents.
Initially the Governor of Volgograd Oblast was limited for just two consecutive terms so Bocharov would have been term-limited in 2024. However, in December 2021 "On Common Principles of Organisation of Public Authority in the Subjects of the Russian Federation" law was enacted, which lifted term limits for Russian governors. Volgograd Oblast followed suit and lifted the restrictions, which allowed Bocharov to seek another term in 2024.
In April 2024 during a meeting with President Vladimir Putin Governor Bocharov announced his intention to run for a third term and received Putin's endorsement.
Candidates In Volgograd Oblast candidates for Governor can be nominated only by registered political parties. Candidate for Governor of Volgograd Oblast should be a Russian citizen and at least 30 years old. Candidates for Governor should not have a foreign citizenship or residence permit. Each candidate in order to be registered is required to collect at least 5% of signatures of members and heads of municipalities. Also gubernatorial candidates present 3 candidacies to the Federation Council and election winner later appoints one of the presented candidates.
Declared Candidate name,political partyOccupationStatusRef.Andrey BocharovUnited Russia Incumbent Governor of Volgograd Oblast (2014–present)RegisteredOleg DmitriyevCommunist Party Aide to Volgograd Oblast Duma memberFormer member of Volgograd Oblast Electoral Commission (2021–2024)RegisteredYevgeny KarelikovParty of Pensioners Member of Volgograd Oblast Duma (2019–present)RegisteredAleksey KononenkoLiberal Democratic Party Gas rescue specialistPerennial candidateRegisteredAleksey VasyutenkoSR–ZP Member of Volgograd City Duma (2023–present)BusinessmanRegistered
Candidates for Federation Council Gubernatorial candidate,political partyCandidates for Federation CouncilStatusAndrey BocharovUnited Russia * Galina Generalova, Director of the Volgograd Medical College* Aleksandr Kolesnichenko, agriculture businessman* Nikolai Semisotov, incumbent Senator (2019–present)RegisteredOleg DmitriyevCommunist Party * Aleksey Burov, Member of Volgograd Oblast Duma (2014–present), 2019 gubernatorial election* Valery Mogilny, Member of Volgograd Oblast Duma (2019–present)* Denis Uskov, Member of Krasnoslobodsk City Duma (2019–present), school principalRegisteredYevgeny KarelikovParty of Pensioners * Dmitry Ignatov, self-employed* Anton Kalyuzhny, businessman* Viktor Yefremenkov, unemployedRegisteredAleksey KononenkoLiberal Democratic Party * Yekaterina Donskova, aide to Volgograd Oblast Duma member* Aleksandr Kuzmin, Member of Volgograd Oblast Duma (2019–present)* Yulia Rubleva, unemployedRegisteredAleksey VasyutenkoSR–ZP * Vladimir Borodin, manager* Natalya Cherkasova, businesswoman* Vadim Filin, conservative activistRegistered
Finances All sums are in rubles. Financial Report Source Bocharov Dmitriyev Karelikov Kononenko Vasyutenko First 32,364 26,399 26,910 501,250 25,091 Final TBD TBD TBD TBD TBD
Results
|- style="background-color:#E9E9E9;text-align:center;" ! style="text-align:left;" colspan=2| Candidate ! style="text-align:left;"| Party ! width="75"|Votes ! width="30"|% |- | style="background-color:"| | style="text-align:left;"| Andrey Bocharov (incumbent) | style="text-align:left;"| United Russia | | 79.68 |- | style="background-color:"| | style="text-align:left;"| Oleg Dmitriyev | style="text-align:left;"| Communist Party | | 7.83 |- | style="background-color:"| | style="text-align:left;"| Aleksey Kononenko | style="text-align:left;"| Liberal Democratic Party | | 5.37 |- | style="background-color:"| | style="text-align:left;"| Yevgeny Karelikov | style="text-align:left;"| Party of Pensioners | | 3.49 |- | style="background-color:"| | style="text-align:left;"| Aleksey Vasyutenko | style="text-align:left;"| A Just Russia – For Truth | | 2.26 |- | style="text-align:left;" colspan="3"| Valid votes | | 98.63 |- | style="text-align:left;" colspan="3"| Blank ballots | | 1.36 |- style="font-weight:bold" | style="text-align:left;" colspan="3"| Total | | 100.00 |- | style="background-color:#E9E9E9;" colspan="6"| |- | style="text-align:left;" colspan="3"| Turnout | | 61.71 |- | style="text-align:left;" colspan="3"| Registered voters | | 100.00 |- | colspan="5" style="background-color:#E9E9E9;"| |- style="font-weight:bold" | colspan="4" |Source:
Governor Bocharov re-appointed incumbent Senator Nikolai Semisotov (United Russia) to the Federation Council.
See also 2024 Russian regional elections
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