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2012 Russian regional elections
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Regional elections were held in 2012 in eleven federal subjects of Russia, first on 4 March, and then on 14 October. These were the first elections where governors were elected since 2005.
Gubernatorial elections
2012 Russian gubernatorial elections
Gubernatorial elections in Amur, Belgorod, Bryansk, Novgorod and Ryazan were held on 14 October. In all five regions, United Russia won with at least 64% of the vote.
Legislative elections
Elections for regional parliaments were held on 14 October in 6 federal subjects of Russia. Parties clearing the electoral threshold (varying from 5% to 7% in each region) are highlighted.
Legislature Voting system Party-list results District seats Majority UR CPRF LDPR SR OtherOnly parties that crossed the threshold are included.North Ossetia, ParliamentВыборы депутатов Парламента Республики Северная Осетия-Алания пятого созыва http://old.izbirkom.ru/region/n-osset-alania?action=show&vrn=2152000231892®ion=15 Central Election Commission of Russia 21 December 2025 ruИтоги второго тура парламентских выборов подведены в Северной Осетии https://ria.ru/20121112/910397904.html RIA Novosti 21 December 2025 ru 12 November 2012 Parallel (35 PR + 35 TRS)Runoff election was held in 11 districts on 11 November 2012.44.20% (18) 10.48% (4) 1.33% 7.17% (2) PoR 26.57% (11) General: UR 19, SR 3, PoR 1, Ind 1
Runoff: UR 7, PoR 2, CPRF 1, Ind 1 44 70 #BDBDFFUdmurtia, State CouncilВыборы-2012: «ЕР» набрала 53,19% на выборах в Удмуртии, КПРФ – 17,23 https://www.izh.kp.ru/daily/25966.5/2904703/ Komsomolskaya Pravda 21 December 2025 Izhevsk ru 15 October 2012 Parallel (45 PR + 45 FPTP)Total 90 seats, down from 100 in previous election.53.19% (29) 17.23% (9) 10.08% (6) 5.07% (1) — UR 38, CPRF 2, Ind 5 67 90 #BDBDFFKrasnodar Krai, Legislative AssemblyПостановление от 15 октября 2012 года № 74/736-5 О результатах выборов депутатов Законодательного собрания Краснодарского края пятого созыва по краевому избирательному округу https://docs.cntd.ru/document/444717818 Election Commission of Krasnodar Krai docs.cntd.ru 21 December 2025 ru Parallel (50 PR + 50 FPTP)Total 100 seats, up from 70 in previous election.69.47% (45) 8.98% (5) 4.56% 4.15% — UR 50 95 100 #BDBDFFPenza Oblast, Legislative AssemblyПодведены предварительные итоги выборов в Законодательное собрание Пензенской области https://penzanews.ru/politics/62062-2012 penzanews.ru 21 December 2025 ru 15 October 2012 Parallel (18 PR + 18 FPTP)70.64% (16) 12.52% (2) 4.61% 2.87% — UR 18 34 36 #BDBDFFSakhalin Oblast DumaВыборы депутатов Сахалинской областной Думы шестого созыва http://old.izbirkom.ru/region/sakhalin?action=show&vrn=2652000218804®ion=65 Central Election Commission of Russia 21 December 2025 ruЕдиная Россия получила 21 из 28 мест в Сахалинской областной Думе https://ria.ru/20121019/904382304.html RIA Novosti 21 December 2025 ru 19 October 2012 Parallel (14 PR + 14 FPTP)50.18% (9) 18.33% (3) 8.36% (1) 7.17% (1) — UR 12, Ind 2 21 28 #BDBDFFSaratov Oblast DumaВыборы депутатов Саратовской областной Думы пятого созыва http://old.izbirkom.ru/region/saratov?action=show&vrn=2642000530725®ion=64 Central Election Commission of Russia 21 December 2025 ruЕР займет 43 из 45 мест в саратовской облдуме https://ria.ru/20121015/902663267.html RIA Novosti 21 December 2025 ru 15 October 2012 Parallel (23 PR + 22 FPTP)Total 45 seats, up from 36 in previous election.77.92% (21) 8.27% (1) 2.83% 5.01% (1) — UR 22 43 45 #BDBDFF Total (incl. district seats) 369 seats 304 27 7 8 23 — 304 369 #BDBDFF
Mayoral elections
The table includes capital cities of federal subjects (9) and urban okrugs with 100,000+ inhabitants.
City Date Incumbent Incumbentsince Candidates Result Arkhangelsk, Arkhangelsk OblastВыборы главы муниципального образования "Город Архангельск" - мэра города Архангельска http://old.izbirkom.ru/region/arkhangelsk?action=show&vrn=3293001103914®ion=29 izbirkom.ru 21 December 2025 ru 4 March Viktor Pavlenko 2008 Viktor Pavlenko (Ind) 50.18%
Vasily Badanin (SR) 22.48%
Nadezhda Vinogradova (CPRF) 17.12%
Larisa Sergeyeva (LDPR) 7.33% Incumbent re-elected. Astrakhan, Astrakhan OblastДосрочные выборы главы муниципального образования "Город Астрахань" http://old.izbirkom.ru/region/astrakhan?action=show&vrn=4304220103082®ion=30 izbirkom.ru 21 December 2025 ru 4 March Sergey Bozhenov (resigned)Mikhail Stolyarov (acting) 2004 Mikhail Stolyarov (UR) 60.00%
Oleg Shein (SR) 29.96% Acting mayor elected for a full term. Cherepovets, Vologda OblastВыборы мэра города Череповца http://old.izbirkom.ru/region/vologod?action=show&vrn=4354026153177®ion=35 izbirkom.ru 21 December 2025 ru 4 March Oleg Kuvshinnikov (resigned) 2007 Yury Kuzin (Ind) 54.35%
Yury Burov (CPRF) 20.84%
Aleksandr Kozyrev (LDPR) 10.56%
Pavel Dolgodvorov (Ind) 8.74% New mayor elected to a vacant position. Gorno-Altaysk, Altai RepublicВыборы Мэра города Горно-Алтайска http://old.izbirkom.ru/region/altai-rep?action=show&vrn=404400195531®ion=2 izbirkom.ru 21 December 2025 ru 4 March Viktor Oblogin 1992 Viktor Oblogin (UR) 53.65%
Viktor Romashkin (CPRF) 37.41% Incumbent re-elected. Kamensk-Uralsky, Sverdlovsk OblastВыборы главы муниципального образования город Каменск-Уральский http://old.izbirkom.ru/region/sverdlovsk?action=show&vrn=4664025276981®ion=66 izbirkom.ru 21 December 2025 ru 4 March Mikhail Astakhov 2008 Mikhail Astakhov (UR) 74.02%
Dmitry Zavyalov (SR) 19.56% Incumbent re-elected. Kamyshin, Volgograd OblastВыборы Главы городского округа - город Камышин http://old.izbirkom.ru/region/volgograd?action=show&vrn=4344043127417®ion=34 izbirkom.ru 21 December 2025 ru 4 March Aleksandr Chunakov 2004 Aleksandr Chunakov (Ind) 42.16%
Aleksandr Khatsenko (SR) 38.38% Incumbent re-elected. Naryan-Mar, Nenets AOВыборы главы муниципального образования "Городской округ "Город Нарьян-Мар" http://old.izbirkom.ru/region/nenetsk?action=show&vrn=483400193274®ion=83 izbirkom.ru 21 December 2025 ru 4 March Yury Rodionovsky 2008 Tatyana Fyodorova (CPRF) 39.61%
Yury Rodionovsky (Ind) 23.63%
Matvey Chuprov (Ind) 11.28%
Aleksandr Lutovinov (Ind) 10.68%
Yelena Lyapunova (Ind) 7.49% Incumbent lost re-election.New mayor elected. Novokuybyshevsk, Samara OblastВыборы главы городского округа Новокуйбышевск http://old.izbirkom.ru/region/samara?action=show&vrn=4634019126026®ion=63 izbirkom.ru 21 December 2025 ru 4 March Oleg Volkov 2007 Andrey Konovalov (UR) 61.01%
Boris Lyakhov (CPRF) 24.11%
Yevgenia Dubnitskaya (LDPR) 6.46%
Andrey Golikov (Ind) 5.13% Incumbent did not stand for re-election.New mayor elected. Taganrog, Rostov OblastВыборы Мэра города Таганрога Ростовской области http://old.izbirkom.ru/region/rostov?action=show&vrn=4614054244514®ion=61 izbirkom.ru 21 December 2025 ru 4 March Nikolay Fedyanin 2003 Vladimir Prasolov (SR) 38.69%
Nikolay Fedyanin (UR) 29.21%
Viktor Bulgakov (CPRF) 28.52% Incumbent lost re-election.New mayor elected.Tolyatti, Samara OblastВыборы мэра городского округа Тольятти Самарской области http://old.izbirkom.ru/region/samara?action=show&vrn=4634038151798®ion=63 izbirkom.ru 21 December 2025 ruПовторное голосование на выборах мэра городского округа Тольятти http://old.izbirkom.ru/region/samara?action=show&vrn=4634038168862®ion=63 izbirkom.ru 21 December 2025 ru 4 March (first round) Anatoly Pushkov 2008 Aleksandr Shakhov (UR) 36.49%
Sergey Andreyev (Ind) 32.31%
Andrey Serafimov (CPRF) 10.67%
Borislav Grinblat (Ind) 5.47%
Mikhail Maryakhin (SR) 5.44%Incumbent did not stand for re-election.New mayor elected. 18 March (runoff) Sergey Andreyev (Ind) 56.94%
Aleksandr Shakhov (UR) 40.06% Yakutsk, Sakha (Yakutia)Выборы главы городского округа "Город Якутск" http://old.izbirkom.ru/region/yakut?action=show&vrn=4144035108912®ion=14 izbirkom.ru 21 December 2025 ru 4 March Yury Zabolev (resigned)Igor Nikiforov (acting)Филиппова Туяра Юрий Заболев ушел наверх https://www.kommersant.ru/doc/1845279 Kommersant 21 December 2025 ru 23 December 2011 2007 Aysen Nikolayev (UR) 47.73%
Vladimir Fyodorov (Ind) 25.11%
Anatoly Kyrdzhagasov (SR) 18.06%
Gennady Mikheyev (CPRF) 5.89% New mayor elected to a vacant position.Yaroslavl, Yaroslavl OblastВыборы мэра города Ярославля http://old.izbirkom.ru/region/yaroslavl?action=show&vrn=476422067814®ion=76 izbirkom.ru 21 December 2025 ruПовторное голосование на выборах мэра города Ярославля http://old.izbirkom.ru/region/yaroslavl?action=show&vrn=476422069297®ion=76 izbirkom.ru 21 December 2025 ru 4 March (first round) Viktor Volonchunas 1991 Yevgeny Urlashov (Ind) 40.25%
Yakov Yakushev (Ind) 27.12%
Vyacheslav Blatov (SR) 23.72%
Aleksey Molodtsov (LDPR) 5.04%Incumbent did not stand for re-election.New mayor elected. 1 April (runoff) Yevgeny Urlashov (Ind) 69.65%
Yakov Yakushev (Ind) 27.78% Yessentuki, Stavropol KraiДосрочные выборы Главы города Ессентуки http://old.izbirkom.ru/region/stavropol?action=show&vrn=4264009118700®ion=26 izbirkom.ru 21 December 2025 ru 4 March Konstantin Skomorokhin (resigned) 2003 Larisa Pisarenko (UR) 56.72%
Valery Smolyakov (CPRF) 17.93%
Timofey Kononov (SR) 13.93%
Yury Nadyktov (Ind) 6.13% New mayor elected to a vacant position. Zlatoust, Chelyabinsk OblastДосрочные выборы Главы Златоустовского городского округа http://old.izbirkom.ru/region/chelyabinsk?action=show&vrn=4744010141386®ion=74 izbirkom.ru 21 December 2025 ru 20 May Aleksandr Karavayev (resigned) 2009 Vyacheslav Zhilin (UR) 47.34%
Raisa Istomina (Ind) 23.67%
Valery Uskov (Ind) 16.62% New mayor elected to a vacant position. Krasnoyarsk, Krasnoyarsk KraiДосрочные выборы Главы города Красноярска http://old.izbirkom.ru/region/krasnoyarsk?action=show&vrn=424422086835®ion=24 izbirkom.ru 21 December 2025 ru 10 June Pyotr Pimashkov (resigned)Edkham Akbulatov (acting) 1996 Edkham Akbulatov 69.37%
Aleksey Podkorytov 12.03%
Aleksandr Koropachinsky 11.33% Acting mayor elected for a full term. Omsk, Omsk OblastДосрочные выборы Мэра города Омска http://old.izbirkom.ru/region/omsk?action=show&vrn=455422074946®ion=55 izbirkom.ru 21 December 2025 ru 17 June Viktor Schreider (resigned)Tatyana Vizhevitova (acting) 2005 Vyacheslav Dvorakovsky (UR) 49.35%
Viktor Zharkov (CPRF) 28.97%
Irina Overina (SR) 6.40% New mayor elected to a vacant position. Angarsk, Irkutsk OblastВыборы главы города Ангарска http://old.izbirkom.ru/region/irkutsk?action=show&vrn=4384001195423®ion=38 izbirkom.ru 21 December 2025 ru 14 October Vladimir Zhukov (mayor–chairman of the Duma)Anton Medko (city manager) 2010 Vladimir Zhukov (Ind) 43.64%
Sergey Petrov (Ind) 32.94%
Sergey Brenyuk (CPRF) 14.43% Executive mayoralty re-created.New mayor elected. Kaliningrad, Kaliningrad OblastВыборы Главы городского округа "Город Калининград" http://old.izbirkom.ru/region/kaliningrad?action=show&vrn=2392000276721®ion=39 izbirkom.ru 21 December 2025 ru 14 October Alexander Yaroshuk 2007 Alexander Yaroshuk (UR) 56.62%
Yury Galanin (CPRF) 13.59%
Yevgeny Gan (PoR) 12.23% Incumbent re-elected. Khimki, Moscow OblastДосрочные выборы Главы городского округа Химки Московской области http://old.izbirkom.ru/region/moscow-reg?action=show&vrn=4504057170819®ion=50 izbirkom.ru 21 December 2025 ru 14 October Vladimir Strelchenko (resigned) 2005 Oleg Shakhov (Ind) 47.61%
Yevgeniya Chirikova (Ind) 17.59%
Oleg Mitvol (AZ–NP) 14.45%
Leonid Vinogradov (CPRF) 8.17%
Sergey Troitsky (Ind) 2.46% New mayor elected to a vacant position. Nizhny Tagil, Sverdlovsk OblastВыборы Главы города Нижний Тагил http://old.izbirkom.ru/region/sverdlovsk?action=show&vrn=466422197911®ion=66 izbirkom.ru 21 December 2025 ru 14 October Valentina Isayeva 2008 Sergey Nosov (UR) 92.35%
Aleksey Kubasov (CPRF) 2.35%Incumbent did not stand for re-election.New mayor elected. Novocherkassk, Rostov OblastДосрочные выборы главы муниципального образования - Мэра города Новочеркасска http://old.izbirkom.ru/region/rostov?action=show&vrn=4614034140942®ion=61 izbirkom.ru 21 December 2025 ru 2 December Anatoly Kondratenko (resigned) 2010 Vladimir Kirgintsev (Ind) 48.27%
Anatoly Volkov (Ind) 16.31%
Vladimir Nadtoka (CPRF) 14.74%
Andrey Kutyrev (Ind) 9.60% New mayor elected to a vacant position.
See also
2012 Russian presidential election
Notes
References
External links
Opposition aims for headway in Russian local vote (yahoo.com)
Russian local elections test Putin's grip (yahoo.com)
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