The 2024 Vologda Oblast gubernatorial election took place on 6–8 September 2024, on common election day. Acting Governor Georgy Filimonov was elected for a full term in office.

Background Then-Cherepovets mayor Oleg Kuvshinnikov was appointed acting Governor of Vologda Oblast and was later elected by the Legislative Assembly of Vologda Oblast in December 2011, replacing four-term incumbent Governor Vyacheslav Pozgalyov. Kuvshinnikov resigned early in May 2014 and ran in the special gubernatorial election in September 2014 winning it with 62.98% of the vote. Kuvshinnikov ran for a third term in 2019 and won with 60.79% of the vote.

On 31 October 2023 Oleg Kuvshinnikov unexpectedly announced his resignation nearly a year ahead of the gubernatorial election. Deputy Chairman of the Moscow Oblast Government Georgy Filimonov was appointed acting Governor of Vologda Oblast the same day. In November 2023 Filimonov appointed his predecessor, Oleg Kuvshinnikov, to the Federation Council after incumbent Senator Olga Danilova, whom Kuvshinnikov himself appointed just 44 days ago, stepped down.

In January 2024 Legislative Assembly of Vologda Oblast changed the electoral law, allowing gubernatorial candidates run as a self-nominated. Later acting Governor Filimonov announced that he was not planning to join any political party and would run in the upcoming gubernatorial election as an independent. However, on May 24, 2024 Senator Andrey Turchak, the secretary general of United Russia, visited Vologda and personally handed over a party card to Governor Filimonov, who joined the party and announced his intention to run under its ticket.

Candidates In Vologda Oblast candidates for Governor can be nominated by registered political parties or by self-nomination. Candidate for Governor of Vologda 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 7% of signatures of members and heads of municipalities. In addition, self-nominated candidates should collect 1% of signatures of Vologda Oblast residents. 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.Georgy FilimonovUnited Russia Acting Governor of Vologda Oblast (2023–present)Former Deputy Chairman of the Government of Moscow Oblast (2021–2023)RegisteredAnton GrimovLiberal Democratic Party Member of Legislative Assembly of Vologda Oblast (2011–present)Aide to State Duma member Sergey Karginov (2019–present)RegisteredIgor KatukhinParty of Pensioners Member of Legislative Assembly of Vologda Oblast (2022–present)RegisteredDenis KhripelSR–ZP BusinessmanSon of former Federation Council member Gennady KhripelRegisteredAleksandr MorozovCommunist Party Member of Legislative Assembly of Vologda Oblast (2011–present)2014 and 2019 gubernatorial candidateRegisteredMikhail DorofeyevIndependent Chairman of Yabloko party Vologda city office (2016–present)WithdrewNikolay TolchanovIndependent Former first secretary of Communists of Russia regional committee in Tambov Oblast (2021–2023)Did not file

Declined Vladislav Zvorykin (SR–ZP), Member of Legislative Assembly of Vologda Oblast (2021–present), businessman

Candidates for Federation Council Gubernatorial candidate,political partyCandidates for Federation CouncilStatusGeorgy FilimonovUnited Russia * Yevgeny Artemov, former Deputy Governor of Vologda Oblast (2012) * Oleg Kuvshinnikov, incumbent Senator (2023–present) * Andrey Lutsenko, former Chairman of the Legislative Assembly of Vologda Oblast (2016–2024)Registered

Finances All sums are in rubles. Financial Report Source Dorofeyev Filimonov Grimov Katukhin Khripel Morozov Tolchanov First 12,875 10,100,000 185,000 1,030,000 30,000 30,000 0 Final 12,875 60,100,000 1,802,000 9,030,000 231,380 2,680,000 0

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;"| Georgy Filimonov (incumbent) | style="text-align:left;"| United Russia | | 62.30 |- | style="background-color:"| | style="text-align:left;"| Aleksandr Morozov | style="text-align:left;"| Communist Party | | 19.33 |- | style="background-color:"| | style="text-align:left;"| Anton Grimov | style="text-align:left;"| Liberal Democratic Party | | 8.28 |- | style="background-color:"| | style="text-align:left;"| Denis Khripel | style="text-align:left;"| A Just Russia – For Truth | | 4.42 |- | style="background-color:"| | style="text-align:left;"| Igor Katukhin | style="text-align:left;"| Party of Pensioners | | 4.02 |- | style="text-align:left;" colspan="3"| Valid votes | | 98.34 |- | style="text-align:left;" colspan="3"| Blank ballots | | 1.66 |- 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 | | 49.15 |- | style="text-align:left;" colspan="3"| Registered voters | | 100.00 |- | colspan="5" style="background-color:#E9E9E9;"| |- style="font-weight:bold" | colspan="4" |Source:

Governor Filimonov appointed former Deputy Governor Yevgeny Bogomazov (United Russia) to the Federation Council, replacing incumbent Senator Oleg Kuvshinnikov (United Russia), after all candidates nominated by Filimonov including Kuvshinnikov declined to take a seat.

See also 2024 Russian regional elections

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