2017 Sevastopol gubernatorial election

2017 Sevastopol gubernatorial election
	10 September 2017
	10 September 2017
Turnout	34.2%
Acting Governor before election; Dmitry Ovsyannikov; Independent	Elected Governor ; Dmitry Ovsyannikov; Independent

Governor Election in Sevastopol were held on 10 September 2017. It was the second election of the Governor of Sevastopol after the 2014 Russian annexation of Crimea, and was the first direct elections for Governor (last time the Governor was elected to the Legislative Assembly).

Background

The previous Governor of Sevastopol Sergey Menyailo, who was appointed after the 2014 Russian annexation of Crimea, in the summer of 2016 was appointed representative of Russian President to the Siberian Federal District. The acting Governor was appointed Dmitry Ovsyannikov.

March 14, 2017, the Legislative Assembly of Sevastopol adopted the law on the introduction of direct elections of the Governor.[1]

Candidates on the ballot:[2]

	Party	Office
Ivan Yermakov Born 1947 (age 70)	Patriots of Russia	Former Deputy Chairman of the Supreme Council of Crimea
Ilya Zhuravlyov Born 1971 (age 46)	Liberal Democratic Party	Member of the Legislative Assembly of Sevastopol
Roman Kiyashko Born 1969 (age 48)	Communist Party of the Russian Federation[A 1]	Assistant to the MP Dmitry Novikov
Nikolay Kryazhev Born 1962 (age 55)	Communist Party of Social Justice	Deputy Director of CHU DPO "Training centre "Caucasus""
Dmitry Ovsyannikov Born 1977 (age 40)	United Russia[A 2]	Incumbent acting Governor

Date	Poll source	Dmitry Ovsyannikov	Roman Kiyashko	Ilya Zhuravlyov	Ivan Yermakov	Nikolay Kryazhev	Other	Undecided	Abstention	Spoil the Ballot
Date	Poll source						Other	Undecided	Abstention	Spoil the Ballot
10-20 August	WCIOM	53%	4%	4%	3%	0%	1%	24%	7%	2%

Candidate		Party	Votes	%
	Dmitry Ovsyannikov	United Russia	77,406	71.05%%
	Roman Kiyashko	Communist Party of the Russian Federation	17,890	16.42%
	Ilya Zhuravlyov	Liberal Democratic Party	8,286	7.61%
	Ivan Yermakov	Patriots of Russia	2,323	2.13%
	Nikolay Kryazhev	Communist Party of Social Justice	546	0.50%
Invalid ballots			2,502	2.30%
Total			108,953	100%

Sources:[3]

Voter turnout (in the) election was 34%.[4]

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