On March 18, 2018, presidential elections were held in Russia. Date when the head of state was elected for a six-year term.
The election campaign of the candidates started in December, the budget spent a record 17.69 billion rubles on it, it follows from the CEC resolution.
Live broadcast of the presidential elections in Russia
Due to the peculiarity of rounding the results, there may be a discrepancy in the total amount of percent ± 1%.
2018 presidential candidates
The official start of the election campaign began in December, after the publication of the resolution of the Federation Council of the Federal Assembly of the Russian Federation on the appointment of elections on the official website.
The final list of officially registered candidates for the presidency of Russia in the 2018 elections included:
| Candidate | Political career | Campaign logo | Registration date | Rating and program |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Vladimir Zhirinovsky Liberal Democratic Party | Deputy of the State Duma (since 1993) LDPR Chairman (since 1992) | – | December 29, 2017 | |
| Pavel Grudinin Communist Party | Deputy of the Moscow Regional Duma (1997–2011) Chairman of the Council of Deputies of the urban settlement Vidnoye (since 2017) |  | 12 january 2018 | Pavel Grudinin's 20 Steps Program Pavel Grudinin's rating |
| Vladimir Putin Self-nomination | President of Russia (2000-2008, since 2012) Prime Minister of Russia (1999–2000, 2008–2012) Chairman of the United Russia party (2008–2012) FSB director (1998–1999) |  | 6 february 2018 | Election program not presented Vladimir Putin's rating |
| Grigory Yavlinsky Apple Party | Chairman of the Yabloko Party (1993–2008) Deputy of the State Duma (1993–2003) Deputy of the Legislative Assembly of St. Petersburg (2011–2016) |  | 7 February 2018 | The Road to the Future program Rating by Grigory Yavlinsky |
| Boris Titov Party of Growth | Chairman of the Party of Growth (since 2016) Commissioner for the Protection of the Rights of Entrepreneurs in Russia (since 2012) |  | 7 February 2018 | Growth Strategy Program Boris Titov rating |
| Sergey Baburin Russian national union | People's Deputy of Russia (1990–1993) Deputy of the State Duma (1994–2000, 2003–2007) Chairman of the ROS party (since 2011) | – | 7 February 2018 | |
| Maxim Suraykin Communists of Russia | Chairman of the Central Committee of the party "Communists of Russia" (since 2012) | – | 8 february 2018 | The program "The first 100 days of the Stalinist communist president" Rating of Maxim Suraykin |
| Ksenia Sobchak Civil Initiative | Member of the Coordination Council of the Russian Opposition (2012—2013) Member of the Political Council of the Civil Initiative Party (since 2017) |  | 8 february 2018 | 123 Difficult Steps Program Ksenia Sobchak rating |
What the newsletter looked like
At a meeting on February 8, the CEC approved the ballot for the 2018 elections, as you can see below. It includes 8 names of candidates in alphabetical order, as required by the Federal Law "On the election of the President of the Russian Federation."
Chronology of preparation and conduct of elections
Key dates in the electoral process:
- December 15, 2017 - The Federation Council has set the presidential elections in Russia for March 18, 2018
- On January 7, the acceptance of documents from self-nominated candidates ended
- On January 12, the acceptance of documents from political pariahs ended
- January 2018 - formation of polling stations
- By 18:00 on January 31, 2018 - submission of voters' signatures to the CEC (300,000 for self-nominated candidates, 100,000 for candidates from parties),
- Until February 10 - publication of the final list of candidates for the presidency of Russia in 2018, officially registered by the CEC.
- February 2018 - formation of precinct election commissions, publication of the election program, its submission to the CEC
- 19.02 - 17.03 - election campaigning in print media, radio and television
- Until March 17 - the right to refuse to participate in elections, to publish the results of polls and forecasts of voting results
- March 17, 2018 - "Day of Silence", a ban on any kind of campaigning
- March 18, 2018 - election date, voting day
- Until April 1, 2018 - publication of the results.
- April 8, 2018 - second round (if necessary).
Election results, who won
Composition of the Central Election Commission (CEC)
The Central Election Commission of the Russian Federation is a federal state body formed in accordance with electoral legislation, organizing elections and referendums in the Russian Federation, independent of other government bodies within its competence.
The seventh composition of the election commission will operate from 2016 to 2021. It has 15 permanent members.
People's President Grudinin, everyone was waiting for him. This is the last hope of the peoples of Russia today.
Good luck Pavel Nikolaevich! People for you !!!
The only candidate whose words do not differ from deeds is Grudinin! 23 years doing, pulled the state farm out of shit. Stop voting with your heart (like for drunk Yeltsin), or, hoping for election promises, like Putin's. Over the past 8 years, GDP growth of less than 2%, where the promised 25 million high-tech jobs, the crisis of governance in the country (in order to cure girl from
oncology, you need to get on the "hot line", discuss the problems of fishing, pretend to be a journalist). How can the economy of a country be managed by people who have not worked for a day in any production? Drive 100 km away from Moscow and see how people live, what their salaries are. In general, are there any prospects in life? Or do you and your children have ten lives?
It's sad to look at all this, you are here arguing who is better or worse, I'm already 26 and I have nothing but an old foreign car, there is no stable job, although I have a secondary specialized education, and not because I do not strive for something, this all because there really is no work or a salary of 15,000 rubles at the plant, all this because the state does not care about us, and everyone who was in power and was already at a conscious age did not care about the crisis of power that led to the collapse of the USSR but I did not live then , I don't know much, but it seems to me then people were kinder to each other and more honest, life was more stable, the youth had more opportunities than now. I would like to ask the question why apartments in the state mortgage are given only to the military? Why does a deputy have a salary much higher than the average pension in the country? Questions can be asked endlessly, but we will not hear an answer to them, it seems not when, I would like to note that I did not see more than one worthy candidate on this list, even the crane operator is just a figurehead to divert her eyes, but in the end Putin V.V.
That's right !!! The USSR had its own shortcomings, but compared to today, looking from the top of the past years, this is nothing! I was born and raised in that country and I can judge it objectively !!! At the same time, the murderer (I cannot find another definition for him) has no future, like millions of people in our country who have survived for 18 years instead of life! The uttermost hopelessness! If this is not changed, it will be even worse! So think! I personally am For Grudinin! And let the thief mock him, but I know one thing that it will be good for us! Do not believe any horror stories about the USSR! If you have any questions, ask! Good luck and all (even though this power is a pipe dream) the best !!! Let's believe that in March all this obscurantism will collapse !!!
Working people and pensioners, if you want stable poverty, vote for V.V. He is a decent man, he will not betray his thieving friends. And may you be happy. Whatever they talk about Grudinin, I vote for him. Lizuns and those close to them are afraid for "honestly acquired by back-breaking labor"
We need a wind of change. Grudinin
Putin did everything he could, thank you, then he only degrades, it is in his interests to leave on time, to remain in the memory of a decent more or less president.
Lyudmila, who is Jodorovsky? And how did he get behind Grudinin? What does the STATE DEPARTMENT have to do with it? You seem to be throwing everything into one heap in order to arrange a garbage dump and confuse everything! If you don't know what, then you don't need to say, otherwise you look like a fool. And this does not seem to be proper for a woman….
Many people look back in the 90s. And why not during the reign of Ivan the Terrible 1547 - 1584? We live in the 21st century, in a gas-producing country there are regions that still sit without gas, one of them, for example, the Kemerovo Region, Kiselevsk, is still heating their homes with coal, people only dream of gas, but we are bringing gas branches to China , Europe. There is a coal war in this city. Coal oligarchs are surviving people from their own homes, forcing them to abandon their acquired property with backbreaking work. In this city there is a real genocide of people, and not without the help of the authorities. Do you think Putin does not know about this situation, as he knows, many wrote to both Putin and Medvedev, but they did not give a damn about the people. You can watch a few videos on YouTube. Therefore, ONLY FOR the belly.
Speak everything right. The same situation is with us. And they wrote to Tuleyev.
KBR, I have never delved into politics especially, but when I ask my friends who they will vote for, 95 out of 100 people will go to vote for Grudinin.