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.
Our President is Vladimir Putin. He proved this by making Russia a world power. This is confirmed by macroeconomic indicators.
Yes yes World power with a poor people.
Look what our president promised in the last elections, starting in 2000, what he did and didn’t.
And Navalny is broadcasting that the current presidential elections in Russia are uncontested.
Navalny is a US puppet and you have to be complete idiots to believe him. Together with Sobchak, Yavlinsky, Titov, Gudkov, Yashin and others, he is working to bring the ideas of Rabbi Shneerson to life. Everything is clear with this company. There is no faith in Grudinin either, where was he in October 1993? Was he engaged in the privatization of land shares of collective farmers ?! Why haven't you joined the Communist Party yet? Zyuganov, moreover, cannot be trusted. What has he turned the party into? Why are such scum as the traitor Voronenkov, who even had a fake diploma, from the Communist Party to the State Duma? Who else will Zyuganov and KO slip into us? Therefore, I propose to vote for the honest Russian patriot Sergei Baburin. He did not chicken out in 1993, did not crawl in front of the oligarchs and those in power, did not dance seven forty, did not grab people's property, did not have accounts in offshore and foreign banks and real estate abroad. Sergei Baburin is incapable of cowardice and betrayal. Therefore, I propose to vote for Baburin in the elections.
Andrei, Baburin betrayed the Communist Party of the Russian Federation, has already changed his color for those in power. And what is the relation to the traitor?
Personally, I am for Grudinin. A program for the people. It was chosen by collective farmers and workers.
The current government has long passed the peak of its effectiveness. But as has developed in Russia for a long time, those in power do not understand this (or do not want to understand). Apparently being in power radically changes a person.
It is necessary to use the democratic lever as much as possible to end the current lawlessness, that is, come to the elections and cast your vote.
Offshore, corruption, ever-increasing extortions and taxes. It is time to end the era of ripping off the common people, snickering bureaucrats and oligarchs, they do not serve the people, but suck human and natural resources from the citizens and the country. They have come to the point that people are forced to take out loans on security of property and bonded interest for food, and after they do not pull payments they remain homeless. And how many of those who were left homeless thanks to black realtors and careless developers. Why has this been going on for a decade? At the same time, from TV we are all told that the Pindos are to blame for everyone, who are about to attack us.Therefore, we must feed Syria, Donbass, Transnistria, forgive the debts of the USSR and endlessly increase the military budget. One question to them - "Why the hell did they not attack us in the 90s when the country was on its knees and it was ruled by a drunk"? Enough with the LIES and the propaganda of fictional stability and power pouring through the zombie box. GRUDININ - salvation and hope for a better life.
And why did they have to attack us, if we were already falling apart?
You yourself remember the 90s, when there was no money at all, when there was nothing to feed the children.
How old are you, what income do you have?
Most likely in the 90s you were just born and hardly knew what the need was.
And changes in the country are taking place, only it is boring to open your eyes and look carefully, and not sit for hours on the Internet reading all sorts of rubbish in this garbage
Grudinin, or Mikhailov. What's the difference! Power must be changed before it's too late!
I am for Grudinin, I think Putin has stagnated and turned into a puppet of his friends Rotenbergs. All ministers suddenly became astranomically rich. (career) of Chubais who is hated by 99% of the population continues. it is not possible to enter a good university for free. The entrance to the government is closed for gifted children from the people, which means that the children of those who absolutely do not understand how the people live in the provinces will rule. And drug addiction !? nebylo! the country is waiting for answers and tough decisions, and Putin floods us about Syria, Ukraine and America. If honestly many are already tired of listening!
Oleg, I agree with you!
For Grudinin, at least one is not lying! :)
Navalny held actions in support of V.V. Putin. No matter what the slogans were, boycotting the elections will increase the percentage of votes for Putin. The turnout threshold has long been canceled, and if everyone who is against Putin does not come to the polls, he will gain 80%. Is this what Navalny wants? If Navalny really wanted changes for the better, he would urge his supporters to vote for Grudinin, and if he wins the elections, he would head the Accounts Chamber of the Russian Federation, you will not find a better place to fight corruption. And in six years the elections would have become a worthy alternative to Grudinin. Before Navalny's call to boycott the elections, I was his supporter; now I think that he is really either a Kremlin project or a madman.
Igor. Having gained power in his collective farm, Grudinin also did a lot of things, of course, less than Putin and Medvedev, but he had much less opportunities)) If Grudinin gets to power in Russia, the people will not seem few, his kulak nature will certainly manifest itself in in all its glory. The Communist Party of the Russian Federation is no longer the party of Lenin and Stalin, it is the party of Voronenkov and others like him. The only honest candidate from the patriotic forces is Sergei Baburin.