Press Release, 9.09.2019

The single voting day of September 8 was successful for the Yabloko party. The party was able to double the number of deputies in regional parliaments, and the number of regions where the party is represented in the legislative assemblies increased from three to five.

In addition, candidates from Yabloko were elected heads of three districts in the Pskov Region, and 26 candidates became municipal deputies in nine Russian regions.

The results of the municipal elections in St. Petersburg, where the party nominated 480 candidates, most of whom had a chance to become deputies, remain unknown. By now, we know about the victory of 52 candidates in 30 municipalities.

The party showed the best results in the elections to the Moscow City Duma, where four out of Yabloko four candidates were elected. Yevgeny Bunimovich, Commissioner for Children’s Rights in Moscow and member of the party’s Federal Political Committee, won 40.6% of the vote in his constituency, while his rival United Russia party Mikhail Balykhin, who conducted a dirty campaign against Bunimovich, got only 27.7%. Daria Besedina, architect and party member, defeated Vadim Kumin, leader of the Moscow branch of the Communist Party of the Russian Federation, in her district with 36.6% versus Kumin’s 31.4%. Maxim Kruglov, expert of Yabloko’s Anti-Corruption Policy Centre, received 39.3% of the vote, while his rival Natalia Pochinok, supported by the Mayor’s office, received only 22.8%. Sergei Mitrokhin, member of the party’s Federal Political Committee, received two times more votes than his rival Dmitry Koshlakov-Krestovsky from the LDPR party: 47.9% versus 21.4%.

Yabloko also got a second MP in the Pskov Regional Parliament. Arthur Gaiduk, ambulance doctor and deputy of the Pskov City Council, won by-elections in single-mandate constituency No. 2, receiving more than 40% of the vote. He left behind his rival Igor Maximov, former Vice-Governor and candidate from the ruling United Russia party, who got 32% of the vote.

Viktor Fedoreyev, engineer, won the elections to the Legislative Duma of the Khabarovsk Territory (a regional parliament). He defeated Valery Postelnik, current deputy and First Deputy Secretary of the United Russia regional branch, who received almost 10% less than the engineer from Yabloko.

Candidates from the Yabloko party were elected heads of the Dnovsky, Novorzhevsky and Pustoshkinsky districts of the Pskov Region. Now party representatives head five out of 24 districts of the region.

Svetlana Vasilkova, deputy of the district Assembly of Deputies, civil engineer, Deputy Chair of the Pskov branch of Yabloko, Chair of the southwestern branch of the party, was elected head of the Pustoshkinsky district. Svetlana Vasilkova was supported by 53.4% ​​of the voters, and her main rival, Ivan Shtylin, Chairman of the Pskov Region Sports Committee, got 36.6%.

Sofya Pugacheva, electrical engineer in the aircraft industry and deputy of the District Assembly, Chair of the southeast branch of the Pskov Yabloko, was elected head of the Novorzhevsky District, 45.95% of voters voted for her, while Sergei Mezentsev, her main rival from the United Russia party, obtained 45.06% of the vote.

Mikhail Shaurkin, engineer, head of the department of operation and repair of customs infrastructure facilities of the Pskov Customs, became head of the Dnovsky district, 63.8% of voters cast their votes for him. Tatyana Pakhomova, Adviser to the Governor of the Pskov region, came second with 23% of the vote.

In addition, candidate from Yabloko Denis Timofeyev was elected deputy of the Dnovsky District Assembly of Deputies in a single-mendate constituency.

Yabloko defeated United Russia in the Leningrad region. According to the results of the counting of votes in the Murinsky urban settlement of the Leningrad Region, 13 out of 20 seats in the municipal council were taken by candidates from Yabloko. Activists of the Yabloko party Tatyana Khutornaya, Dmitry Kuzmin, Rinat Dzhambulatov, Alexei Nikiforov, Anton Rakitin were elected in district No. 1, Alexander Barkevich, Ekaterina Grigoryeva, Mikhail Ignatiev, Anton Kharzin won in district No. 2, Yelena Dmitrieva, Sergei Amelchenko, Olga Kadurina and Anton Popov were elected in district No. 3. Murino is a large city of the Leningrad region on the border with St. Petersburg with a population of 50,000 people.

Candidates from the party lists overcame the barrier in two urban districts of the Moscow Region. In Kashira, Yabloko received 9.04% of the vote, Lyubov Kopach confirmed her deputy mandate. In Zhukovsky, Yabloko list gained 7.7%, and Irina Monakhova will become deputy. In addition, Alexander Yevseyev was elected to the City Council of Sergiev Posad in a single-mandate constituency. Other candidates did not manage to get elected due to large-scale fraud and stuffing of fraudulent ballots. The party is preparing appeals to the law enforcement and applies to courts.

In the Novgorod region, the list of Yabloko candidates received 8.6% of the vote in the Yermolinsky rural settlement, Oksana Sergeyeva was elected deputy. Ivan Epov won the elections to the Council of Deputies of the Krestetsk city settlement.

In Bashkiria Yabloko will have two municipal deputies. Ilnur Salakhov won by-elections to the Council of the city of Neftekamsk, receiving 53% of the vote. Fazilya Sultangalieva became deputy of the Council of the Badryashevsky rural settlement.

In the Murmansk region, Yabloko member Nikolai Popov was elected to the Council of Deputies of the city settlement of Revda, Lovozero District.

In the Krasnodar Territory, Roman Arevyan won the elections to the Council of Deputies of the Suvorov rural settlement of Ust-Labinsky district, and Konstantin Ivashkin won the elections to the Council of Deputies of the Kushchevsky rural settlement of Kushchevsky district.

Anatoly Kivva was elected deputy of the Council of Deputies of the Zaboryevsky rural settlement in the Ryazan region.

Yelena Vakhtina was elected to the Council of Deputies of the Central District of Chelyabinsk.

Nikolai Rybakov, head of the party’s election headquarters, commented on the results of the Single Voting Day as follows, “Yabloko has once again confirmed the status of a party with the support of voters – from small villages to the capital of Russia. We have doubled the number of regional deputies. All our candidates conducted political party campaigns, and their support represents the vote for change. Society wakes up and this election is the beginning of the end of the authoritarianism in Russia.”