Russian presidential election, October 2010

The Russian 2010 presidential election was held on October 11th starting at 09:00 (UTC +12) in the Far Eastern Federal Republic (capital: Vladivostok) and ending in the Federal Special Administrative Region of Kaliningrad at 21:00 (UTC +2).

The elections were held following the sudden death of Dmitry Romanov in a car crash in central Moscow on the 30th of September. He had won a landslide victory earlier in 2010 gathering almost 70% of the votes.

The October elections resulted in the victory of the United Russia backed candidate Nikolay Sheremetyev, a close associate and friend of Dmitry Romanov. He won the elections in the first round with 53,6% of the votes casted. Due to the extraordinary circumstances he was inaugurated in the Grand Kremlin Palace, Moscow on the 12th of October.

The elections was observed by (among others) the The Central Election Commission of the Russian Federation, the Central Committee of the Communist Party of the Russian Federation, observers from the United Russia-party, Our Motherland-party and the Democratic Russia-party, ITAR-TASS, Amnesty International, BADGE-alliance observers and many observers from other nations.

Unlike the May elections the elections went by relatively calmly.

Candidates
Each party represented in the State Duma were eligble to put forward one candidate and one week was reserved for campaigning. The Communist Party (CPRF) was the only party besides United Russia to put forward a candidate. The other two parties in the Duma chose to support the United Russia backed candidate, Nikolay Sheremetyev.

Election Results

 * Not unlike the May elections observers has expressed grave concern about the exceptionally large amount of spoiled votes. But the Central Election Commission has judged that the elections was conducted in a relatively fair way.

Observers

 * the Central Election Commission of the Russian Federation
 * the Central Committee of the Communist Party of the Russian Federation
 * the United Russia-party
 * the Our Motherland-party
 * the Democratic Russia-party
 * ITAR-TASS (news agency)
 * Amnesty International
 * BADGE-alliance observers
 * Observers from other nations such as;