Specificity of regional elections-2014

Abstract

The article is concerned with the regional election campaign in 2014. The author analyses the results of the gubernatorial elections, and voting for members of regional parliaments. Much attention is paid to the reasons of conformist voting. The author comes to the conclusion that good results of candidates from the party «United Russia» were due to several factors: support of Vladimir Putin, the administrative resource.

Keywords

• regional elections
• gubernatorial elections
• regional political process
• “United Russia”