2024 Russian presidential election (Grand Chessboard)

The 8th Russian presidential election occurred on 10 September 2024, resulting in Dmitry Gudkov of the opposition Party of Changes winning with 54% of the vote. His opponents were Sergey Naryshkin (United Russia), Pavel Grudinin (Communist Party), Alexei Navalny (independent), Maxim Suraikin (Communists of Russia), and Dmitry Nossov (independent). According to Article 81 of the Constitution of the Russian Federation, incumbent President Vladimir Putin was not eligible to run.
There were widespread allegations of election fraud. Navalny claimed that he won the majority of the vote and accused Gudkov of making a deal with the authorities, particularly with the members of President Putin's inner circle, to rig the vote in his favor. They agreed to this since the 'establishment' Naryshkin candidate was too unpopular to win, and Gudkov was an opposition figure who was willing to be more cooperative with them to some degree. Regardless, Gudkov was inaugurated as President on October 15, 2024.
==Candidates==
Name 	Portrait	Occupation 	Party
Sergei Naryshkin	 	Director of the Foreign Intelligence Service
(2016—2024)Chairman of the 6th State Duma
(2011–2016)	United Russia
Pavel Grudinin 	 	Businessman, former presidential candidate
(2018)	Communist Party
Dmitry Gudkov 	 	Member of the 6th State Duma
(2011–2016)	Party of Changes
Maxim Suraykin 	 	Leader of Communists of Russia 	Communists of Russia
Alexey Navalny 	 	Chairman of Anti-Corruption Foundation	Independent
Dmitry Nossov 	 	Member of the VI and VII State Duma
(2011–2021)	Independent
==Results==
	Candidate 	Party 	Votes	%
	Dmitry Gudkov 	Party of Changes 	 	54%
	Alexey Navalny 	None 	 	16%
	Sergey Naryshkin	United Russia 	 	14%
	Pavel Grudinin 	Communist Party 	 	8%
	Dmitry Nossov 	None 	 	5%
	Maxim Suraykin 	Communists of Russia	 	3%
==Primaries==
===United Russia===
	Candidate 	Votes	%
	Sergey Naryshkin 	 	64%
	Vyacheslav Volodin	 	23%
	Alexey Dyumin 	 	11%
	Sergei Kiriyenko 	 	2%
===Communist Party===
===United Opposition===
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