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Mayor of Moscow
Mayor of Moscow
	Coat of arms of Moscow
	Flag of the City of Moscow
	Incumbent; Sergei Sobyanin; since 21 October 2010
Style	His Excellency; Mr. Mayor
Seat	Moscow City Hall Building
Appointer	Popular vote
Term length	5 years
Inaugural holder	Gavriil Popov
Formation	12 June 1991
Website	Office of the Mayor

The Mayor of Moscow (Russian: Мэр Москвы, romanized: Mer Moskvy) is the head and the highest-ranking official of Moscow, who leads the Government of Moscow, the main executive body of the city.

Moscow is both a city and separate federal subject, according to the Constitution of Russia.^[1] Most federal subjects are headed by governors, but the office of the head of Moscow is called Mayor of the City of Moscow, according to the Charter of the city of Moscow.^[2]

Sergei Sobyanin, the incumbent Mayor of Moscow, was re-elected for a new term in 2018 and then in 2023.

Responsibilities

The separate office of the Premier of the Government of Moscow existed in 1991-2001 (Yury Luzhkov was the only officeholder), but it was merged with the office of Mayor of Moscow. 1999 Moscow mayoral election was the last time when the mayor ran together with the vice-mayor.

Mayor of Moscow heads Government of Moscow. The mayor's office administers all city services, public property, police and fire protection, most public agencies, and enforces all city and state laws within Moscow. The mayor's office is located in Moscow City Hall Building in Tverskaya Street and has jurisdiction over all districts of the City of Moscow. The mayor appoints deputy mayors, directors (heads of city departments) and other officials.

The Government of Moscow's budget is the largest regional budget in Russia.

Elections

The position of Mayor of Moscow was elected between 1991 and 2004. In 2004, Vladimir Putin proposed a law to abolish the direct election of governors, the mayor of Moscow, and the presidents of Russian regions. The law was swiftly passed by the parliament.^[3] The new legislation changed the election system to an indirect one, in which parliamentary political parties and the President of Russia nominated a candidate who must then have been approved by the Moscow City Duma. Following the 2011–13 Russian protests that followed the 2011 parliamentary election, President Dmitry Medvedev offered to re-introduce the direct elections of the governors and the mayor of Moscow, and legislation to this effect was passed by the Parliament.^[4] In the 2013 mayoral election, for the first time in 10 years, the mayor was elected by popular vote.

A candidate to the office must be a citizen of the Russian Federation over the age of 30. Candidates can be nominated both by political parties and as self-nomination. In any case, candidates must pass the "municipal filter" (collection of signatures of municipal deputies).

Latest election

Sergei Sobyanin was re-elected for a new term in 2023.

Mayors of Moscow (1991–present)

No.	Election			Took office	Left office	Party	Vice Mayor
17	1991		Gavriil Popov	12 June 1991	6 June 1992	Democratic Russia	Yury Luzhkov
18	1991		Yury Luzhkov	6 June 1992	16 June 1996	Independent	vacancy
	1996	16 June 1996		19 December 1999	Valery Shantsev (1996–2005)	Independent
	1999			19 December 1999		17 December 2003	OVR → UR
	2003			17 December 2003^[5]		6 July 2007	United Russia
	No Direct Election	6 July 2007^[6]		28 September 2010	position abolished		United Russia
—			Vladimir Resin Acting	28 September 2010	21 October 2010	United Russia
19			Sergei Sobyanin	21 October 2010	5 June 2013	United Russia
—		5 June 2013^[7]		12 September 2013
(19)	2013	12 September 2013^[8]		18 September 2018
	2018	18 September 2018^[9]		18 September 2023
	2023	18 September 2023^[10]		Incumbent

Previous heads of Moscow government

Chairmen of the Executive Committee (1917–1991)

No.	Name	Took office	Left office	Political party
1	Viktor Nogin	September 1917	November 1917	Communist Party
2	Mikhail Pokrovsky	November 1917	March 1918
3	Pyotr Smidovich	March 1918	October 1918
4	Lev Kamenev	October 1918	16 January 1926
5	Konstantin Ukhanov	16 January 1926	1931
6	Nikolai Bulganin	1931	22 July 1937
7	Ivan Sidorov	22 July 1937	3 November 1938
8	Alexander Yefremov	3 November 1938	14 April 1939
9	Vasily Pronin	14 April 1939	7 December 1944
10	Georgy Popov	7 December 1944	18 January 1950
11	Mikhail Yasnov	18 January 1950	2 February 1956
12	Nikolai Bobrovnikov	2 February 1956	1961
13	Nikolai Dygai	1961	1963
14	Vladimir Promyslov	1963	1986
15	Valery Saikin	3 January 1986	14 April 1990
16	Yury Luzhkov	26 April 1990	2 July 1991^[11]

Latest election

Summary of the 10 September 2023 Moscow mayoral election results
Candidate		Party	Votes	%
	Sergey Sobyanin	United Russia	2,491,327	76.85
	Leonid Zyuganov	Communist Party	264,644	8.16
	Boris Chernyshov	Liberal Democratic Party	183,132	5.65
	Vladislav Davankov	New People	174,286	5.38
	Dmitry Gusev	A Just Russia	128,306	3.96

Total			3,241,695	100.00

Valid votes			3,241,695	99.40
Invalid/blank votes			19,718	0.60
Registered voters/turnout			7,604,055	42.89

Official results published by the Moscow City Electoral Commission ^[12]