title: 2017 Yaroslavl Oblast gubernatorial election
text: # 2017 Yaroslavl Oblast gubernatorial election
  
  The 2017 Gubernatorial Election in Yaroslavl Oblast was held on 10 September 2017.
  
  ## Background
  
  28 July 2016, the Governor Sergey Yastrebov, went into early retirement. The acting Governor was appointed Dmitry Mironov.
  
  ## Candidates
  
  ### Registered
  
  | Candidate | Party | Office | Candidates to the Federation Council |
  | - | - | - | - |
  | Sergey Balabayev Born 1968 (age 45) | People's Freedom Party | Member of Yaroslavl Oblast Duma | Victor Tyabus Lyubov Charkina Sergey Skovorodkin |
  | Andrey Vatlin Born 1986 (age 31) | Liberal Democratic Party | Member of Board of representatives of Pereslavsky District | Yevgeniya Tishkovskaya Yevgeny Mayne Alexander Kovalev |
  | Dmitry Mironov Born 1968 (age 48) | United Russia | Incumbent acting Governor of Yaroslavl Oblast | Igor Ghahramanyan Alexander Gribov Alexander Rusakov |
  | Kirill Panko Born 1980 (age 37) | Communists of Russia | Unemployed | |
  | Mikhail Paramonov Born 1955 (age 61) | Communist Party | Member of Yaroslavl Oblast Duma | Alexander Vorobyov Elkhan Madaliev Yelena Kuznetsova |
  
  ### Not registered
  
  * Oleg Vinogradov (Yabloko) — former Vice Governor of Yaroslavl Oblast.
  
  ## Opinion polls
  
  | Date | Poll source | Dmitry Mironov | Mikhail Paramonov | Sergey Balabayev | Andrey Vatlin | Kirill Panko | Other | Undecided | Abstention | Spoil the Ballot |
  | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - |
  | 10-20 August | WCIOM Archived 2017-08-31 at the Wayback Machine | 55% | 3% | 2% | 1% | 0% | 1% | 24% | 13% | 1% |
  
  ## Result
  
  | Candidate | Candidate | Party | Votes | % |
  | - | - | - | - | - |
  | | Dmitry Mironov | United Russia | 274,328 | 79.32%% |
  | | Mikhail Paramonov | Communist Party | 29,763 | 8.61% |
  | | Sergey Balabayev | People's Freedom Party | 20,328 | 5.88% |
  | | Andrey Vatlin | Liberal Democratic Party | 10,053 | 2.91% |
  | | Kirill Panko | Communists of Russia | 7,966 | 1.23% |
  | Invalid ballots | Invalid ballots | Invalid ballots | 7,145 | 2.07% |
  | Total | Total | Total | 345,867 | 100% |
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