On 12 June 1991, the day of the first Russian presidential election, in a referendum 54% of Leningrad voters chose to restore "the original name, Saint Petersburg", on 6 September 1991. In the same election Anatoly Sobchak became the first democratically elected mayor of the city.[28] Among his first initiatives, Sobchak attempted to minimise the federal control by Moscow to keep the income from St. Petersburg's economy in the city.