2016 Volkian presidential election

2016 Volkian presidential election

June 19, 2016 (2016-06-19) (first round) July 3, 2016 (2016-07-03) (second round)
Turnout	75.53% (first round) 74.23% (second round)
Candidate Yuliya Surkova First Lastov Party SDU KP Running mate Vladimir Burmakin First Lastova
President before election Zakhar Kreskov SDU Elected President Yuliya Surkova SDU

Presidential elections were held in Volkia on June 19, 2016. The 33rd presidential elections, voters chose a new president as the incumbent, Zakhar Kreskov, was term limited. Because no candidate received a majority of votes in the first round, a run-off between the top two candidates, Yuliya Surkova and First Lastov, was held on July 3. Yuliya Surkova won the election in the second round with __% of the vote, the first woman in Volkian history to win a presidential election. She was inaugurated on August, 6, 2016.

Results

Candidate		Party	First round		Second round
			Votes	%	Votes	%
	Yuliya Surkova	Social Democratic Union	8,620,951	34.64	13,319,028	54.41
	Artem Morozov	Conservative Party	7,415,027	29.79	11,159,201	45.59
	Katja Nikolaeva	Liberal Party	3,879,210	15.59
	Polina Fedorova	Socialist Labor League	2,107,205	8.47
	Alexei Novikov	Volkian Green Party	1,980,272	7.96
	Artur Kamenev	Independent	758,141	3.05
	Viktor Zakharov	Independent	129,755	0.52
Total			24,890,561	100.00	24,478,229	100.00
Valid votes			24,890,561	99.29	24,478,229	99.21
Invalid/blank votes			179,024	0.71	195,789	0.79
Total votes			25,069,585	100.00	24,674,018	100.00
Registered voters/turnout			33,193,502	75.53	33,240,368	74.23
Source: National Elections Commission

	Volkian Federative Republic
Main article: Volkia
Important Topics: Culture ♦ Lupine ♦ Volkian language ♦ Lunarism ♦ Volkian korona ♦ Defense Forces
Government: Federal Government ♦ President ♦ Cabinet ♦ National Assembly ♦ Federal Supreme Court ♦ Political Parties
History: Grand Principality of Volkia ♦ Duchy of Volkia ♦ Kingdom of Volkia ♦ Volkian Civil War ♦ Northern Revolt ♦ Volkian Revolution
Important Figures (Past and Present): Yuliya Surkova ♦ Aleksey Pushkarev ♦ Stefan Gurkovsky ♦ Ivan Ogarkov ♦ Vasily Tolmachyov ♦ Yulian Lebedev