The 7th presidential election in Russia was held on Sunday, 11 March 2018. Most of the major parties selected new candidates to run for the presidency, and three parties that did not participate in the previous election in 2012—the centrist Progress Party, the socialist A Just Russia party, and the liberal democratic Yabloko party—were able to take part. Notably, incumbent President Vladimir Putin chose not to run despite being eligible for another term, and the ruling United Russia party instead put forward Sergei Ivanov, the former chief of the presidential administration.