Marina Udgodskaya

When no-one in the village signed-up to challenge Nikolai Loktev, who's from the pro-Kremlin United Russia party, he persuaded Ms Udgodskaya to register as his "rival" to ensure the minimum requirement of two candidates.

"I didn't think people would actually vote for me," she told Telegram news channel Podyom. "I didn't do anything at all!"

Even so, she won almost 62% of the vote. Her boss managed just 34%. [1]