Governor of Tver Oblast

The Governor of Tver Oblast is the head of Tver Oblast, the federal subject of Russia. Governor is elected by the people of Tver Oblast for five years.

Governor of Tver Oblast Губернатор Тверской области
Flag of Tver Oblast
Incumbent Igor Rudenya since 23 September 2016
Status	Head of Federal Subject
Seat	Tver
Nominator	Political parties
Appointer	Direct popular vote
Term length	five years, one consecutive re-election
Constituting instrument	Charter of Tver Oblast
Formation	1995
First holder	Vladimir Platov
Website	тверскаяобласть.рф

Building of Tver Oblast Administration and governor's residence

The current governor is Igor Rudenya.

List

No.	Portrait	Name	Tenure	Party		Election
1		Vladimir Suslov (born 1939)	20 October 1991 — 26 December 1995		Independent
2		Vladimir Platov (1946–2012)	26 December 1995 — 30 December 2003			1995 1999–2000
3		Dmitry Zelenin (born 1962)	30 December 2003 — 16 June 2011[1]		United Russia	2003 2007
—		Andrey Shevelyov (born 1970)	16 June — 7 July 2011			2011
4			7 July 2011 — 2 March 2016
—		Igor Rudenya (born 1968)	2 March — 23 September 2016			2016 2021
5			since 23 September 2016

Timeline

Elections

1995

Candidate	Description	%
Vladimir Platov	Mayor of Bezhetsk	50.50%
Vladimir Suslov	Incumbent head of administration	35.16%
Yury Dontsov	Entrepreneur	4.75%
Viktor Linov	Chairman of Staritsky District consumers' co-operative	1.55%
Against all		6.73%
Source:[2][3]

1999–2000

Candidate	Party	Description	1st round		2nd round
			Votes	%	Votes	%
Vladimir Platov		Unity	Incumbent governor	257,483	32.51%	299,869	46.96%
Vladimir Bayunov		Communist Party	Member of the State Duma	181,413	22.91%	296,458	46.43%
Sergey Potapov		Independent	Member of the Legislative Assembly	98,911	12.49%
Gennady Vinogradov		Yabloko	Employee at regional office of the Bank of Russia	47,115	5.95%
Nikolay Popov		Independent	Member of the Legislative Assembly	43,494	5.49%
Viktor Opekunov		Fatherland – All Russia	First deputy governor	29,490	3.72%
Andrey Stroyev		Independent	Entrepreneur	29,350	3.71%
Andrey Trachenko		Independent	Deputy general director of Rumelco LLC	21,882	2.76%
Anatoly Kleymenov		Independent	Chairman of the economics committee of Tver Oblast administration	12,331	1.56%
Vasily Smirnov		Conservative Party of Entrepreneurs	Chairman of regional branch of the Conservative Party of Entrepreneurs	10,166	1.28%
Arnold Pork		Independent	Vice president of Trans Nafta CJSC	2,461	0.31%
Against all				48,930	6.18%	42,231	6.61%
Invalid ballots				8,893		5,618
Source:[4][5][6][7][8]

2003

Candidate	Party	Description	1st round		2nd round
			Votes	%	Votes	%
Dmitry Zelenin		United Russia	Deputy Chairman of the state committee for physical culture and sports	291,533	42.49%	283,438	57.42%
Igor Zubov		Independent	Former deputy minister of internal affairs	100,119	14.59%	167,074	33.85%
Tatyana Astrakhankina		Communist Party	Member of the State Duma	88,160	12.85%
Vladimir Platov		Independent	Incumbent governor	85,455	12.45%
Aleksandr Kharchenko		Independent	Mayor of Rzhev	33,894	4.94%
Yury Krasnov		Independent		26,808	3.91%
Yury Tseberganov		Independent	Chief federal inspector for Tver Oblast	11,566	1.69%
Aleksandr Ipatov		Independent	Deputy governor	5,293	0.77%
Konstantin Fokin		Independent		4,953	0.72%
Aleksandr Anzhinovsky		Independent		3,477	0.51%
Viktor Isakov		Independent		911	0.13%
Against all				34,028	4.96%	43,124	8.74%
Source:[9][10]

2007

Candidate	Party		Description	For	Against	Abstained	Did not vote
Dmitry Zelenin		United Russia	Incumbent governor	28 / 33	1 / 33	1 / 33	3 / 33
Source:[11]

2011

Candidate	Party		Description	For	Against
Andrey Shevelyov		United Russia	Acting governor, former deputy governor of Ryazan Oblast	30 / 40	10 / 40
Source:[12][13]

2016

Candidate	Party		Description	Votes	%	Map
Igor Rudenya		United Russia	Acting governor	322,997	72.1%
Anton Morozov		Liberal Democratic Party	Member of the State Duma	66,042	14.74%
Ilya Kleymenov		Communists of Russia	Member of Konakovsky District Assembly of Deputies	43,509	9.71%
Valid ballots				432,548	100%
Source:[14]

2021

Further information: 2021 Tver Oblast gubernatorial election