2025 Tambov Oblast head election

The 2025 Tambov Oblast head election took place on 12–14 September 2025, on common election day. Acting Head of Tambov Oblast Yevgeny Pervyshov was elected for a full term in office.

2025 Tambov Oblast head election

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Turnout	53.94% 0.69 pp
CPRF Candidate Yevgeny Pervyshov Andrey Zhidkov Party United Russia CPRF Popular vote 311,028 41,826 Percentage 73.84% 9.93%   SR–ZP LDPR Candidate Pavel Plotnikov Oleg Morozov Party SR–ZP LDPR Popular vote 22,957 22,940 Percentage 5.45% 5.45%
Head before election Yevgeny Pervyshov (acting) United Russia Head-elect Yevgeny Pervyshov United Russia

Background

Deputy Minister of Construction, Housing and Utilities of Russia Maksim Yegorov was appointed acting Head of Administration of Tambov Oblast in October 2021, replacing two-term incumbent Aleksandr Nikitin, who in turn was appointed to the Federation Council by Tambov Oblast Duma.^[1][2] Yegorov overwhelmingly won election for a full term in September 2022 with 84.95% of the vote.^[3]

On November 4, 2024, Yegorov unexpectedly announced his resignation as Head of Tambov Oblast with two years of his first term left.^[4] Yegorov did not have any complaints about his performance as governor, so it was widely believed that Yegorov would receive a major job offer on the federal level, potentially as United Russia executive committee head, as his former boss Vladimir Yakushev was tapped acting secretary general of United Russia earlier in 2024 (nonetheless, Yegorov did not land any position at the party congress in December 2024).^[5][6] The same day President of Russia Vladimir Putin appointed State Duma member and former Krasnodar mayor Yevgeny Pervyshov as acting Head of Tambov Oblast.^[7]

Candidates

In Tambov Oblast candidates for Head of Tambov Oblast can be nominated only by registered political parties. Candidate for Head of Tambov Oblast should be a Russian citizen and at least 30 years old. Candidates for Head of Tambov Oblast should not have a foreign citizenship or residence permit. Each candidate in order to be registered is required to collect at least 7% of signatures of members and heads of municipalities.^[8] Also head candidates present 3 candidacies to the Federation Council and election winner later appoints one of the presented candidates.

Declared

Candidate name, political party			Occupation	Status	Ref.
Oleg Morozov Liberal Democratic Party			Member of Tambov Oblast Duma (2021–present) 2022 head candidate	Registered	[9]
Yevgeny Pervyshov United Russia			Acting Head of Tambov Oblast (2024–present) Former Member of State Duma (2021–2024)	Registered	[10][11]
Pavel Plotnikov SR–ZP			Member of Tambov Oblast Duma (2005–2011, 2016–present) 2020 and 2022 head candidate	Registered	[12]
Yelena Semiletova New People			Businesswoman	Registered	[13]
Andrey Zhidkov Communist Party			Member of Tambov Oblast Duma (2016–present) 2015, 2020 and 2022 head candidate	Registered	[14][15]

Eliminated in the primary

• Sergey Khaustov (United Russia), Member of Tambov Oblast Duma (2011–present)^[10]

Candidates for Federation Council

Incumbent Senator Mikhail Belousov (Independent) was not re-nominated.

Head candidate, political party		Candidates for Federation Council	Status
Oleg Morozov Liberal Democratic Party		* Denis Dubovitsky, homemaker * Vladimir Rodin, Member of Rasskazovo City Council of People's Deputies (2020–present) * Konstantin Susakov, aide to State Duma member Sergey Leonov	Registered
Yevgeny Pervyshov United Russia		* Aleksey Kondratyev, Senator from Kursk Oblast (2024–present), former Senator from Tambov Oblast (2015–2020) * Vladimir Repin, Commissioner for Human Rights of Tambov Oblast (2014–present) * Vladimir Romanov, Member of Civic Chamber of the Russian Federation (2017–present), Tambov State University history professor	Registered
Pavel Plotnikov SR–ZP		* Sergey Kunavin * Aleksandr Menshikh, Member of Kotovsk City Council of People's Deputies (2020–present), middle school principal * Irina Zhukova, self-employed	Registered
Yelena Semiletova New People		* Yelena Kuzovleva, individual entrepreneur * Tatyana Yevtina, individual entrepreneur * Igor Yuryev, individual entrepreneur	Registered
Andrey Zhidkov Communist Party		* Yelena Kozodayeva, aide to State Duma member Georgy Kamnev * Larisa Popova, former Member of Komsomolsky Rural Council of People's Deputies (2013–2018), aide to Tambov Oblast Duma member * Anton Veselovsky, Member of Tambov Oblast Duma (2021–present)	Registered

Polls

Fieldwork date	Polling firm	Pervyshov	Zhidkov	Plotnikov	Morozov	Semiletova	Lead
14 September 2025	2025 election	73.8	9.9	5.5	5.5	4.0	63.9
9–22 August 2025	FOM	80.1	7.5	5.5	3.6	2.3	72.6

Results

Summary of the 12–14 September 2025 Tambov Oblast head election results

Candidate		Party	Votes	%
	Yevgeny Pervyshov (incumbent)	United Russia	311,028	73.84
	Andrey Zhidkov	Communist Party	41,826	9.93
	Pavel Plotnikov	A Just Russia – For Truth	22,957	5.45
	Oleg Morozov	Liberal Democratic Party	22,940	5.45
	Yelena Semiletova	New People	16,960	4.03
Valid votes			415,711	98.70
Blank ballots			5,492	1.30
Total			421,203	100.00
Turnout			421,203	53.94
Registered voters			780,852	100.00
Source:				[16]

Governor Pervyshov appointed outgoing Senator from Kursk Oblast Aleksey Kondratyev (United Russia) to the Federation Council, replacing incumbent Senator Mikhail Belousov (Independent).^[17]

See also

• 2025 Russian regional elections