2025 Kamchatka Krai gubernatorial election

2025 Kamchatka Krai gubernatorial election
12–14 September 2025
Governor before election

Vladimir Solodov
United Russia

Governor-elect

TBD
TBD

The 2025 Kamchatka Krai gubernatorial election will take place on 12–14 September 2025, on common election day. Incumbent governor of Kamchatka Krai Vladimir Solodov is running for a second term in office.

Background

Vladimir Solodov, then-Chairman of the Government of Yakutia, was appointed acting governor of Kamchatka Krai in April 2020, replacing two-term incumbent Vladimir Ilyukhin.[1] Ilyukhin left after poor handling of the COVID-19 pandemic, for which he was criticised by Rospotrebnadzor head Anna Popova and State Duma member Yevgeny Revenko.[2] Solodov ran for a full term as an Independent with United Russia support[3] and won the election with 80.51% of the vote.[4]

In November 2023 during a live translation Solodov publicly announced his intention to seek a second term in office.[5] In November 2024 Governor Solodov joined United Russia party.[6] In February 2025 during a meeting with President Vladimir Putin Governor Solodov announced his intention to run for a second term and received Putin's endorsement.[7]

Candidates

In Kamchatka Krai candidates for Governor of Kamchatka Krai can be nominated by registered political parties or by self-nomination. Candidate for Governor of Kamchatka Krai should be a Russian citizen and at least 30 years old. Candidates for Governor of Kamchatka Krai should not have a foreign citizenship or residence permit. Each candidate in order to be registered is required to collect at least 10% of signatures of members and heads of municipalities.[8] In addition, self-nominated candidates should collect 2% of signatures of Kamchatka Krai residents. Also gubernatorial 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.
Dmitry Avdeyev
Independent 		Cultural director Nominated [9]
Yegor Bukhanov
Independent 		Housing and utility services executive Nominated [10]
Alyona Didenko
Independent 		Water utilities employee Nominated [11]
Leonid Kalyayev
Independent 		Middle school deputy principal Nominated [12]
Natalya Kolgina
Independent 		Lyceum principal Nominated [13]
Vasilina Kuliyeva
Liberal Democratic Party 		Member of State Duma (2011–2012, 2016–2021, 2023–present)
2013 Zabaykalsky Krai gubernatorial candidate 		Nominated [14]
Roman Litvinov
Communist Party 		Member of Legislative Assembly of Kamchatka Krai (2016–present) Nominated [15][16]
Yevgeny Miroshnichenko
Independent 		Dentist Nominated [17]
Aleksey Nikolayev
Independent 		Activist
2015 Communists of Russia gubernatorial candidate
2020 gubernatorial candidate 		Nominated [18]
Dmitry Pirozhnikov
Independent 		Water utility executive Nominated [19]
Vladimir Solodov
United Russia 		Incumbent Governor of Kamchatka Krai (2020–present) Nominated [5][7]
[20]
Natalya Teterevkova
Party of Pensioners 		Member of Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky City Duma (2022–present)
Russian Red Cross Society regional director 		Nominated [21]
Dmitry Tyurin
Communists of Russia 		Lawyer Nominated [22]

Declined

See also

References

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  2. ^ "Губернатор Камчатки ушел в отставку после критики из-за коронавируса". rbc.ru. Retrieved 2025-01-09.
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