2022 Buryat head election


The 2022 Republic of Buryatia head election took place on 11 September 2022, on common election day. Incumbent Head Alexey Tsydenov was re-elected to a second term.

Background

Deputy Minister of Transport Alexey Tsydenov was appointed Head of Buryatia in February 2017. He successfully won election to a full term with 87% of the vote.
Due to the start of the Russian invasion of Ukraine in February 2022 and subsequent economic sanctions the cancellation and postponement of direct gubernatorial elections was proposed. The measure was even supported by A Just Russia leader Sergey Mironov.
However, Aleksey Tsydenov publicly supported direct head election. On 31 May President Vladimir Putin endorsed Tsydenov for reelection. On 9 June People's Khural of the Republic of Buryatia called head election for 11 September 2022.

Candidates

Only political parties can nominate candidates for head election in Buryatia, self-nomination is not possible. However, candidate is not obliged to be a member of the nominating party. Candidate for Head of Buryatia should be a Russian citizen and at least 30 years old. Each candidate in order to be registered is required to collect at least 7% of signatures of members and heads of municipalities. Also gubernatorial candidates present 3 candidacies to the Federation Council and election winner later appoints one of the presented candidates.

Registered

Declined

Candidates for Federation Council

Finances

All sums are in rubles.
Financial ReportSourceDoroshMalyshenkoMatkheyevTsydenov
First900,000304,150330,000385,000
Final3,000,0001,748,5221,684,16035,000,000

Results

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