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2001 Russian gubernatorial elections Russia parliamentary no 2000 Russian gubernatorial elections 2000 14 January – 23 December 2001 2002 Russian gubernatorial elections 2002 17 Heads of Federal Subjects from 89 Russian regional elections in 2001.svg 300px 2001 Russian regional elections: red Gubernatorialsalmon Gubernatorial (of another subject)blue Legislativeroyalblue Legislative (of another subject)darkblue Legislative (including one of another subject)purple Gubernatorial and legislativemagenta Gubernatorial and legislative (both of another subject)gold Referendum
Gubernatorial elections in 2001 took place in 17 regions of the Russian Federation on various dates, including one snap election. In two regions the second rounds were held in January 2002.
With some delay, elections were held for the governors of Nenets and Taymyr Autonomous Okrugs, whose terms of office expired back in December 2000. Early elections were held in Primorsky Krai after resignation of Yevgeny Nazdratenko.
On 1 December 2001 Fatherland – All Russia party (OVR), founded and supported by a number of influential governors, officially merged with pro-Putin Unity into United Russia. For the some time after it was known as "Unity and Fatherland — United Russia". Previously that year members of these two center-right parties had occasionally met each other in different gubernatorial races.
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Federal subjecthttps://www.booksite.ru/fulltext/election/vybor/index.htm Выборы в Российской Федерации 2001. Электоральная статистика 2002 ЦИК РФ ru 75-78Gubernatorial Elections — 2001, politika.su Incumbent Incumbentsince Election day Candidates Result Tyumen OblastВыборы Губернатора Тюменской области http://cikrf.ru/banners/vib_arhiv/arhivfci/72/72_2221101_140101p.htm Central Election Commission 17 March 2026 ru Leonid Roketsky 1993 14 January Sergey Sobyanin (Unity) 52.78%
Leonid Roketsky 28.90%
Aleksandr Cherepanov (RKRP) 7.41%
Against all 5.26% Incumbent lost re-election.New governor elected. Nenets AOВыборы главы администрации Ненецкого автономного округа http://cikrf.ru/banners/vib_arhiv/arhivfci/83/83_2221101_140101p.htm Central Election Commission 19 September 2026 ru Vladimir Butov 1996 14 January Vladimir Butov (Unity) 68.28%
Aleksandr Shmakov 13.60%
Vyacheslav Vyucheysky 4.62% Incumbent re-elected. Taymyr AOВыборы Губернатора Таймырского (Долгано-Ненецкого) автономного округа http://cikrf.ru/banners/vib_arhiv/arhivfci/84/84_2221101_280101p.htm Central Election Commission 17 March 2026 ru Gennady Nedelin 1991 28 January Alexander Khloponin 62.80%
Gennady Nedelin 32.38% Incumbent lost re-election.New governor elected. Tatarstanhttp://www.izbircom.tatarstan.ru/arch/vpr_rt_2001/vpr_rt_2001.htm https://web.archive.org/web/20020328021128/http://www.izbircom.tatarstan.ru/arch/vpr_rt_2001/vpr_rt_2001.htm Итоги голосования по выборам Президента Республики Татарстан 25 марта 2001 года 28 March 2002 ru izbircom.tatarstan.ruhttps://tass.ru/info/9428571 History of presidential elections in Tatarstan 2020-09-11 TASS Russian Mintimer Shaymiyev 1991 25 March Mintimer Shaymiyev (OVR) 79.52%
Sergey Shashurin 5.78%
Ivan Grachev 5.47% Incumbent re-elected. Amur OblastВыборы главы администрации Амурской области http://www.cikrf.ru/banners/vib_arhiv/arhivfci/28/28_2231101_250301p.htm cikrf.ru Central Election Commission 3 December 2024 ruПовторное голосование по выборам главы Амурской области http://www.cikrf.ru/banners/vib_arhiv/arhivfci/28/28_2231102_080401p.htm cikrf.ru Central Election Commission 3 December 2024 ru Anatoly Belonogov 1997 25 March (first round) Anatoly Belonogov (CPRF) 43.90%
Leonid Korotkov 20.60%
Yury Bobylyov 10.86%
Pavel Stein 7.98%
Vladimir Voshchevoz 7.37%
Viktor Labushev 5.37%
Against all 10.29%Incumbent lost re-election.New governor elected.8 April (runoff) Leonid Korotkov 49.42%
Anatoly Belonogov (CPRF) 42.86%
Against all 7.72% Tula OblastВыборы губернатора Тульской области http://cikrf.ru/banners/vib_arhiv/arhivfci/71/71_2221101_080401p.htm Central Election Commission 17 March 2026 ruПовторное голосование по выборам губернатора Тульской области http://cikrf.ru/banners/vib_arhiv/arhivfci/71/71_2221102_220401p.htm Central Election Commission 17 March 2026 ru Vasily Starodubtsev 1997 8 April (first round) Vasily Starodubtsev (CPRF–APR) 49.09%
Andrey Samoshin 20.96%
Viktor Sokolovsky 18.62%
Against all 8.00%Incumbent re-elected.22 April (runoff) Vasily Starodubtsev (CPRF–APR) 71.44%
Viktor SokolovskyReplacing Andrey Samoshin. 17.16%
Against all 9.89% Evenk AOВыборы Губернатора Эвенкийского автономного округа http://cikrf.ru/banners/vib_arhiv/arhivfci/88/88_2221101_080401p.htm Central Election Commission 17 March 2026 ru Aleksandr Bokovikov 1997 8 April Boris Zolotaryov 51.08%
Yevgeny Vasilyev 35.29% Incumbent did not stand for re-election.New governor elected. Kemerovo Oblasthttp://www.kemerovo.su/vybor/itog1.htm https://web.archive.org/web/20010508033315/http://www.kemerovo.su/vybor/itog1.htm 8 May 2001 ru Окончательные итоги голосования по выборам Губернатора Кемеровской области 22 апреля 2001 года kemerovo.su (snap election) Aman Tuleyev (resigned)Valentin Mazikin (acting) 1997 22 April Aman Tuleyev (Unity, Fatherland)Выборы губернатора в Кемеровской области https://www.kommersant.ru/doc/918727 22 April 2001 Kommersant ru 93.54%
Sergey Neverov 0.71%
Against all 3.23% Former governor re-elected. Primorsky KraiВыборы 27 мая 2001 г. Выборы губернатора Приморского края http://www.primorsky.ru/prim/izbirkom/27_05_01/preditog.htm Primorsky Krai Election Commission https://web.archive.org/web/20030520075035/http://www.primorsky.ru/prim/izbirkom/27_05_01/preditog.htm 20 May 2003 ru deadДосрочные выборы губернатора Приморского края повторное голосование (2-й тур) 17.06.2001 г. http://www.primorsky.ru/prim/izbirkom/17_06_01/oldindex2.htm Primorsky Krai Election Commission https://web.archive.org/web/20020112011440/http://www.primorsky.ru/prim/izbirkom/17_06_01/oldindex2.htm 12 January 2002 ru dead (snap election) Yevgeny Nazdratenko (resigned)Konstantin Tolstoshein (acting) 1993 27 May (first round) Sergey Darkin 23.94%
Viktor Cherepkov 20.02%
Gennady Apanasenko 14.12%
Vladimir Grishukov (CPRF) 9.81%
Valentin Dubinin 7.87%
Aleksandr Kirilichev 6.94%
Against all 8.04%New governor elected to a vacant position.17 June (runoff) Sergey Darkin 40.17%
Gennady Apanasenko 24.28%Replacing Viktor Cherepkov.
Against all 33.71% Nizhny Novgorod OblastВыборы Губернатора Нижегородской области http://cikrf.ru/banners/vib_arhiv/arhivfci/52/52_2231101_150701p.htm Central Election Commission 17 March 2026 ruПовторное голосование по выборам Губернатора Нижегородской области http://cikrf.ru/banners/vib_arhiv/arhivfci/52/52_2231102_290701p.htm Central Election Commission 17 March 2026 ru Ivan Sklyarov 1997 15 July (first round)* Gennady Khodyrev (CPRF) 24.44%
Ivan Sklyarov (OVR) 20.82%
Vadim Bulavinov 19.07%
Dmitry Savelyev (SPS) 12.58%
Andrey Klimentyev 10.54%
Against all 8.17%Incumbent lost re-election.New governor elected.29 July (runoff) Gennady Khodyrev (CPRF) 59.80%
Ivan Sklyarov (OVR) 28.25%
Against all 10.42%Irkutsk OblastВыборы Губернатора Иркутской области http://cikrf.ru/banners/vib_arhiv/arhivfci/38/38_2231101_290701p.htm Central Election Commission 17 March 2026 ruПовторное голосование по выборам губернатора Иркутской области http://cikrf.ru/banners/vib_arhiv/arhivfci/38/38_2231102_190801p.htm Central Election Commission 17 March 2026 ru Boris Govorin 1997 29 July (first round) Boris Govorin 45.05%
Sergey Levchenko (CPRF) 23.93%
Valentin Mezhevich 12.20%
Against all 7.46%Incumbent re-elected. 19 August (runoff) Boris Govorin 47.63%
Sergey Levchenko (CPRF) 45.26%
Against all 5.57% Rostov OblastВыборы Губернатора Ростовской области http://cikrf.ru/banners/vib_arhiv/arhivfci/61/61_2221101_230901p.htm Central Election Commission 17 March 2026 ru Vladimir Chub 1991 23 September Vladimir Chub 78.23%
Pyotr Voloshin 7.21%
Against all 12.68% Incumbent re-elected. Oryol OblastВыборы Губернатора Орловской области http://www.cikrf.ru/banners/vib_arhiv/arhivfci/57/57_2231101_281001p.htm cikrf.ru 2 February 2026 ru Yegor Stroyev 1993 28 October Yegor Stroyev 91.52%
Vladimir Zyabkin 1.60%
Against all 3.83% Incumbent re-elected. Altai RepublicИтоги выборов в Российской Федерации 16 декабря 2001 года. Выборы Главы Республики Алтай http://www.cikrf.ru/banners/vib_arhiv/arhivfci/02/02_2221101_161201p.htm cikrf.ru Central Election Commission 3 December 2024 ruИтоги выборов в субъектах Российской Федерации 6 января 2002 года. Повторное голосование по выборам Главы Республики Алтай http://www.cikrf.ru/banners/vib_arhiv/arhivfci/02/02_2221102_060102p.htm cikrf.ru Central Election Commission 3 December 2024 ru Semyon Zubakin 1997 16 December (first round) Mikhail Lapshin (APR) 22.96%
Semyon Zubakin (SPS) 15.20%
Vladimir Petrov 14.11%
Sergey Krechetov 13.24%
Viktor Romashkin (CPRF) 11.97%
Alexander Berdnikov (UR) 9.67%
Vladimir Amurgushev 5.97%Incumbent lost re-election.New head elected.6 January 2002 (runoff) Mikhail Lapshin (APR) 68.15%
Semyon Zubakin (SPS) 22.96%
Against all 6.64% KomiВыборы Главы Республики Коми http://cikrf.ru/banners/vib_arhiv/arhivfci/11/11_2231101_161201p.htm Central Election Commission 17 March 2026 ru Yury Spiridonov 1994 16 December Vladimir Torlopov 39.75%
Yury Spiridonov 34.92%
Leonid Musinov (CPRF) 6.23%
Against all 9.64% Incumbent lost re-election.New head elected. ChuvashiaВыборы Президента Чувашской Республики http://cikrf.ru/banners/vib_arhiv/arhivfci/21/21_2231101_161201p.htm Central Election Commission 17 March 2026 ru Nikolay Fyodorov 1993 16 December Nikolay Fyodorov 40.73%
Valentin Shurchanov (CPRF) 37.73%
Stanislav Voronov 11.95% Incumbent re-elected. YakutiaВыборы Президента Республики Саха (Якутия) http://www.cikrf.ru/banners/vib_arhiv/arhivfci/14/14_2231101_231201p.htm cikrf.ru Central Election Commission 3 December 2024 ruПовторное голосование по выборам Президента Республики Саха (Якутия) http://www.cikrf.ru/banners/vib_arhiv/arhivfci/14/14_2231102_130102p.htm cikrf.ru Central Election Commission 3 December 2024 ruhttps://ysia.ru/evolyutsiya-vyborov-samaya-skandalnaya-prezidentskaya-kampaniya-yakutii/ Эволюция выборов: Самая скандальная президентская кампания Якутии ru Election Evolution: Yakutia's Most Scandalous Presidential Campaign Yakutia-Sakha Information Agency 13 September 2018https://www.rbc.ru/politics/19/12/2001/5703b2c29a7947783a5a21f9 Выборы в Якутии: Неопределенность сохраняется ru Elections in Yakutia: Uncertainty Remains RBC 19 December 2001 Mikhail Nikolayev 1991 23 December (first round) Vyacheslav Shtyrov 45.54%
Fedot Tumusov 17.00%
Ruslan Shipkov 15.83%
Vasily Filippov 8.00%
Against all 7.71%Incumbent term-limited.New president elected.13 January 2002 (runoff) Vyacheslav Shtyrov 59.25%
Fedot Tumusov 34.59%
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