The 2025 Perm Krai gubernatorial election took place on 12–14 September 2025, on common election day. Incumbent Governor of Perm Krai Dmitry Makhonin was re-elected to a second term in office.

Background Then-Federal Antimonopoly Service department head Dmitry Makhonin was appointed acting Governor of Perm Krai in February 2020, replacing first-term incumbent Maxim Reshetnikov, who was appointed Minister of Economic Development of Russia. Makhonin ran for a full term as an independent with the support from United Russia and won the election with 75.69% of the vote.

In 2021 Makhonin agreed to lead United Russia for the upcoming Russian legislative election in Perm Krai as well as Legislative Assembly of Perm Krai election, however, after the election Makhonin declined to take both seats and remained governor. In November 2023 Makhonin officially joined United Russia and became secretary of the party regional office.

In March 2025 Governor Makhonin had a meeting with President Vladimir Putin, however, the governor did not announce his intentions regarding next gubernatorial term in the publicly available part of the meeting. The next day Kremlin Press Secretary Dmitry Peskov clarified that Makhonin intended to run for a second term in office and was endorsed by Putin.

Candidates In Perm Krai candidates for Governor of Perm Krai can be nominated by registered political parties or by self-nomination. Candidate for Governor of Perm Krai should be a Russian citizen and at least 30 years old. Candidates for Governor of Perm Krai should not have a foreign citizenship or residence permit. Each candidate in order to be registered is required to collect at least 6% of signatures of members and heads of municipalities. In addition, self-nominated candidates should collect 1% of signatures of Perm 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 partyOccupationStatusRef.Ksenia AytakovaCommunist Party Deputy Chairwoman of the Legislative Assembly of Perm Krai (2021–present)Member of the Legislative Assembly (2011–present)2020 gubernatorial candidateRegisteredLyudmila KaravayevaParty of Pensioners Retired middle school principalRegisteredDmitry MakhoninUnited Russia Incumbent Governor of Perm Krai (2020–present)RegisteredOleg PostnikovLiberal Democratic Party Member of Legislative Assembly of Perm Krai (2016–present)2017 and 2020 gubernatorial candidateRegisteredDenis ShitovNew People Member of Legislative Assembly of Perm Krai (2021–present)2GIS executiveRegisteredMikhail DyachkovCommunists of Russia First secretary of the party regional committee (2023–present)Failed to qualifyMaksim GashevParty for Fairness!Sales managerFailed to qualifyYegor GilyovIndependent SalesmanFailed to qualifyVyacheslav LuchnikovSR–ZP Nonprofit directorFailed to qualifyAleksandr ZapivalovIndependent UnemployedFailed to qualifyAleksandr ZininIndependent BusinessmanDid not file

Eliminated in the primary Aleksandr Kozyukov (United Russia), Member of Legislative Assembly of Perm Krai (2021–present)

Declined Anna Baranova (CPRF), Member of Legislative Assembly of Perm Krai (2021–present) Maria Drobot (CPRF), Member of State Duma (2021–present) Veronika Kulikova (SR–ZP), Member of Legislative Assembly of Perm Krai (2021–present)

Candidates for Federation Council Head candidate,political partyCandidates for Federation CouncilStatusKsenia AytakovaCommunist Party* Anna Baranova, Member of Legislative Assembly of Perm Krai (2021–present)* Vladimir Chuloshnikov, Member of Legislative Assembly of Perm Krai (2012–present) * Maria Drobot, Member of State Duma (2021–present)RegisteredDmitry MakhoninUnited Russia * Vyacheslav Grigoryev, First Deputy Chairman of the Legislative Assembly of Perm Krai (2021–present), Member of the Legislative Assembly (2020–present)* Andrey Klimov, incumbent Senator (2012–present) * Leonid Politov, First Deputy Chief of Staff to the Governor of Perm Krai (2021–present)RegisteredOleg PostnikovLiberal Democratic Party * Nikolay Blagov, Member of Legislative Assembly of Perm Krai (2016–present)* Aleksandr Kazakov, `Member of Duma of Dobryanka (2019–present), oilfield services executive * Aleksey Zolotaryov, Member of Legislative Assembly of Perm Krai (2016–present), former Deputy Chairman of the Legislative Assembly (2016–2021)RegisteredDenis ShitovNew People* Nikolay Bogdanov, Member of Duma of Chaykovsky (2023–present), individual entrepreneur* Sergey Isayev, Member of Legislative Assembly of Perm Krai (2021–present) * Aleksey Ovchinnikov, Member of Perm City Duma (2021–present), businessmanRegisteredVyacheslav LuchnikovSR–ZP* Dmitry Botin, attorney* Andrey Kobelev, Member of Legislative Assembly of Perm Krai (2024–present), businessman * Aleksey Romashov, Russian Army soldierFailed to qualify

Finances All sums are in rubles. Financial Report Source Aytakova Karavayeva Makhonin Postnikov Shitov First 125,000 35,000 51,431,120 56,700 1,030,000 Final 2,925,000 800,000 74,431,120 2,756,818 3,930,000

Polls Fieldwork datePolling firm Makhonin Aytakova Postnikov Shitov KaravayevaLead14 September 20252025 election70.910.37.95.93.360.6March – August 2025CSRI741094–64

Results

|- style="background-color:#E9E9E9;text-align:center;" ! style="text-align:left;" colspan=2| Candidate ! style="text-align:left;"| Party ! width="75"|Votes ! width="30"|% |- | style="background-color:"| | style="text-align:left;"| Dmitry Makhonin (incumbent) | style="text-align:left;"| United Russia | | 70.94 |- | style="background-color:"| | style="text-align:left;"| Ksenia Aytakova | style="text-align:left;"| Communist Party | | 10.30 |- | style="background-color:"| | style="text-align:left;"| Oleg Postnikov | style="text-align:left;"| Liberal Democratic Party | | 7.89 |- | style="background-color:"| | style="text-align:left;"| Denis Shitov | style="text-align:left;"| New People | | 5.87 |- | style="background-color:"| | style="text-align:left;"| Lyudmila Karavayeva | style="text-align:left;"| Party of Pensioners | | 3.26 |- | style="text-align:left;" colspan="3"| Valid votes | | 98.25 |- | style="text-align:left;" colspan="3"| Blank ballots | | 1.75 |- style="font-weight:bold" | style="text-align:left;" colspan="3"| Total | | 100.00 |- | style="background-color:#E9E9E9;" colspan="6"| |- | style="text-align:left;" colspan="3"| Turnout | | 48.99 |- | style="text-align:left;" colspan="3"| Registered voters | | 100.00 |- | colspan="5" style="background-color:#E9E9E9;"| |- style="font-weight:bold" | colspan="4" |Source:

Governor Makhonin appointed First Deputy Chairman of the Legislative Assembly of Perm Krai Vyacheslav Grigoryev (United Russia) to the Federation Council, replacing incumbent Senator Andrey Klimov (United Russia).

See also 2025 Russian regional elections

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