The 2025 Kaluga Oblast gubernatorial election took place on 12–14 September 2025, on common election day, coinciding with 2025 Kaluga Oblast legislative election. Incumbent governor of Kaluga Oblast Vladislav Shapsha was re-elected to a second term in office.
Background Mayor of Obninsk Vladislav Shapsha was appointed acting governor of Kaluga Oblast in February 2020, replacing four-term incumbent Anatoly Artamonov, one of the longest-serving governors in Russia, who resigned at his own request. A day later Shapsha appointed Artamonov to the Federation Council after the resignation of senator Yury Volkov. Shapsha ran for a full term and overwhelmingly won the election with 71.19% of the vote.
In February 2025 during a meeting with President Vladimir Putin Governor Shapsha announced his intention to run for a second term and received Putin's endorsement.
Candidates In Kaluga Oblast candidates for Governor of Kaluga Oblast can be nominated only by registered political parties. Candidate for Governor of Kaluga Oblast should be a Russian citizen and at least 30 years old. Candidates for Governor of Kaluga Oblast should not have a foreign citizenship or residence permit. Each candidate in order to be registered is required to collect at least 5% 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.
Declared Candidate name,political partyOccupationStatusRef.Stepan OparyshevLiberal Democratic Party Construction executive2020 gubernatorial candidateRegisteredIvan RodinParty of Pensioners Member of Kaluga City Duma (2020–present)Former professional football playerRegisteredVladislav ShapshaUnited Russia Incumbent Governor of Kaluga Oblast (2020–present)RegisteredNikolay YashkinCommunist Party Member of Legislative Assembly of Kaluga Oblast (1996–present)Agribusinessman2015 and 2020 gubernatorial candidateRegisteredNadezhda YefremovaSR–ZP Member of Legislative Assembly of Kaluga Oblast (2020–present)2020 gubernatorial candidateRegistered
Candidates for Federation Council Head candidate,political partyCandidates for Federation CouncilStatusStepan OparyshevLDPR * Ilya Astafyev, individual entrepreneur* Taras Baranchuk, businessman * Vladimir Nosov, former Deputy Prosecutor of Kaluga Oblast (2007–2018), construction executiveRegisteredIvan RodinParty of Pensioners * Sergey Gerasimov, businessman* Kirill Grishin, surveying executive * Natalya Terekhova, Member of Legislative Assembly of Kaluga Oblast (2020–present), businesswomanRegisteredVladislav ShapshaUnited Russia * Anatoly Artamonov, incumbent Senator (2020–present), Chairman of the Council Committee on Budget and Financial Markets (2020–present)* Konstantin Gorobtsov, Deputy Governor of Kaluga Oblast (2018–present) * Oleg Komissar, Member of Legislative Assembly of Kaluga Oblast (2015–present), Rostec chemical executiveRegisteredNikolay YashkinCommunist Party * Artur Agvanyan, Member of Legislative Assembly of Kaluga Oblast (2020–present)* Anton Arkhipov, party instructor * Tatyana Lomakova, former Member of Kaluga City Duma (2015–2020)RegisteredNadezhda YefremovaSR–ZP * Irina Bergovskaya, former Member of Civic Chamber of Kaluga Oblast (2022–2025)* Aleksey Gunko, military pensioner * Marina Momotyuk, cosmetology clinic chief doctorRegistered
Finances All sums are in rubles. Financial Report Source Oparyshev Rodin Shapsha Yashkin Yefremova First 25,000 25,000 7,525,000 25,000 25,000 Final 575,000 26,700 13,364,766 1,119,872 25,000
Polls Fieldwork datePolling firm Shapsha Yefremova Yashkin Oparyshev RodinNoneLead14 September 20252025 election72.29.06.54.84.43.163.2March – August 2025INSOMAR784852370
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;"| Vladislav Shapsha (incumbent) | style="text-align:left;"| United Russia | | 72.24 |- | style="background-color:"| | style="text-align:left;"| Nadezhda Yefremova | style="text-align:left;"| A Just Russia – For Truth | | 8.97 |- | style="background-color:"| | style="text-align:left;"| Nikolay Yashkin | style="text-align:left;"| Communist Party | | 6.52 |- | style="background-color:"| | style="text-align:left;"| Stepan Oparyshev | style="text-align:left;"| Liberal Democratic Party | | 4.76 |- | style="background-color:"| | style="text-align:left;"| Ivan Rodin | style="text-align:left;"| Party of Pensioners | | 4.37 |- | style="text-align:left;" colspan="3"| Valid votes | | 96.86 |- | style="text-align:left;" colspan="3"| Blank ballots | | 3.14 |- 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 | | 44.76 |- | style="text-align:left;" colspan="3"| Registered voters | | 100.00 |- | colspan="5" style="background-color:#E9E9E9;"| |- style="font-weight:bold" | colspan="4" |Source:
Governor Shapsha re-appointed incumbent Senator Anatoly Artamonov (United Russia) to the Federation Council.
See also 2025 Russian regional elections
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