| Election Name: | 2021 Tula Oblast gubernatorial election |
| Country: | Tula Oblast |
| Type: | presidential |
| Ongoing: | no |
| Previous Election: | 2016 Tula Oblast gubernatorial election |
| Previous Year: | 2016 |
| Next Election: | 2024 Tula Oblast gubernatorial election |
| Next Year: | 2024 |
| Election Date: | 17–19 September 2021 |
| Turnout: | 52.69% |
| Image1: | Governor A. Dyumin official portrait (cropped).jpg |
| Candidate1: | Aleksey Dyumin |
| Party1: | Independent politician |
| Popular Vote1: | 506,816 |
| Percentage1: | 83.58% |
| Candidate2: | Vladimir Isakov |
| Party2: | Communist Party of the Russian Federation |
| Popular Vote2: | 54,371 |
| Percentage2: | 8.97% |
| Map Size: | 250px |
| Governor | |
| Before Election: | Aleksey Dyumin |
| Before Party: | Independent politician |
| After Party: | Independent politician |
| After Election: | Aleksey Dyumin |
The 2021 Tula Oblast gubernatorial election took place on 17–19 September 2021, on common election day, coinciding with election to the State Duma. Incumbent governor Aleksey Dyumin was re-elected for his second term.[1]
Aleksey Dyumin in February 2016 replaced Vladimir Gruzdev as Governor of Tula Oblast, before the appointment Dyumin served as Deputy Minister of Defense (2015-2016) and Vladimir Putin's adjutant. Dyumin ran as an Independent with the support from United Russia and LDPR and won 2016 election with 84.17% of the vote.[2] Dyumin became the first of "Putin's adjutants" - a group of Russian governors appointed in 2016-2018 who previously served in Federal Protective Service for President Putin, besides Dyumin, this group consists of Yaroslavl Oblast Governor Dmitry Mironov, former acting Kaliningrad Oblast Governor Yevgeny Zinichev (2016) and former acting Astrakhan Oblast Governor Sergey Morozov (2018-2019).[3]
For much of Dyumin's term speculations floated that Dyumin would return to Moscow to head a federal armed service.[4] Governor Aleksey Dyumin is also considered a possible Vladimir Putin's successor as President of Russia.[5] However, Dyumin decided to run for the second term as governor.[6]
In Tula Oblast candidates for Governor can be nominated by registered political parties or by self-nomination. Candidate for Governor of Tula Oblast should be a Russian citizen and at least 30 years old. Candidates for Governor should not have a foreign citizenship or residence permit. Each candidate in order to be registered is required to collect at least 7% of signatures of members and heads of municipalities (71-74 signatures).[7] In addition self-nominated candidates should collect 2% of signatures of Tula Oblast residents (23,4 thousand signatures). Also gubernatorial candidates present 3 candidacies to the Federation Council and election winner later appoints one of the presented candidates.
Incumbent governor Aleksey Dyumin for the second time decided to run as an Independent and received support from United Russia.[8] LPDR[9] and SR-ZP[10] declined to nominate a candidate.
|- 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;"| Aleksey Dyumin (incumbent)| style="text-align:left;"| Independent| 506,816| 83.58|-| style="background-color:;"|| style="text-align:left;"| Vladimir Isakov| style="text-align:left;"| Communist Party| 54,371| 8.97|-| style="background-color:|| style="text-align:left;"| Vladimir Rostovtsev| style="text-align:left;"| Party of Pensioners| 18,519| 3.05|-| style="background-color:;"|| style="text-align:left;"| Yury Moiseev| style="text-align:left;"| Communists of Russia| 16,810| 2.77|-| style="text-align:left;" colspan="3"| Valid votes| 596,516| 98.37|-| style="text-align:left;" colspan="3"| Blank ballots| 9,868| 1.63|- style="font-weight:bold"| style="text-align:left;" colspan="3"| Total| 606,384| 100.00|-| style="background-color:#E9E9E9;" colspan="6"||-| style="text-align:left;" colspan="3"| Turnout| 606,384| 52.69|-| style="text-align:left;" colspan="3"| Registered voters| 1,150,957| 100.00|-| colspan="5" style="background-color:#E9E9E9;"||- style="font-weight:bold"| colspan="4" |Source:|[12] |}
Incumbent Senator Dmitry Savelyev (United Russia) was re-appointed to the Federation Council.[13]