| Election Name: | 2022 Buryat head election |
| Country: | Buryatia |
| Type: | presidential |
| Ongoing: | no |
| Previous Election: | 2017 Buryatia head election |
| Previous Year: | 2017 |
| Next Election: | 2027 Buryat head election |
| Next Year: | 2027 |
| Election Date: | 11 September 2022 |
| Turnout: | 39.41% |
| Nominee1: | Alexey Tsydenov |
| Party1: | United Russia |
| Popular Vote1: | 235,380 |
| Percentage1: | 86.23% |
| Nominee2: | Viktor Malyshenko |
| Party2: | CPRF |
| Popular Vote2: | 19,429 |
| Percentage2: | 7.12% |
| Head | |
| Before Election: | Alexey Tsydenov |
| Before Party: | United Russia |
| After Election: | Alexey Tsydenov |
| After Party: | United Russia |
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.[1]
Deputy Minister of Transport Alexey Tsydenov was appointed Head of Buryatia in February 2017.[2] He successfully won election to a full term with 87% of the vote.[3]
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.[4] The measure was even supported by A Just Russia leader Sergey Mironov.[5]
However, Aleksey Tsydenov publicly supported direct head election.[6] On 31 May President Vladimir Putin endorsed Tsydenov for reelection.[7] On 9 June People's Khural of the Republic of Buryatia called head election for 11 September 2022.[8]
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 (207-217 signatures).[9] Also gubernatorial candidates present 3 candidacies to the Federation Council and election winner later appoints one of the presented candidates.
All sums are in rubles.
| Financial Report | Source | Dorosh | Malyshenko | Matkheyev | Tsydenov | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| bgcolor= | bgcolor= | bgcolor= | bgcolor= | ||||||
| First | [15] | 900,000 | 304,150 | 330,000 | 385,000 | ||||
| Final | 3,000,000 | 1,748,522 | 1,684,160 | 35,000,000 | |||||
|- 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;"| Alexey Tsydenov (incumbent)| style="text-align:left;"| United Russia| 235,380| 86.23|-| style="background-color:|| style="text-align:left;"| Viktor Malyshenko| style="text-align:left;"| Communist Party| 19,429| 7.12|-| style="background-color:;"|| style="text-align:left;"| Sergey Dorosh| style="text-align:left;"| Liberal Democratic Party| 7,264| 2.66|-| style="background-color:;"|| style="text-align:left;"| Semyon Matkheyev| style="text-align:left;"| New People| 6,414| 2.35|-| style="text-align:left;" colspan="3"| Valid votes| 268,487| 98.36|-| style="text-align:left;" colspan="3"| Blank ballots| 4,479| 1.64|- style="font-weight:bold"| style="text-align:left;" colspan="3"| Total| 272,966| 100.00|-| style="background-color:#E9E9E9;" colspan="6"||-| style="text-align:left;" colspan="3"| Turnout| 272,966| 39.41|-| style="text-align:left;" colspan="3"| Registered voters| 692,590| 100.00|-| colspan="5" style="background-color:#E9E9E9;"||- style="font-weight:bold"| colspan="4" |Source:|[16] |}
Incumbent Senator Vyacheslav Nagovitsyn (United Russia) was re-appointed to the Federation Council.[17]