Governor of Leningrad Oblast

Governor of Leningrad Oblast
Coat of arms of Leningrad Oblast
Incumbent Aleksandr Drozdenko since May 28, 2012
Seat	Saint Petersburg
Term length	Five years, renewable once
Inaugural holder	Alexander Belyakov
Formation	1991
Website	Government of Leningrad Oblast

The Governor of Leningrad Oblast (Russian: Губернатор Ленинградской области) is the head of executive branch for the Leningrad Oblast, considered as Prime Minister of Leningrad Oblast.

The office of Governor is an elected position, for which elected officials serve four year terms. While individual politicians may serve as many terms as they can be elected to, Governors cannot be elected to more than two consecutive terms.

The official residence for the Governor is located in Saint Petersburg. The current Governor is Aleksandr Drozdenko, who assumed office on May 11, 2012.

List of office-holders

No.	Portrait	Governor	Tenure	Party		Election
1		Alexander Belyakov (born 1945)	20 October 1991 – 3 October 1996		Independent
2		Vadim Gustov (born 1948)	3 October 1996 – 21 September 1998			1996
—		Valery Serdyukov (born 1945)	21 September 1998 – 19 September 1999 Acting governor			1999 2003 2007
3			19 September 1999 – 28 May 2012		United Russia
4		Aleksandr Drozdenko (born 1964)	since 28 May 2012			2012 2015 2020

Chairmen of Executive Committee of Leningrad Oblast (1927–1991)

Further information: Leningrad Regional Committee of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union

1. Nikolai Komarov / Fyodor Sobinov (1927–1930)
2. Ivan Kodatsky (1930–1931)
3. Fyodor Tsarkov (1931—1932)
4. Pyotr Strouppe (1932–1936)
5. Alexey Grichmanov (1936–1937)
6. Pyoter Tyurkin (1937)
7. Anton Nikitin (1937)
8. Nikolai Solovyov (1938–1946)
9. Ilya Kharitonov (1946–1948)
10. Ivan Dmitriev (1948–1950)
11. Ivan Petrov (1950–1952)
12. Vladimir Ponomaryov (1952–1954)
13. Georgiy Vorobyov (1954–1957)
14. Nikolay Smirnov (1957–1961)
15. Grigoriy Kozlov (1961–1963, 1964–1968)
16. Vasily Sominich (1963–1964) / Boris Popov (1963–1964)
17. Alexander Shibalov (1968–1980)
18. Ratmir Bobovikov (1980–1983)
19. Nikolai Popov (1983–1989)
20. Yury Yarov (1989–1991)

Elections

The latest election for the office was held on 13 September 2015

Candidates	Party	Votes	%
Alexander Gabitov	Civic Platform	11,298	1.97
Aleksandr Drozdenko	United Russia	471,145	82.10
Nikolay Kuzmin	Communist Party of the Russian Federation	40,068	6.98
Andrey Lebedev	Liberal Democratic Party of Russia	23,937	4.17
Alexander Perminov	A Just Russia	17,302	3.02