The 2025 Arkhangelsk Oblast gubernatorial election took place on 12–14 September 2025, on common election day. Incumbent Governor of Arkhangelsk Oblast Alexander Tsybulsky was re-elected a second term in office.

Background Then-Governor of Nenets Autonomous Okrug Alexander Tsybulsky was appointed acting Governor of Arkhangelsk Oblast in April 2020, replacing two-term incumbent Igor Orlov. Orlov resigned over poor management skills, low ratings and 2018–2020 Shies ecological protests. In May 2020 Tsybulsky and Governor of Nenets Autonomous Okrug Yury Bezdudny signed a memorandum on Arkhangelsk Oblast and Nenets Autonomous Okrug unification, which sparked protests in Nenets Autonomous Okrug and decreasing popularity of both Tsybulsky and Bezdudny. Tsybulsky won the general election with 69.63% of the vote, notably Tsybulsky lost the vote in Nenets Autonomous Okrug to former State Duma member Irina Chirkova (SR–ZP), who won 62% of the vote there.

In March 2025 during a meeting with President Vladimir Putin Governor Tsybulsky announced his intention to run for a second term and received Putin's endorsement.

Candidates In Arkhangelsk Oblast candidates for Governor of Arkhangelsk Oblast can be nominated only by registered political parties. Candidate for Governor of Arkhangelsk Oblast should be a Russian citizen and at least 30 years old. Candidates for Governor of Arkhangelsk Oblast should not have a foreign citizenship or residence permit. Each candidate in order to be registered is required to collect at least 8% 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.Aleksey BuglakParty of Pensioners Teaching methodologistRegisteredOleg ChernenkoSR–ZP Member of Arkhangelsk Oblast Assembly of Deputies (2011–2013, 2021–present)BusinessmanHusband of former State Duma member Irina ChirkovaRegisteredMaria KharchenkoLiberal Democratic Party Member of Arkhangelsk City Duma (2013–present)RegisteredRoman LyabikhovCommunist Party Member of State Duma (2020–present)RegisteredNatalya SorokinaGreen Alternative Nonprofit executiveRegisteredAlexander TsybulskyUnited Russia Incumbent Governor of Arkhangelsk Oblast (2020–present)RegisteredLarisa MedvedevaThe Greens Cosmetics professionalDid not file

Declined Aleksandr Grevtsov (CPRF), Member of Arkhangelsk Oblast Assembly of Deputies (2023–present)

Candidates for Federation Council Head candidate,political partyCandidates for Federation CouncilStatusMaria KharchenkoLiberal Democratic Party * Kirill Aleskerov, Member of Novodvinsk Council of Deputies (2013–present), businessman* Georgy Gubanov, Member of Arkhangelsk Oblast Assembly of Deputies (2018–present) * Lyudmila Taybarey, Member of Council of Zapolyarny District (2024–present), aide to State Duma member Yaroslav NilovRegisteredAleksandr TsybulskyUnited Russia * Aleksey Alsufyev, First Deputy Governor of Arkhangelsk Oblast – Chairman of the Government of Arkhangelsk Oblast (2015–present)* Yury Borisov, incumbent Senator (2025–present) * Yekaterina Prokopyeva, Chairwoman of the Arkhangelsk Oblast Assembly of Deputies (2018–present)Registered

Finances All sums are in rubles. Financial Report Source Buglak Chernenko Kharchenko Lyabikhov Medvedeva Sorokina Tsybulsky First 20,180,000 3,181,100 180,000 180,000 0 180,000 20,750,000 Final 35,180,000 12,040,380 2,330,000 1,980,000 0 40,180,000 55,750,000

Polls Fieldwork datePolling firm Tsybulsky Kharchenko Chernenko Lyabikhov Sorokina BuglakLead14 September 20252025 election67.310.68.14.83.93.956.79–22 August 2025FOM69.69.58.64.53.13.660.1

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;"| Aleksandr Tsybulsky (incumbent) | style="text-align:left;"| United Russia | | 67.32 |- | style="background-color:"| | style="text-align:left;"| Maria Kharchenko | style="text-align:left;"| Liberal Democratic Party | | 10.59 |- | style="background-color:"| | style="text-align:left;"| Oleg Chernenko | style="text-align:left;"| A Just Russia – For Truth | | 8.10 |- | style="background-color:"| | style="text-align:left;"| Roman Lyabikhov | style="text-align:left;"| Communist Party | | 4.76 |- | style="background-color:"| | style="text-align:left;"| Natalya Sorokina | style="text-align:left;"| Green Alternative | | 3.94 |- | style="background-color:"| | style="text-align:left;"| Aleksey Buglak | style="text-align:left;"| Party of Pensioners | | 3.85 |- | style="text-align:left;" colspan="3"| Valid votes | | 98.55 |- | style="text-align:left;" colspan="3"| Blank ballots | | 1.45 |- 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 | | 36.27 |- | style="text-align:left;" colspan="3"| Registered voters | | 100.00 |- | colspan="5" style="background-color:#E9E9E9;"| |- style="font-weight:bold" | colspan="4" |Source:

Governor Tsybulsky re-appointed incumbent Senator Yury Borisov (Independent) to the Federation Council.

See also 2025 Russian regional elections

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