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2025 Jewish Autonomous Oblast gubernatorial election

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2025 Jewish Autonomous Oblast gubernatorial election
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Governor before election

Maria Kostyuk (acting)
United Russia

Governor-elect

TBD
TBD

The 2025 Jewish Autonomous Oblast gubernatorial election will take place on 12–14 September 2025, on common election day. Acting Governor of Jewish Autonomous Oblast Maria Kostyuk is running for a full term in office.

Background

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Then-Federation Council member Rostislav Goldstein was appointed acting Governor of Jewish Autonomous Oblast in December 2019, replacing retiring first-term incumbent Alexander Levintal.[1] Golstein ran for a full term in 2020 and overwhelmingly won the election with 82.50% of the vote in absence of CPRF and LDPR candidates.[2]

On November 5, 2024, President of Russia Vladimir Putin appointed Goldstein acting Head of the Komi Republic, simultaneously he appointed Maria Kostyuk to replace Goldstein as Governor of Jewish Autonomous Oblast.[3][4] Kostyuk previously worked as Goldstein's aide and regional official until 2023, when she moved to Moscow to work for "Defenders of the Fatherland" foundation and RANEPA asTime of Heroes training programme head. Kostyuk also became the first and only serving female Russian governor since the resignation of Natalya Komarova as Governor of Khanty-Mansi Autonomous Okrug in May 2024 and until March 2025, when Irina Gecht was appointed acting Governor of Nenets Autonomous Okrug.

Candidates

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In Jewish Autonomous Oblast candidates for Governor of Jewish Autonomous Oblast can be nominated only by registered political parties. Candidate for Governor of Jewish Autonomous Oblast should be a Russian citizen and at least 30 years old. Candidates for Governor of Jewish Autonomous Oblast 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.[5] Also gubernatorial candidates present 3 candidacies to the Federation Council and election winner later appoints one of the presented candidates.

Declared

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Candidate name,
political party 		Occupation Status Ref.
Sergey Antropenkov
Rodina 		Unemployed Nominated [6]
Vladimir Dudin
SR–ZP 		Member of Legislative Assembly of the Jewish Autonomous Oblast (2011–present)
2015 and 2020 gubernatorial candidate 		Nominated [7]
Vasily Gladkikh
Liberal Democratic Party 		Member of Legislative Assembly of the Jewish Autonomous Oblast (2021–present) Nominated [8]
Maria Kostyuk
United Russia 		Maria Kostyuk Acting Governor of Jewish Autonomous Oblast (2024–present)
Former Deputy Chairwoman of the Government of Jewish Autonomous Oblast (2021–2023) 		Nominated [9][10]
Aleksandr Krupsky
Communists of Russia 		Pensioner
2020 CPSS gubernatorial candidate 		Nominated [11]
Dmitry Potapenko
New People 		Individual entrepreneur Nominated [12]
Aleksandr Shcherbina
Communist Party 		Member of Birobidzhan City Duma (2024–present) Nominated [13]
Dmitry Vedernikov
The Greens 		Security guard Nominated [14]
Yelena Voroshilova
Party of Pensioners 		Former Member of Birobidzhan City Duma (2014–2019)
Social services centre director 		Nominated [15]

Eliminated in the primary

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Candidates for Federation Council

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Incumbent Senator Yuri Valyaev (Independent) was not renominated.

Head candidate,
political party 		Candidates for Federation Council Status
Maria Kostyuk
United Russia 		* Anton Akimov, Deputy Governor of Jewish Autonomous Oblast (2025–present)
* Aleksandr Dobrovolsky, Chief of the Jewish Autonomous Oblast Police (2017–present)
* Natalya Kuzmina, Rector of the Jewish Autonomous Oblast Institute for Education Development (2022–present) 		Nominated

See also

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References

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  1. ^ "Ростислав Гольдштейн назначен врио губернатора Еврейской Автономной области". pnp.ru. Retrieved 2025-01-13.
  2. ^ "Ростислав Гольдштейн победил на выборах главы ЕАО". rbc.ru. Retrieved 2025-01-13.
  3. ^ "Путин назначил Гольдштейна врио главы Коми". kommersant.ru. Retrieved 2025-01-13.
  4. ^ "Мария Костюк назначена врио губернатора Еврейской автономной области". interfax.ru. Retrieved 2025-01-13.
  5. ^ "Закон "О выборах губернатора Еврейской автономной области" от 18 марта 2015 года N 678-ОЗ (с изменениями на 17 декабря 2024 года)". docs.cntd.ru. Retrieved 2025-06-15.
  6. ^ "Антропенков Сергей Андреевич". izbirkom.ru. Retrieved 2025-06-19.
  7. ^ "Дудин Владимир Николаевич". izbirkom.ru. Retrieved 2025-06-18.
  8. ^ "Гладких Василий Николаевич". izbirkom.ru. Retrieved 2025-06-19.
  9. ^ a b c "ЕР выбирает кандидата на пост губернатора ЕАО: в списке – три фамилии". eaomedia.ru. Retrieved 2025-05-18.
  10. ^ "Костюк Мария Федоровна". izbirkom.ru. Retrieved 2025-06-25.
  11. ^ "Крупский Александр Алексеевич". izbirkom.ru. Retrieved 2025-06-19.
  12. ^ "Потапенко Владимир Евгеньевич". izbirkom.ru. Retrieved 2025-06-20.
  13. ^ "Щербина Александр Анатольевич". izbirkom.ru. Retrieved 2025-06-30.
  14. ^ "Ведерников Дмитрий Анатольевич". izbirkom.ru. Retrieved 2025-06-20.
  15. ^ "Ворошилова Елена Александровна". izbirkom.ru. Retrieved 2025-06-20.
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