1993 Russian gubernatorial elections

Federal Subject[1]	Date	Leadership before election	Candidates	Result
Ingushetia	28 February	Viktor Polyanichko, head of provisional administration	Y Ruslan Aushev 99.9% (ran unopposed)	New president elected.
Kalmykia	11 April	Ilya Bugdayev, chairman of the Supreme Soviet Maksim Mukubenov, acting premier	Y Kirsan Ilyumzhinov 65.37% Valery Ochirov 29.22%	New president elected.
Krasnoyarsk Krai[2][3][4]	11 April (first round)	Arkady Veprev (resigned) Valery Zubov (acting)	Valery Zubov 51.33%[a] Valery Sergiyenko 16.41% Pyotr Romanov 10.91%	Acting governor elected for a full term.
	25 April (runoff)		Y Valery Zubov 73.12% Valery Sergiyenko 19.01%
Amur Oblast[6]	11 April (first round)	Albert Krivchenko	Aleksandr Surat 34.76% Nikolay Kolyadinsky 30.42% Boris Vinogradov 7.49% Albert Krivchenko 6.03% Boris Kashpura 5.69% Aleksandr Sadovsky 5.64%	Incumbent lost election. New governor elected.
	25 April (runoff)		Y Aleksandr Surat 52.91% Nikolay Kolyadinsky 44.56%
Bryansk Oblast[7]	11 April (first round)	Vladimir Barabanov	Vladimir Barabanov 33.8% Yury Lodkin (CPRF) 29.3% Pyotr Shirshov 9.4%	Incumbent lost election. New governor elected.
	25 April (runoff)		Y Yury Lodkin (CPRF) 51.4% Vladimir Barabanov 44.9%
Chelyabinsk Oblast[8]	11 April (first round)	Vadim Solovyov	Pyotr Sumin 58.38%[a] Vladimir Grigoriadi 6.37%	Incumbent did not stand for election. New governor elected. Disputed government.[9]
	25 April (runoff)		Y Pyotr Sumin 48.19% Vladimir Grigoriadi 35.38%
Lipetsk Oblast[10][11]	11 April	Gennady Kuptsov (removed) Vladimir Zaytsev (acting)	Y Mikhail Narolin 49.82% Vitaly Bezrukov 7.79% Vladimir Zaytsev 5.28% Gennady Kuptsov 4.81%	Acting governor lost election. New governor elected.
Oryol Oblast[12]	11 April	Nikolay Yudin	Y Yegor Stroyev 52.87% Nikolay Yudin 34.18% Vladimir Reshetnikov 6.9%	Incumbent lost election. New governor elected.
Penza Oblast[10]	11 April	Aleksandr Kondratyev	Y Anatoly Kovlyagin 70.97% Mikhail Durasov 6.68% Aleksandr Kondratyev 2.56%	Incumbent lost election. New governor elected.
Smolensk Oblast[13]	25 April	Valery Fateyev	Y Anatoly Glushenkov 41.2% Valery Fateyev 30.5% A. Bogdanovich 8.2%	Incumbent lost election. New governor elected.
Bashkortostan[14]	12 December	Murtaza Rakhimov, chairman of the Supreme Soviet Anatoly Kopsov, premier	Y Murtaza Rakhimov 64.01% Rafis Kadyrov 28.45%	New president elected.[15]
Chuvashia[14][16]	12 December (first round)	Eduard Kubarev, chairman of the Supreme Soviet Valeryan Viktorov, premier	Nikolay Fyodorov 24.88% Lev Kurakov 21.85% Valeryan Viktorov 18.0% Vladimir Fyodorov 10.4% Atner Khuzangai 6.3%	New president elected.
	26 December (runoff)		Y Nikolay Fyodorov 55.06% Lev Kurakov 38.80%

Following the escalation of 1993 Russian constitutional crisis the governors had to choose whether to support the parliament or the president. Those who chose the losing side, were later removed from office by the president. Among them were governors of Amur and Bryansk Oblasts Aleksandr Surat and Yury Lodkin,^[17] both serving only six months.

1993 Chuvash presidential election

← 1991 12 December 1993 (first round) 26 December 1993 (second round) 1997 →

Candidate Nikolay Fyodorov Lev Kurakov Running mate Enver Ablyakimov Boris Yakovlev Popular vote 269,284 189,769 Percentage 55.06% 38.80%

Chairman of the Supreme Soviet[b] before election Eduard Kubarev Elected president Nikolay Fyodorov

Presidential election was held in the Chuvash Republic on 12 December 1993, two years after the unsuccessful 1991 election. Since none of the seven candidates received the required majority, a second round took place on 26 December. Former justice minister of Russia Nikolay Fyodorov was elected president with 55% of the vote, defeating university chief executive Lev Kurakov and premier Valeryan Viktorov. Fyodorov was sworn in on 21 January 1994.^[18]

• Nikolay Fyodorov, minister of justice of Russia (1990–93), DPR party-list candidate in the concurrent State Duma election (won seat, declined to take)
  • Enver Ablyakimov, member of the Supreme Soviet of Chuvashia, construction executive
• Vladimir Fyodorov, director of Chuvash territorial branch of the State Anti-Monopoly Committee of Russia
  • Yevgeny Yaransky, collective farm chairman
• Leonid Ivanov, head of department, Chuvash State University
  • Nikolay Malchugin, prosecutor of Novocheboksarsk
• Atner Khuzangai, member of the Supreme Soviet of Chuvashia, leader of the Chuvash National Congress, nominal winner of the 1991 election
  • Vasily Antonov, entrepreneur
• Eduard Kubarev, chairman of the Supreme Soviet of Chuvashia, 1991 candidate
  • Vladimir Kirgizov, construction executive
• Lev Kurakov, rector of the Chuvash State University, member of the Supreme Soviet of Chuvashia, candidate in the concurrent Federation Council election (won seat)
  • Boris Yakovlev, first deputy chairman of the Supreme Soviet of Chuvashia
• Valeryan Viktorov, chairman of the Council of Ministers of Chuvashia (1992–94), candidate in the concurrent Federation Council election (won seat)
  • Leonid Prokopyev, chairman of the State Committee for Ethnic Affairs of Russia (1990–91), chairman of the Council of Ministers of the Chuvash ASSR (1975–89), 1991 election runner-up

Withdrew

• Nadezhda Bikalova, economist (ran for State Duma, won seat)

Source:^[19]

1993 Ingush presidential election

28 February 1993 1994 →

Candidate Ruslan Aushev Party Independent Alliance Union of National Accord[21] Congress of the Ingush People National Front of Ingushetia Nijsxo Union for Orstkhoy Revival Union of Officers of Ingushetia Union of Women of Ingushetia Running mate Boris Agapov Percentage 99.94%[22]

On 28 February 1993, presidential elections were held in Ingushetia. Major General Ruslan Aushev, formerly head of provisional administration of Ingushetia, ran unopposed with the support of several Ingush nationalist organisations. He was sworn in as president on 7 March 1993.^[23] A snap election was held a year after, along with the constitutional referendum and election of the People's Assembly.

The primary political issue of the election was the 1992 East Prigorodny conflict and the subsequent ethnic cleansing of Ingush in Prigorodny District. All of the groups supporting Aushev urged for further attention towards Ingush refugees, but disagreed on the republic's future relationship towards Russia; the National Front of Ingushetia, a party comprising supporters of Aushev's campaign, supported a takeover of Prigorodny District by the Russian federal government,^[21] while Nijsxo and the Congress of the Ingush People urged for a reassessment of the relationship. The Congress of the Ingush People called for the withdrawal of all Russian troops from Ingushetia,^[24] and Nijsxo would go on to oppose the signing of the Treaty of Federation after Aushev took office.^[21]

Following the election, Aushev signed a decree on 7 March 1993 banning all political organisations in Ingushetia.^[24]

1993 Kalmyk presidential election

← 1991 11 April 1993 1995 →

Candidate Kirsan Ilyumzhinov Valery Ochirov [ru] Party Independent Independent Running mate Valery Bogdanov[25] Nina Kalyuzhnaya[25] Percentage 65.37% 29.22%

Winner by district:   Kirsan Ilyumzhinov   Valery Ochirov

Chairman of the Supreme Soviet before election Ilya Bugdayev Elected president Kirsan Ilyumzhinov

Presidential election in the Republic of Kalmykia was held on Sunday, 11 April 1993, 17 months after the previous voting of 1991, which did not reveal the winner. People's deputy of Russia Kirsan Ilyumzhinov won the presidency with 65.37% of the vote,^[22] defeating deputy commander of Russia's army aviation General Valery Ochirov (29.22%)^[26] and president of the Farmers Association of Kalmykia Vladimir Bambayev (1.55%).^[27] Aged 31, Ilyumzhinov became the youngest holder of governor-level office in Russia.^[28]

After the power struggle between Supreme Soviet speaker Vladimir Basanov and premier Batyr Mikhailov ended with their simultaneous resignation in 1992, the government of Kalmykia was effectively paralysed. During the campaign Ilyumzhinov and Ochirov quickly emerged as frontrunners, both outsiders to local politics in contrast to unpopular career politicians. Ilyumzhinov's candidacy was supported by a coalition of Kalmyk nationalists, anti-communist reformists and Cossacks.^[25] Around 80% of eligible voters took part in the election,^[27] although as many as 80,000 Soviet-era settlers from Chechnya and Dagestan were disenfranchised from voting.^[25]