The Governor of Kaliningrad Oblast (ÃÂÃÂñõÃÂýðÃÂþàÃÂðûøýøýóÃÂðôÃÂúþù þñûðÃÂÃÂø) is the head of executive branch for the Kaliningrad Oblast (former Königsberg, East Prussia), considered as Prime Minister of Kaliningrad 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 Kaliningrad. The current acting Governor is Alexey Besprozvannykh who assumed office 15 May 2024.
Since the creation of Kaliningrad Oblast in 1946 and until the spring of 1990, the Kaliningrad Regional Committee of the Communist Party had the leading role in its government. The committee was led by:
The latest election for the office was held September 11 2022. |- 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;"| Anton Alikhanov (incumbent) | style="text-align:left;"| United Russia | 259,220 | 80.21 |- | style="background-color:;"| | style="text-align:left;"| Yevgeny Mishin | style="text-align:left;"| Liberal Democratic Party | 20,683 | 6.40 |- | style="background-color:| | style="text-align:left;"| Maksim Bulanov | style="text-align:left;"| Communist Party | 15,783 | 4.88 |- | style="background-color:| | style="text-align:left;"| Yury Shitikov | style="text-align:left;"| A Just Russia â For Truth | 12,089 | 3.74 |- | style="background-color:;"| | style="text-align:left;"| Vladimir Vukolov | style="text-align:left;"| Party of Pensioners | 4,722 | 1.46 |- | style="background-color:;"| | style="text-align:left;"| Vladimir Sultanov | style="text-align:left;"| Communists of Russia | 4,256 | 1.32 |- | style="text-align:left;" colspan="3"| Valid votes | 316,753 | 98.01 |- | style="text-align:left;" colspan="3"| Blank ballots | 6,410 | 1.98 |- style="font-weight:bold" | style="text-align:left;" colspan="3"| Total | 323,172 | 100.00 |- | style="background-color:#E9E9E9;" colspan="6"| |- | style="text-align:left;" colspan="3"| Turnout | 323,172 | 38.49 |- | style="text-align:left;" colspan="3"| Registered voters | 839,700 | 100.00 |- | colspan="5" style="background-color:#E9E9E9;"| |- style="font-weight:bold" | colspan="4" |Source: | The previous election for the office was held on 10 September 2017