Governor of Leningrad Oblast
The Governor of Leningrad Oblast 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.
Governors
Chairman of Executive Committee of Leningrad Oblast
- Nikolai Komarov / Fyodor Sobinov
- Ivan Koatskiy
- Fyodor Czarkov
- Pyotr Strouppe
- Alexey Grichmanov
- Pyoter Tyurkin
- Anton Nikitin
- Nikolai Solovyov
- Ilya Kharitonov
- Ivan Dmitriev
- Ivan Petrov
- Vladimir Ponomaryov
- Georgiy Vorobyov
- Nikolay Smirnov
- Grigoriy Kozlov
- Vasily Sominich / Boris Popov
- Alexander Shibalov
- Ratmir Bobovikov
- Nikolai Popov
- Yuri Yarov
Head of Leningrad Oblast Administration
- Alexander Belyakov
Governor of Leningrad Oblast
- Vadim Gustov
- Valery Serdyukov
- Aleksandr Drozdenko
Elections
| 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 |