1991 Russian presidential candidates

1996 →

This article contains the list of candidates associated with the 1991 Russian presidential election.

Registered candidates

	Presidential candidate		Vice Presidential candidate		Party	Campaign
		Vadim Bakatin		Ramazan Abdulatipov	Communist Party of the RSFSR (Communist Party of the Soviet Union)	(campaign)
		Boris Yeltsin		Alexander Rutskoy	Independent Supported by Democratic Russia	(campaign)
		Vladimir Zhirinovsky		Andrey Zavidiya	Liberal Democratic Party	(campaign)
		Albert Makashov		Alexey Sergeyev	Communist Party of the RSFSR (Communist Party of the Soviet Union)	(campaign)
		Nikolai Ryzhkov		Boris Gromov	Communist Party of the RSFSR (Communist Party of the Soviet Union)	(campaign)
		Aman Tuleyev		Viktor Bocharov	Communist Party of the RSFSR (Communist Party of the Soviet Union)	(campaign)

Candidates that failed to register

• Boris Gromov^[1][2] -military veteran; ended his campaign and was instead registered as Ryzhkov's (who was nominated by the Communist Party of the Soviet Union) vice-presidential candidate
• Roman Kalinin^[3] -co-head of the Moscow Gay & Lesbian Alliance
• V. Potemkin (nominated by League of Independent Scientists of the RSFSR)^[4]
• Aleksei Alekseyevich Sergeyev (nominated by Communists of Russia and the Initiative Congress of Russian Communists)^[5][6][7] -ended his campaign and was instead registered as Makashov's vice-presidential candidate
• Lev Ubozhko^[6][8]
• Vladimir Voronin^[4][9] -Minister of Internal Affairs (1988-1990)

Possible candidates who did not run

• Ivan Polozkov^[10] -head of the Communist Party of the Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic