The incumbent head of administration, Yurii Matochkin, who is supported by the All-Russian Coordinating Council, was appointed by President Yeltsin in September 1991. He is a member of the Our Home Is Russia bloc. In 1993, he was elected to the Federation Council, where he was member of the committee on international affairs.
Leonid Gorbenko, the director of the Kaliningrad seaport, is the only viable opposition candidate.
Pro-communist candidate Yurii Semenov is currently deputy chairman of the local Duma. He was chairman of the oblast soviet from 1990 until it was disbanded in 1993. He protested against the decision to dissolve the soviet, submitting an appeal to the Supreme Court. In the 1993 Federation Council election, he won third place. Observers give him little chance of winning.
Chairman of the local Duma: Valerii Ustyugov (since April 1994)
Kaliningrad Oblast is the westernmost part of the Russian Federation, an exclave situated between Poland and Lithuania on the southern coast of the Baltic Sea. With a total area of 15,000 sq. km, it is Russia's smallest oblast. The city of Kaliningrad was founded in 1255 as Koenigsberg during German expansion eastward. After World War II, it was assigned to the USSR and received its current name. The main industries in the oblast are engineering, electronics, the processing of agricultural and forestry products, and the production and processing of amber.
1995 Population: 926,400 (0.62% of Russian total)
Industrial production as percentage of all Russian production (Jan.-Aug. 1995): 0.30%
Agricultural production as percentage of all Russian production (1994): 0.60%
Average personal income index in July 1995: 83 (Russia as a whole = 100)
Price basket index in July 1995: 99 (Russia = 100)
Average back wages owed per person (September 1995): 25,800 rubles (Russian average = 37,100)
Urban population: 78.1% (Russia overall: 73.0%)
Student population (1993): 125 per 10,000 (Russia overall: 171/10,000)
Pensioner population (1994): 21.2%
Percent of population with higher education (1989 census): 12.4% (Russia overall: 11.3%)
Percent of population working in (1993):
Number of telephones per 100 families (1993):
According to a survey by Bank Austria, the oblast was ranked 17th among Russia's 89 regions on investment climate.
1996 Presidential Election
| Candidate | Turnout in First Round | Turnout in Second Round |
| Yeltsin | 33.46% | 57.69% |
| Zyuganov | 23.08% | 35.34% |
| Lebed | 19.31% | NA |
| Zhirinovsky | 7.2% | NA |
| Yavlinskii | 12.85% | NA |
| Overall Turnout (Kaliningrad Oblast) | 71.71% | 69.18% |
| Overall Turnout (Russia) | 69.67% | 68.79% |
1995 Parliamentary Election
| Party | Result |
| Communist Party of the Russian Federation | 19.30% |
| Liberal Democratic Party of Russia | 11.44% |
| Congress of Russian Communities | 9.18% |
| Our Home Is Russia | 8.55% |
| Yabloko | 8.16% |
| Party of Worker's Self-Government | 4.78% |
| Women of Russia | 4.68% |
| Communists - Workers' Russia | 3.37% |
| Russia's Democratic Choice | 3.26% |
| Agrarian Party of Russia | 1.30% |
| Turnout in Kaliningrad Oblast | 63.77% |
| Turnout in Russia | 64.37% |
| In a single-member district: one independent. | |
1993 Constitutional Referendum
| Yes | 64.38% |
| No | 32.68% |
1993 Parliamentary Election
| Party | Result |
| Liberal Democratic Party of Russia | 29.96% |
| Russia's Choice | 19.96% |
| Communist Party of the Russian Federation | 10.40% |
| Women of Russia | 7.98% |
| Yabloko | 7.94% |
| Democratic Party of Russia | 7.58% |
| Party of Russian Unity and Concord | 5.21% |
| Agrarian Party of Russia | 3.03% |
| Turnout in Kaliningrad Oblast | 59.81% |
| Turnout in Russia overall | 54.34% |
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From electoral associations: 1 Liberal Democratic Party of Russia In a single-member district: 1 New Regional Policy |
1991 Presidential Election
| Candidate | Result |
| Yeltsin | 39.09% |
| Ryzhkov | 23.76% |
| Zhirinovsky | 12.93% |
| Tuleev | 7.54% |
| Makashov | 4.56% |
| Bakatin | 4.09% |
| Turnout in Kaliningrad Oblast | 74.12% |
| Russia | 76.66% |
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Sources Goroda Rossii [Cities of Russia], Moscow: Bolshaya Rossiiskaya Entsiklopediya, 1994 Rossiiskie regiony nakanune vyborov-95 [Russian regions on the eve of 1995 elections], Moscow: Yuridicheskaya Literatura, 1995. Itogi vyborov 17 dekabrya 1995 goda po regionam [Results of the 17 December 1995 elections, regional breakdown], Moscow: Panorama, 1996. Vybory deputatov Gosudarstvennoi Dumy 1995 [State Duma elections 1995], Moscow: Central Electoral Commission, 1996. S. A. Nagaev and A. Woergoetter: Regional Risk Rating in Russia, (Vienna: Bank Austria, 1995). |