| Country: | South Ossetia |
| Type: | presidential |
| Previous Election: | 2001 South Ossetian presidential election |
| Previous Year: | 2001 |
| Next Election: | 2011 South Ossetian presidential election |
| Next Year: | 2011 |
| Election Date: | 12 November 2006 |
| Image1: | Kokojty detail.jpg |
| Nominee1: | Eduard Kokoity |
| Colour1: | 1C408A |
| Party1: | Unity Party (South Ossetia) |
| Popular Vote1: | 51,150 |
| Percentage1: | 98.06% |
| Nominee2: | Leonid Tibilov |
| Party2: | Independent politician |
| Popular Vote2: | 476 |
| Percentage2: | 0.91% |
| President | |
| Before Election: | Eduard Kokoity |
| Before Party: | Unity Party (South Ossetia) |
| After Election: | Eduard Kokoity |
| After Party: | Unity Party (South Ossetia) |
Presidential elections were held in South Ossetia on 12 November 2006, coinciding with the South Ossetian independence referendum. Incumbent Eduard Kokoity was seeking a second full five-year term. He was re-elected with more than 98% of the vote. According to the de facto authorities, the election was monitored by a team of 34 international observers from Germany, Austria, Poland, Sweden and other countries at 78 polling stations.[1] The election process was criticised by local civic society and the results were deemed likely to be inflated.
South Ossetian opposition politicians, some of whom had left Tskhinvali due to a conflict with the de facto president Eduard Kokoity, set up an alternative Central Election Commission and nominated their candidates for presidency: Gogi Chigoyev, Teimuraz Djeragoyev, Tamar Charayeva, and Dmitry Sanakoyev, who served as defense minister and then as prime minister for several months in 2001 under Kokoity's predecessor, Ludwig Chibirov. Voters were also to answer a question: "do you agree with the renewal of talks with Georgia on a federal union." The alternative elections and referendum were held in the villages with mixed Georgian-Ossetian population not controlled by the secessionist government. The Salvation Union of South Ossetia which organised the election turned down a request from a Georgian NGO, “Multinational Georgia”, to monitor it and the released results were also very likely to be inflated.[2]