| Post: | Governor |
| Body: | Kurgan Oblast |
| Insignia: | Coat of arms of Kurgan Oblast.svg |
| Insigniasize: | 125px |
| Insigniacaption: | Seal of Kurgan Oblast |
| Incumbent: | Vadim Shumkov |
| Incumbentsince: | 2 October 2018 |
| Formation: | 1991 |
| Inaugural: | Valentin Gerasimov |
| Seat: | Kurgan |
The Governor of Kurgan Oblast (Russian: Губернатор Курганской области) is the head of administration of that oblast.
| Image | Name | Took office | Left office | Party | Election | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Valentin Gerasimov (born 1940) | 24 December 1991 | 15 August 1995 | Independent | |||
| 2 | Anatoly Sobolev (born 1940) | 15 August 1995 | 11 December 1996 | ||||
| 3 | Oleg Bogomolov (born 1950) | 11 December 1996 | 14 February 2014 | 1996----2000----2004----2009 | |||
| United Russia | |||||||
| — | Aleksey Kokorin (born 1961) | 14 February 2014 | 26 September 2014 | 2014 | |||
| 4 | 26 September 2014 | 2 October 2018 | |||||
| — | Vadim Shumkov (born 1971) | 2 October 2018 | 18 September 2019 | Independent | 2019 | ||
| 5 | 18 September 2019 | Incumbent | |||||
The latest election for the office was held on 14 September 2014
| Candidates | Party | Votes | % |
|---|---|---|---|
| Yury Alexandrov | Liberal Democratic Party of Russia | 12,822 | 4.38 |
| Ivan Yevgenov | Communist Party of the Russian Federation | 23,627 | 8.07 |
| Aleksey Kokorin | United Russia | 248,323 | 84.87 |
| Igor Ryumin | Patriots of Russia | 2,634 | 0.90 |