Incumbent head Oleg Nikolayev is eligible to run for a second full term in office.

[1] His predecessor, Mikhail Ignatyev was dismissed by President Vladimir Putin for the "loss of trust" in January 2020[2] and died in July 2020 after contracting COVID-19.

[3] Nikolayev previously ran for Head of Chuvashia in 2015 as an A Just Russia candidate and finished in second place with 14.73% of the vote.

[5][6] Nikolayev won the election with 75.61% of the vote, defeating State Council of the Chuvash Republic member Aleksandr Andreyev (CPRF) by 65 points.

Each candidate in order to be registered is required to collect at least 7% of signatures of members and heads of municipalities.