2022 Turkmenistan presidential election

Early presidential elections were held in Turkmenistan on 12 March 2022. The elections were called after incumbent president Gurbanguly Berdimuhamedow announced his intention to resign, having already announced on January 25, 2020, that he would not seek re-election to a fourth term, leaving the office open for the first time since 2007, when Berdimuhamedow was first elected, following the death of president-for-life Saparmurat Niyazov on 21 December 2006.

The Democratic Party, which has ruled the country since independence after the dissolution of the Soviet Union, chose Berdimuhamedow's son Serdar as its candidate. Serdar Berdimuhamedow was subsequently elected with 73% of the vote. However, the elections were seen by many international observers as neither free nor fair.