Vladimir Zhirinovsky 2018 presidential campaign
| Campaigned for | 2018 Russian presidential election |
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| Candidate | Vladimir Zhirinovsky |
| Affiliation | Liberal Democratic Party |
| Status | Announced: 28 October 2016 Official nominee: 20 December 2017 Registered candidate: 29 December 2017 Lost election: 18 March 2018 |
| Headquarters | Moscow |
| Key people | Chief of staff: Alexei Didenko |
| Receipts | 200,001,004.20 roubles |
| Slogan | Мощный рывок вперёд (A Powerful Leap Forward) |
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Chairman of the Liberal Democratic Party of Russia 1992–2022 Elections |
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The 2018 presidential campaign of Vladimir Zhirinovsky, deputy of the State Duma and leader of the Liberal Democratic Party, was announced on 28 October 2016. Zhirinovsky was officially nominated on 20 December 2017 at the Liberal Democratic Party's 31st annual congress. He submitted to the Central Election Commission the documents required for registration the next day.
According to Mikhail Degtyarev, Zhirinovsky planned to hold the largest campaign in the history of the party. The party's objective was to get Zhirinovsky into the second round, and then win it.