Luvsannyam Gantumur

Luvsannyamyn Gantömör (; born 26 February 1973) is a Mongolian politician and leader of the Democratic Party from 2023 to 2025. He was a member of the State Great Khural from 2004 to 2016, and was re-elected as a member of parliament (MP) in 2024.

He previously served as Minister of Education under the Altankhuyag and Saikhanbileg cabinets from 2012 to 2016, and as deputy leader of the Democratic Party caucus between 2009 and 2012.

Early life and education Gantömör was born in Ulaangom, Uvs Province, and graduated high school in 1991. Between 1993 and 1996 he studied in Japan at Sendai University's National Institute of Technology, training as a communications engineer, and between 1996 and 1999 at Nagaoka University of Technology as an electronics engineer.

Party chairmanship In January 2023, he was elected the party's next chairman by the National Policy Committee (the presidium of the DP), winning the vote 152–129–12 against two other candidates.

Gantömör signed a memorandum of understanding with the MPP chairman and previous prime minister Luvsannamsrain Oyun-Erdene and HUN Party chairman Togmidyn Dorjkhand, effectively forming a coalition government between the 3 major parties. He served as First Deputy Prime Minister of Mongolia from 2024 until the May 2025 protests, when Oyun-Erdene was ousted in a motion of no confidence and the DP expelled from the coalition government.

Subsequently, after the fall of the coalition government, Gantömör stated that he would "handover his position and has no mindset or interest in staying as party leader" after he "spent 2 years grappling to unite the party."

In August 2025 during the special session of the National Policy Committee, Gantömör officially submitted his resignation request while elections for the next party chairman was still ongoing.