diff --git a/cmd/training-operator.v1/main.go b/cmd/training-operator.v1/main.go
index 4da1d21087..0d5cd145eb 100644
--- a/cmd/training-operator.v1/main.go
+++ b/cmd/training-operator.v1/main.go
@@ -51,6 +51,7 @@ func init() {
 func main() {
 	var metricsAddr string
 	var enableLeaderElection bool
+	var leaderElectionID string
 	var probeAddr string
 	var enabledSchemes controllerv1.EnabledSchemes
 	var enableGangScheduling bool
@@ -62,6 +63,7 @@ func main() {
 	flag.BoolVar(&enableLeaderElection, "leader-elect", false,
 		"Enable leader election for controller manager. "+
 			"Enabling this will ensure there is only one active controller manager.")
+	flag.StringVar(&leaderElectionID, "leader-election-id", "1ca428e5.training-operator.kubeflow.org", "The ID for leader election.")
 	flag.Var(&enabledSchemes, "enable-scheme", "Enable scheme(s) as --enable-scheme=tfjob --enable-scheme=pytorchjob, case insensitive."+
 		" Now supporting TFJob, PyTorchJob, MXNetJob, XGBoostJob. By default, all supported schemes will be enabled.")
 	flag.BoolVar(&enableGangScheduling, "enable-gang-scheduling", false, "Set true to enable gang scheduling")
@@ -96,7 +98,7 @@ func main() {
 		Port:                   monitoringPort,
 		HealthProbeBindAddress: probeAddr,
 		LeaderElection:         enableLeaderElection,
-		LeaderElectionID:       "1ca428e5.",
+		LeaderElectionID:       leaderElectionID,
 		Namespace:              namespace,
 	})
 	if err != nil {