2026 Russian legislative election
Russia
By 20 September 2026

All 450 seats in the State Duma
226 seats needed for a majority
PartyLeader Current seats
United Russia Dmitry Medvedev 325
Communist Gennady Zyuganov 57
SRZP Sergey Mironov 27
LDPR Leonid Slutsky 23[lower-alpha 1]
New People Alexey Nechayev 15
Party of Growth Boris Titov 1
Independents 1
Incumbent Chairman of the State Duma
Vyacheslav Volodin Vyacheslav Volodin
United Russia

Legislative elections are scheduled be held in Russia no later than 20 September 2026. At stake are 450 seats in the State Duma of the 9th convocation, the lower house of the Federal Assembly. Going into the election, United Russia is the ruling party after winning the 2021 election with 49.8% of the vote, taking 324 seats.

Electoral system

Under current Russian election laws, the State Duma service term is limited to five years and each seat is allotted through parallel voting. Half of the seats (225) are elected by party-list proportional representation with a 5% electoral threshold in number of votes. The other half elected in 225 single-member constituencies (circuits) by first-past-the-post voting (plurality voting).[1] In the proportional part, candidates can be nominated only by political parties, and the lists of parties must include at least 200 and no more than 400 candidates; the list may also include candidates who are not members of the party, but their number should not exceed 50% of the number of candidates on the list. The party list of candidates should be divided into federal and regional parts, which include regional groups of candidates corresponding to the group of bordering federal subjects of Russia. The number of regional groups must be at least 35, and no more than fifteen candidates may be included in the federal part of the list of candidates. The regional parts of the party list should cover the entire territory of Russia.[2]

In the majoritarian part, candidates can be nominated both by political parties and in the order of self-nomination. The political party must provide a list of candidates to the Central Election Commission, and the list must contain the name and number of the constituencies in which each candidate would run. Documents of candidates-self-nominees, unlike candidates from political parties, have to submit applications to District Election Commissions.[3] For registration, the self-nominated candidate must collect at least 3% of the signatures of voters residing in the constituency, or at least 3,000 signatures if the constituency has less than 100,000 voters.[4] One and the same candidate can be nominated both in the party list and in the single-member constituency; however, in the case of their passage to the State Duma and the party list and in the single-member constituency, they would need to give up one of the places. They usually refuse the seat received on the party list, as in this case the party does not lose this seat and simply would pass it on to another candidate.

Political parties

As of September 2021, 32 political parties are registered in Russia.[5] Parties represented in the State Duma (in this case, seats must be obtained in the vote on the party list), parties that received more than 3% of the vote (by party list) in the previous election or are represented at least in one of the regional parliaments (also by party list) are allowed to contest in the elections without collecting signatures. Other parties need to collect 200,000 signatures if they have also held conventions and nominated candidates to participate in the elections. The official list of parties entitled to participate in the elections without collection of signatures was announced before the election. After the 2021 federal and regional elections, there are only 15 such parties.[6]

Parliamentary parties

Party Party leader Faction leader Ideology 2021 election Current seats
United Russia Dmitry Medvedev Vladimir Vasilyev National conservatism / Statism / Putinism 49.8%
324 / 450
325 / 450
Communist Party of the Russian Federation Gennady Zyuganov Communism / Marxism–Leninism 18.9%
57 / 450
57 / 450
LDPR group Liberal Democratic Party of Russia Leonid Slutsky Leonid Slutsky Russian nationalism / Pan-Slavism / Ultranationalism 7.5%
21 / 450
23 / 450
Rodina Aleksey Zhuravlyov Russian nationalism / National conservatism / Right-wing populism 0.8%
1 / 450
Civic Platform Rifat Shaykhutdinov Economic liberalism / Liberal conservatism 0.1%
1 / 450
A Just Russia — For Truth Sergey Mironov Socialism of the 21st century / Social democracy / Social conservatism 7.4%
27 / 450
28 / 450
New People Alexey Nechayev Communitarianism / Regionalism 5.3%
13 / 450
15 / 450
Party of Growth Boris Titov Oksana Dmitriyeva Economic liberalism / Liberal conservatism 0.5%
1 / 450
1 / 450

Regional parliamentary parties

Parties represented in regional parliaments, which can also participate in legislative elections without collecting signatures (the list does not include parties already represented in the State Duma).

Party Party leader Leader since Ideology 2021 election
Russian Party of Pensioners for Social Justice Vladimir Burakov 29 July 2016 Pensioners' interests / Social conservatism 2.4%
Yabloko Nikolay Rybakov 15 December 2019 Social liberalism / Pro-Europeanism / Progressivism 1.3%
Communists of Russia Sergey Malinkovich 18 March 2022 Communism / Anti-revisionism / Stalinism 1.2%
Russian Ecological Party "The Greens" Andrey Nagibin 15 May 2021 Green liberalism 0.9%
Russian Party of Freedom and Justice Konstantin Rykov 31 March 2021 Social democracy / Federalism 0.7%
Green Alternative Ruslan Khvostov 10 March 2020 Green politics / Environmentalism 0.6%
Party of Direct Democracy[7] Oleg Artamonov 7 December 2020 Direct democracy / E-democracy DNP

Opinion polls

Pre-campaign

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References

  1. Including one deputy elected by Rodina and another elected by the Civic Platform in 2021 integrated within the LDPR parliamentary group
    1. Федеральный закон "О выборах депутатов Государственной Думы Федерального Собрания Российской Федерации" от 22.02.2014 N 20-ФЗ (последняя редакция)
    2. Статья 39. Выдвижение федерального списка кандидатов
    3. Статья 40. Выдвижение политической партией кандидатов по одномандатным избирательным округам
    4. Статья 45. Сбор подписей избирателей
    5. "Политические партии". Министерство юстиции Российской Федерации (in Russian). Archived from the original on 2020-09-13. Retrieved 2021-08-30.
    6. Федеральный закон от 22.02.2014 N 20-ФЗ (ред. от 28.12.2016, с изм. от 13.04.2017) "О выборах депутатов Государственной Думы Федерального Собрания Российской Федерации" Статья 44. Поддержка выдвижения федеральных списков кандидатов, кандидатов
    7. "Партия прямой демократии прошла в заксобрание Еврейской автономной области". digitaldem.ru (in Russian). Retrieved 2021-09-21.
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