2026 Russian legislative election

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All 450 seats to the State Duma
226 seats needed for a majority
Opinion polls
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Leader  | Dmitry Medvedev | Gennady Zyuganov | Leonid Slutsky
Party  | United Russia | CPRF | LDPR
Leader since  | 26 May 2012  | 14 February 1993  | 27 May 2022
Last election  | 324 seats, 49.82%  | 57 seats, 18.93%  | 21 seats, 7.55%
Current seats  | 321  | 57 | 23

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Leader  | Sergey Mironov | Alexey Nechayev
Party  | SRZP | New People
Leader since  | 27 October 2013  | 8 August 2020
Last election  | 27 seats, 7.46%  | 13 seats, 5.32%
Current seats  | 28  | 16

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| Incumbent Chairman of the State Duma

Vyacheslav Volodin
United Russia

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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

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See also: Constituencies of Russia

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

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See also: Political parties in Russia

As of December 2023, 25 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 2022 regional elections, there are only 14 such parties.[6][7]

### Parliamentary parties

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Party  | Party leader  | Faction leader  | Ideology  | 2021 election  | Current seats

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| United Russia | Dmitry Medvedev | Vladimir Vasilyev | National conservatism / Statism / Putinism | 49.8%  |

324 / 450

323 / 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 |  | New People | Alexey Nechayev | Communitarianism / Regionalism | 5.3%  |

13 / 450

15 / 450

| Party of Growth[a] | None | Oksana Dmitriyeva | Economic liberalism / Liberal conservatism | 0.5%  |

1 / 450

1 / 450

### Regional parliamentary parties

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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

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| Russian Party of Pensioners for Social Justice | Vladimir Vorozhtsov (acting) | 23 December 2024  | 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[8] | Oleg Artamonov | 7 December 2020  | Direct democracy / E-democracy | DNP

## Opinion polls

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Main article: Opinion polling for the 2026 Russian legislative election

This section is an excerpt from Opinion polling for the 2026 Russian legislative election § Graphical summary.[edit]

### Pre-campaign

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United Russia

CPRF

LDPR

SRZP

New People

## Notes

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1. ^ In 2024, the Party of Growth merged with the New People, but Oksana Dmitrieva remained an unaffiliated deputy

## References

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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, отвечающие требованиям пункта 2 статьи 36 Федерального закона "О политических партиях", согласно информации, представленной Министерством юстиции Российской Федерации". ЦИК России (in Russian). Retrieved 2024-06-12.
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. ^ О списке политических партий, на которые распространяется действие части 2 статьи 44 Федерального закона «О выборах депутатов Государственной Думы Федерального Собрания Российской Федерации»
8. ^ "Партия прямой демократии прошла в заксобрание Еврейской автономной области". digitaldem.ru (in Russian). Retrieved 2021-09-21.

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