2026 Russian legislative election

2026 Russian legislative election

By 20 September 2026
All 450 seats to the State Duma 226 seats needed for a majority
Opinion polls
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   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
Incumbent Chairman of the State Duma 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

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). 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.

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. 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. 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

See also: Political parties in Russia

As of December 2023, 25 political parties are registered in Russia. 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.

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	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	None	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	Oleg Artamonov	7 December 2020	Direct democracy / E-democracy	DNP

Opinion polls

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

  United Russia

  CPRF

  LDPR

  SRZP

  New People