At Stake in this Election:  

All 450 seats in the Russian State Duma 

Government Structure: 

• Chief of State: President Vladimir V. PUTIN (since 07 May 2012) 

• Head of Government: Prime Minister Mikhail MISHUSTIN (since 16 January 2020) 

• Assembly: bicameral Federal Assembly (Федеральное Собрание) with a 170-seat Council of the Federation (Совет Федерации) and a 450-seat State Duma (Государственная Дума) 

Electoral System: 

• The President is the head of state, directly elected for a six-year period. Individuals can serve up to two terms. 

• The Prime Minister, or Chairman of the Government of the Russian Federation, is appointed by the President with the parliament’s approval. 

• The upper chamber, the Federation Council, is not directly elected. Each of the 85 federal subjects of Russia appoints two delegates to the Federal Council, for a total of 170 members. Members serve 4-year terms. 

• The 450 members of the lower house, the State Duma, are elected for a term of five years, with parallel voting. Half of the seats (225) are elected by closed party-list proportional representation within a single nationwide constituency, and the other half elected in 225 single-member constituencies by first-past-the-post voting. Members serve 5-year terms. 

Last Election:  

In the last elections, the United Russia party won 324 seats (49.82%), the Communist Party of the Russian Federation won 57 seats (18.93%), A Just Russia party won 27 seats (7.46%), the Liberal Democratic Party of Russia won 21 seats (7.55$), and the New People party won 13 seats (5.32%). The Rodina party, the Party of Growth, and the Civic Platform party each won 1 seat. The voter turnout was 52%, with over 56,329,690 cast votes. 

Key Deadlines:  

• Candidate filing deadline: July 11, 2026, within 25 days after the calling of elections. 

• Voter registration deadline: N/A; registration is passive  

Main Parties in this Election: 

• United Russia 

• • Leader: Dmitry Medvedev 

• • Seats won in the last election: 324 seats out of 450 

• The Communist Party of the Russian Federation 

• • Leader: Gennady Zyuganov 

• • Seats won in the last election: 57 seats out of 450 

• A Just Russia 

• • Leader: Sergei Mironov 

• • Seats won in the last election: 27 seats out of 450 

• Liberal Democratic Party of Russia 

• • Leader: Leonid Slutsky 

• • Seats won in the last election: 21 seats out of 450 

• New People (НОВЫЕ ЛЮДИ) 

• • Leader: Aleksei Nechayev 

• • Seats won in the last election: 13 seats out of 450 

• Rodina (Rodina – Narodno-Patrioticheskiy Soyuz) 

• • Leader: Alexei Zhuravlyov 

• • Seats won in the last election: 1 seat out of 450 

• Russian Party of Pensioners for Social Justice 

• • Seats won in the last election: 0 seats out of 450 

• The Greens 

• • Seats won in the last election: 0 seats out of 450 

• Communists of Russia 

• • Seats won in the last election: 0 seats out of 450 

Country Context: 

• Population: 143,513,328 (2025 est.) 

• Registered Voters: 112,782,115 EMB (2024 est.) 

• V-Dem Electoral Democracy Index Score: 0.17 (2026)  

• V-Dem Regimes of the World Classification: Electoral Autocracy (2026) 

• Human Development Index (HDI) Position: 0.832, Very High, Rank 64 (2023)   

Gender Data: 

• Female Population: 76,960,071 (2025 est.) 

• CEDAW Status: Signed 17 July 1980, Ratified 23 January 1981  

• Gender Quota:  No 

• Female Candidates in this election: YesNumber of Female Legislators (pre-election): 78 out of 435 (17.9%) of the currently occupied seats in the State Duma. 32 out of 164 (19.5%) in the Federation Council  

• Social Institutions and Gender Index (SIGI) Categorization: N/A  

Disability Data: 

• CRPD Status: Signed 24 September 2008, Ratified, 25 September 2012  

• Projected population with a disability: 22,962,132 (2025 est.) 

IFES Resources: 

Election Judgments: Yes, 3 judgments and 28 resources