2021 Russian legislative election
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Legislative elections will be held in Russia no later than 19 September 2021 to elect the 450 seats the 8th convocation of the State Duma, the lower house of the Federal Assembly. Going into the elections, United Russia is the ruling party after winning the 2016 elections with 54.2% of the vote and 343 seats.
Electoral system
Under current election laws, the State Duma is elected for a term of five years, with parallel voting. Half of the seats (225) are elected by party-list proportional representation with a 5% electoral threshold, with the other half elected in 225 single-member constituencies by first-past-the-post voting.[1]
In the proportional part, candidates can be nominated only by political parties. 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. The regional part includes regional groups of candidates corresponding to the group of bordering federal subjects. The number of regional groups must be at least 35. No more than ten 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 will 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 its passage to the State Duma and the party list and in the single-member constituency, he will need to give up one of the places (usually refuse the seat received on the party list, as in this case the party does not lose this seat and simply will give another candidate).
Participating parties
As of 15 June 2018, 63 political parties can participate in the elections.[5] At the same time, parties represented in the State Duma, parties that received more than 3% of the vote in the previous elections or are represented at least in one of the regional parliaments are allowed to contest in the elections without collecting signatures. Other parties need to collect signatures to participate in the elections. The official list of parties entitled to participate in the elections without collection of signatures will be announced before the election, but at the moment, there are only 14 such parties.[6][7]
Parties represented in the State Duma
Parties represented in the Regional Parliaments
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).
Public expression of interest
- 2018 presidential candidate Ksenia Sobchak has stated that her party will run for State Duma in 2021.[8] On 15 March 2018, Ksenia Sobchak and Dmitry Gudkov announced the creation of the Party of Changes on the basis of the party Civic Initiative.[9]
- Businessman Sergei Polonsky, in January 2018, announced his intention to create a political party "For All", with which he intends to participate in the 2021 election.[10]
Opinion polls
Footnotes
- ^ a b Dmitry Medvedev sits as Prime Minister
References
- ^ Федеральный закон "О выборах депутатов Государственной Думы Федерального Собрания Российской Федерации" от 22.02.2014 N 20-ФЗ (последняя редакция)
- ^ Статья 39. Выдвижение федерального списка кандидатов
- ^ Статья 40. Выдвижение политической партией кандидатов по одномандатным избирательным округам
- ^ Статья 45. Сбор подписей избирателей
- ^ СПИСОК ПОЛИТИЧЕСКИХ ПАРТИЙ, ИМЕЮЩИХ ПРАВО В СООТВЕТСТВИИ С ФЕДЕРАЛЬНЫМ ЗАКОНОМ ОТ 11.07.2001 № 95-ФЗ «О ПОЛИТИЧЕСКИХ ПАРТИЯХ» ПРИНИМАТЬ УЧАСТИЕ В ВЫБОРАХ
- ^ 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
- ^ Сведения о политических партиях, выдвижение которыми кандидатов, списков кандидатов не требует сбора подписей избирателей
- ^ Ведомости (2018-01-18). "Собчак собралась участвовать в выборах в Госдуму в 2021 году". Retrieved 2018-02-08.
- ^ Дмитрий Гудков и Ксения Собчак создадут "Партию перемен"
- ^ Полонский намерен победить в президентской гонке в 2024 году