Parliamentary elections in Russia set for September 2026

Elections to the State Duma of the ninth convocation will be held on September 20, 2026, RBC reports, referring to the Central Election Commission (CEC).

Voting day will fall on the third Sunday of the month in which the constitutional term of the previous Duma expires.

The total number of seats in the Duma will remain unchanged at 450 deputies. Of these, 225 will be elected through party lists, while the remaining 225 will be chosen in single-member constituencies.

The previous State Duma elections took place from September 17 to 19, 2021. United Russia received 49.82% of the vote, the Communist Party of the Russian Federation (CPRF) 18.93%, A Just Russia — For Truth 7.46%, the Liberal Democratic Party of Russia (LDPR) 7.55%, New People 5.32%, and the Party of Pensioners 2.45%.

In January, three RBC sources close to the presidential administration said that the Kremlin’s domestic policy bloc and the leadership of United Russia had determined a basic lineup of five leading figures for the party’s list in the parliamentary elections. It includes United Russia chairman and Deputy Chairman of the Security Council Dmitry Medvedev (who was not among the list leaders in 2021), Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov, Director of the Moscow Clinical Research Center “Hospital No. 52” and former co-chair of Vladimir Putin’s election campaign headquarters, Hero of Labor Maryana Lysenko, head of the central staff of the Yunarmiya movement and Hero of Russia Vladislav Golovin (whose call sign during the fighting in Ukraine was “Struna”), and war correspondent and deputy director general of VGTRK, Hero of Russia Yevgeny Poddubny.

RBC, citing two sources, also reported that United Russia had decided on the leadership of its election headquarters, which will be headed by the party’s secretary general and Deputy Speaker of the Federation Council, Vladimir Yakushev. His deputy will be presidential administration official Alexei Semenov. “For now, this is more of an internal party office and does not yet have a formally established status,” one of RBC’s sources explained.