Russia Parliamentary election 2026 (State Duma — Gosduma) — Results

At a glance

Russia held elections to the State Duma, the lower house of the Federal Assembly, over three days on 18–20 September 2026, renewing all 450 seats for a five-year term. It was the first nationwide parliamentary vote since Russia's full-scale invasion of Ukraine in February 2022, and it was held in a tightly controlled political environment in which the ruling United Russia party, aligned with President Vladimir Putin, already held a constitutional supermajority. The Central Election Commission determined the official result on 25 September 2026: United Russia took 57.97% of the party-list vote and 349 of the 450 seats, an increased constitutional supermajority, on a turnout of 59.80%. The election confirmed the existing balance of power rather than altering it, and stands as a marker of how the Kremlin manages public consent during the war.

The electoral system

The State Duma is elected through a parallel (mixed) system. Half of the 450 deputies — 225 — are chosen by closed-list proportional representation in a single nationwide constituency, with a 5% threshold for a party to win list seats. The other 225 are elected in single-member districts by first-past-the-post, where a candidate needs only a plurality to win. This mixed system, reintroduced in 2016 after a decade of fully proportional elections, tends to amplify the dominant party's strength: United Russia typically wins the great majority of the single-member districts on top of its list seats. A party needs 226 seats for an absolute majority and 300 for the two-thirds supermajority required to amend the constitution. Voting is spread across multiple days and includes at-home options and remote electronic voting (ДЭГ), the latter expanded to roughly 33 regions in 2026 from 7 in 2021 — features that international observers have criticised as reducing transparency.

The party landscape

Russia's parliament is composed of five "systemic" parties that operate within boundaries set by the Kremlin and broadly support its foreign and security policy. United Russia is the dominant force and the vehicle of the presidential administration. The Communist Party of the Russian Federation (CPRF) is the largest nominal opposition, drawing on nostalgia for the Soviet era. The Liberal Democratic Party (LDPR), long led by the late nationalist Vladimir Zhirinovsky, occupies a populist-nationalist niche. A Just Russia — For Truth (SRZP) is a nominally social-democratic party, and New People, founded in 2020, presents a mildly liberal, business-friendly image aimed at younger urban voters. Genuine anti-war or opposition figures are largely excluded: the opposition leader Alexei Navalny died in an Arctic penal colony in February 2024, many critics are imprisoned or in exile, and "foreign agent" and "undesirable organisation" laws are used to bar candidates and silence campaigning. The 2026 cycle added two further exclusions: Yabloko — the only registered party to have opposed the war — had its already-certified federal list cancelled by Russia's Supreme Court in August 2026, the first time since 1993 it will not appear on a Duma ballot; and Boris Nadezhdin, barred from the 2024 presidential race, was excluded from this election too and left Russia in early August 2026.

The last election (2021)

In the September 2021 Duma election, United Russia retained its constitutional supermajority despite a fall in its reported list vote, winning the overwhelming share of single-member districts. Independent observers and the opposition alleged large-scale irregularities, particularly in the newly introduced online voting in Moscow, which reversed several district results in the authorities' favour.

Party (2021)	List vote %	Total seats
United Russia	49.82	324
Communist Party (CPRF)	18.93	57
A Just Russia — For Truth	7.46	27
LDPR	7.55	21
New People	5.32	13

Turnout was about 51.7%. The remaining seats went to a handful of smaller-party and self-nominated candidates who generally vote with the majority.

The official result

United Russia won 57.97% of the party-list vote and 349 seats — 140 from the federal list and 209 of the 225 single-member districts — well past the 300 needed to amend the constitution and up from the 324 it held in the outgoing chamber. The Communist Party took 13.65% and 37 seats, the LDPR 8.96% and 23, New People 7.9% and 19, and A Just Russia 5.13% and 17, clearing the 5% threshold and keeping all five parties of the outgoing Duma in the chamber. Rodina won one single-member district and four self-nominated candidates took four more. Turnout was 59.80%, or 67,448,094 voters, which the commission called a record for the last three parliamentary campaigns. Voting covered, for the first time, the four Ukrainian regions Russia claims to have annexed in 2022 — Donetsk, Luhansk, Zaporizhzhia and Kherson, allocated seven single-member districts between them — whose participation is rejected as illegitimate by Ukraine and most of the international community; reported turnout in all four was far above the national figure, between 74.61% and 82.06%.

Geography of the vote

United Russia's reported support is highest in the ethnic republics of the North Caucasus and in regions with strong administrative control, where official results regularly exceed 80%, and lower in large cities such as Moscow, St Petersburg and parts of the Far East and Siberia, where the Communists and other parties perform better and where most documented disputes over counting have arisen. No results map by federal subject is shown here: the commission publishes no region-by-region breakdown of the party-list vote in a form reachable from outside Russia.

How ElectioMap covers it

This page shows the official nationwide party-list vote shares, turnout and the full distribution of the 450 seats between the party lists and the single-member districts. Figures come from the Central Election Commission of Russia, the official body that administers federal elections and determines their results; because the commission publishes no data feed reachable from outside Russia, each figure here was read from its own announcements as relayed by Russian news agencies and entered by hand.

По-русски: выборы в Государственную думу 2026 — результаты голосования в реальном времени, распределение мандатов и интерактивная карта результатов по регионам России.

Frequently asked questions

When is the 2026 Russian Duma election?

Elections to the State Duma, the lower house of Russia's parliament, are scheduled for 18–20 September 2026, with voting spread over three days. All 450 seats are renewed for a five-year term, the first nationwide parliamentary vote since the full-scale invasion of Ukraine in February 2022.

How is the State Duma elected?

Through a parallel (mixed) system: 225 of the 450 seats are elected by closed-list proportional representation in a single national constituency with a 5% threshold, and 225 in single-member districts by first-past-the-post. A party needs 226 seats for a majority and 300 for a constitutional supermajority.

Which parties sit in the Duma?

Five "systemic" parties: United Russia (the ruling party aligned with President Putin), the Communist Party (CPRF), the Liberal Democratic Party (LDPR), A Just Russia — For Truth, and New People. Genuine opposition figures are largely excluded; opposition leader Alexei Navalny died in prison in February 2024, and for 2026 the Supreme Court cancelled the only anti-war party's (Yabloko's) federal list and barred Boris Nadezhdin, who had earlier tried to run for president.

Is the result in doubt?

United Russia is expected to win comfortably and retain its dominant position. International observers have criticised recent Russian elections over multi-day and electronic voting, restrictions on candidates and media, and documented irregularities, so the questions are about margins, turnout and the conduct of the vote rather than the winner.

When were the results announced?

The Central Election Commission reported preliminary figures from the night of 20 September and determined the official result at a session on 25 September 2026, signing the protocols for the federal party-list constituency and for the election as a whole. The official national vote shares, turnout and the full distribution of the 450 seats are on this page.

Compiled and reviewed from official results by ElectioMap. See our data methodology.