2026 State Duma Elections: Final Results, Seat Distribution and Political Balance

Russia’s Central Election Commission (CEC) signed the federal electoral district protocol on September 25 and approved the overall results of the election of deputies to the ninth convocation of the State Duma. CEC Resolution No. 53/357-9, together with its appendix listing all 450 elected deputies, is available in legal databases.

Expert analysis. Data are current as of September 27, 2026.

Final status

Thesis 1. The preliminary count ended with an official CEC decision: the election results were approved on September 25, 2026.

Voting took place on September 18–20, while the first nationwide summaries published on September 21 were still preliminary. At that stage, United Russia was projected to receive 355 seats because A Just Russia was still close to the five-percent threshold. Once it cleared the threshold, the final configuration changed: United Russia received 349 seats.

Turnout

Thesis 2. Turnout was the highest in a State Duma election since 2011.

A total of 67,448,094 people voted, representing 59.80% of registered voters. For comparison, turnout was 51.72% in 2021 and 47.88% in 2016. The increase compared with 2021 was approximately 8.1 percentage points.

Party-list voting

Thesis 3. The same five parties that formed the party-based component of the eighth State Duma cleared the five-percent threshold.

The confirmed final summary provides the following results for the six largest parties:

• United Russia — 39,118,497 votes, 58.21%;
• Communist Party of the Russian Federation (CPRF) — 9,051,776 votes, 13.47%;
• Liberal Democratic Party of Russia (LDPR) — 5,970,578 votes, 8.88%;
• New People — 5,253,202 votes, 7.82%;
• A Just Russia — 3,589,806 votes, 5.34%;
• Party of Pensioners — 1,286,329 votes, 1.91%.

For the other participants in the federal ballot, the publicly available copy of the final resolution contains the list of elected deputies but not a protocol with exact vote totals. It is therefore more accurate to cite the last fully published preliminary summary, while clearly identifying its status:

• Russian Ecological Party “The Greens” — about 1.15%;
• Communists of Russia — about 0.84%;
• Rodina — about 0.71%;
• Party of Direct Democracy — about 0.35%.

These four figures come from a summary published after almost all precinct protocols had been processed, rather than from the final protocol located in the available primary documents. Exact vote totals for these parties are therefore not reconstructed here.

Yabloko did not appear on the federal party ballot after its list was deregistered; party candidates continued to run in some single-member districts. In total, ten political associations remained on the party ballot.

Distribution of all 450 seats

Thesis 4. The mixed electoral system amplified the winner’s advantage: United Russia’s share of seats is significantly higher than its party-list vote share.

The final distribution is as follows:

• United Russia — 349 seats: 140 from party lists and 209 from single-member districts;
• CPRF — 37 seats: 32 from party lists and 5 from single-member districts;
• LDPR — 23 seats: 21 from party lists and 2 from single-member districts;
• New People — 19 seats, all from the party list;
• A Just Russia — 17 seats: 13 from party lists and 4 from single-member districts;
• Rodina — one single-member district seat;
• independent candidates — four seats.

United Russia therefore received 77.6% of all seats with 58.21% of the party-list vote. This is a consequence of Russia’s parallel electoral system: 225 proportional-representation seats and 225 independently contested single-member district seats.

Constitutional majority

Thesis 5. United Russia retained a constitutional majority on its own.

A constitutional majority requires at least 300 deputies. United Russia has 349 seats, 49 more than the required minimum. The party can therefore pass federal constitutional laws on its own and support amendments that require a two-thirds majority in the State Duma.

Single-member districts

Thesis 6. The main source of United Russia’s advantage was victory in 209 of the 225 single-member districts.

The remaining 16 districts were distributed as follows:

• CPRF — five;
• A Just Russia — four;
• LDPR — two;
• Rodina — one;
• independent candidates — four.

Resolution No. 53/357-9 publishes the names of all 225 district winners, but the appendix does not provide the percentage received by each candidate.

Illustrative candidate results

Thesis 7. Behind the nationwide picture lies a wide range of district results, from roughly one-third of the vote to more than 80% for the winning candidate.

Confirmed examples include:

• Vladislav Reznik, United Russia, Adygea District No. 1 — 67.09%, 179,768 votes;
• Sergey Kazankov, CPRF, District No. 27 in Mari El — 52.78%;
• Oleg Novitsky, CPRF, Irkutsk Region, District No. 98 — 29.84%;
• Leonid Kalashnikov, CPRF, Samara Region, District No. 160 — 38.62%;
• Alexey Zhuravlyov, Rodina, District No. 6 — 53.99%;
• Magomed Valikhov, independent, Makhachkala District No. 10 — 82.37%;
• Ilya Drozdov, independent, Caucasian Mineral Waters District No. 71 — 50.73%;
• Sergey Kurbatov, independent, Lipetsk District No. 115 — 38.61%;
• Anatoly Lisitsyn, independent, Yaroslavl District No. 193 — 33.35%.

These figures illustrate the first-past-the-post nature of single-member district voting: a candidate does not need more than half of all votes to win, only more votes than any opponent.

Remote electronic voting

Thesis 8. Remote electronic voting produced a noticeably different party distribution from the overall vote.

According to the CEC’s final information on remote electronic voting in 33 regions, including Moscow, the results were:

• United Russia — 50.79%;
• New People — 13.04%;
• CPRF — 11.45%;
• LDPR — 8.97%;
• A Just Russia — 6.34%;
• Party of Pensioners — 3.10%;
• The Greens — 3.04%;
• Communists of Russia — 1.43%;
• Rodina — 1.38%;
• Party of Direct Democracy — 0.45%.

The difference is especially visible in the result for New People: 13.04% in remote electronic voting compared with 7.82% in the overall party-list vote.

Voting abroad

Thesis 9. Voters abroad generally gave United Russia the largest share of votes, but individual cities showed a very different pattern.

Around 280,300 people voted at 333 polling stations in 152 countries. United Russia received about 163,000 votes, or 58%; New People received 37,122, or 13.2%; CPRF 28,970, or 10.3%; A Just Russia 16,027, or 5.7%; and LDPR 14,683, or 5.2%.

United Russia did not finish first in 64 foreign cities. In Ljubljana, for example, New People received 61.47% and United Russia 8.23%. Significant differences were also recorded in Belgrade, London, Paris, Berlin, Prague, Tokyo and a number of other cities.

Comparison with the 2021 election

Thesis 10. The main changes were gains for United Russia and New People, alongside a substantial reduction in the parliamentary representation of the CPRF and A Just Russia.

The change in seat totals was:

• United Russia: 324 → 349, an increase of 25;
• CPRF: 57 → 37, a decrease of 20;
• LDPR: 21 → 23, an increase of two;
• New People: 13 → 19, an increase of six;
• A Just Russia: 27 → 17, a decrease of ten.

In the party-list vote, United Russia rose from 49.82% to 58.21%, CPRF fell from 18.93% to 13.47%, LDPR rose from 7.55% to 8.88%, New People from 5.32% to 7.82%, while A Just Russia fell from 7.46% to 5.34%.

Regional differences

Thesis 11. Territorial variation was more visible in individual districts, remote electronic voting and voting abroad than in the overall distribution of seats.

Some of the largest winning margins were recorded in the North Caucasus republics and in several other territories with high turnout. In Adygea, for example, district turnout reached 79.29%, while the winning candidate received 67.09%. In more competitive districts, meanwhile, around one-third of the vote was sometimes enough to win.

Another notable result was the election of four independent candidates. All registered independents and all independent victories were concentrated in pre-defined districts: of 83 people who initially sought nomination as independents, only four were registered, and all four won.

What the results mean for the new Duma

Thesis 12. The ninth State Duma will be more centralized in terms of seat distribution, while LDPR and New People increased their representation within the five-party parliamentary structure.

United Russia received the largest parliamentary group in the history of the nine convocations of the State Duma. New People increased its representation, while LDPR gained two seats. The CPRF remained the second-largest parliamentary force, although its representation declined significantly.

The new chamber contains seven types of political representation: five party factions, one Rodina single-member district deputy and four independent deputies. In practice, the scale of United Russia’s majority will strongly shape the balance of parliamentary voting.

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Definitions, facts, dates and figures

• Party-list voting — voting for a federal party list; 225 seats are distributed proportionally, with a 5% threshold.
• Single-member district — a constituency electing one deputy; the candidate with the largest number of votes wins.
• Parallel electoral system — party-list and single-member district seats are allocated independently of each other.
• Constitutional majority — at least 300 of 450 deputies.
• Voting days: September 18–20, 2026.
• Preliminary results: September 21.
• CEC approval of final results: September 25.
• Resolution: No. 53/357-9.
• Term of the ninth convocation: five years.
• Number of deputies: 450.
• Party-list seats: 225.
• Single-member district seats: 225.
• Turnout: 59.80%, or 67,448,094 voters.
• Largest parliamentary group: United Russia, 349 deputies.
• Participants in the military operation elected to the new Duma: 46, including 41 from United Russia.
• Ballots invalidated: 36,850 ballots at 20 polling stations in 12 regions.

Main documents: CEC Resolution No. 53/357-9, the announcement approving the election results, and the published list of all 450 elected deputies.