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ELECTORAL SYSTEM |
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| Chamber: | ||||||
| Gossoudarstvennaya Duma | ||||||
| Electoral Law: | ||||||
| 1 October 1993 | ||||||
| Last amendment: 18/05/2005 | ||||||
| Constituencies: | ||||||
| - One nationwide constituency for 450 seats | ||||||
| Voting System: | ||||||
| Proportional representation system - 450 Deputies selected on the basis of party-list proportional representation from the country as a whole, considered as one nationwide constituency, using the Hare method (the simple quotient and greatest remainders) for distribution of remaining seats. The threshold to win seats is 7%of the total vote, provided that at least two parties win seats and the combined vote of these parties is more than 60%of the total vote. If the total vote for parties passing the 7% threshold is 60% or less, then parties with less than 7% of the total vote are also taken into account in the allocation process, in descending order according to their votes, until the total vote for parties winning seats surpasses 60%. If one party wins more than 60% of the vote and the other parties obtain less than 7%, then the party with the second highest number of votes is also taken into account in the seat allocation process. - Vacancies arising between general elections are filled by "next-in-line" candidates of the same party list. - Voting is not compulsory. |
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| Voter requirements: | ||||||
| - Russian citizenship - Age: 18 years - Disqualifications: legal incompetency, imprisonment following criminal conviction |
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| Eligibility: | ||||||
| - Qualified electors - Russian citizenship - Age: 21 years Ineligibilities: holding office or engaging in activity deemed incompatible with parliamentary status |
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| Incompatibilities: | ||||||
| (not applicable) | ||||||
| Candidacy requirements: | ||||||
| - Candidacy must be submitted no later than 45 days before the polling day by registered political parties (up to 50% of each list can be made up by candidates who are not members of the party concerned); - Parties represented in the outgoing legislature can field their candidates without collecting signatures or paying deposit; - Parties which were not represented in the outgoing legislature should either collect 200,000 signatures (of which no more than 10,000 can come from any one oblast) or pay a deposit of 60 million rubles (approx. US$2.3 million). The deposit is reimbursed if the party wins at least 4 % of the total vote. |
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