| Parliament name (generic / translated) |
Federalnoye Sobraniye / Federal Assembly |
| Structure of parliament |
Bicameral |
| Chamber name (generic / translated) |
Gossoudarstvennaya Duma / State Duma |
| Related chamber (for bicameral parliaments) |
Soviet Federatsii / Council of the Federation
|
| LEGAL FRAMEWORK |
| Electoral Law |
1 October 1993
Last amendment: 18/05/2005 |
| Mode of designation |
directly elected 450 |
| Constituencies |
- One nationwide constituency for 450 seats |
| Voting system |
Proportional:
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. |
| Voter requirements |
- Russian citizenship
- Age: 18 years
- Disqualifications: legal incompetency, imprisonment following criminal conviction |
| CANDIDATES |
| Eligibility |
- Qualified electors
- Russian citizenship
- Age: 21 years
Ineligibilities: holding office or engaging in activity deemed incompatible with parliamentary status |
| 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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