2023 Kalmykia People's Khural election

From 2008 until 2023 elections to the People's Khural of Kalmykia were held only using party-list proportional representation with 7%, and later 5% threshold. However Head of Kalmykia Batu Khasikov proposed adopting a parallel voting system in February 2023, which was approved by the Khural.^[1] Under current election laws, the People's Khural is elected for a term of five years, with parallel voting. 10 seats are elected by party-list proportional representation with a 5% electoral threshold, with the other half elected in 17 single-member constituencies by first-past-the-post voting. Seats in the proportional part are allocated using the Imperiali quota, modified to ensure that every party list, which passes the threshold, receives at least one mandate.^[2]

To register regional lists of candidates, parties need to collect 0.5% of signatures of all registered voters in Kalmykia.

The following parties were relieved from the necessity to collect signatures:^[3]

• United Russia
• Communist Party of the Russian Federation
• A Just Russia — Patriots — For Truth
• Liberal Democratic Party of Russia
• New People
• Party of Growth
• Russian Party of Freedom and Justice

New People, Party of Growth and Russian Party of Freedom and Justice will take part in Kalmykian legislative election for the first time. Patriots of Russia, who participated in the last election, had been dissolved prior, while Civic Platform, Rodina and The Greens did not file.

17 single-mandate constituencies were formed in Kalmykia. To register candidates in single-mandate constituencies need to collect 3% of signatures of registered voters in the constituency.