2025 Belgorod Oblast legislative election
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The 2025 Belgorod Oblast Duma election took place on 12–14 September 2025, on common election day. All 50 seats in the Oblast Duma were up for re-election.
United Russia increased its already overwhelming majority in the Oblast Duma, winning 73% of the vote and all 25 single-mandate constituencies. Liberal Democratic Party of Russia slightly increased its vote share and doubled its faction (from one to two). Communist Party of the Russian Federation suffered heavy losses and lost two deputies, while Russian Party of Pensioners for Social Justice failed to cross the threshold and lost its faction.
Under current election laws, the Oblast Duma is elected for a term of five years, with parallel voting. 25 seats are elected by party-list proportional representation with a 5% electoral threshold, with the other half elected in 25 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.[1]
Candidates
Party lists
To register regional lists of candidates, parties need to collect 0.5% of signatures of all registered voters in Belgorod Oblast.
The following parties were relieved from the necessity to collect signatures:[2]
- United Russia
- Communist Party of the Russian Federation
- Liberal Democratic Party of Russia
- A Just Russia — Patriots — For Truth
- New People
- Russian Party of Pensioners for Social Justice
- Communists of Russia
- Cossack Party of the Russian Federation
| № | Party | Oblast-wide list | Candidates | Territorial groups | Status | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | United Russia | Vyacheslav Gladkov • Vyacheslav Vorobyov • Anna Kocherova | 51 | 12 | Registered | |
| 2 | Communist Party | Valery Shevlyakov | 50 | 12 | Registered | |
| 3 | Party of Pensioners | Tatyana Shagiyeva • Vladimir Vorozhtsov • Artyom Zotov | 21 | 6 | Registered | |
| 4 | Liberal Democratic Party | Leonid Slutsky • Yevgeny Dremov | 54 | 12 | Registered | |
| 5 | Communists of Russia | Ivan Borodavkin • Ilya Kleymyonov • Konstantin Khlebnikov | 62 | 12 | Registered | |
| 6 | A Just Russia – For Truth | Yury Osetrov | 46 | 9 | Registered | |
Communists of Russia returned after last participating in the 2015 election, while For Truth and Patriots of Russia, who took part in the 2020 election, both merged with A Just Russia in 2021.
Single-mandate constituencies
25 single-mandate constituencies were formed in Belgorod Oblast. To register candidates in single-mandate constituencies need to collect 3% of signatures of registered voters in the constituency.[1]
| Party | Candidates | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| Nominated | Registered | ||
| United Russia | 25 | 25 | |
| Communist Party | 23 | 23 | |
| Liberal Democratic Party | 23 | 23 | |
| Party of Pensioners | 12 | 12 | |
| A Just Russia – For Truth | 13 | 13 | |
| Independent | 3 | 1 | |
| Total | 99 | 97 | |
