2025 Chelyabinsk Oblast legislative election
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The 2025 Legislative Assembly of Chelyabinsk Oblast election took place on 12–14 September 2025, on common election day. All 60 seats in the Legislative Assembly were up for re-election.
United Russia increased its already overwhelming majority in the Legislative Assembly, winning 54.5% of the vote and 28 of 30 single-mandate constituencies. A Just Russia – For Truth, led by popular State Duma member Valery Gartung, retained its position as runner-up, losing one seat. Liberal Democratic Party of Russia and Party of Pensioners also lost one seat each, while Communist Party of the Russian Federation suffered major defeat, losing half of its vote share and retaining only a single seat. New People entered the Legislative Assembly for the first time, winning two seats.
Under current election laws, the Legislative Assembly is elected for a term of five years, with parallel voting. 30 seats are elected by party-list proportional representation with a 5% electoral threshold, with the other half elected in 30 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 Chelyabinsk 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
- Green Alternative
| № | Party | Party-list leaders | Candidates | Status | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | United Russia | Aleksey Teksler • Andrey Orekhov • Oleg Golikov • Oleg Gerber • Anatoly Yeryomin | 46 | Registered | |
| 2 | Party of Pensioners | Stepan Firstov • Dmitry Popov • Vladimir Vladimirsky • Denis Borsuk • Aleksey Frolov | 31 | Registered | |
| 3 | New People | Maksim Gulin • Yevgeny Gorshkov • Polina Krepak • Denis Lezin • Yevgeny Motovilov | 41 | Registered | |
| 4 | Liberal Democratic Party | Leonid Slutsky • Vitaly Pashin • Aleksey Besedin • Kirill Usmanov • Ivan Novikov | 45 | Registered | |
| 5 | Communist Party | Igor Yegorov • Konstantin Kurkin • Danila Andreyevskikh • Andrey Duda • Aleksandr Andreyev | 43 | Registered | |
| 6 | A Just Russia – For Truth | Valery Gartung • Vasily Shvetsov • Ksenia Morozova • Aleksey Chechenin • Aleksey Zemzyulin | 67 | Registered | |
New People will take part in Chelyabinsk Oblast legislative election for the first time. Rodina, which participated in the last election, did not file, while For Truth and Party of Growth has been dissolved since. Green Alternative was able to enter the Legislative Assembly of Chelyabinsk Oblast in the last election, however, the party decided not to contest the 2025 election after its sole deputy switched to United Russia.
Single-mandate constituencies
30 single-mandate constituencies were formed in Chelyabinsk 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 | 30 | 29 | |
| A Just Russia – For Truth | 28 | 28 | |
| Communist Party | 30 | 30 | |
| Liberal Democratic Party | 30 | 30 | |
| Party of Pensioners | 13 | 12 | |
| New People | 30 | 29 | |
| Yabloko | 4 | 0 | |
| Independent | 3 | 1 | |
| Total | 168 | 160 | |
Polls
| Fieldwork date | Polling firm | UR | SR-ZP | LDPR | NL | CPRF | RPPSS |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 14 September 2025 | 2025 election | 54.5 | 13.4 | 9.8 | 8.1 | 5.9 | 5.7 |
| 18–20 August 2025 | Russian Field | 47.9 | 11.2 | 12.7 | 12.6 | 9.2 | 5.4 |
| 13 September 2020 | 2020 election | 42.6 | 14.8 | 11.3 | – | 11.9 | 5.7 |
