2026 Kursk Oblast legislative election
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20 September 2026
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The 2026 Kursk Oblast Duma election will take place on 20 September 2026, on common election day, coinciding with the 2026 Russian legislative election. All 45 seats in the Oblast Duma will be up for re-election.
Under current election laws, the Oblast Duma is elected for a term of five years, with parallel voting. 21 seats are elected by party-list proportional representation with a 5% electoral threshold (down from 22 seats in 2021), with the other part elected in 24 single-member constituencies by first-past-the-post voting (up from 23 seats in 2021).[1] 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]
Candidates
Party lists
To register regional lists of candidates, parties need to collect 0.5% of signatures of all registered voters in Kursk Oblast.
The following parties were relieved from the necessity to collect signatures:[3]
- United Russia
- Communist Party of the Russian Federation
- Liberal Democratic Party of Russia
- A Just Russia
- New People
- Russian Party of Pensioners for Social Justice
Single-mandate constituencies
24 single-mandate constituencies were formed in Kursk Oblast, one additional constituency was created in Kursk in 2025. To register candidates in single-mandate constituencies need to collect 3% of signatures of registered voters in the constituency.[2]
