2026 Nizhny Novgorod Oblast legislative election
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20 September 2026
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The 2026 Legislative Assembly of Nizhny Novgorod Oblast election will take place on 20 September 2026, on common election day, coinciding with the 2026 Russian legislative election. All 50 seats in the Legislative Assembly will be up for re-election.
Under current election laws, the Legislative Assembly 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 Nizhny Novgorod 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
- New People
- Russian Party of Pensioners for Social Justice
Single-mandate constituencies
25 single-mandate constituencies were formed in Nizhny Novgorod Oblast. To register candidates in single-mandate constituencies need to collect 3% of signatures of registered voters in the constituency.[1]
