THE COUNTRY DESK
Russia.
State Duma · 450 seats · 2021
CURRENT NATIONAL LEADERSHIP
Vladimir Putin
President
Leadership & photo sources ↗
Source checked 30 Oct 2026. Current officeholder snapshot; independent of the election year selected below.
Government leadership source (opens in a new tab)Vladimir Putin portrait (opens in a new tab) · Пресс-служба Президента России · CC BY 4.0 (opens in a new tab). Display crop; original colours retained.

THE NATIONAL PARLIAMENT
State Duma
Latest election listed: 2026-09-18 – 2026-09-20. Its party-seat breakdown has not been supplied by the source. The dated archive selection below is not a live result.
Simplified geographic reference. This is not a constituency or electoral district map.
Natural Earth · public domainSEATS WON AT THIS ELECTION
Parties & coalitions.
Neutral chart colours compare seat counts; they do not represent official party colours.
| Party / electoral coalition | Seats won | Share of seats |
|---|---|---|
| United Russia | 326 | 72.4% |
| Communist Party (KPRF) | 57 | 12.7% |
| A Just Russia | 28 | 6.2% |
| Liberal Democratic Party of Russia (LDPR) | 23 | 5.1% |
| New People | 15 | 3.3% |
| Independents | 1 | 0.2% |
Largest party means most seats in this table; it is not a declaration of who formed the government. Coalitions remain grouped as published.
This national seat summary does not include constituency-level results or a riding map. Electoral boundary verification remains pending for this election.
Chambers, official links & source information
450 statutory members
Directly elected
Official chamber website (opens in a new tab)Official chamber website (opens in a new tab)Official member directory (opens in a new tab)170 statutory members
Appointed
Official chamber website (opens in a new tab)Election figures are dated snapshots. Statutory chamber membership and the current electoral-system description come from the chamber profile; they may differ from seats contested at an earlier election. A largest-party result does not establish the governing coalition.
Source note: Note on the number of parties winning seats: In addition to the five parties listed under “Parties or coalitions winning seats”, there were three other parties that took one seat each: the Party of Growth, the Civic Platform and the Rodina (Motherland). There were thus eight parties in all. Note on Parties or coalitions winning seats: - The “Parties or coalitions winning seats” table above refers to the composition of the State Duma as at 13 October 2021. - Initially, one candidate each from three other parties – the Party of Growth, the Civic Platform and the Rodina (Motherland) – and five independent candidates were elected. The candidate-elect from the Party of Growth did not join any parliamentary group and was sworn in as an independent. The candidates-elect from the Civic Platform and the Motherland joined the Liberal Democratic Party of Russia (LDPR), giving it 23 seats (up from 21). - Two independent candidates joined United Russia, giving it 326 seats (up from 324). One independent candidate joined A Just Russia, giving it 28 seats (up from 27). Two others joined the New People, giving it 15 (up from 13).
IPU Parline election record (opens in a new tab)Saved source check: 2026-10-29. Collection is manual; no European live feed is active.
National summary data: © Inter-Parliamentary Union, Parline. CC BY-NC-SA 4.0 (opens in a new tab). Terms of use (opens in a new tab). Download the attributed archive .
Reference geography · 2017
2017 / GEOGRAPHIC REFERENCE
Explore the geography.
Administrative geography from 2017; these areas are not electoral constituencies. No local result or winner is assigned to this layer.
Select an area to inspect its geographic record. Neutral colour does not represent a party.
83 source areas · 2017 boundary vintage
Boundary sources, dates & reuse notices
Simplified and projected to SVG; original identifiers retained. Boundary depiction follows the dated source and does not determine sovereignty.
geoBoundaries / OpenStreetMap, Wambacher (opens in a new tab)
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THE PEOPLE BEHIND THE PARTIES
Party leadership.
Each leadership record carries its own date and source. Undated records are not verified for the election date. These names do not identify every constituency candidate or establish who governs; member-party leaders are not automatically a coalition’s joint leaders.
United Russia
Dmitry Medvedev
Party chairmanSeparate leadership source record · 2026-10-29Leadership source (opens in a new tab)Communist Party of the Russian Federation
Gennady Zyuganov
Chairman of the Central CommitteeSeparate leadership source record · 2026-10-29Leadership source (opens in a new tab)Structured leadership source: Wikidata, CC0; primary supplements are linked individually. Missing or ambiguous records stay unassigned. Download leadership records
Coverage, boundaries and source notes
WHAT IS AVAILABLE
Coverage, clearly labelled.
6 dated election records since 2000. Party breakdowns appear only when supplied by the source; gaps are labelled.
Clickable dated reference geography is supplied. It is not a verified constituency map.
National party and coalition names are preserved from the source. Official party colours and logo verification remain incomplete.
National summaries are separate from regional, local and constituency results. Those detailed records require their own source and boundary checks. No European live feed is active.
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- Projection
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- Simulated
- A rehearsal or what-if scenario, not a result.
- Archived
- Saved past results; the original source status still applies. Archived does not mean certified.