United Russia takes 355 of the 450 State Duma seats

20 September 2026

Voting for Russia's State Duma was spread over three days, from Friday to Sunday. On preliminary results with 95% of the count done, United Russia had 57.8% of the vote and 355 of the 450 seats in the lower house. The Communist Party came second with 13.8% and 40 seats. The Liberal Democratic Party, LDPR, took 25 seats on 9% and the New People party 20 seats on 8%. Fair Russia was close to the five per cent threshold with counting still going on. Five seats went to individual candidates, one of them from the Motherland party. Ella Pamfilova, who chairs the Central Electoral Commission, put turnout at 59.32%, a record for a Duma election. Yabloko won no seats at the national level but did enter the regional parliament in the Novgorod region.