Russian legislative elections are a procedure of determining the composition of the State Duma, the lower house of the Russian parliament, for the next five years through universal, direct, and secret voting of 450 deputies.^[1]

As of 2021, these elections have been held eight times:

• Elections of the 1st convocation of the State Duma: 12 December 1993;
• Elections of the 2nd convocation of the State Duma: 17 December 1995;
• Elections of the 3rd convocation of the State Duma: 19 December 1999;
• Elections of the 4th convocation of the State Duma: 7 December 2003;
• Elections of the 5th convocation of the State Duma: 2 December 2007;
• Elections of the 6th convocation of the State Duma: 4 December 2011;
• Elections of the 7th convocation of the State Duma: 18 September 2016;
• Elections of the 8th convocation of the State Duma: 19 September 2021.

According to the current Russian legislation, 225 from the 450 mandates of the State Duma are distributed among the lists of political parties that received more than 5% of the votes. The other 225 are the winners of elections in single-mandate constituencies. The elections of 1993–2003 and 2016–2021 were held according to this scheme. In 2007 and 2011, the threshold was 7% and all 450 members of the Duma were elected by party lists.

The layout and number of single-mandate districts are established in federal law by the State Duma in agreement with the Central Election Commission. The district's boundaries may not coincide with the boundaries of the constituent entities of the Russian Federation, but at the same time, each subject must have at least one district. To register a candidate in a single-mandate constituency, it is necessary to overcome the 3% threshold of signatures from the number of voters in the respective constituency. The candidate with the most votes wins.

The federal list of candidates must contain between 200 and 400 candidates from a party (with a proportional system, the vote is cast for the list, not for an individual candidate). To pass the list for elections, it is necessary to collect more than 200,000 signatures, but not less than 7,000 in one subject of the Russian Federation. The following do not require signatures: lists that overcame the 3% threshold for the federal district in the previous elections; and the list of candidates nominated by a political party that was admitted to the distribution of deputy mandates in the legislative body of at least one subject of the Russian Federation. Parties that do not pass the 5% threshold on the lists are not allowed to distribute deputy mandates.

• 2026 Russian legislative election

• Elections in Russia