Overview
- The election date must be set by presidential decree 110–90 days before voting, with recent cycles formalized in mid-June.
- The April redistricting allocates three single-member seats to Donetsk, two to Luhansk, and one each to Kherson and Zaporizhzhia.
- Parallel ballots will choose 39 regional legislatures and 10 regional leaders, seven by direct vote and three by regional parliaments.
- Twenty registered parties may run, with 12 retaining signature exemptions, and expert forecasts suggest the current five-party lineup could hold as United Russia polls at 42%.
- Administration will shift to a refreshed Central Election Commission after March, with up to seven new members possible, and its chair warns of heightened turbulence but says systems are ready.