2023 Rostov Oblast Legislative Assembly election

2023 Rostov Oblast Legislative Assembly election

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Turnout	42.78%
Majority party Minority party Third party   Candidate Vasily Golubev Yevgeny Bessonov Leonid Slutsky Leader Dmitry Medvedev Gennady Zyuganov Leonid Slutsky Party United Russia CPRF LDPR Last election 46 seats, 56.98% 8 seats, 17.13% 2 seats, 9.87% Seats won 54 2 2 Seat change 8 6 Popular vote 925,846 155,523 93,835 Percentage 68.28% 11.47% 6.92% Swing 11.30% 5.66% 2.95%   Fourth party Fifth party Sixth party   SR-ZP NL CPCR Candidate Sergey Kosinov Aleksandr Chukhlebov Yevgeny Sutormin Leader Sergey Mironov Aleksey Nechayev Sergey Malinkovich Party SR-ZP New People Communists of Russia Last election 2 seats, 7.06% Did not exist 1 seat, 5.06% Seats won 1 0 0 Seat change 1 Did not exist 1 Popular vote 65,188 51,326 44,373 Percentage 4.81% 3.79% 3.27% Swing 2.25% Did not exist 1.79%

The 2023 Legislative Assembly of Rostov Oblast election took place on 8–10 September 2023, on common election day. All 60 seats in the Legislative Assembly were up for reelection.

Under current election laws, the Legislative Assembly is elected for a term of five years, with parallel voting. 20 seats are elected by party-list proportional representation with a 5% electoral threshold, with the other half elected in 40 single-member constituencies by first-past-the-post voting. Until 2023 the number of mandates allocated in proportional and majoritarian parts were standing at 30 each. 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]

To register regional lists of candidates, parties need to collect 0.5% of signatures of all registered voters in Rostov Oblast.

The following parties were relieved from the necessity to collect signatures:^[2]

• United Russia
• Communist Party of the Russian Federation
• A Just Russia — Patriots — For Truth
• Liberal Democratic Party of Russia
• New People
• Communists of Russia

New People will take part in Rostov Oblast legislative election for the first time, while Party of Pensioners of Russia and People's Alliance, who took part in the last legislative election, had been dissolved prior.

40 single-mandate constituencies were formed in Rostov Oblast, an increase of 10 seats since last redistricting in 2018. To register candidates in single-mandate constituencies need to collect 3% of signatures of registered voters in the constituency.

Summary of the 8–10 September 2023 Legislative Assembly of Rostov Oblast election results

Party		Party list					Constituency		Total
		Votes	%	±pp	Seats	+/–	Seats	+/–	Seats	+/–
	United Russia	925,846	68.28	11.30%	17	4	37	12	54	8
	Communist Party	155,523	11.47	5.66%	2	3	0	3	2	6
	Liberal Democratic Party	93,835	6.92	2.95%	1	1	1	1	2
	A Just Russia — For Truth	65,188	4.81	2.25%	0	1	1		1	1
	New People	51,326	3.79	New	0	New	0	New	0	New
	Communists of Russia	44,373	3.27	1.79%	0	1	0		0	1
	Independents	–	–	–	–	–	1	1	1	1
Invalid ballots		19,859	1.46	0.59%	—	—	—	—	—	—
Total		1,355,965	100.00	—	20	10	40	10	60
Turnout		1,355,965	42.78	2.64%	—	—	—	—	—	—
Registered voters		3,169,309	100.00	—	—	—	—	—	—	—
Source:										[3]

Aleksandr Ischenko (United Russia) was re-elected as Chairman of the Legislative Assembly, while Senator Irina Rukavishnikova (United Russia / Independent) was re-appointed to the Federation Council.^[4]

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