2026 Karelian legislative election

The 2026 Legislative Assembly of the Republic of Karelia election will take place on 18–20 September 2026, on common election day, coinciding with the 2026 Russian legislative election. All 36 seats in the Legislative Assembly will be up for re-election.

Electoral system Under current election laws, the Legislative Assembly is elected for a term of five years, with parallel voting. 18 seats are elected by party-list proportional representation with a 5% electoral threshold, with the other half elected in 18 single-member constituencies by first-past-the-post voting. 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.

Candidates Party lists To register regional lists of candidates, parties need to collect 0.5% of signatures of all registered voters in Karelia.

The following parties were relieved from the necessity to collect signatures: United Russia Communist Party of the Russian Federation Liberal Democratic Party of Russia A Just Russia New People Yabloko Russian Party of Pensioners for Social Justice

№PartyRepublic-wide listCandidatesTerritorial groupsStatus1 New PeopleSardana Avksentyeva • Sergey Usatenko4218 Registered2 Communist PartyYevgeny Ulyanov • Sergey Andrunevich • Andrey Monastyrshin1916 Registered4 RodinaDmitry Titov1817 Registered5 Liberal Democratic PartyLeonid Slutsky4918 Registered6 A Just RussiaRoine Izyumov • Andrey Rogalevich4418 Registered7 United RussiaArtur Parfenchikov • Olga Barysheva • Igor Zubarev5718 Registered8 The GreensSergey Yarlykov • Aleksey Glushkov1513 Registered9 Party of PensionersErik Prazdnikov • Grigory Fandeyev • Andrey Manin1916 Registered10 Communists of RussiaAleksey Samolyotov1413 Registered3 YablokoInna Boluchevskaya • Olga Tuzhikova • Anna Pavlova1815 Disqualified

Russian Ecological Party "The Greens" and Communists of Russia will take part in the Karelian legislative election for the first time. Russian Party of Freedom and Justice, which participated in the last election, did not file, while Party of Growth and Green Alternative were dissolved and united with New People and Russian Ecological Party "The Greens", respectively. Yabloko was initially registered for the legislative election but was disqualified on July 29, 2026, by the Supreme Court of Karelia for lack of necessary documents.

Single-mandate constituencies 18 single-mandate constituencies were formed in Karelia. To register candidates in single-mandate constituencies need to collect 3% of signatures of registered voters in the constituency.

+Number of candidates in single-mandate constituenciesPartyCandidatesNominatedRegisteredUnited Russia1818Communist Party1716A Just Russia1717Liberal Democratic Party1818Yabloko1512New People1313Party of Pensioners1817Total116111

Results Results by party lists

| style="background-color:;"| | style="text-align:left;"| Communist Party

| style="background-color:;"| | style="text-align:left;"| A Just Russia

| style="background-color:;"| | style="text-align:left;"| Liberal Democratic Party

| style="background-color:;"| | style="text-align:left;"| New People

| style="background-color:;"| | style="text-align:left;"| Party of Pensioners

| style="background-color:;"| | style="text-align:left;"| Rodina

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| style="background-color:;"| | style="text-align:left;"| The Greens

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| style="background-color:;"| | style="text-align:left;"| Communists of Russia

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| style="background-color:;"| | style="text-align:left;"| Yabloko | – | – | – | – | –

| style="text-align:left;" colspan="2"| Invalid ballots

| — | — | — | — | — | — |- style="font-weight:bold" | style="text-align:left;" colspan="2"| Total | | 100.00 | — | 18 | | 18 | | 36

| — | — | — | — | — | — |- | style="text-align:left;" colspan="2"| Registered voters | | 100.00 | — | — | — | — | — | — | — |- | colspan="11" style="background-color:#E9E9E9;"| |- style="font-weight:bold" | colspan="10" |Source:

Results in single-member constituencies District 1 • District 2 • District 3 • District 4 • District 5 • District 6 • District 7 • District 8 • District 9 • District 10 • District 11 • District 12 • District 13 • District 14 • District 15 • District 16 • District 17 • District 18__NOTOC__

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2026 Karelian legislative election

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