Constituencies of Russia
Legislative constituencies are used in Russia to elect half of the seats in the State Duma. Each Federal Subject gets a certain amount of constituencies, proportional to their population, with every Federal Subject getting at least one. Every constituency is a single-mandate one, meaning each constituency sends one representative to the State Duma.
Constituencies are created and their boundaries drawn by the Central Election Commission. According to Federal Law, the layout of constituencies are to be used for 10 years. Using these current constituencies, elections were held to the State Duma in Russian legislative election|2016] and 2021.
List
Below is the list of Constituencies of Russia, organised by federal subject.Adygea
Altai Republic
Bashkortostan
- Ufa constituency (No. 3)
- Blagoveshchensk constituency (No. 4)
- Beloretsk constituency (No. 5)
- Neftekamsk constituency (No. 6)
- Salavat constituency (No. 7)
- Sterlitamak constituency (No. 8)
Dagestan
Ingushetia
Kabardino-Balkaria
Kalmykia
Karachay-Cherkessia
Republic of Karelia
Komi Republic
Republic of Crimea
Mari El
Mordovia
Yakutia
North Ossetia
Tatarstan
- Privolzhsky constituency (No. 26)
- Moskovsky constituency (No. 27)
- Nizhnekamsk constituency (No. 28)
- Naberezhnye Chelny constituency (No. 29)
- Almetyevsk constituency (No. 30)
- Central constituency (No. 31)
Udmurt Republic
Khakassia
Chechnya
Chuvashia
Altai Krai
- Barnaul constituency (No. 39)
- Rubtsovsk constituency (No. 40)
- Biysk constituency (No. 41)
- Slavgorod constituency (No. 42)
Kamchatka Krai
Krasnodar Krai
- Krasnodar constituency (No. 46)
- Krasnoarmeysky constituency (No. 47)
- Slavyansk-na-Kubani constituency (No. 48)
- Tuapse constituency (No. 49)
- Sochi constituency (No. 50)
- Tikhoretsk constituency (No. 51)
- Armavir constituency (No. 52)
- Kanevskaya constituency (No. 53)
- Krasnoyarsk constituency (No. 54)
- Central constituency (No. 55)
- Divnogorsk constituency (No. 56)
- Yeniseysk constituency (No. 57)
- Perm constituency (No. 58)
- Chusovoy constituency (No. 59)
- Kungur constituency (No. 60)
- Kudymkar constituency (No. 61)
Stavropol Krai
- Stavropol constituency (No. 65)
- Nevinnomyssk constituency (No. 66)
- Mineralnye Vody constituency (No. 67)
- Georgiyevsk constituency (No. 68)
Amur Oblast
Arkhangelsk Oblast
Astrakhan Oblast
Belgorod Oblast
Bryansk Oblast
Vladimir Oblast
Volgograd Oblast
- Volgograd constituency (No. 81)
- Krasnoarmeysky constituency (No. 82)
- Mikhaylovka constituency (No. 83)
- Volzhsky constituency (No. 84)
Voronezh Oblast
- Voronezh constituency (No. 87)
- Pravoberezhny constituency (No. 88)
- Anna constituency (No.89)
- Pavlovsky constituency (No. 90)
Irkustsk Oblast
- Irkutsk constituency (No. 93)
- Angarsk constituency (No. 94)
- Shelekhov constituency (No. 95)
- Bratsk constituency (No. 96)
Kaluga Oblast
Kemerovo Oblast
- Kemerovo constituency (No. 101)
- Prokopyevsk constituency (No. 102)
- Zavodskoy constituency (No. 103)
- Novokuznetsk constituency (No. 104)
Kostroma Oblast
Kurgan Oblast
Kursk Oblast
Leningrad Oblast
Lipetsk Oblast
Magadan Oblast
Moscow Oblast
- Balashikha constituency (No. 117)
- Dmitrov constituency (No. 118)
- Kolomna constituency (No. 119)
- Krasnogorsk constituency (No. 120)
- Lyubertsy constituency (No. 121)
- Odintsovo constituency (No. 122)
- Orekhovo-Zuyevo constituency (No. 123)
- Podolsk constituency (No. 124)
- Sergiyev Posad constituency (No. 125)
- Serpukhov constituency (No. 126)
- Shchyolkovo constituency (No. 127)
Nizhny Novgorod Oblast
- Nizhny Novgorod constituency (No. 129)
- Prioksky constituency (No. 130)
- Avtozavodsky constituency (No. 131)
- Kanavinsky constituency (No. 132)
- Bor constituency (No. 133)
Novosibirsk Oblast
- Novosibirsk constituency (No. 135)
- Central constituency (No. 136)
- Iskitim constituency (No. 137)
- Barabinsk constituency (No. 138)
Orenburg Oblast
Oryol Oblast
Penza Oblast
Pskov Oblast
Rostov Oblast
- Rostov constituency (No. 149)
- Nizhnedonskoy constituency (No. 150)
- Taganrog constituency (No. 151)
- Southern constituency (No. 152)
- Belaya Kalitva constituency (No. 153)
- Shakhty constituency (No. 154)
- Volgodonsk constituency (No. 155)
Samara Oblast
- Samara constituency (No. 158)
- Tolyatti constituency (No. 159)
- Krasnoglinsky constituency (No. 160)
- Zhigulyovsk constituency (No. 161)
- Promyshlenny constituency (No. 162)
- Saratov constituency (No. 163)
- Balakovo constituency (No. 164)
- Balashov constituency (No. 165)
- Engels constituency (No. 166)
Sverdlovsk Oblast
- Sverdlovsk constituency (No. 168)
- Kamensk-Uralsky constituency (No. 169)
- Beryozovsky constituency (No. 170)
- Nizhny Tagil constituency (No. 171)
- Asbest constituency (No. 172)
- Pervouralsk constituency (No. 173)
- Serov constituency (No. 174)
Tambov Oblast
Tver Oblast
Tomsk Oblast
Tula Oblast
Tyumen Oblast
Ulyanovsk Oblast
Chelyabinsk Oblast
- Chelyabinsk constituency (No. 189)
- Metallurgichesky constituency (No. 190)
- Korkino constituency (No. 191)
- Magnitogorsk constituency (No. 192)
- Zlatoust constituency (No. 193)
Moscow Federal City
- Babushkinsky constituency (No. 196)
- Kuntsevo constituency (No. 197)
- Leningradsky constituency (No. 198)
- Lyublino constituency (No. 199)
- Medvedkovo constituency (No. 200)
- Nagatinsky constituency (No. 201)
- New Moscow constituency (No. 202)
- Orekhovo–Borisovo constituency (No. 203)
- Perovo constituency (No. 204)
- Preobrazhensky constituency (No. 205)
- Tushino constituency (No. 206)
- Khovrino constituency (No. 207)
- Central constituency (No. 208)
- Cheryomushki constituency (No. 209)
- Chertanovo constituency (No. 210)
- Eastern constituency (No. 211)
- Western constituency (No. 212)
- Northern constituency (No. 213)
- North East constituency (No. 214)
- North West constituency (No. 215)
- Central constituency (No. 216)
- South East constituency (No. 217)
- Southern constituency (No. 218)
Jewish Autonomous Oblast
Nenets AO
Khanty-Mansi AO
Chukotka AO
Yamalo-Nenets AO
Russian gerrymandering
Gerrymandering is the process of drawing the boundaries of electoral districts to favor a certain political force. In Russia, this comes through the "Lepestkovy" drawing of constituencies. These "Lepestkovy" drawing usually involves major cities and/or regional capitals being split up between multiple constituencies. This is done to split up urban voters and pair them up with a bigger rural population. This is present in many of Russia's constituencies.Redistricting
Constituencies are created and their boundaries drawn by the Central Election Commission. According to Federal Law, the layout of constituencies are to be used for 10 years.The 2015-2025 layout was created on the basis that there are 109,902,583 voters in all of Russia.
The number of constituencies a Federal Subject is entitled to is determined using the Hare Quota. By dividing the total number of voters in Russia by 225, you get 488,455.924, the desired average number of voters in a constituency, also known as the "Government Norm". The next step is to divide the number of voters in a Federal Subject by the GN, and then rounding down to the lowest whole number. If the remainder is sizeable, then the Federal Subject receives an additional constituency. Table with examples below.
| Federal Subject | Number of voters in the Federal Subject | Number of voters in a Federal Subject ÷ GN | Provisional number of constituencies | Remainder | Additional number of constituencies | Final number of constituencies |
| Karelia | 540,436 | 1.106 | 1 | 0.106 | 0 | 1 |
| Tomsk Oblast | 767,847 | 1.572 | 1 | 0.572 | 1 | 2 |
| Dagestan | 1,626,829 | 3.331 | 3 | 0.331 | 0 | 3 |
| Altai Krai | 1,899,225 | 3.888 | 3 | 0.888 | 1 | 4 |
| Chelyabinsk Oblast | 2,715,204 | 5.559 | 5 | 0.559 | 0 | 5 |
| Moscow | 7,318,019 | 14.982 | 14 | 0.982 | 1 | 15 |
Former Constituencies
BashkortostanPrimorsky Krai
Stavropol Krai
Vladimir Oblast
Kursk Oblast
Lipetsk Oblast
Moscow Oblast
Murmansk Oblast
Nizhny Novgorod Oblast
Novosibirsk Oblast
Omsk Oblast
Rostov Oblast
Ryazan Oblast
Samara Oblast
Smolensk Oblast
Tambov Oblast
Tver Oblast
Tula Oblast
Tyumen Oblast
Moscow Federal City
Saint Petersburg Federal City
Komi-Permyak AO
Koryak AO
Taymyr AO
Ust-Orda Buryat AO
Evenk AO