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
Buryatia
Dagestan
Ingushetia
Kabardino-Balkaria
Kalmykia
Karachay-Cherkessia
Republic of Karelia
Komi Republic
Republic of Crimea
Mari El
Mordovia
Yakutia
North Ossetia
Tatarstan
Tuva
Udmurt Republic
Khakassia
Chechnya
Chuvashia
Altai Krai
Zabaikalsky Krai
Kamchatka Krai
Krasnodar Krai
Krasnoyarsk Krai
Perm Krai
Primorsky Krai
Stavropol Krai
Khabarovsk Krai
Amur Oblast
Arkhangelsk Oblast
Astrakhan Oblast
Belgorod Oblast
Bryansk Oblast
Vladimir Oblast
Volgograd Oblast
Vologda Oblast
Voronezh Oblast
Ivanovo Oblast
Irkustsk Oblast
Kaliningrad Oblast
Kaluga Oblast
Kemerovo Oblast
Kirov Oblast
Kostroma Oblast
Kurgan Oblast
Kursk Oblast
Leningrad Oblast
Lipetsk Oblast
Magadan Oblast
Moscow Oblast
Murmansk Oblast
Nizhny Novgorod Oblast
Novgorod Oblast
Novosibirsk Oblast
Omsk Oblast
Orenburg Oblast
Oryol Oblast
Penza Oblast
Pskov Oblast
Rostov Oblast
Ryazan Oblast
Samara Oblast
Saratov Oblast
Sakhalin Oblast
Sverdlovsk Oblast
Smolensk Oblast
Tambov Oblast
Tver Oblast
Tomsk Oblast
Tula Oblast
Tyumen Oblast
Ulyanovsk Oblast
Chelyabinsk Oblast
Yaroslavl Oblast
Moscow Federal City
Saint Petersburg Federal City
Sevastopol Federal City
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 SubjectNumber of voters in the Federal SubjectNumber of voters in a Federal Subject ÷ GNProvisional number of constituenciesRemainderAdditional number of constituenciesFinal number of constituencies
Karelia540,4361.10610.10601
Tomsk Oblast767,8471.57210.57212
Dagestan1,626,8293.33130.33103
Altai Krai1,899,2253.88830.88814
Chelyabinsk Oblast2,715,2045.55950.55905
Moscow7,318,01914.982140.982115

Former Constituencies

Bashkortostan
Primorsky 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

Russian State Duma Election results by constituency

2016 election results

2016 Russian legislative election by constituency|Detailed Results of the 2016 Russian legislative Election by constituency.]

2021 election results

Results of the 2021 Russian legislative election by constituency.