2026 Nizhny Novgorod Oblast legislative election

The 2026 Legislative Assembly of Nizhny Novgorod Oblast election took place on 18–20 September 2026, on common election day, coinciding with the 2026 Russian legislative election. All 50 seats in the Legislative Assembly were up for re-election.

United Russia slightly increased its overwhelming majority in the Legislative Assembly, winning 53% of the vote and all 25 single-mandate constituencies. Communist Party of the Russian Federation and A Just Russia saw their vote shares reduced and lost one seat each. Liberal Democratic Party of Russia and New People increased their vote shares, but only New People gained additional seat.

Electoral system Under current election laws, the Legislative Assembly is elected for a term of five years, with parallel voting. 25 seats are elected by party-list proportional representation with a 5% electoral threshold, with the other half elected in 25 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 Nizhny Novgorod Oblast.

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 Russian Party of Pensioners for Social Justice

№PartyOblast-wide listCandidatesTerritorial groupsStatus1 Communist PartyVladislav Yegorov • Roman Kabeshev • Lyudmila Burkova • Aleksandr Chernigin • Oleg Kiritsa5525 Registered2 A Just RussiaTatyana Grinevich • Roman Laptev • Sergey Chendyrin5825 Registered3 United RussiaGleb Nikitin • • Olga Shchetinina • • 8025 Registered4 Party of PensionersErik Prazdnikov • Aleksandr Tsopov • Aleksandr Kuligin • Valery Leushkin • Andrey Koposov5525 Registered5 New PeoplePavel Solodkiy • Oleg Gusarovsky • Arsen Krbashyan • Anastasia Cherneva • Aleksey Dushkin4625 Registered6 Liberal Democratic PartyLeonid Slutsky • Vladislav Atmakhov • Dmitry Yelizarov • Aleksey Zdyumayev • 5525 Registered RodinaAleksey Kamrakov1413 Failed to qualify

Communists of Russia, which participated in the last election, did not filed, while Party of Growth was dissolved and merged with New People.

Single-mandate constituencies 25 single-mandate constituencies were formed in Nizhny Novgorod Oblast. 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 Russia2525Communist Party2525A Just Russia2524Liberal Democratic Party2525New People2524Party of Pensioners2525Independent30Total153148

Results Results by party lists

|- style="background-color:#E9E9E9;text-align:center;" ! rowspan=2 colspan=2| Party ! colspan=5| Party list ! colspan=2| Constituency ! colspan=2| Total |- ! width="75"| Votes ! % ! ±pp ! Seats ! +/– ! Seats ! +/– ! Seats ! +/– |- | style="background-color:;"| | style="text-align:left;"| United Russia | | 52.97 | 3.96 | 16 | 1 | 25 | | 41 | 1 |- | style="background-color:;"| | style="text-align:left;"| Communist Party | | 15.80 | 3.38 | 4 | 1 | 0 | | 4 | 1 |- | style="background-color:;"| | style="text-align:left;"| Liberal Democratic Party | | 11.52 | 4.49 | 2 | | 0 | | 2

| style="background-color:;"| | style="text-align:left;"| New People | | 8.91 | 3.38 | 2 | 1 | 0 | | 2 | 1 |- | style="background-color:;"| | style="text-align:left;"| A Just Russia | | 7.13 | 2.42 | 1 | 1 | 0 | | 1 | 1 |- | colspan="11" style="background-color:#E9E9E9;"| |- | style="background-color:;"| | style="text-align:left;"| Party of Pensioners | | 2.54 | 1.98 | 0 | | 0 | | 0

| style="text-align:left;" colspan="2"| Invalid ballots | | 1.13 | 1.10 | — | — | — | — | — | — |- style="font-weight:bold" | style="text-align:left;" colspan="2"| Total | | 100.00 | — | 25 | | 25 | | 50

| colspan="11" style="background-color:#E9E9E9;"| |- | style="text-align:left;" colspan="2"| Turnout | | 60.66 | 13.04 | — | — | — | — | — | — |- | style="text-align:left;" colspan="2"| Registered voters | | 100.00 | — | — | — | — | — | — | — |- | colspan="11" style="background-color:#E9E9E9;"| |- style="font-weight:bold" | colspan="10" |Source:

(United Russia) was re-elected as Chairman of the Legislative Assembly. Senator Olga Shchetinina (United Russia), representing executive branch of Nizhny Novgorod Oblast, was appointed to the Federation Council, replacing incumbent Senator Dmitry Krasnov (United Russia). Krasnov was elected Deputy Chairman of the Legislative Assembly.

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 • District 19 • District 20 • District 21 • District 22 • District 23 • District 24 • District 25__NOTOC__

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District 7

2026 Nizhny Novgorod Oblast legislative election

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