By-elections to the 8th Russian State Duma

By-elections to the 8th Russian State Duma will be held to fill vacancies in the State Duma between the 2021 election and the 2026 election.

According to article 97 of the Federal Law "On elections of deputies of the State Duma", by-elections are appointed on the second Sunday of September (single voting day), but not less than 85 days before the day of voting. This means that if a vacant seat occurs before a single voting day, but less than 85 days before it, the election will be scheduled for next year. Also, by-elections are not appointed and are not held if, as a result of these elections, a Deputy can not be elected for a term of more than one year before the end of the constitutional term for which the State Duma was elected.

The nearest by-election will be held in September 2024, in at least one constituency.

Overview

8–10 September 2023

Simferopol

On 3 September 2022, Deputy Alexey Chernyak of Simferopol constituency asked for his resignation from the State Duma to focus on work in Crimea. The request was approved on 13 September, however, the by-election was scheduled for next single election day, 10 September 2023, 372 days after the resignation. On 10 September 2023, Simferopol City Council member Yury Nesterenko won the by-election.

Registered candidates

Dmitry Fridman (LDPR), Member of Alushta City Council (2019–present) Stepan Kiskin (SR–ZP), former Member of Simferopol City Council (2014–2019) Yury Nesterenko (United Russia), Member of Simferopol City Council (2014–2023) Vasily Sayenko (CPRF), Member of Simferopol City Council (2019–present) Aleksandr Turov (Communists of Russia), pensioner

Did not file

Sait Umerov (Independent), security specialist, United Russia primary candidate

Eliminated in United Russia primary

Olga Pavolotskaya, unemployed

Alik Palakyan, unemployed

Maxim Pinayev, entrepreneur

Igor Savchenko, unemployed

Alexander Stolbov, Sergeant of the Russian Armed Forces

Sait Umerov, controller of Crocus International JSC (running as an Independent) Alexander Chuvakov, Commander of the 6th department of the Fire and Rescue Unit of Simferopol

Declined

Viktor Bout (LDPR), entrepreneur, arms dealer, convicted in 2012 in the United States for 25 years in prison for intending to illegally carry out arms trafficking and exchanged in 2022

Results

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! colspan=2 style="background-color:#E9E9E9;text-align:left;vertical-align:top;" |Candidate ! style="background-color:#E9E9E9;text-align:left;vertical-align:top;" |Party ! style="background-color:#E9E9E9;text-align:right;" |Votes ! style="background-color:#E9E9E9;text-align:right;" |% |- |style="background-color:" | |align=left|Yury Nesterenko |align=left|United Russia | |68.71% |- |style="background-color: " | |align=left|Stepan Kiskin |align=left|A Just Russia – For Truth | |7.47% |- |style="background-color: " | |align=left|Vasily Sayenko |align=left|Communist Party | |7.39% |- |style="background-color: " | |align=left|Aleksandr Turov |align=left|Communists of Russia | |6.52% |- |style="background-color: " | |align=left|Dmitry Fridman |align=left|Liberal Democratic Party | |6.47% |- | colspan="5" style="background-color:#E9E9E9;" | |- style="font-weight:bold" | colspan="3" style="text-align:left;" |Total | |100% |- | colspan="5" style="background-color:#E9E9E9;" | |- style="font-weight:bold" | colspan="4" |Source: | |}

Lipetsk

Longtime Deputy Nikolay Bortsov, a wealthy agribusinessman who represented Lipetsk Oblast in the State Duma for nearly 20 years, died on 23 April 2023 at the age of 77. A by-election will be held on the nearest single election day, 10 September 2023. On 10 September 2023, Lipetsk Oblast Council of Deputies chairman Dmitry Averov won the by-election.

Registered candidates

Dmitry Averov (United Russia), Chairman of the Lipetsk Oblast Council of Deputies (2021–2023), former Senator from Lipetsk Oblast (2021) Larisa Ksenofontova (SR–ZP), Member of Lipetsk Oblast Council of Deputies (2011–present), 2019 gubernatorial candidate Oleg Tokarev (Communists of Russia), former Member of Lipetsk Oblast Electoral Commission (2021–2023) Sergey Tokarev (CPRF), Member of Lipetsk Oblast Council of Deputies (2011–present), 2019 gubernatorial candidate Anatoly Yemelyanov (LDPR), Member of Lipetsk Oblast Council of Deputies (2021–present), 2021 candidate for this seat