Why in 2025 they will not hold additional elections of State Duma deputies
In the coming days, as expected, the State Duma will accept a law prohibiting the missiles of deputies of all levels per year preceding the election of a new convocation of parliament. Thus, the seven single-mandate districts, freed in the Duma after September 2024, will remain vacant until new elections in September 2026. Typically, the flow of “armor” increases in the last year of the powers of the Lower Chamber at the expense of deputies who have no chance to re -elect at a new term and in advance a new place of work. But now such parliamentarians will less often voluntarily compose powers, the expert suggests.
The consonant of one of the norms of the bill submitted to the Duma by a group of parliamentarians, headed by the chairman of the Committee of the Council of State Construction by Andrei Klishas and adopted in the second reading on May 14 (the third is scheduled for May 20), additional elections are not assigned and are not held a year preceding the year of the main elections of deputies, and in the year of the indicated elections. » Considering that the next elections to the State Duma are scheduled for September 2026, on a single voting day-2025, the vacancies formed by this moment in single-mandate districts will not be filled.
So far, there are seven such districts, and all vacant mandates belonged to United Russia. The Krasnodar district was released after the appointment of Evgeny Pervyshov by the acting governor of the Tambov region, Samara – after Alexander Khinshtein went to lead the Kursk region. Skopinsky (Ryazan region) and Biysky (Altai Territory) districts remained without deputies after the departure of Dmitry Khubov and Alexander Prokopyev to the Government of the Altai Republic. After the death of Pavel Kachkayev, the Ufa district is orphaned. Due to the appointment of Dmitry Islamov, the deputy minister of energy was left without a deputy Prokopyevsky district (Kemerovo region). And finally, the Magadan district will wait for his deputy until 2026 after Anton Basansky became the deputy minister of the development of the Far East and the Arctic.
Another 24 deputy who left the parliament were elected on the lists, and thus, at the moment, the eighth convocation of the State Duma lost 31 parliamentarians (6.9% of the list of 450 people). In the two previous thoughts, the losses were higher: according to Kommersant’s calculations, 12.4% of deputies (56 people, including 23 single -mandate), and 79 people’s chosen ones (17.56%) did not finalize until the end of the seventh convocation – all of them went through party registry.
The most popular cause of early addition of authority is the transition to another job. Most often, deputies go to governors, the Council of People’s Commissars, the Government and the Central Election Commission of the Russian Federation, as well as to regional authorities. Some prefer the Duma chair business, and sometimes with very unusual arguments. For example, in 2013, Viktor Taranin (Communist Party) wrote a statement of his own free will “in connection with a difficult situation in the country’s agricultural sector,” which he decided to save the director of the former Bolshevik state farm.
There are more non -standard situations. So, in 2014, the Constitutional Court recognized the unlawful transfer of the mandate to United Russia Yuri Emu, who had previously abandoned the deputy in the same convocation, moving to the civil service. And Unicorn Alexei Knyshov paid a place in the sixth Duma for a violation of the ban on combining deputy work with business: according to the Prosecutor General, from September 2010 to August 30, 2012, he was a member of the board of directors of a commercial organization.
Finally, sometimes the reason for depriving the mandate is the sentences of the court. So, deputy Konstantin Shirshov (Communist Party) in 2014 was sentenced to five years for fraud (he promised the businessman a passage place in the list of United Russia). In 2022, the thought deprived of the powers of the communist Valery Rashkin, who received three years conditionally in the case of illegal hunting. And Eser Vadim Belousov, although he was sentenced to ten years in prison for receiving a bribe and was on the federal wanted list, was formally “expelled” for absenteeism with Vasily Vlasov (LDPR) in 2023. Also for absenteeism in April 2025, she deprived the mandate of the deputy from the LDPR Yuri Napso.
The transition of deputies to the executive branch, as well as several cases of “compulsory addition of the mandates” recently, have been creating an increased rotation in the deputy corps, the HSE teacher, a member of the Raso Political Technology Committee Pavel Sklyanchuk. In general, in his opinion, this affects the image of the Duma positively. However, the former stream of those who want to pass the mandate from among those who do not see the chances of re-elect in 2026, apparently will not be in the eighth convocation, suggests an expert: “Most likely, they will prefer to quietly sit down until the end or until the last will be hoped for changing the conjuncture in favor of coordination of their new nomination with candidates.”
