Under current election laws, the Parliament is elected for a term of five years by party-list proportional representation with a 5% electoral threshold.

Seats are allocated using the Imperiali quota, modified to ensure that every party list, which passes the threshold, receives at least 1 mandate ("Tyumen method").

[1] Unlike most regional elections in Russia, party lists in North Ossetia are not divided between territorial groups.

The following parties were relieved from the necessity to collect signatures:[2] Several parties, who participated in the 2017 election, are absent from the ballot: Party of Growth did not file, while Patriots of Russia and Green Alliance had been dissolved prior.

United Russia faction head Vitaly Nazarenko was appointed to the Federation Council, replacing incumbent Arsen Fadzaev (A Just Russia).