From 2008 until 2023 elections to the People's Khural of Kalmykia were held only using party-list proportional representation with 7%, and later 5% threshold.

However Head of Kalmykia Batu Khasikov proposed adopting a parallel voting system in February 2023, which was approved by the Khural.

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.

Patriots of Russia, who participated in the last election, had been dissolved prior, while Civic Platform, Rodina and The Greens did not file.

Freshman deputy and former school principal Artyom Mikhaylov (United Russia) was elected Chairman of the People's Khural, replacing retiring incumbent Anatoly Kozachko (United Russia), who led the chamber since 2008.