At stake are 450 seats in the State Duma of the 9th convocation, the lower house of the Federal Assembly.

Under current Russian election laws, the State Duma service term is limited to five years and each seat is allotted through parallel voting.

Half of the seats (225) are elected by party-list proportional representation with a 5% electoral threshold in number of votes.

Documents of candidates-self-nominees, unlike candidates from political parties, have to submit applications to District Election Commissions.

Other parties need to collect 200,000 signatures if they have also held conventions and nominated candidates to participate in the elections.