The 2022

Legislative Assembly of Penza Oblast The Legislative Assembly of Penza Oblast (russian: Законодательное собрание Пензенской области, Zakonodatel'noe sobranie Penzenskoy oblasti) is the regional parliament of Penza Oblast, a federal subject o ...

election took place on 9–11 September 2022, on common election day. All 36 seats in the Legislative Assembly were up for reelection.

Electoral system

Under current election laws, the Legislative Assembly is elected for a term of five years, with parallel voting. 18 seats are elected by party-list proportional representation with a 5% electoral threshold, with the other half elected in 18 single-member constituencies by first-past-the-post voting. 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 (" Tyumen method").

Candidates

Party lists

To register regional lists of candidates, parties need to collect 0.5% of signatures of all registered voters in Penza Oblast. The following parties were relieved from the necessity to collect signatures: * United Russia *

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* A Just Russia — Patriots — For Truth *

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* New People * Russian Party of Pensioners for Social Justice New People and RPPSS will take part in Penza Oblast legislative election for the first time, while several parties, who participated in the 2017 election, are absent from the ballot: The Greens, Party for Fairness!, Rodina and

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did not file, while

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and Patriots of Russia had been dissolved prior.

Single-mandate constituencies

18 single-mandate constituencies were formed in Penza Oblast with Penza divided between eight constituencies, Penzensky District,

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and

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— each between two, while other administrative divisions were left intact. To register, candidates in single-mandate constituencies need to collect 3% of signatures of registered voters in the constituency.

Results

, - style="background-color:#E9E9E9;text-align:center;" ! rowspan=2 colspan=2, Party ! colspan=5, Party list ! colspan=2, Constituency ! colspan=2, Total , - ! width="75", Votes ! % ! ± pp ! Seats ! +/– ! Seats ! +/– ! Seats ! +/– , - , style="background-color:;", , style="text-align:left;", United Russia , 392,264 , 74.91 , 5.92% , 15 , 1 , 17 , 1 , 32 , 0 , - , style="background-color:;", , style="text-align:left;", Communist Party , 44,666 , 8.53 , 4.61% , 2 , 0 , 0 , , 2 , 0 , - , style="background-color:;", , style="text-align:left;", Liberal Democratic Party , 29,289 , 5.59 , 1.42% , 1 , 0 , 1 , 1 , 2 , 1 , - , colspan="11" style="background-color:#E9E9E9;", , - , style="background-color:;", , style="text-align:left;",

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, 18,379 , 3.51 , New , 0 , New , 0 , New , 0 , New , - , style="background-color:;", , style="text-align:left;",

A Just Russia — For Truth A Just Russia — For Truth (SRZP; russian: Справедливая Россия — За правду; СРЗП, Spravedlivaya Rossiya — Za pravdu; SRZP), formerly A Just Russia (SR), is a social conservative and social-democratic political p ...

, 17,268 , 3.30 , 2.16% , 0 , 1 , 0 , , 0 , 1 , - , style="background-color:;", , style="text-align:left;", New People , 15,078 , 2.88 , New , 0 , New , 0 , New , TBA , New , - , style="text-align:left;" colspan="2", Invalid ballots , 6.675 , 1.27 , 0.30% , — , — , — , — , — , — , - style="font-weight:bold" , style="text-align:left;" colspan="2", Total , 523,621 , 100.00 , — , 18 , , 18 , , 36 , , - , colspan="11" style="background-color:#E9E9E9;", , - , style="text-align:left;" colspan="2", Turnout , 523,621 , 50.95 , 0.01% , — , — , — , — , — , — , - , style="text-align:left;" colspan="2", Registered voters , 1,027,701 , 100.00 , — , — , — , — , — , — , — , - , colspan="11" style="background-color:#E9E9E9;", , - style="font-weight:bold" , colspan="10" , Source: , Incumbent Senator Yulia Lazutkina ( United Russia) was re-appointed to the Federation Council.Юлия Лазуткина сохранила кресло сенатора от пензенского заксобрания
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