2025 Kostroma Oblast legislative election

2025 Kostroma Oblast legislative election

12–14 September 2025

All 35 seats in the Oblast Duma
18 seats needed for a majority
Turnout39.72%
7.75 pp
  Majority party Minority party Third party
 
UR
LDPR
CPRF
Candidate Aleksey Anokhin Ruslan Fedorov Valery Izhitsky
Party United Russia LDPR CPRF
Last election 31.92%, 24 seats 12.11%, 1 seat 17.23%, 2 seats
Seats won 26 2 2
Seat change 2 1
Popular vote 99,097 23,887 22,208
Percentage 50.26% 12.12% 11.26%
Swing 18.34 pp 0.01 pp 5.97 pp

  Fourth party Fifth party Sixth party
 
RPPSS
NL
Candidate Yury Shestakov Maria Bazhenova Alexey Chepa
Party Party of Pensioners New People SR–ZP
Last election 8.34%, 1 seat 7.46%, 1 seat 9.16%, 2 seats
Seats won 1 1 3
Seat change 1
Popular vote 14,286 13,469 12,082
Percentage 7.25% 6.83% 6.13%
Swing 1.09 pp 0.63 pp 3.03 pp

Chairman before election

Aleksey Anokhin
United Russia

Elected Chairman

Aleksey Anokhin
United Russia

The 2025 Kostroma Oblast Duma election took place on 12–14 September 2025, on common election day, coinciding with 2025 Kostroma Oblast gubernatorial election. All 35 seats in the Oblast Duma were up for re-election.

United Russia increased its already overwhelming majority in the Legislative Assembly, winning 50.3% of the vote and 21 of 25 single-mandate constituencies. Liberal Democratic Party of Russia came in second, doubling its faction to two deputies. Communist Party of the Russian Federation and A Just Russia – For Truth saw their vote share decreasing by roughly a third, however, CPRF retained its two-member faction, while SR–ZP even gained one more seat in a single-member constituency.