Election Name: | Russian Election Day, 2016 |
Country: | Russia |
Type: | presidential |
Ongoing: | no |
Previous Election: | Russian Election Day, 2015 |
Previous Year: | 2015 |
Next Election: | Russian Election Day, 2017 |
Next Year: | 2017 |
Election Date: | 18 September 2016 |
Election Day in Russia was 18 September 2016. Among them were the legislative election for the 7th State Duma, nine gubernatorial elections, 39 regional parliamentary elections, and many elections on the municipal and local level.
See main article: 2016 Russian legislative election.
All 450 seats of the State Duma were up for re-election on 18 September.
See main article: 2016 Russian gubernatorial elections.
On election day in 2016 there were more than five thousand other elections of heads of municipalities and for local municipal councils of deputies in cities across the country, along with 148 local referendums.[1]