Simultaneously with elections to the Duma elections will take place in 27 Legislative Assembly of the RF subjects

This was announced today, the CEC Chairman Vladimir Churov in the nationwide training of the State Automated System "Elections". To date, expected in 2585 local polls. However, "experience shows that the closer to December, this number will increase," says Churov. He predicted, "will be about 3 thousand for the election of local government." Churov noted that "only in six regions of Russia there will be elections only at the federal level: in Kabardino-Balkaria, Kalmykia, Ivanovo, Ryazan and areas in Moscow and the Nenets Autonomous District." Besides the 450 seats of the Duma will be distributed to 1210 seats the regional level, including the 662 – according to the proportional system, and a little less than 600 – in single-mandate constituencies. Churov said that in all the subjects set a 7-percent threshold for election to the Legislative Assembly, with the exception of Kamchatka and the Orel region, where it is equal to 5 percent.