2018 Khakassia Supreme Council election

Elections to the Supreme Council of Khakassia took place on Common Electoral Day 9 September 2018. The Supreme Council is elected for a term of five years, with parallel voting. 25 seats are elected by proportional representation from party lists with a 5% electoral threshold, the whole Republic forming a single constituency, and another 25 seats are elected in single-member constituencies using the first-past-the-post system.

2018 Khakassia Supreme Council election

← 2013 9 September 2018 2023 →
All 50 seats to the Supreme Council 26 seats needed for a majority
Turnout	41.73%
First party Second party Third party   Leader Valentin Konovalov Viktor Zimin Vladimir Zhirinovsky Party CPRF United Russia LDPR Last election 6 34 5 Seats won 16 17 9 Seat change 10 17 4 Popular vote 49,460 40,604 33,437 Percentage 31.01% 25.46% 20.97%
Results by all-republican constituency (left) and single-member constituencies (right)
Speaker before election Vladimir Shtygashev United Russia Elected Speaker Vladimir Shtygashev United Russia

Going into the elections, United Russia is the ruling party after winning the 2013 elections with 34 seats. As a result of the elections, none of the parties received an absolute majority (26 seats). The Communist Party won the majority of votes in the all-republican constituency, United Russia won the majority of single-member constituencies and received a relative majority of seats.

Elections to the Supreme Council were held on the same day as the first round of elections of the Head of Republic.

Participating parties

Parties participating in the elections:^[1]

Party		No. 1 in party list	2013 election
	United Russia	Viktor Zimin	46.3%	34 / 50
	Liberal Democratic Party	Vladimir Zhirinovsky	16.6%	5 / 50
	Communist Party	Valentin Konovalov	14.4%	6 / 50
	Communists of Russia	Denis Brazauskas	6.4%	2 / 50
	A Just Russia	Andrey Filyagin	3.9%	0 / 50
	Patriots of Russia	Vasily Shiroky	3.8%	1 / 50
	Party of Pensioners	None	3.2%	1 / 50
	The Greens	None	1.8%	0 / 50
	Party of Small Business	None	DNP	0 / 50
	Independent	None	None	2 / 50

Opinion polls

Date	Poll source	UR	CPRF	LDPR	JR	CR	PR	Spoil the ballot	Undecided	Abstention	Lead
27-31 August	FOM	30%	16%	12%	2%	2%	1%	3%	24%	12%	14%
8 September 2013	election result	46.3%	14.4%	16.6%	3.9%	6.4%	3.8%	—	—	—	29.7%

Result

Party		Party list				SMC	Total result
		Votes	%	±pp	Seats	Seats	Seats	+/–
	Communist Party	49,460	31.01%	16.61%	8	8	16	10
	United Russia	40,604	25.46%	20.86%	7	10	17	17
	Liberal Democratic Party	33,437	20.97%	4.42%	6	3	9	4
	Communists of Russia	12,782	8.01%	1.57%	2	0	2
	A Just Russia	11,306	7.09%	3.18%	2	0	2	2
	Patriots of Russia	2,834	1.78%	2.05%	0	1	1
	Party of Pensioners					1	1
	The Greens					0	0
	Party of Small Business					0	0
	Independent					2	2
Invalid/blank votes		9,063	5.68%	2.08%
Total		159,486	100		25	25	50
Registered voters/turnout		382,219	41.73	3.91%
Source:[2][3]