Legislative Assembly of Amur Oblast

The Legislative Assembly of Amur Oblast (Russian: Законодательное собрание Амурской области), previously the Council of People's Deputies of Amur Oblast until 2008,^[a] is the regional parliament of Amur Oblast, a federal subject of Russia. A total of 27 deputies are elected for five-year terms.^[3]

Legislative Assembly of Amur Oblast Законодательное собрание Амурской области
8th legislature
Type
Type	Unicameral
Leadership
Chairman	Konstantin Dyakonov, United Russia since September 2021[1]
Structure
Seats	27
Political groups	United Russia (18)   CPRF (3)   LDPR (1)   SRZP (1)   RPPSJ (1)   New People (1)   CPCR (1)   Independent (1)[2]
Elections
Voting system	Mixed
Last election	19 September 2021
Next election	2026
Meeting place
135 Lenin Street, Blagoveshchensk
Website
www.zsamur.ru

Elections

2021

Party[4][5]		%	Seats[b]
	United Russia	33.15	18
	Communist Party of the Russian Federation	21.48	3
	Liberal Democratic Party of Russia	14.16	1
	Communists of Russia	8.26	1
	New People	7.18	1
	A Just Russia — For Truth	6.28	1
	Russian Party of Pensioners for Social Justice	5.41	1
	Self-nominated	—	1
Registered voters/turnout		40.62

Composition

Party	Head	V convocation (% of seats)	VI convocation (% of seats)	VII convocation (% of seats)	VIII convocation (% of seats)
United Russia	Tatyana Farafontova	25 (69.45%)	17 (47.22%)	25 (69.45%)	18 (66.67%)
CPRF	Roman Kobyzov	7 (19.44%)	8 (22.22%)	3 (8.33%)	3 (11.11%)
LDPR	Sergey Abramov	4 (11.11%)	8 (22.22%)	7 (19.44%)	1 (3.70%)
A Just Russia — For Truth	Kirill Zimin	0 (0%)	3 (8.34%)	1 (2.78%)	1 (3.70%)

Powers

By the federal law «About general principles of legislative (representative) and executive bodies of state authorities of federal subjects of the Russian Federation», other federal laws, the Main Law of the Amur Oblast is determined, that the Legislative Assembly of the Amur Oblast:

1) accepts the Main Law of the Amur Oblast and amendments to it;

2) performs legislative regulation on subjects of the area and subjects of the joint jurisdiction of the Russian Federation and areas within the powers of the region;

3) performs other powers, established by the Constitution of the Russian Federation, federal laws, the Main Law of the Amur Oblast, and other laws of the region.

Committees

• Committee on the budget, taxes, economy and area property
• Committee on questions of an agrarian policy, environmental management and ecology
• Committee on questions of the legislation, local government and to regulations
• Committee on questions of social policy

Notes

1. Russian: Совет народных депутатов Амурской области
2. Number of seats reduced from 36 to 27 in January 2021.