Federalism and Local Politics in Russia

Table 6.1 Elections to the legislative assemblies of members of the RF on 7 December2003 and 14 March 2004Date ofelectionLegislative body forwhich deputieswere elected7 December People’s Assembly of the2003 Republic of IngushetiyaPeople’s Assembly andParliament of the Kabardino-14 March2004Balkar RepublicPeople’s Khural of theRepublic of KalmykiyaThreshold(%)Lists on Lists thatthe crossed thevoting thresholdpaper5 5 55 6 310 10 2 (with a 5%threshold itwould havebeen 4)5 4 2State Assembly of theRepublic of MordoviyaVolgograd Regional Duma 7 6 3 (with a 5%threshold itwould havebeen 4)Legislative Assemblyof the Vologda OblastLegislative Assembly of theUl’yanovsk OblastPeople’s Assembly of theKarachaevo-CherkessianRepublicState Council of theRepublic of Tatarstan8 6 4 (with a 5%threshold itwould havebeen 5)5 10 45 7 47 9 1 (under thelaw a second list,the KPRF, wasallowed to sharein the allocation)7 6 4Altai Regional Councilof People’s DeputiesSverdlovsk Regional Duma 5 9 5State Duma of the5 10 6Yaroslavl’ OblastDuma of theNo thresholdUst’-Ordynskii(only 8Buryatkii AOseats allocated)Source: Compiled by the author.Electoral reforms and democratization 1253 Only 2 listsgained deputies7 December 2003 and 14 March 2004 elections also had an effect on thecourse of the campaigns and on the use of the techniques for constructingthe pre-election unions of the time. The regional authorities played a muchmore complicated game: there was not a single region where the governorand his administration unambiguously supported one party list, and almost