MOSCOW, September 11. /TASS/. On September 12, 2025, Russia will hold elections for regional and local offices as part of the Single Voting Day (SVD). According to election law, the SVD is held annually on the second Sunday of September,which falls on September 14 this year. In some regions, voting will take place over multiple days, but not more than three.
TASS Factbox editors have compiled key facts and figures about Russia’s Single Voting Day.
Introduced in 2005, Single Voting Day is the designated voting date in Russia for elections at various levels. The inaugural SVD was held in 2006. Until 2012, elections were held twice a year. Starting in 2013, that was cut to once a year. A total of 26 election campaigns were held within the SVD framework.
Establishment of Single Voting Day
Since the 1990s, the Russian Federation’s entities have independently set the date of regional and municipal elections. As a rule, heads of regions were elected to serve terms of 4-5 years (in 2005-2012, no direct elections were held, with the exception of the Nenets Autonomous Region in early 2005). In October 2004, Alexander Veshnyakov, who was the chairman of the Russian Central Election Commission at that time, proposed to establish an annual Single Voting Day in March, with an additional "reserve" day for the month of October.
