State Assembly of the Mari El Republic

State Assembly of the Mari El Republic Государственное Собрание Республики Марий Эл
7th legislature
Type
Type	Unicameral
Leadership
Chairman	Anatoly Smirnov, United Russia
Structure
Seats	52
Political groups	United Russia (35)   CPRF (9)   LDPR (3)   SRZP (3)   Independent (2)
Elections
Voting system	Mixed
Last election	8 September 2019
Next election	2024
Meeting place
29 Leninsky Prospekt, Yoshkar-Ola
Website
parliament.mari.ru

The State Assembly of the Mari El Republic (Meadow Mari: Марий Эл Республикысе Кугыжаныш Погын; Russian: Государственное Собрание Республики Марий Эл) is the regional parliament of Mari El, a federal subject of Russia. A total of 52 deputies are elected for five-year terms. 26 deputies are elected by single-member constituencies and another 26 are elected in party lists.

The State Assembly approves ministers, who are nominated by the republic's President.

The presiding officer is the Chairman of the State Assembly.

Elections

2019

Party		%	Seats
	United Russia	37.49	33
	Communist Party of the Russian Federation	26.92	9
	Liberal Democratic Party of Russia	15.78	3
	A Just Russia	7.78	3
	Russian Party of Pensioners for Social Justice	4.93	0
	Communists of Russia	4.04	0
Registered voters/turnout		35.03

List of chairmen

Supreme Council

Name	Period
Grigory Posibeyev	April 26, 1990 – August 21, 1990
Vladislav Zotin	August 22, 1990 – December 24, 1991
Yury Minakov	December 24, 1991 – December 13, 1993

State Assembly

Name	Period
Anatoly Smirnov	January 6, 1994 – October 6, 1996
Mikhail Zhukov	November 6, 1996 – October 8, 2000
Yury Minakov	October 27, 2000 – October 10, 2004 November 4, 2004 – October 11, 2009 October 28, 2009 – September 14, 2014 October 2, 2014–Incumbent