page_title: State Duma
section_title: Procedure
hierarchical_section_title: State Duma / Procedure
caption_attribution_description: Русский: Устройство для голосования в Государственной думе
context_page_description: The State Duma, commonly abbreviated in Russian as Gosduma, is the lower house of the Federal Assembly of Russia, while the upper house is the Council of the Federation. The Duma headquarters are located in central Moscow, a few steps from Manege Square. Its members are referred to as deputies. The State Duma replaced the Supreme Soviet as a result of the new constitution introduced by Boris Yeltsin in the aftermath of the Russian constitutional crisis of 1993, and approved by the Russian people in a referendum.
  In 2007 and 2011 Russian legislative elections a full party-list proportional representation with 7% electoral threshold system was used but was then repealed. Legislature term length was initially 2 years in 1993–1995 elections period and 4 years in 1999–2007 elections period; since 2011 elections the term length is 5 years.
context_section_description: Decrees of the State Duma are adopted by a majority of the total number of deputies of the State Duma, unless another procedure is envisaged by the Constitution. All bills are first approved by the State Duma and are further debated and approved (or rejected) by the Federation Council.
  Relatively few roll call votes have been published that identify individual deputies' votes. The votes of individuals are recorded only if the voting is open and the electronic method is used. While not all votes are officially roll call votes, every time a deputy electronically votes a computer registers the individual deputy's vote.
caption: Voting device.
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