By-elections to the 7th Moscow City Duma
By-elections to the 7th Moscow City Duma are held to fill vacancies in the Russian regional parliament between the 2019 election and the 2024 election. According to article 82 of the Moscow Electoral Code, by-elections are appointed by the Moscow Electoral Commission. By-elections are not appointed and are not held if, as a result of these elections, a Deputy cannot be elected for a term of more than one year before the end of the constitutional term for which the Moscow City Duma was elected. The Federal Law  establishes the second Sunday of September (single voting day) as the date for any regional election, including by-elections. The first by-elections were held on 17–19 September 2021, in two constituencies. Candidates endorsed by Aleksey Navalny's Smart Voting are marked with a (*) in the list below. 2021 by-election in Constituency №37. On 16 August 2020 incumbent Deputy and Vice Speaker of the Moscow City Duma Nikolay Gubenko (CPRF) died from heart failure after struggling with illness. Gubenko served in the City Duma since 2005, previously he was a State Duma member (1995-2003) and last Soviet  Minister of Culture (1989-1991). In 2019 Nikolay Gubenko was elected in a landslide with 61.65% of the vote with the support from both Aleksey Navalny's Smart Voting and the Government of Moscow. Constituency №37 is located in South-Western Moscow and includes Akademichesky District, Gagarinsky District, Lomonosovsky District and parts of Prospekt Vernadskogo. Results. ! |Candidate ! |Party ! |Votes ! |% 2021 by-election in Constituency №19. In August 2020 incumbent Deputy Oleg Sheremetyev (CPRF) was arrested on charges of fraud, he allegedly claimed for personal uses money intended for his aide. In October 2020 Shermetyev was found guilty  and sentenced for 4 years probation, his status of Moscow City Duma deputy as the result was suspended. Oleg Sheremetyev won in 2019 with 42.11% of the vote, defeating Constituency №18 incumbent Deputy Irina Nazarova (My Moscow) with the support of Smart Voting. Constituency №19 is located in Eastern Moscow and includes Novogireyevo, parts of Ivanovskoye and Veshnyaki. Results. ! |Candidate ! |Party ! |Votes ! |%