On 8 September the Rais (Head) of Tatarstan Rustam Minnikhanov together with his spouse took part in a ballot in the elections of members of the regional State Council of the VII convocation, where 50 members will be elected by Party lists and the same number by single member constituencies, with 397 people running for the election.
Tatarstan Central Election Commission has registerd the list of five political parties, namely The New People, the LDPR, the Just Russia, the One Russia and the Communist Party of Russia, the candidates of which will be elected to the Council by party lists.