Lensovet

Legislative Assembly of Saint Petersburg Законода́тельное собра́ние Санкт-Петербу́рга Zakonodatel'noe Sobraniye Sankt-Peterburga
6th Legislative Assembly
Type
Type	Unicameral
Leadership
Chairman of the Legislative Assembly	Vyacheslav Makarov, United Russia Since 14 December 2011
Structure
Seats	50
Political groups	United Russia (36)      A Just Russia (3)      Communist Party (3)      Liberal Democratic Party (3)      Party of Growth (3)      Yabloko (2)
Elections
Voting system	Mixed-member proportional representation
Last election	18 September 2016
Meeting place
Legislative Assembly Building Saint Petersburg, St. Isaac Square 6, Mariinsky Palace
Website
http://www.assembly.spb.ru/

The Legislative Assembly of Saint Petersburg (Russian: Законода́тельное собра́ние Санкт-Петербу́рга, ЗакС) is the legislative power body of Saint Petersburg, a federal subject of Russia, which has existed since 1994 and succeeded the Leningrad Council of People Deputies (Lensovet). It is located in a historic building, Mariinsky Palace. Its powers and duties are defined in the Charter of Saint Petersburg.

According to the new federal legislation, since 2005 the governor of Saint Petersburg (as well as heads of other federal subjects of Russia) is proposed by the President of Russia and approved by the regional legislature. On December 20, 2006, incumbent Valentina Matviyenko was approved governor with forty votes in favor and three votes against (Mikhail Amosov, Natalya Yevdokimova, and Sergey Gulyayev of the Democratic faction representing Yabloko ).

The Assembly consists of fifty seats and is elected for a five-year term. The first three convocations were formed by a single-member district plurality voting system with at least 20% participation required (except for the 1994 elections with their changing participation threshold), two-round for the first and second convocations and single-round for the third one. On March 11, 2007, the fourth elections were held using a party-list proportional representation system with a 7-percent election threshold and no required threshold of participation for the first time according to the new city law accepted by the third convocation of the assembly in 2006 and new federal legislation.