Abstract: The subject of the research is the legal standards contained in legal acts of the Russian Federation and a number of the Russian Federation constituents) that regulate the process of election for legislative (representative) authorities of the Russian Federation in the second half of 1994. The aim of the article is to define distinguished and general features of the legal regulation of election for legislative (representative) authorities (based on the analysis of the Bashkortostan, Dagestan and Tatarstan) in the second half of 1994, to compare laws of particular constituents of the Russian Federation that regulate associated relations in the aforesaid period and analyze the cause of differences in legal standards of the Russian Federation and the Russian Federation constituents. In the course of writing the article the author has applied dialectical, logical, historical and special law methods (formal law, comparative law). He defines factors that influence the legal regulation of the Russian Federation and Russian Federation republic elections for legislative (representative) state bodies of the Russian Federation constituents in the second half of 1994, differences between the statutory provisions of the Russian Federation republics and decrees of the President of the Russian Federation regulating elections for the Russian Federation authorities as well as limitations of the electoral rights that are not set forth at the federal level, grounds for such limitations, positions of the constitutional control authorities, etc.