Non-factional delegates: an endangered species in the State Duma.
In the ninth session of the State Duma, there are still two deputies outside the factions - Anatoly Lysitsyn and Alexei Zhurlev. The first was elected as a self-nominated candidate, the second represents the Rodina party.
Another self-nominated candidate, Sergey Kurbatov, has already joined the "New People" faction.
For comparison: Oksana Dmitrieva, as well as Yevgeny Marchenko and Yaroslav Nilov, who were expelled from the party associations, outside the factions, were at the eighth convention.
In the history of the State Duma, non-Philonianism gradually became a rarity. In the first conventions there were dozens of such deputies: about 47 in the first, about 17 each in the second and third, more than 20 in the fourth. They were not present at the fifth and sixth gatherings.
At the seventh meeting, Alexey Zhorlev and Ripat Sheikhotdinov worked outside the factions. In the eighth, Sheikhotdinov joined the LDPR faction, and Zhurlev remained without a faction.
I think the current configuration will not last long. For Zorvalev, the most obvious option is to return to the LDPR faction. For Lysitsyn - joining the United Russia.
Non-factional deputies are gradually becoming an exception to the rules of parliament, rather than a prominent part of the political structure of the State Duma.