Abstract: The paper studies the problem of guaranteeing the right of citizens of the Russian Federation, who are not the members of electoral associations, to be elected as deputies of a municipal representative body according to the proportional electoral system. The author formulates the peculiarities and common features of the legislation of Russia, which allow organizing municipal election based on the proportional election system. The paper studies the law-making experience of the Russian Federation and its regions in the sphere of electoral law for the further improvement of legal regulation of municipal election. The author uses the dialectical, logical and specific methods of cognition (formal-legal and comparative-legal). The author studies judicial practice in this sphere and the scholars’ positions, analyzes and generalized legislative provisions of the territories of the Russian Federation, and detects shortcomings, gaps and contradictions of the legislative acts of particular regions of Russia. The author attempts at formulating the proposals about amending the federal legislation with regard to the federal guarantees.