The article is devoted to the results of the 14 September 2014 elections in the Republic of Altai. On that day the election of the Head of the Republican Administration, El Kurultai (the supreme legislative body) election and district and township councils elections were scheduled. The special feature of the Republic of Altai is a high percentage of young voters. At the same time young people are politically inert. Youth parliaments, youth organizations and political parties play a minor role in the political socialization of young people. But political parties are active in nominating young people candidates for the different levels of election. The LDPR, the Communists of Russia and the United Russia have had the largest number of young candidates. Despite the large number of young candidates, only few of them win the elections. During the election of the Head of the Republic it was Petrov who pointed out young people as the main resource of local administrative elite in his program. Thus, in the electoral period in question, only 907 people decided to run for the various elective offices. Among them there are only 237 young people. Two young men were elected to the Republic’s Parliament (El Kurultai), 7 people were elected to local governments and one was elected head of the rural authority.