diff --git a/tests/queries/0_stateless/02731_parallel_replicas_join_subquery.sql b/tests/queries/0_stateless/02731_parallel_replicas_join_subquery.sql
index 7693d0da295..e91e2a19526 100644
--- a/tests/queries/0_stateless/02731_parallel_replicas_join_subquery.sql
+++ b/tests/queries/0_stateless/02731_parallel_replicas_join_subquery.sql
@@ -22,7 +22,6 @@ SELECT
 LIMIT 100;
 
 SET max_parallel_replicas = 3;
-SET prefer_localhost_replica = 1;
 SET cluster_for_parallel_replicas = 'test_cluster_one_shard_three_replicas_localhost';
 SET joined_subquery_requires_alias = 0;
 
diff --git a/tests/queries/1_stateful/00177_memory_bound_merging.sh b/tests/queries/1_stateful/00177_memory_bound_merging.sh
index d5cd1a05cd8..74b5e80e059 100755
--- a/tests/queries/1_stateful/00177_memory_bound_merging.sh
+++ b/tests/queries/1_stateful/00177_memory_bound_merging.sh
@@ -55,7 +55,7 @@ test2() {
 test3() {
     $CLICKHOUSE_CLIENT -nq "
         SET cluster_for_parallel_replicas = 'test_cluster_one_shard_three_replicas_localhost';
-        SET max_threads = 16, prefer_localhost_replica = 1, read_in_order_two_level_merge_threshold = 1000, query_plan_aggregation_in_order = 1, distributed_aggregation_memory_efficient = 1;
+        SET max_threads = 16, read_in_order_two_level_merge_threshold = 1000, query_plan_aggregation_in_order = 1, distributed_aggregation_memory_efficient = 1;
 
         SELECT replaceRegexpOne(explain, '^ *(\w+).*', '\\1')
         FROM (