Elections in Russia
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Elections in Russia gives information on election and election results in Russia.
Russia elects on the federal level a head of state - the president - and a legislature. The president is elected for a four year term by the people. The Federal Assembly (Federalnoe Sobranie) has two chambers. The State Duma (Gosudarstvennaja Duma) has 450 members, elected for a four year term, 225 members elected in single-seat constuencies and 225 members by proportional representation. The Federation Council (Sovet Federacii) has 178 members: 2 delegates for each region.
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'''Summary of the 14 March 2004 Russian Presidential election results |- !style="background-color:#E9E9E9" align=left valign=top|Candidates !style="background-color:#E9E9E9" align=left valign=top|Nominating parties !style="background-color:#E9E9E9" align=right|Votes !style="background-color:#E9E9E9" align=right|% |- |align=left| Vladimir Putin |align=left| United Russia | align="right" | 48,931,376 | align="right" | 71.2 |- |align=left| Nikolay Kharitonov |align=left| Communist Party of the Russian Federation | align="right" | 9,440,860 | align="right" | 13.7 |- |align=left| Sergey Glazyev |align=left|none, but supported by Rodina | align="right" | 2,826,641 | align="right" | 4.1 |- |align=left| Irina Khakamada | | align="right" | 2,644,644 | align="right" | 3.8 |- |align=left| Oleg Malyshkin |align=left| Liberal Democratic Party of Russia | align="right" | 1,394,070 | align="right" | 2.0 |- |align=left|Sergey Mironov |align=left|Russian Party of Life | align="right" | 518,893 | align="right" | 0.8 |- |align=left colspan="2" | Against all | align="right" | 2,319,056 | align="right" | 3.5 |- |align=left colspan="2" | TOTAL | align=right| 66,307,156 |100.0 |}
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'''Summary of the 7 December 2003 Russian Duma election results |- !colspan=2 style="background-color:#E9E9E9" align=left|Parties and coalitions !style="background-color:#E9E9E9" align=right|Votes !style="background-color:#E9E9E9" align=right|% !style="background-color:#E9E9E9" align=right|Seats |- |align=left colspan=2|United Russia (Yedinaya Rossiya, Единая Россия) |align="right" |22,529,459 |align="right" |38.0 |align="right" |222 |- |align=left colspan=2|Communist Party of the Russian Federation (Kommunisticheskaya partiya Rossiyskoy Federatsii , Коммунистическая партия российской федерации) |align="right" |7,622,568 |align="right" |12.8 |align="right" |51 |- |align=left colspan=2|Liberal Democratic Party of Russia (Liberal’no-Demokraticheskaya Partiya Rossii , Либерально-демократическая партия России) |align="right" |6,923,444 |align="right" |11.7 |align="right" |37 |- |align=left rowspan=3 valign=top|Coalition: |align=left|Party Russian Regions (''Partiya rossiyskih regionov , Партия российских регионов ) |rowspan=3 valign=top align="right" |5,443,053 |rowspan=3 valign=top align="right" |9.2 |rowspan=3 valign=top align="right" |37 |- |align=left|Partia national rebirth (''Partiya nacionalnogo vozrozhdenia, Партия национального возрождения -Народная воля People%27s_Will) |- |align=left|United Social Party Russia (Rossiyskaya Partiya Spravedlivosti, Социалистическая единая партия России) |- |align=left colspan=2|Yabloko (Rossiyskaya Demokraticheskaya Partiya "Yabloko", Яблоко) |align="right" |2,601,549 |align="right" |4.4 |align="right" |4 |- |align=left colspan=2|Union of Right Forces (Soyuz Pravykh Sil, СПС) |align="right" |2,390,868 |align="right" |4.0 |align="right" |3 |- |align=left colspan=2|Agrarian Party of Russia (Agrarnaya Partiya Rossii, Аграрная партия) |align="right" |2,201,806 |align="right" |3.7 |align="right" |3 |- |align=left rowspan=2 valign=top|Coalition: |align=left|Russian Pensioners' Party (Rossiyskaya Partiya Pensionerov, Российская партия пенсионеров) |rowspan=2 valign=top align="right" |1,869,729 |rowspan=2 valign=top align="right" |3.1 |rowspan=2 valign=top align="right" |1 |- |align=left|Russian Social Justice Party (Rossiyskaya Partiya Spravedlivosti, Партия социальной справедливости) |- |align=left rowspan=2 valign=top|Coalition: |align=left|Party of Russia's Rebirth (Partiya Vozrozhdeniya Rossii, Партия возрождения России) |rowspan=2 valign=top align="right" |1,137,193 |rowspan=2 valign=top align="right" |1.9 |rowspan=2 valign=top align="right" |3 |- |align=left|Russian Party of Life (Rossiyskaya Partiya Zhizni, Российская партия жизни) |- |align=left colspan=2|People's Party of the Russian Federation (Narodnaya partiya Rossiyskoy Federatsii, Народная партия РФ) |align="right" |707,434 |align="right" |1.2 |align="right" |16 |- |align=left colspan=2|Unity (Yedineniye, Единение) |align="right" | |align="right" |1.2 |align="right" | |- |align=left colspan=2|Others and non-partisans |align="right" | |align="right" |. |align="right" |74 |- |align=left colspan=2 style="background-color:#E9E9E9"|Total (turnout 54.7 %) |width="75" align="right" style="background-color:#E9E9E9"|59,297,970 |width="30" align="right" style="background-color:#E9E9E9"| |width="30" align="right" style="background-color:#E9E9E9"|450 |- |align=left colspan=2|Registered voters |align="right" |108,404,870 |align="right" | |align="right" | |- |align=left colspan=5|Source: These figures are from the Russian Election Commission and appear to be the final data. |}Past elections
Duma 1999 elections
Voting for party
- 24.29% Communist Party of the Russian Federation
- 23.32% Unity
- 13.33% Fatherland-All Russia
- 8.52% Union of Right Forces
- 5.98% Liberal Democratic Party (Zhirinovsky Bloc)
- 5.93% Yabloko
- 5% is the threshold a party must achieve in order to gain seats in parliament
- 3,3% against all
Total seats in Duma
(= voting for parties+voting for individual candidates):- 90 Communist Party of the Russian Federation (KPRF)
- 82 Unity
- 57 People's Deputies faction
- 45 Fatherland-All Russia (OVR)
- 42 Russia's Regions
- 39 Agro-industrial faction
- 32 Union of Right Forces
- 21 Yabloko
- 17 Liberal Democratic Party of Russia
- 16 independents
- 8 repeat election required
- 1 vacant
- == 450 total ==
See also
External links
- [Electionworld]
- [Adam Carr's Election Archive]
- [parties and elections]
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