Voting results. Elections to the State Duma of the Russian Federation

The most anticipated political event of 2016, the elections to the State Duma of the seventh convocation, brought no surprises and fully met the expectations of specialists.

The most anticipated political event of 2016, the elections to the State Duma of the seventh convocation, brought no surprises and fully met the expectations of specialists. The consignment United Russia V Once again won “by a clear advantage,” and the election results demonstrated the absence of any desire among the common people to change the existing political order. And yet, the election campaign of September 18, 2016 allows us to draw some conclusions. For example, despite the election results, the relatively low overall turnout indicates a loss of interest in elections as an event that determines certain vectors of the country’s development.

State Duma election results: turnout by region

Experts' opinions on the number of people who came to the polls Russian citizens vary somewhat. Some experts agree with the press secretary of the President of the Russian Federation D. Peskov, who stated that 47.81% throughout the country is an indicator that looks quite decent against the background of similar European campaigns. Others are haunted by a trend that shows that ordinary people are increasingly less willing to spend time expressing their civic position and declaration of political views.

On September 18, 2016, less than half of the registered voters visited the polling stations, but this did not prevent the Central Election Commission from recognizing the elections as valid (corresponding amendments to the legislation were made in advance) and the election results as final. The only thing of interest is the significant difference in turnout rates by region. Despite the fact that representatives of United Russia won in almost every region, greatest number votes for them, as well as almost twice as many voters, were recorded in 13 subjects: the Kabardino-Balkarian and Karachay-Cherkess Republics, Mordovia, the Chechen Republic, the Kemerovo and Tyumen regions, the Yamalo-Nenets Autonomous Okrug, Bashkortostan, Dagestan, Ingushetia, North Ossetia, Tatarstan and the Republic of Tyva. In these regions, the average turnout was 81.4%, while in the remaining 72 it was only 42.9%. What election results were obtained in these two radically different groups can be seen in the following table.

As for Moscow and St. Petersburg, these cities topped the lists of settlements with the lowest turnout: 35.18% and 32.47%, respectively. At the same time, here too the election results showed serious support for the party in power.

Results of the 2016 State Duma elections: how the votes were distributed

The 2016 elections to the State Duma again showed the strength of the party in power: United Russia not only won, but received a constitutional majority, which will allow it to pass laws containing amendments to articles of the Constitution of the Russian Federation - the highest normative legal act of the state. Official data says that United Russia gained 54.19%, which in the number of deputy mandates is equal to 343 ( total number seats in the State Duma - 450). The final election figures are as follows:

  • “United Russia” – 54.19%;
  • Communist Party of the Russian Federation - 13.34%;
  • LDPR – 13.15%;
  • “A Just Russia” – 6.22%;
  • “Communists of Russia” – 2.27%;
  • “Motherland” – 2.3%;
  • Russian Party of Pensioners “For Justice” – 2.0%;
  • “Apple” – 1.9%;
  • “Growth Party” – 1.8%;
  • "Parnas" - 1.2%;
  • “Greens” – 0.8%;
  • “Civic Platform” – 0.3%;
  • « Civil force» – 0.2%.

Following United Russia, representatives of five parties and one self-nominated candidate received seats in the State Duma:

  • “United Russia” – 343,
  • Communist Party of the Russian Federation - 42,
  • LDPR – 39,
  • “A Just Russia” – 23,
  • “Civic Platform” – 1,
  • "Motherland" - 1,
  • self-nominated candidates – 1.

Elections to the Duma on September 18, 2016: falsification?

Chairman of the Central Election Committee E.A. Pamfilova described the 2016 elections as open and legitimate. At the same time, she made it clear that any facts of falsification will be considered immediately, and appropriate measures will be taken against violators. Official data that came from the Russian Ministry of Internal Affairs the day after the elections states that there were two cases of ballot stuffing in Rostov region. In addition, 8 complaints were registered that were received by the CEC from observers. Experts' opinions regarding the falsification of the 2016 elections are traditionally divided: some believe that seats in the State Duma were distributed in advance, others believe that the will of the common people is truly reflected in the final figures.

Results of the 2016 Duma elections: what do observers say about the victory of United Russia?

The fact that United Russia will win again in 2016 was already mentioned in preliminary polls that were regularly published by VTsIOM on the eve of the elections. At the same time, satellite parties were also named, which for many years had kept United Russia company in the lower house of parliament: the Communist Party of the Russian Federation, the Liberal Democratic Party of Russia and A Just Russia. Among the opinions of experts and observers, one can hear a variety of explanations for the current situation in the political field of the country: the huge administrative resource of the party in power, the lack worthy alternative, loss of interest in the elections of the majority of the population, etc. Dry figures show that 27.2 million citizens voted for the party that received the constitutional majority in 2016. In the last elections, where United Russia also won an unconditional victory, the number of its supporters was 32.4 million people.

Moscow. September 19. website - On Monday, the majority of votes were counted in the elections to the State Duma, local parliaments and heads of Russian regions, which were held throughout the country on Single Voting Day - September 18. The leaders in the voting for legislative bodies were again representatives of United Russia, and in the gubernatorial elections - the current heads of regions or those acting temporarily.

Other trends include the weakening of the positions of A Just Russia and the Communist Party of the Russian Federation due to the growing popularity of the LDPR among voters, low turnout for elections in Moscow and St. Petersburg, as well as a decrease in the number of violations during voting.

The final results of the elections to the State Duma of the seventh convocation will be summed up on Friday, September 23, but, according to the Central Election Commission, no significant changes should be expected regarding the already calculated results.

Changes

The main feature of this year's elections was the return of the mixed voting system - out of 450 deputies of the State Duma of the seventh convocation, 225 people are elected according to party lists and the same number are elected from single-mandate constituencies. At 95,836 polling stations throughout the country, it was possible to vote for 14 political parties (listed in order of placement on the ballot): "Rodina", "Communists of Russia", "Russian Party of Pensioners for Justice", "United Russia", "Greens", " Civil Platform", LDPR, PARNAS, "Growth Party", "Civil Force", "Yabloko", Communist Party of the Russian Federation, "Patriots of Russia" and "A Just Russia".

It is noteworthy that this year they also abandoned the practice of “locomotives”, when a popular and authoritative person (a high-ranking politician, athlete, actor, etc.) is put at the head of the list in elections under the proportional system, due to which the rating of his party and the number of votes cast for her voices are growing. Subsequently, the leader of the list renounces his mandate in favor of a less eminent party member.

Elections to the State Duma

As reported by the Central Election Commission (CEC of the Russian Federation), based on the results of counting 93.1% of the protocols, United Russia receives 140 seats in the State Duma according to party lists and 203 seats in single-mandate constituencies. Thus, according to preliminary data, United Russia will have 343 seats in the State Duma out of 450 (that is, 76.2%).

The ruling party received the most votes in regions with the maximum turnout at polling stations: for example, 88% in Dagestan, 81.67% in Karachay-Cherkessia, 77.71% in Kabardino-Balkaria, 77.57% in the Kemerovo region. In some regions, United Russia, although it became the leader of the vote, did not achieve such high results. So, in Chelyabinsk region they voted for her, and in Moscow -.

Thus, United Russia can already count on a constitutional majority in the State Duma (more than two-thirds of the seats), which will allow the party to adopt amendments to the Constitution (with the exception of a few chapters), as well as override the presidential veto.

The second party in terms of the number of mandates, according to preliminary data, turns out to be the Communist Party of the Russian Federation. According to party lists, she receives 13.45% of the votes - that is, 35 mandates; in single-mandate constituencies - seven mandates. The LDPR follows with a small margin - for it there is one federal district 13.24% voted, which corresponds to 34 mandates; according to single-member lists, this party receives five mandates. "A Just Russia" received 6.17% of the votes on party lists, and received seven seats in parliament on single-mandate lists.

The majority of the lower house of the Russian parliament will remain largely four-party, and even lowering the barrier to entry into the State Duma from 7% to 5% did not help non-parliamentary parties qualify on all-party lists. Only Rodina and Civic Platform will be able to get one seat each in the lower house, since two of their candidates were able to win in their single-mandate constituencies. In addition, the State Duma will include one self-nominated candidate - Vladislav Reznik.

Elections of regional heads

As part of the Single Voting Day, elections of heads of nine regions were also held - in Komi, Tuva, Chechnya, the Trans-Baikal Territory, as well as in the Tver, Tula and Ulyanovsk regions. At the same time, in North Ossetia-Alania and Karachay-Cherkessia, regional heads are elected by regional parliaments.

To win in the first round, a candidate needed to get more than 50% of the votes. Sergei Gaplikov succeeded in this, for whom 62.17% of voters voted. A clear leader was also identified in Chechnya - after counting 93.13% of the ballots, it turned out that almost 98% of those who came to the elections voted for the acting head of the region, and his closest rival, Commissioner for the Protection of the Rights of Entrepreneurs of Chechnya Idris Usmanov, received only 0.83% votes.

Self-nominated Alexey Dyumin, acting head of the Tula region, based on the results of processing 100% of the protocols, scored 84.17%, and the current head of the Republic of Tuva Sholban Kara-ool - 86%. The situation was similar in the Trans-Baikal Territory - the candidate from United Russia, acting governor Natalya Zhdanova received 54.22% of the votes, and in the Ulyanovsk region - acting governor Sergei Morozov, nominated by United Russia, based on the results of processing 82% of the protocols of election commissions , received 53.91% of the votes. Acting Governor of the Tver Region Igor Rudenya was also a leader in his region.

Elections to regional authorities

In 39 constituent entities of the Russian Federation, elections to regional parliaments were held, in particular, in Adygea, Dagestan, Ingushetia, Karelia, Mordovia, Chechnya, Chuvashia, in the Altai, Kamchatka, Krasnoyarsk, Perm, Primorsky and Stavropol territories; in the Amur, Astrakhan, Vologda, Kaliningrad, Kirov, Kursk, Leningrad, Lipetsk, Moscow, Murmansk, Nizhny Novgorod, Novgorod, Omsk, Orenburg, Oryol, Pskov, Samara, Sverdlovsk, Tambov, Tver, Tomsk and Tyumen regions; in St. Petersburg, in the Jewish Autonomous Region, in the Khanty-Mansiysk Autonomous Okrug - Ugra and in the Chukotka Autonomous Okrug.

As part of the Single Voting Day, they also elected the head of the city of Kemerovo, deputies of municipal assemblies in the capitals of 11 regions - in Ufa, Nalchik, Petrozavodsk, Saransk, Grozny, Perm, Stavropol, Kaliningrad, Kemerovo, Saratov and Khanty-Mansiysk.

The head of the Central Election Commission, Ella Pamfilova, said that they received a total of 16 seats in regional parliaments across the country. Thus, Patriots of Russia received four mandates, Yabloko - five, Party of Growth and Pensioners for Justice - three each, and Rodina - one.

Turnout by country

For Russians who find themselves outside their homeland during elections, polling stations are traditionally organized abroad. Nevertheless, the President of Ukraine ordered to inform Russia about the impossibility of holding elections to the State Duma of the Russian Federation on Ukrainian territory. Kiev said it could change its position if Moscow refuses to hold elections in Crimea, which Ukraine considers occupied territory. Nevertheless, Russians were able to vote at the embassy in Kyiv and the consulate general in Odessa, but the process of expressing their will was accompanied by unrest. There were no violations of law and order in Lvov and Kharkov. The Ukrainian Foreign Ministry called not to recognize the results of the State Duma elections in terms of voting in Crimea.

At about 10 a.m., the head of the Central Election Commission, Pamfilova, announced the turnout for the current elections as 47.81%. Press Secretary of the Russian President Dmitry Peskov said that it cannot be called low, and added that it turned out to be “higher than in the vast majority of European countries” and “does not affect the election results themselves, their credibility.”

The highest voter turnout was demonstrated by the Karachay-Cherkess Republic and Kabardino-Balkarian Republic - more than 90%, Dagestan - more than 87%, as well as the Kemerovo and Tyumen regions - 74.3% and Chechnya.

The lowest voter turnout rates were also in St. Petersburg, which Peskov called a traditional phenomenon. Thus, in the capital, 35.18% of the electorate went to the polls, which is significantly less than during parliamentary elections 2003, 2007 and 2011. The Moscow City Election Commission suggested that turnout was affected by cold weather and rain, as well as poor work by parties with voters.

According to the Central Election Commission of the Russian Federation, in Moscow, United Russia is gaining 37.3% of the votes, the Communist Party of the Russian Federation - 13.93%, the Liberal Democratic Party - 13.11%, Yabloko - 9.51%, A Just Russia - 6.55% .

Turnout was even lower than in Moscow - 32.47%.

Violations

According to Pamfilova, every third message is related to illegal actions, every fifth is a complaint about falsification of voting results or impending mass falsifications. “Several requests have been received from observers about their dismissal by the employer in connection with participation in the election campaign. This needs to be taken under special control - the prosecutor’s office will definitely not be left without work,” she said.

One of these violations - stuffing of ballot papers by the secretary of the precinct election commission (PEC) in the Rostov region - has already led to an outbreak. Even on voting day, a video from a surveillance camera appeared on the Internet, which shows two women and a man blocking the view of the box, and another woman putting a stack of ballots inside.

Also, a serious incident was recorded in Dagestan - a group of young people destroyed a polling station during voting under the pretext that there was a massive stuffing of ballots in favor of one of the candidates.

In addition, the elections in one of the polling stations in the Nizhny Novgorod region were declared invalid, and in three more polling stations in the Rostov region the results were in doubt. A camera phone left by one of the observers helped record the dumping of ballots, and now the voting results at that precinct have been cancelled.

On September 23, the voting results for the 2016 elections to the State Duma of the 7th convocation were finally summed up. How were the votes distributed between the parties?, how many mandates did the parties receive? to obtain “chairs” in the State Duma and How are the 2016 election results assessed??

The Central Election Commission of the Russian Federation summed up the results of the election campaign to the State Duma of the seventh convocation. The Commission recognized elections held on September 18, 2016, valid and valid and approved their results. Already on Friday, new deputies will be sent telegram notifications confirming their election.

Elections 2016 recognized as valid and legitimate

The CEC meeting was initially scheduled for 23:00 Moscow time on September 22, but was then postponed by an hour. It was preceded by a separate meeting, at which a number of complaints were examined, in particular, an appeal from the Yabloko party, which demanded that the elections be declared invalid.

However, this complaint was not satisfied. “I dare to say that the elections, despite certain violations that exist and which we will deal with until the last complaint, were held legitimately,” emphasized the head of the Central Election Commission, Ella Pamfilova. She also expressed confidence that the Central Election Commission managed to hold open and competitive elections.

This leitmotif was supported by all members of the Central Election Commission, who unanimously signed the protocol and summary tables of the election results, and also approved the resolution on their overall results. “The elections are recognized as having taken place and are valid,” announced Deputy Chairman of the Central Election Commission of the Russian Federation Nikolai Bulaev.

New State Duma of the VII convocation

The elections on September 18 were held for the first time after a long break. mixed system: 225 out of 450 deputies were elected from the federal list, 225 from single-mandate constituencies.

According to the results approved by the Central Election Commission, United Russia received 343 mandates in the State Duma of the seventh convocation - 140 on the federal list and 203 in single-mandate constituencies. This gives her confidence constitutional majority(guaranteed by 300 mandates), allowing the adoption of constitutional laws without cooperation with other factions.

In the State Duma of the sixth convocation, United Russia members had only 238 mandates. In second place with 42 seats was the Communist Party of the Russian Federation, in third place was the Liberal Democratic Party of Russia with 39 seats, then A Just Russia with 23. All of these parties lost significantly compared to their representation in the current State Duma, where the Communists had 92 seats, and the Just Russia Party had 92 seats. 64, and the Liberal Democrats - 56. This means that, for example, the Communist Party of the Russian Federation will now not be able to independently send requests to the Constitutional Court, since for this it is necessary to collect at least 90 deputy “autographs”. Obviously, the parties will have to “make room” in the issue of leadership of the committees of the lower house of parliament, the number of which, however, has not yet been approved.

At the same time, it should be noted that, despite the obvious numerical losses of the Duma opposition, only the parliamentary “four” managed to regain representation in the State Duma. Two more candidates from the so-called small parties went there in single-mandate constituencies - the leader of Rodina, Alexey Zhuravlev (in the State Duma of the sixth convocation, a member of the United Russia faction) and the head of the federal political committee of the Civic Platform, Rifat Shaikhutdinov, but the lists of these parties are even close failed to approach the cherished five percent barrier, overcoming which is necessary to enter the State Duma.

In addition, in a single-mandate constituency (Republic of Adygea), self-nominated Vladislav Reznik, who was also a member of the United Russia faction in the outgoing convocation, was elected to the new Duma. He is the only self-nominated candidate to successfully run in the elections out of almost two dozen who ran in majoritarian districts.

Infographics of the distribution of seats among parties in the State Duma

The infographics were created after processing 97% of the voting protocols, but the number of “chairs” according to the approved results did not change.

Should I leave or stay?

The list of elected State Duma deputies is attached to the resolution on the general voting results approved by the Central Election Commission.
As Pamfilova reported, telegram notifications will be sent to new deputies on Friday,
confirming their election. Telegrams are sent to deputies elected in the federal district by the Central Election Commission of the Russian Federation, and to single-mandate deputies - by the district election commissions of the corresponding districts.

People's representatives are obliged to do so within five days from the date of receipt of the notice, submit to the commission a copy of the order for release from duties incompatible with the status of a State Duma deputy, or a copy of a document certifying that they submitted an application for release from such duties within three days from the date of receipt of the notice.

Otherwise, the CEC will transfer the mandate to the next candidate in the corresponding regional group of the party list. It was previously reported that, for example, the heads of the constituent entities of the Russian Federation, who headed a number of regional groups on the federal list of United Russia, would refuse their mandates.

In case of refusal of the mandatesingle-term deputy a by-election will be held in his constituency.
It is already known that one mandate in the State Duma of the new convocation will remain vacant for about a year. The speaker of the lower house of the sixth convocation, Sergei Naryshkin, who won the single-mandate constituency, will head the Foreign Intelligence Service. As CEC Secretary Maya Grishina previously told TASS, repeat elections in his district could be held on a single voting day in September 2017.

Table of election results (outcomes), distribution of votes

The number and percentage of voters in the 2016 elections for the 14 declared parties in the election campaign.
1. ALL-RUSSIAN POLITICAL PARTY "RODINA" 792226
1.51%
2. Political party COMMUNIST PARTY COMMUNISTS OF RUSSIA 1192595
2.27%
3. Political party "Russian Party of Pensioners for Justice" 910848
1.73%
4. All-Russian political party "UNITED RUSSIA" 28527828
54.20%
5. Political party "Russian Ecological Party" Greens " 399429
0.76%
6. Political party "Civil Platform" 115433
0.22%
7. Political party LDPR - Liberal Democratic Party of Russia 6917063
13.14%
8. Political party "People's Freedom Party" (PARNAS) 384675
0.73%
9. All-Russian political party "PARTY OF GROWTH" 679030
1.29%
10. Public organization All-Russian political party "Civil Power" 73971
0.14%
11. Political party "Russian United Democratic Party "YABLOKO" 1051335
1.99%
12. Political party "COMMUNIST PARTY OF THE RUSSIAN FEDERATION" 7019752
13.34%
13. Political party "PATRIOTS OF RUSSIA" 310015
0.59%
14. Political party A JUST RUSSIA 3275053
6.22%

Turnout results on September 18

The final voter turnout for the Duma elections, recorded by the Central Election Commission of the Russian Federation, was 47.88%. In absolute numbers, this means that 52 million 700 thousand 922 voters fulfilled their civic duty, Bulaev explained.
Voter turnout in the State Duma elections in 2011 was 60.21%.

Speaking about the indicators of citizen activity in these elections, Pamfilova assessed them as normal back on September 19. “Turnout is turnout,” she said.

“The turnout at the last State Duma elections was quite normal. Yes, average is enough, but not low,” says Dmitry Badovsky, head of the Institute for Socio-Economic and Political Research (ISEPS). In his opinion, “this level of turnout was absolutely consistent with the nature of the campaign with a strong favorite, played by the ruling United Russia party, and an absent motive for radical emotional mobilization at the end of the campaign.” Other experts also point out that turnout in the Duma elections reflects pan-European trends.

Final protocol on the results of voting in the elections on September 18

The protocol was signed on September 23, 2016, when the results were approved and the elections were recognized as valid and legitimate.

Date and time of signing the protocol 09.23.2016 01:24:00

1 Number of voters included in the voter list
at the end of voting		 110061200
2
101244492
3 Number of ballot papers,
issued to voters who voted early		 109868
4 Number of ballot papers,
issued at the polling station on voting day		 49174491
5 Number of ballot papers,
issued outside the voting premises on voting day		 3416633
6 Number of canceled ballots 48542374
7 Number of ballot papers,
contained in portable voting boxes		 3524522
8 Number of ballot papers,
contained in stationary ballot boxes		 49107327
9 Number of invalid ballots 982596
10 Number of valid ballot papers 51649253
11
received by the precinct election commission		 1936683
12 Number of absentee ballots,
issued at the polling station before voting day		 1030295
13 Number of voters who voted
by absentee ballots at the polling station		 809157
14 Number of redeemed unused
absentee ballots		 906385
15 Number of absentee ballots,
issued to voters by the territorial election commission		 216029
16 Number of lost absentee ballots 3
17 Number of lost ballots 1423
18 Number of ballot papers not counted upon receipt 297

Debriefing will continue

Speaking to reporters after the night meeting, Pamfilova emphasized that “there is no overwhelming number of abuses that could become a critical mass and wipe out this campaign.”
Meanwhile, responding to the parties’ comments, she repeatedly emphasized that all complaints received by the commission would be carefully studied. “We will now sum up the results (of the elections), but we will continue to deal with each complaint seriously and substantively. And we will appeal to the prosecutor’s office, we will appeal to the courts through the prosecutor’s office,” she assured.
The Chairman of the Central Election Commission also promised that in case of flagrant violations, the election results in a particular precinct could be cancelled. “No one is more interested than us in collecting all the facts, and where violations in the district or in the precinct really went off scale, we are the first to bet on canceling these elections,” she said.
The issue of election violations was also reflected in a dissenting opinion attached to the final protocol. The CEC member who prepared it, Evgeniy Kolyushin, representing the Communist Party of the Russian Federation, said that, in particular, on television, preference was given to one of the parties, and law enforcement officers and election commissions did not take measures “to identify and punish the customers, manufacturers of very expensive propaganda false newspapers, which were distributed in huge circulations "
“The election campaign has shown that the public potential of commissions is not always used in the interests of free elections,” Kolyushin said, adding that the independence of most election commissions is not ensured; they are often led by representatives of the ruling party.
Pamfilova agreed largely with Kolyushin’s dissenting opinion.
“To be honest, I agree with almost everything you said. I believe that we need to seriously listen, this is really what we are faced with, we have stumbled over legislation. This may form the basis for our work on correcting mistakes, including the formation of our proposals to simplify and de-bureaucratize legislation, which would allow us to remove many obstacles to registration, verification of signatures, and so on,” Pamfilova emphasized. She promised to meet with the leaders of all parties - both those who took part in the elections and those who failed to do so - to discuss the lessons of the past campaign. “We are ready for a serious conversation in any format so that next elections were better than the previous ones,” Pamfilova explained.

The head of the Central Election Commission also announced a “debriefing” for regional election commissions. “We will conduct a debriefing with the commissions. The analysis ahead is very, very serious,” she said.

For his part, Bulaev, recalling that 55 regional election commissions will be reorganized this fall, expressed confidence that they will be able to find people “who are ready to share with us (the Central Election Commission) not only responsibility, but also know how to do it professionally, without infringing rights of a participant in the process." When summing up the election results, the question inevitably arose about how the CEC members assessed their own work there. On the eve of the elections, Pamfilova announced her readiness to resign if she “fails these elections.” At today's meeting, where the complaints received by the commission were examined, she clarified that she would not leave the CEC until she sorted out all the complaints.

After summing up the election results, the head of the Central Election Commission admitted to journalists that she does not yet see any reason to resign. “In any case, until our CEC composition deals with all the abuses and violations that occurred in order to clear the field for the next election campaign and increase the level of trust, there is no such point,” Pamfilova explained.
On Friday, the Chairman of the Central Election Commission will have a meeting with Russian President Vladimir Putin. A meeting of the head of state with the leaders of the parties that passed the elections to the State Duma is also scheduled for the same day.

On September 18, a single voting day took place in Russia, Russians elected deputies to the State Duma according to party lists and single-mandate constituencies, as well as deputies to bodies local government. Turnout in this year's elections was a record low; based on the results of processing 93% of ballots, it was 47.81%. Rain looked into the voting results.

What happened to the State Duma

  • Only four parties were able to enter the State Duma - United Russia (54.42% of the votes), the Communist Party of the Russian Federation (13.52% of the votes), LDPR (13.28% of the votes) and A Just Russia (6.17% of the votes). The LDPR almost managed to overtake the communists; the party had a chance to take a place higher than third for the first time since 1995. “A Just Russia” experienced a large drop in the number of votes cast for the party in these elections: against the backdrop of protest activity in 2011, it gained 13.24%. United Russia received a little more than 49% of the votes in the last elections.
  • As a result of the voting, United Russia received 343 mandates (140 on party lists and 203 in single-mandate constituencies) and a constitutional majority in the State Duma. The Communist Party of the Russian Federation will have 42 mandates (34 on party lists, seven on single-mandate), the LDPR will have 39 mandates (34 on party lists and 5 on single-mandate), and A Just Russia will have 23 mandates (16 on party lists, seven on single-mandate). For comparison, according to the results of the elections in 2011, United Russia received 238 mandates.
  • According to the law, those parties that receive 3% of the votes receive budget funding in the amount of 110 rubles, multiplied by the number of votes cast for this party. In 2011, such a party was Yabloko; the party was entitled to almost 248 million rubles. In these elections, the party was unable to repeat the previous result and received only 1.85% of the votes. The closest result to the three percent barrier was for “Communists of Russia” - 2.35% of the votes. According to the results of the draw at the Central Election Commission, they took second place in the ballot with a similar name and almost identical emblem to the Communist Party of the Russian Federation, which could have brought them additional votes.
  • Well-known opposition candidates were never able to get into the State Duma. Dmitry Gudkov, who ran for Yabloko in Moscow in the Tushinsky district, could not beat the leader, Gennady Onishchenko. Lev Shlosberg, who also ran from Yabloko, but in the Pskov district, did not even make it into the top three. Maria Baronova, who, with the support of Mikhail Khodorkovsky, ran for the Central District of Moscow, also did not make it into the top three. Her main competitor, Andrey Zubov from PARNAS, took third place in the district.

Reports of violations

  • Pamfilova called these elections the most transparent, but there were reports of violations. On the map of the “Voice” movement, for example, more than 400 messages are indicated in Moscow, in St. Petersburg and Samara - more than 200, in Saratov - almost 100. The Investigative Committee has already investigated the fact of election fraud at a polling station in Rostov-on-Don, and in Dagestan there is even one of the sites.

Single-member districts

  • “United Russia” won in 203 single-mandate constituencies out of 225. The Communist Party of the Russian Federation and “A Just Russia” won seven each, and the LDPR won in five constituencies. “Civic Platform” and “Rodina” each had one victory in single-member constituencies. In most cases, parties did not face competition from United Russia.
  • In 18 single-mandate constituencies, United Russia did not field strong candidates. The heads of key committees and her supporters from other parties remained. United Russia vacated two seats for small parties: the leaders of Rodina and Civic Platform, Alexei Zhuravlev and Rifat Shaikhutdinov. In Adygea, Vladislav Reznik decided to run not from United Russia, but as a self-nominated candidate after the Spanish prosecutor's office put him on the international wanted list on suspicion of involvement in organized crime.

Regional elections

  • Elections to 39 regional parliaments were also held on a single voting day. Most of them will have four parliamentary parties, but in some regions other political forces have also entered the legislative assemblies. Members of Yabloko entered the Legislative Assembly of St. Petersburg and the Pskov region. Also, the “Growth Party” entered the St. Petersburg Legislative Assembly.
  • The heads of the region were also elected on September 18. In all regions, the governors who were the acting heads of the subjects won. In the Chechen region, Ramzan Kadyrov won a preliminary victory; in the Tula region, former presidential security guard Alexei Dyumin won. In Komi, Sergei Gaplikov won, in the Tver region - a native of the special services Igor Rudenya, in the Ulyanovsk region - Sergei Morozov, in Tuva - Sholban Kara-ool, in the Trans-Baikal Territory - Natalya Zhdanova.

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On September 21, 1993, Russian President B. Yeltsin issued a decree “On step-by-step constitutional reform in the Russian Federation,” which ordered “to interrupt the implementation of legislative, administrative and control functions The Congress of People's Deputies and the Supreme Council of the Russian Federation." This decree put into effect the Regulations on the elections of deputies of the State Duma.

On December 12, 1993, ELECTIONS TO THE FIRST STATE DUMA were held Federal Assembly RF - new federal body legislative branch countries.

For the first time, elections were held according to a mixed majority-proportional system (previously - only in single-mandate constituencies). Half of the 450 deputies were elected in 225 single-mandate electoral districts, the other half of the deputy corps was elected in a single federal electoral district according to party lists.

91 public associations had the right to participate in the elections. 35 associations expressed a desire to fight for deputy mandates. 21 electoral associations submitted lists of candidates for registration. The Central Election Commission registered lists of 13 of them. 8 associations have overcome the 5 percent barrier, giving them the right to receive mandates.

On December 12, 1993, 444 deputies were elected: 225 in the single federal district and 219 in single-mandate electoral districts. Elections did not take place in five districts, and in one (Chechen Republic) they were not held.

The turnout was 54.7 percent. voters with the required threshold of 25 percent.

The favorite of the campaign, the Russia's Choice electoral bloc, received 15.51 percent. votes; taking into account single-mandate seats - 66 seats in parliament /top three: Yegor Gaidar, Sergei Kovalev, Ella Pamfilova/;

The LDPR won a sensational victory on the party lists, receiving 22.92 percent. votes; a total of 64 mandates /Vladimir Zhirinovsky, Viktor Kobelev, Vyacheslav Marychev/;

The Communist Party of the Russian Federation was supported by 12.40 percent. voters; only 48 mandates /Gennady Zyuganov, Vitaly Sevastyanov, Viktor Ilyukhin/;

Agrarian Party of Russia /APR/ - 7.99 percent. votes, 33 mandates /Mikhail Lapshin, Alexander Zaveryukha, Alexander Davydov/;

Bloc: Yavlinsky-Boldyrev-Lukin - 7.86 percent. votes, 27 mandates /Grigory Yavlinsky, Yuri Boldyrev, Vladimir Lukin/;

Political movement "Women of Russia" - 8.13 percent. votes, 23 mandates /Alevtina Fedulova, Ekaterina Lakhova, Natalya Gundareva/;

Party of Russian Unity and Accord /PRES/ - 6.73 percent. votes, 19 mandates /Sergei Shakhrai, Alexander Shokhin, Konstantin Zatulin/;

Democratic Party of Russia /DPR/ - 5.52 percent. votes, 14 mandates /Nikolai Travkin, Stanislav Govorukhin, Oleg Bogomolov/.

In the First Duma, 8 factions were registered, as well as 2 deputy groups /at least 35 deputies/: factions LDPR / 59 deputies/, “Choice of Russia” /73/, Communist Party of the Russian Federation /45/, “Women of Russia” /23/, APR / 55/, "YABLOKO" /28/, PRES /30/, DPR /15/; deputy groups “New Regional Policy” /66/ and “Liberal Democratic Union of December 12” /35/.

ELECTIONS TO THE STATE DUMA OF THE SECOND CONVOCATION on December 17, 1995 were held in accordance with Federal laws"On the basic guarantees of the electoral rights of citizens of the Russian Federation" and "On the elections of deputies of the State Duma of the Federal Assembly of the Russian Federation."

The elections were held according to the majority-proportional system.

Voter turnout was high. 64.7 percent participated in the elections. voters or more than 69.5 million people, which is 11 million more than the 1993 elections. The required voter turnout threshold is 25 percent.

The peculiarity of these elections was that all 450 deputies were elected at once.

From 269 public associations 69 parties, movements and blocs that had the right to participate in the elections nominated their lists of candidates. 43 associations took part in the elections, and only 4 of them managed to overcome the required 5 percent threshold.

The winner of the campaign was the Communist Party of the Russian Federation - 22.3 percent. votes; a total of 157 mandates /Gennady Zyuganov, Svetlana Goryacheva, Amangeldy Tuleyev/;

The party in power was represented by the movement “Our Home is Russia” /NDR/ - 10.13 percent. votes; 55 mandates /Viktor Chernomyrdin, Nikita Mikhalkov, Lev Rokhlin/;

Public association "YABLOKO" - 6.89 percent. votes; 45 mandates /Grigory Yavlinsky, Vladimir Lukin, Tatyana Yarygina/.

The winning associations formed parliamentary factions, and the deputies who were not included in the factions formed deputy groups /numbering at least 35 people/: factions of the Communist Party of the Russian Federation /146 people/, NDR /66/, LDPR /51/, YABLOKO / 46/; parliamentary groups" Russian regions" /43/, "Democracy" /38/ and the Agrarian Deputy Group /36/.

ELECTIONS TO THE STATE DUMA OF THE THIRD CONVOCATION took place on December 19, 1999. The elections were held according to the majority-proportional system. The turnout was 61.85 percent. or 66.8 million people with the required 25 percent.

37 all-Russian political public associations out of 141 declared their intention to participate in the elections. 26 were included in the ballot papers, 6 associations overcame the required 5 percent threshold:

Electoral bloc "Interregional movement "Unity" /"BEAR"/ - 23.32 percent of votes; 73 mandates / Sergei Shoigu, Alexander Karelin, Alexander Gurov/;

Electoral bloc "Fatherland - All Russia" - 13.33 percent. votes; 68 mandates /Evgeny Primakov, Yuri Luzhkov, Vladimir Yakovlev/;

Electoral bloc "Union of Right Forces" - 8.52 percent. votes; 29 mandates /Sergei Kiriyenko, Boris Nemtsov, Irina Khakamada/;

In eight single-mandate electoral districts, the elections were declared invalid / repeat elections took place on March 26, 2000 /; in the Chechen single-mandate electoral district, elections were held later - on August 20, 2000.

441 out of 450 people were elected deputies.

6 factions and 3 deputy groups were registered in the Duma: factions of the Communist Party of the Russian Federation /86 deputies/, "Unity" /84/, "Fatherland - All Russia" /44/, "Union of Right Forces" /32/, "YABLOKO" /19/ , LDPR /16/; deputy groups "People's Deputy" /62/ and "Regions of Russia" /44/, Agro-industrial deputy group /42/.

ELECTIONS TO THE STATE DUMA OF THE FOURTH CONVOCATION took place on December 7, 2003. The elections were held using a majority-proportional system. 55.75 percent took part in the elections. voters or 60.7 million citizens.

44 political parties and 20 public organizations had the right to participate in the elections. 39 parties and 1 public organization. In total, 18 parties and 5 electoral blocs participated in the campaign. 3 political parties and 1 electoral bloc managed to overcome the 5 percent barrier.

The United Russia party won a convincing victory - 37.57 percent. votes; a total of 223 mandates /Boris Gryzlov, Sergei Shoigu, Yuri Luzhkov, Mintimer Shaimiev/;

The sensation of this election campaign was the success of the Rodina bloc (People's Patriotic Union) created on the eve of the elections - 9.02 percent of votes; 37 mandates / Sergei Glazyev, Dmitry Rogozin, Valentin Varennikov/;

The failure of the democrats was a surprise - neither Yabloko /4.30 percent/ nor SPS /3.97 percent/ entered the State Duma.

On December 7, 447 deputies out of 450 were elected: 225 in the federal electoral district and 222 in single-mandate constituencies. In three single-mandate electoral districts, the elections were declared invalid, since the majority of voters there voted against all candidates.

Four factions were created in the Duma of the fourth convocation: “United Russia” /300 deputies/, Communist Party of the Russian Federation /52/, LDPR /36/, “Rodina” /36/.

ELECTIONS TO THE STATE DUMA OF THE FIFTH CONVOCATION took place on December 2, 2007. The elections were held for the first time using a proportional system - according to federal lists of candidates nominated political parties. The entry barrier was raised from 5 percent. up to 7 percent; the formation of electoral blocs was not provided for; The “against all” column and the turnout threshold for elections have been abolished.

15 parties had the right to take part in the elections, of which 11 were able to exercise this right. These are the Communist Party of the Russian Federation, LDPR, United Russia, A Just Russia, SPS, Yabloko, Patriots of Russia, Democratic Party, Civil Force, Agrarian Party and Social Justice Party.

According to the voting results, four parties overcame the 7 percent threshold. "United Russia" / 1 candidate was included in the federal part of the list - Vladimir PUTIN / 64.30 percent. votes/, Communist Party of the Russian Federation /Gennady ZYUGANOV, Zhores ALFEROV, Nikolai KHARITONOV/ - 11.57 percent; LDPR /Vladimir ZHIRINOVSKY, Andrei LUGOVOY, Igor Lebedev/ - 8.14 percent; "Fair Russia" /Sergei MIRONOV, Svetlana Goryacheva/ - 7.74 percent. The remaining parties did not reach 2.5 percent.

At the time of the elections, there were about 109 million 146 thousand voters in the country. About 70 million citizens /63.78 percent/ took part in the voting. This was the highest turnout in the previous three Duma election campaigns.

In the Duma of the fifth convocation, four factions were formed: "United Russia" /315 deputies - constitutional majority/, Communist Party of the Russian Federation /57/, LDPR /40/, "A Just Russia" / until 2009 - "A Just Russia: Motherland/Pensioners, Life/38 /.