2016 Russian legislative election

2016 Russian legislative election
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All 450 seats to the State Duma
226 seats needed for a majority
Opinion polls
Turnout47.88% Decrease 12.22 pp
  First party Second party Third party
 
Leader Dmitry Medvedev Gennady Zyuganov Vladimir Zhirinovsky
Party United Russia CPRF LDPR
Leader since 26 May 2012 14 February 1993 12 April 1991
Leader's seat Federal List Federal List Federal List
Last election 238 seats, 49.32% 92 seats, 19.19% 56 seats, 11.67%
Seats won 343[1] 42 39
Seat change Increase 105 Decrease 50 Decrease 17
Popular vote 28,527,828 7,019,752 6,917,063
Percentage 54.20% 13.34% 14.14%
Swing Increase 4.87% Decrease 5.85% Increase 1.47%
  Fourth party Fifth party Sixth party
 
Leader Sergey Mironov Aleksey Zhuravlyov Rifat Shaykhutdinov
Party SR Rodina Civic Platform
Leader since 27 October 2013 29 September 2012 17 April 2015
Leader's seat Federal List Anna / Federal List Neftekamsk / Federal List
Last election 64 seats, 13.24% — —
Seats won 23 1 1
Seat change Decrease 41 Increase1 Increase1
Popular vote 3,275,053 792,226 115,433
Percentage 6.22% 1.51% 0.22%
Swing Decrease 7.02% Increase1.51% Increase 0.22%
The upper map shows the winning party vote in the territorial election commissions, the lower map shows the party of the winner and his vote in the single mandate constituencies.
Chairman before election

Sergey Naryshkin
United Russia

Elected Chairman

Vyacheslav Volodin
United Russia

Legislative elections were held in Russia on 18 September 2016, having been brought forward from 4 December.[2] At stake were the 450 seats in the State Duma of the 7th convocation, the lower house of the Federal Assembly. Prior to the election United Russia had been the ruling party since winning the 2011 elections with 49.32% of the vote, and taking 238 seats (53%) of the seats in the State Duma.

Prior to the election, observers expected that turnout would be low and called the election campaign the dullest in recent memory.[3] 109,820,679 voters were registered in the Russian Federation (including Crimea)[nb 1] on 1 January 2016. Taking into account people registered outside the Russian Federation and the voters in Baikonur, the total number of eligible voters for 1 January 2016 was 111,724,534.[5] The vote had a record low turnout of 47.88%,[6] with just 28% of Muscovites casting their votes before 6 pm.[7]

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