Russia's ruling pro-Putin party wins wartime election with over 57% of vote, near complete results show
- On Monday, the Central Election Commission reported that President Vladimir Putin's United Russia party won the parliamentary election with over 95% of votes counted, framing the contest as a test of support for the Ukraine War.
- The ruling party secured 57.83% of the vote, according to the Central Election Commission, granting United Russia 355 seats in the 450-seat State Duma and maintaining its constitutional majority.
- Democracy watchdogs and Western governments dismissed the election as neither free nor fair after the Supreme Court removed the liberal Yabloko party, leaving only war-supportive candidates.
- Moscow Mayor Sergei Sobyanin reported more than 1,600 drones shot down since September 19, while CEC chair Ella Pamfilova noted casualties in Kherson; turnout reached 56.7 per cent despite disruptions.
- Final results are not expected before September 25, although early counts placed United Russia above the constitutional threshold; the party deployed celebrity backing, including ice hockey star Alexander Ovechkin, during the campaign.
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The autocrat militarizes the Russian Parliament with the entry of war veterans while vetoing the participation of the only pacifist party, Yabloko
In the Russian parliamentary election, the United Russia Party won a clear victory: according to the election commission, it received 58 percent of the votes. However, due to direct mandates, the Kremlin House Party in the Duma accounts for about 350 of the 450 mandates. The remaining seats go to four parties that are also faithful to the Kremlin, and real opposition forces were not allowed to vote.
Vladimir Putin will be able to rule even more unhindered, as his ruling party is credited with an even larger supermajority in the elections to the Russian State Duma.
United Russia party gains fall to 34 percent without alleged fraud
The United Russia party would have received around 34% of the vote in the recent Russian State Duma elections if alleged voter fraud was excluded, according to calculations cited by Novaya Gazeta Europe. That figure is about 1.7 times lower than the officially announced result of 57.8%. The publication reported these findings on Monday, September 21, citing analysis based on the methodology developed by mathematician Sergei Shpilkin, which seeks…
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