MP election: Pro-Putin United Russia party leads with 54.21% with 90% of ballots counted
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United Russia party (Edinaya Rossiya) won 54.21% of the votes in Sunday’s parliamentary elections with 90% of the ballots counted, the Central Election Commission said on Monday.
On Sunday evening, Russian Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev announced the victory of the ruling party.
The Communist Party comes second with 13.53% of the votes, and the Liberal Democratic Party (LDPR) is in the third place with 13.28% of the votes. A Just Russian party gained 6.19% of the votes.
No other party has overcome the 5% threshold for entry into the parliament by party tickets.
Russia’s Communists party is at the fifth place with 2.35% of votes, followed by Yabloko (1.86%).
Parnas, one of the main Russian opposition parties, has only 0.7% votes.
The voter turnout at the elections to the State Duma was not high (47.94%). Less than 30% of registered voters cast their ballots in Mocow and St. Petersburg.
Elections to the State Duma, Russia’s lower house of Parliament, were held on September 18 in a split system: 225 members of parliament were elected by party tickets, while the other 225 were elected in one-seat constituencies. More than 111 million people were eligible to vote in the election and no minimal turnout was required.
