Russia · updated 1h ago · 3 min read
United Russia Wins Russia’s State Duma Election With 57.86% Support, Central Election Commission Says
United Russia won about 57.83% of votes with over 95% counted. Turnout estimated around 56-57%, highest since 1993.
Why Yabloko candidates were absent or ineffective.
10 of 12 outlets skipped it: ella Pamfilova described cyberattacks on election infrastructure.
29outlets compared
Same story, two versions
tap a side to read it in full
One outlet spotlights tit-for-tat retaliation; the other anchors the vote in long-running war context.
Putin’s party locks in
United Russia won Russia’s parliamentary election for the State Duma with 57.86% support, according to the official result published by the Russian Central Election Commission, with 90.43% of the vote count reported. The Central Election Commission estimated turnout at more than 56% of the census, and it said the incumbents achieved 57.86% of the votes cast by party lists on September 18, 19 and 20. The Communist Party of Russia placed second with 13.92% of the votes, while the Liberal Democratic Party of Russia received 8.9% and New People received 7.94%.
The election’s mixed system left the Duma at 450 seats in total, with 225 allocated by party lists and 225 chosen in districts, and the Kremlin party led in 208 of the 225 electoral districts. The result, if confirmed, would boost United Russia’s ability to pursue constitutional reforms, with more than 301 seats needed for a majority in the lower house and the incumbents forecast to exceed that threshold.
Opposition barred, cyber claims
Yabloko was excluded from the ballot by Russia’s Supreme Court, and Nikolai Rybakov said after polling stations closed that Yabloko would have been the second-most voted party in the first parliamentary elections of the war if it had appeared on the ballots. Ella Pamfilova, head of Russia’s Central Election Commission, said Sunday that the electronic voting system in Moscow was targeted by cyberattacks, and she blamed one of the “systemic parties”. SotaVision said voters were reporting glitches in the electronic registry systems at polling stations across Moscow, and it said people were not issued paper ballots and were asked to vote via an electronic terminal.
Leonid Volkov, a close associate of the late Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny, urged voters to “Demand a paper ballot!” on X on Sunday. The Russian Foreign Ministry accused the OSCE of “double standards” for its criticism of Russia, and OSCE Parliamentary Assembly President Pere Joan Pons said the decision was a breach of Russia’s commitments as a member state of the organization.
War backdrop and next moves
The election unfolded as Ukraine’s war against Russia’s full-scale invasion continued, and 20Minutos said the outcome would be a boost for the Russian military campaign in Ukraine. CBC reported that the election was the first since Russia launched its full-scale war in Ukraine in February 2022, and it said Ukraine launched hundreds of drones at Moscow and other regions over the weekend. CBC said the drone strikes killed three people in the Moscow region and two more in the Russian-held part of Ukraine's Kherson region, including an election official, according to the region's governor and the election commission.
Euronews said Ella Pamfilova thanked Russians for voting despite what she called “psychological pressure” on the country, and it reported that United Russia won a record number of 355 seats in the 450-seat State Duma. EEuronews also quoted the Russian defence ministry saying, “In response to the Kyiv regime's attacks on civilian targets within Russia, the Russian army will continue and intensify its high accuracy strikes against military targets in Kyiv,” linking the election’s outcome to the stated continuation of strikes.E