Elections in Russia
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Template:Politics of Russia Elections in Russia gives information on election and election results in Russia.
Russia elects on federal level a head of state - the president - and a legislature. The president is elected for a four year term by the people. The Federal Assembly (Federalnoe Sobranie) has two chambers. The State Duma (Gosudarstvennaja Duma) has 450 members, elected for a four year term, 225 members elected in single-seat constuencies and 225 members by proportional representation. The Federation Council (Sovet Federacii) has 178 members: 2 delegates for each region.
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Last elections
Past elections
Duma 1999 elections
Voting for party
- 24.29% Communist Party of the Russian Federation
- 23.32% Unity
- 13.33% Fatherland-All Russia
- 8.52% Union of Right Forces
- 5.98% Liberal Democratic Party (Zhirinovsky Bloc)
- 5.93% Yabloko
- 5% is the threshold a party must achieve in order to gain seats in parliament
- 3,3% against all
Total seats in Duma
(= voting for parties+voting for individual candidates):
- 90 Communist Party of the Russian Federation (KPRF)
- 82 Unity
- 57 People's Deputies faction
- 45 Fatherland-All Russia (OVR)
- 42 Russia's Regions
- 39 Agro-industrial faction
- 32 Union of Right Forces
- 21 Yabloko
- 17 Liberal Democratic Party of Russia
- 16 independents
- 8 repeat election required
- 1 vacant
- == 450 total ==
See also
External links
- Electionworld (http://www.electionworld.org/russia.htm)
- Adam Carr's Election Archive (http://psephos.adam-carr.net/countries/r/russia/)
- parties and elections (http://www.parties-and-elections.de/russia.html)