Russian legislative election, 2003
Russian legislative election, 2003
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All 450 seats to the State Duma 226 seats needed for a majority |
Turnout |
55.7% |
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Majority party |
Minority party |
Third party |
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Leader |
Boris Gryzlov |
Gennady Zyuganov |
Vladimir Zhirinovsky |
Party |
United Russia |
Communist Party |
LDPR |
Last election |
— |
90 seats, 24.29% |
17 seats, 5.98% |
Seats won |
223 |
52 |
36 |
Seat change |
223 |
38 |
19 |
Popular vote |
22,779,279 |
7,647,820 |
6,943,885 |
Percentage |
37.57% |
12.61% |
11.45% |
Swing |
- |
11.68pp |
5.56pp |
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Fourth party |
Fifth party |
Sixth party |
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Leader |
Dmitry Rogozin |
Grigory Yavlinsky |
Boris Nemtsov |
Party |
Rodina |
Yabloko |
Union of Rightist Forces |
Last election |
— |
20 seats, 5.93% |
29 seats, 8.52% |
Seats won |
37 |
4 |
3 |
Seat change |
37 |
15 |
26 |
Popular vote |
5,469,556 |
2,610,087 |
2,408,535 |
Percentage |
9.02% |
4.3% |
4% |
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Results of the 2003 legislative election in the Russian Federation by proportional representation |
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Election results
Distribution of the constituency seats by federal subject.
List
United Russia
People's Party
Communist Party
Rodina
Yabloko
Party of Rebirth/Party of Life
Union of Rightist Forces
Agrarian Party
Great Russia
New Deal
Business Development Party
Self-nominations
Seat not filled
Parliamentary elections were held in Russia on 7 December 2003.[1] At stake were the 450 seats in the State Duma (Gosudarstvennaya Duma), the lower house of the Federal Assembly of Russia (The legislature).
As expected, the United Russia pro-Vladimir Putin party won the largest number of votes and seats. Of the other parties, the Communist Party is still the largest, though much reduced in strength. Liberal Democratic Party improved its position by a few delegates. The liberal Yabloko party and the liberal-conservative Union of Rightist Forces lost most of its seats. The only other significant party is socialist Homeland Union.
Official results
Party |
PR |
Constituency |
Total seats |
+/– |
Votes |
% |
Seats |
Votes |
% |
Seats |
United Russia | 22,776,294 | 37.6 | 120 | 14,123,625 | 23.9 | 103 | 223 | New |
Communist Party | 7,647,820 | 12.6 | 40 | 6,577,598 | 11.2 | 12 | 52 | –61 |
Zhirinovsky Bloc | 6,944,322 | 11.5 | 36 | 1,860,905 | 3.2 | 0 | 36 | +19 |
Rodina | 5,470,429 | 9.0 | 29 | 1,719,147 | 2.9 | 8 | 37 | New |
Yabloko | 2,610,087 | 4.3 | 0 | 1,580,629 | 2.7 | 4 | 4 | –16 |
Union of Rightist Forces | 2,408,535 | 4.0 | 0 | 1,764,290 | 3.0 | 3 | 3 | –26 |
Agrarian Party | 2,205,850 | 3.6 | 0 | 1,104,974 | 1.9 | 2 | 2 | New |
Russian Pensioners' Party-Party of Social Justice | 1,874,973 | 3.1 | 0 | 342,891 | 0.6 | 0 | 0 | –1 |
Party of Russia's Rebirth-Russian Party of Life | 1,140,413 | 1.9 | 0 | 1,584,904 | 2.7 | 3 | 3 | New |
People's Party | 714,705 | 1.2 | 0 | 2,677,889 | 4.5 | 17 | 17 | New |
Unity | 710,721 | 1.2 | 0 | 9,334 | 0.0 | 0 | 0 | –73 |
New Course–Automobile Russia | 509,302 | 0.8 | 0 | 222,090 | 0.4 | 1 | 1 | New |
For a Holy Russia | 298,826 | 0.5 | 0 | 59,986 | 0.1 | 0 | 0 | New |
Russian Ecological Party "The Greens" | 253,985 | 0.4 | 0 | 69,585 | 0.1 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Development of Enterprise | 212,827 | 0.4 | 0 | 237,527 | 0.4 | 1 | 1 | New |
Great Russia–Eurasian Union | 170,796 | 0.3 | 0 | 464,602 | 0.8 | 1 | 1 | New |
Genuine Patriots of Russia | 149,151 | 0.3 | 0 | 2,564 | 0.0 | 0 | 0 | New |
Peace and Unity | 148,954 | 0.3 | 0 | 10,664 | 0.0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
United Russian Party Rus' | 147,441 | 0.2 | 0 | 570,453 | 1.0 | 0 | 0 | New |
Democratic Party of Russia | 136,295 | 0.2 | 0 | 94,810 | 0.2 | 0 | 0 | New |
Russian Constitutional Democratic Party | 113,190 | 0.2 | 0 | – | – | – | 0 | New |
Union of People for Education and Science | 107,448 | 0.2 | 0 | 16,111 | 0.0 | 0 | 0 | New |
People's Republican Party | 80,420 | 0.1 | 0 | 2,995 | 0.0 | 0 | 0 | New |
Other parties | – | – | – | 288,866 | 0.5 | 0 | 0 | – |
Independents | – | – | – | 15,843,626 | 26.9 | 67 | 67 | –38 |
Against all | 2,851,958 | 4.7 | – | 7,744,998 | 13.1 | – | – | – |
Vacant seats | – | – | – | – | – | 3 | 3 | – |
Invalid/blank votes | 948,435 | – | – | 1,247,491 | – | – | – | – |
Total | 60,633,177 | 100 | 225 | 60,222,554 | 100 | 225 | 450 | 0 |
Registered voters/turnout | 108,906,250 | 55.7 | – | 108,906,250 | 55.3 | – | – | – |
Source: Nohlen & Stöver, IPU, 2003 elections[2] |
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