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Final results of Russia's tightly managed vote give a record high parliament seats to Kremlin party

Independent analysts said United Russia’s real support was closer to 35%, far below the official count that gave it a constitutional majority.

  • On Friday, the Central Election Commission reported State Duma turnout exceeded more than 59 per cent, with United Russia claiming 355 seats in the lower house of Russia's parliament.
  • Prior to polling, the Kremlin struck Yabloko from party lists and purged non-systemic candidates, with voting occurring amid digital blackouts and documented coercion of public-sector workers across Russia.
  • Applying the Shpilkin method, statisticians estimated actual turnout at about 40% against official figures, while analyst Boris Ovchinnikov identified artificially inflated turnout at around 69% of offline polling stations.
  • Official preliminary counts awarded United Russia 355 seats, yet statistical studies suggest the party would have secured only 87 list seats without fraud, falling short of the 301-seat constitutional majority.
  • The Russian Election Monitor assessed the elections as "neither free nor fair," characterizing them as an administrative ritual to demonstrate regime durability rather than a genuine measure of public opinion.
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El partido oficialista Rusia Unida has expanded on control sobre the Duma Estatal tra obtener el 57.83% de los votos y 355 escaños en unas elecciones legislativees marcadas por la exclusive de fuerzas criticas con el Kremlin y las denuncias de irregularidades. La mayoría constitucional refuerza la capacitad del Gobierno de Vladímir Putin para impulsar su agenda política en plena guerra en Uchiacina. ¿Qué margen queda para la oposición y qué pape…

·Issy-les-Moulineaux, France
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Far Left

They announced official results of the legislative elections, with a 59.8% voter turnout, reflecting a large increase compared to 2021.

·Caracas, Venezuela (Bolivarian Republic of)
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Center

Russia announced the final results of a tightly controlled election on Friday, saying President Vladimir Putin's party had further strengthened its majority, with about a tenth of the new parliamentarians to be veterans of the war in Ukraine.

Lean Right

In the first general election held since Russia invaded Ukraine, the ruling United Russia party secured more than three-quarters of the seats in the State Duma, the lower house of parliament. Forty-six soldiers who fought in the war in Ukraine also entered the new State Duma. According to the results of the general election held from the 18th to the 20th, confirmed by Russia's Central Election Commission on the 25th (local time), United Russia s…

Lean Right

Putin's Party wins parliamentary elections in Russia Russia announced, on Friday (25), the final results of last week's legislative elections, confirming an overwhelming victory for President Vladimir Putin's party and the election of 46 soldiers or war veterans in Ukraine as deputies. During a press conference, the Central Electoral Commission indicated that 349 of the 450 seats in the lower house of Parliament, the Duma, belong to Putin's Unit…

·Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
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Meduza broke the news in Riga, Latvia on Monday, September 21, 2026.
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