2016 Russian legislative election

2016 Russian legislative election

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All 450 seats in the State Duma 226 seats needed for a majority

Party Leader % Seats +/– United Russia Dmitry Medvedev 55.23 343 +105 Communist Gennady Zyuganov 13.59 42 −50 LDPR Vladimir Zhirinovsky 13.39 39 −17 A Just Russia Sergey Mironov 6.34 23 −41 Rodina Aleksey Zhuravlyov 1.53 1 New Civic Platform Rifat Shaykhutdinov 0.22 1 New Independents – – 1 +1 This lists parties that won seats. See the complete results below. The upper map shows the winning party vote in the territorial election commissions, while the lower map shows the party of the winner and vote in the single mandate constituencies. Chairman of the State Duma before Chairman of the State Duma after Sergey Naryshkin United Russia Vyacheslav Volodin United Russia

Legislative elections were held in Russia on 18 September 2016, having been brought forward from 4 December.^[1] At stake were the 450 seats in the State Duma of the 7th convocation, the lower house of the Federal Assembly. Prior to the election United Russia had been the ruling party since winning the 2011 elections with 49.32% of the vote, and taking 238 seats (53%) of the seats in the State Duma.

Prior to the election, observers expected that turnout would be low and called the election campaign the dullest in recent memory.^[2] 109,820,679 voters were registered in the Russian Federation (including Crimea)^{[nb 1]} on 1 January 2016. Taking into account people registered outside the Russian Federation and the voters in Baikonur, the total number of eligible voters for 1 January 2016 was 111,724,534.^[4] The vote had a record low turnout of 47.88%,^[5] with just 28% of Muscovites casting their votes before 6 pm.^[6]

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