Expanding the majority of the "United Russia" party in the Russian parliamentary elections

Expanding the majority of the "United Russia" party in the Russian parliamentary elections

The Russian parliamentary elections were held from Friday, September 18 to Sunday, September 20 (September 27 to 29). These were the first parliamentary elections in this country after the start of Moscow's war of aggression against Ukraine in 2022.

According to the announcement of the Central Election Commission of Russia, the "United Russia" party, which is close to the country's president, Vladimir Putin, won about 57.8% of the votes when more than 95% of the votes were counted.

With this result, the "United Russia" party increased its majority in the State Duma and is on its way to winning 355 seats out of the total 450 seats in the State Duma.

At the same time, the Russian Election Commission announced that the participation rate is around 59%. Based on the preliminary results, the Communist Party of Russia is in second place with about 13.8%.

It is followed by the national right-wing LDPR and the New People's Party. The Interfax news agency reported, citing the head of the election commission, that these four parties won the most declared votes.

Some Kremlin opponents spoke of "showing" and "fraud". Yabloko's anti-war party was also not allowed to participate in the national elections.

This issue, together with the support of the current parties in the Duma to the Kremlin's political line, further limited the competitive atmosphere of the election.