Russian legislative election, 2003

Russian legislative election, 2003

7 December 2003
All 450 seats to the State Duma 226 seats needed for a majority
Majority party Minority party   Leader Boris Gryzlov Gennady Zyuganov Party United Russia Communist Party Last election - 90 seats, 24.29% Seats won 223 52 Seat change 223 38 Popular vote 22,779,279 7,647,820 Percentage 37.57% 12.61% Swing - 11.68pp   Third party Fourth party   150x150px Leader Vladimir Zhirinovsky Dmitry Rogozin Party LDPR Rodina Last election 17 seats, 5.98% - Seats won 36 37 Seat change 19 37 Popular vote 6,943,885 5,469,556 Percentage 11.45% 9.02% Swing 5.56pp -

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Election results

Distribution of the constituency seats by federal subject.

  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. 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

External links

• Election results - official information (Russian)