Electoral history of Vladimir Putin explained
Electoral history of Vladimir Putin, second and fourth President of Russia and 33rd Prime Minister of Russia.
The legitimacy of 21st century elections in Russia, with their consistent high turn-out for one candidate, have been questioned by academics and observers, although such accusations of fraud and vote-rigging have been consistently denied by Russian officials.[1] [2] [3]
Presidential elections
2000
| 2000 presidential election |
|---|
| Candidate | Party | Votes | % |
|---|
| Vladimir Putin | Independent | 39,740,467 | 53.4 |
| Gennady Zyuganov | Communist Party | 21,928,468 | 29.5 |
| Grigory Yavlinsky | Yabloko | 4,351,450 | 5.9 |
| Aman Tuleyev | Independent | 2,217,364 | 3.0 |
| Vladimir Zhirinovsky | Liberal Democratic Party | 2,026,509 | 2.7 |
| Konstantin Titov | Independent | 1,107,269 | 1.5 |
| Ella Pamfilova | For Civic Dignity | 758,967 | 1.0 |
| Stanislav Govorukhin | Independent | 328,723 | 0.4 |
| Yury Skuratov | Independent | 319,189 | 0.4 |
| Alexey Podberezkin | Spiritual Heritage | 98,177 | 0.1 |
| Umar Dzhabrailov | Independent | 78,498 | 0.1 |
| align=left colspan=3 | Against all | 1,414,673 | 1.9 |
| align=left colspan=5 | Source: Nohlen & Stöver,[4] | |
2004
| 2004 presidential election |
|---|
| Candidate | Party | Votes | % |
|---|
| Vladimir Putin | Independent | 49,558,328 | 71.9 |
| Nikolay Kharitonov | Communist Party | 9,514,554 | 13.8 |
| Sergey Glazyev | Independent | 2,850,610 | 4.1 |
| Irina Khakamada | Independent | 2,672,189 | 3.9 |
| Oleg Malyshkin | Liberal Democratic Party | 1,405,326 | 2.0 |
| Sergey Mironov | Russian Party of Life | 524,332 | 0.8 |
| align=left colspan=3 | Against all | 2,397,140 | 3.5 |
| align=left colspan=5 | Source: Nohlen & Stöver | |
2012
United Russia nomination
General election
| 2012 presidential election |
|---|
| Candidates | Party | Votes | % |
|---|
| Vladimir Putin | United Russia | 45,602,075 | 63.60 |
| Gennady Zyuganov | Communist Party | 12,318,353 | 17.18 |
| Mikhail Prokhorov | Independent | 5,722,508 | 7.98 |
| Vladimir Zhirinovsky | Liberal Democratic Party | 4,458,103 | 6.22 |
| Sergey Mironov | A Just Russia | 2,763,935 | 3.85 |
| Source:[6] | |
2018
| 2018 presidential election |
|---|
| Candidates | Party | Votes | % |
|---|
| Vladimir Putin | Independent | 56,430,712 | 76.69 |
| Pavel Grudinin | Communist Party | 8,659,206 | 11.77 |
| Vladimir Zhirinovsky | Liberal Democratic Party | 4,154,985 | 5.65 |
| Ksenia Sobchak | Civic Initiative | 1,238,031 | 1.68 |
| Grigory Yavlinsky | Yabloko | 769,644 | 1.05 |
| Boris Titov | Party of Growth | 556,801 | 0.76 |
| Maxim Suraykin | Communists of Russia | 499,342 | 0.68 |
| Sergey Baburin | Russian All-People's Union | 479,013 | 0.65 |
| align=left colspan=5 | Source: CEC | |
2024
The Russian Constitution was amended in 2020 to remove a limit that prohibited presidents from serving more than two consecutive terms. This allowed Putin to run for office again in 2024.[7]
Prime Minister nominations
1999
| For | Against | Abstaining | No voting |
|---|
| | | |
|---|
| 233 | | 84 | | 17 | | 105 | |
| Source:[8] | |
2008
| For | Against | Abstaining | No voting |
|---|
| | | |
|---|
| 392 | | 56 | | 0 | | 2 | |
| Source:[9] | |
Notes and References
- Kobak . Dmitry . Shpilkin . Sergey . Pshenichnikov . Maxim S. . 2018-06-01 . Putin's Peaks: Russian Election Data Revisited . Significance . en . 15 . 3 . 8–9 . 10.1111/j.1740-9713.2018.01141.x . 1740-9705. 1804.09495 .
- News: Fadel . Leila . Ansell . Ben . 14 March 2024 . Why Russia holds presidential elections even though Putin is all but assured a win . NPR.
- News: 2024-03-15 . 'Everything in Russia is fraudulent': Inside Putin's 'sham' election . 2024-11-21 . ABC News . en-AU.
- Web site: University of Essex . 2017-11-17 . https://web.archive.org/web/20130704020705/http://www2.essex.ac.uk/elect/database/indexElections.asp?country=RUSSIA&election=ru2000presidential . 2013-07-04 . dead .
- https://ria.ru/politics/20111127/499515128.html "Единая Россия" выдвинула Путина кандидатом в президенты РФ от партии
- http://www.vybory.izbirkom.ru/region/region/izbirkom?action=show&root=1&tvd=100100031793509&vrn=100100031793505®ion=0&global=1&sub_region=0&prver=0&pronetvd=null&vibid=100100031793509&type=226 Central Election Commission of the Russian Federation
- Hutcheson . Derek S. . McAllister . Ian . 2021 . Consolidating the Putin Regime: The 2020 Referendum on Russia’s Constitutional Amendments . Russian Politics . 6 . 355–376.
- http://vote.duma.gov.ru/vote/40520 Справка о результатах голосования по вопросу: Дать согласие на назначение Председателя Правительства РФ
- http://vote.duma.gov.ru/vote/61021 Справка о результатах голосования по вопросу: Дать согласие на назначение Председателя Правительства РФ
