Russia

1991 Presidential Elections

Date:  12 June 1991
Number of registered voters: 106,484,518
Turnout: 74.66%
Votes: first round: total cast:79,498,240; valid:77,790,525

Candidates

 Party/ Nominated by Votes % Votes
Boris N. El’tsin independent

45,552,041

58.56
Nikolai I. Ryzhkov CPSU

13,395,335

17.22
Vladimir V. Zhirinovskii Liberal Democratic Party

6,211,007

7.98
Aman-Gel’dy M. Tuleev CPSU

5,417,464

6.96
Al’bert M. Makashov CPSU

2,969,511

3.82
Vadim V. Bakatin CPSU

2,719,757

3.50
Against all

1,525,410

1.96
Total

77,790,525

100

Legend
CPSU = Communist Party of the Soviet Union (Kommunisticheskaya partiya Sovetskogo Soyuza).

* The figures in this column differ from the vote percentages in the official results because they are calculated here on the basis of the valid vote only, whereas they are calculated in the official results on the basis of the total vote.

 

 

1996 Presidential Election

Date: first round: 16 June, second round: 3 July
Number of registered voters: first round: 108,495,023; second round: 108,589,050
Turnout: first round: 69.81%; second round: 68.88%
Votes: first round: total cast: 75,744,553; valid:  74,514,711; second round: total cast: 74,800,449; valid: 73,910,698

Candidate

Party/ Nominated by

First round votes

% First round votes*

Second round votes

% Second round votes*
Boris N. El’tsin independent

26,665,495

35.79

40,202,349

54.39
Gennadii A. Zyuganov KPRF

24,211,686

32.49

30,104,589

40.73
Aleksandr I. Lebed’ independent

10,974,736

14.73

 - -
Grigorii A. Yavlinskii Yabloko

5,550,752

7.45

 - -
Vladimir V. Zhirinovskii LDPR

4,311,479

5.79

 - -
Svyatoslav N. Fedorov RST

699,158

0.94

 - -
Mikhail S. Gorbachev Independent

386,069

0.52

 - -
Martin L. Shakkum independent

277,068

0.37

 - -
Yurii P. Vlasov Independent

151,282

0.20

 - -
Vladimir A. Bryntsalov RSP

123,065

0.17

 - -
Against all

1,163,921

1.56

3,603,760

4.88
Total

74,514,711

100

73,910,698

100

* The figures in this column differ from the vote percentages in the official results because they are calculated here on the basis of the valid vote only, whereas they are calculated in the official results on the basis of the total vote.

Legend
KPRF = Communist Party of the Russian Federation (Kommunisticheskaya partiya Rossiiskoi Federatsii);
LDPR = Liberal Democratic Party (Liberal’no-demokraticheskaya partiya Rossii);
RST = Party of Workers’ Self-Administration (Partiya samoupravleniya trudyashchikhsya);
RSP = Russian Socialist Party (Russkaya sotsialisticheskaya partiya).

 

2000 Presidential Election

Date: 26 March
Number of registered voters: 109,372,043
Turnout: 68.64%
Votes: total cast: 75,070,770; valid: 74,369,754

Candidate

Party/ Nominated by

Votes

% Votes*
Vladimir V. Putin independent

39,740,467

53.44
Gennadii A. Zyuganov KPRF

21,928,468

29.49
Grigorii A. Yavlinskii Yabloko

4,351,450

5.85
Aman-Gel’dy Tuleev independent

2,217,364

2.98
Vladimir V. Zhirinovskii LDPR

2,026,509

2.72
Konstantin A. Titov independent**

1,107,269

1.49
Ella A. Pamfilova For Civic Dignity (Za grazhdanskoe dostoinstvo)

758,967

1.02
Stanislav S. Govorukhin independent

328,723

0.44
Yurii I. Skuratov independent

319,189

0.43
Aleksei I. Podberezkin Spiritual Heritage (Dukhovnoe nasledie)

98,177

0.13
Umar A. Dzhabrailov independent

78,498

0.11
Against all

1,414,673

1.90
Total

74,369,754

100

* The figures in this column differ from the vote percentages in the official results because they are calculated here on the basis of the valid vote only, whereas they are calculated in the official results on the basis of the total vote.

** Unofficially aligned with the Union of Rightist Forces (Soyuz pravykh syl).

Legend
KPRF = Communist Party of the Russian Federation (Kommunisticheskaya partiya Rossiiskoi Federatsii);
LDPR = Liberal Democratic Party (Liberal’no-demokraticheskaya partiya Rossii).

Sources:
Website of the Russian Central Election Commission at www.fci.ru;
Michael Urban, ‘Boris El’tsin, Democratic Russia and the Campaign for the Russian Presidency’, Soviet Studies 44.2 (1994), pp. 187-208;
Stephen White, Richard Rose and Ian McAllister, How Russia Votes, Chatham, NJ: Chatham House, 1997;
Vladimir Pribylovsky, ‘Russian Presidential Candidates’, Panorama Information and Expert Groups, www.geocities.com/CapitolHill/2768/pr96.htm;
Russia Votes website at www.russiavotes.org;
Elections Today, April 2000.

 

 

 

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