Parliamentary election in Russia 2003

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A total of 451 seats

The parliamentary elections in Russia in 2003 took place on December 7, 2003, and 450 seats were allocated in the Duma ( Gossudarstvennaya Duma ), the lower house of the two Russian parliamentary chambers.

As expected, President Vladimir Putin's party, United Russia (“Party of Power”) won the largest number of votes and seats. Most of the other parties became less important. After the elections, a number of independent candidates and representatives of other parties joined the group, so that “United Russia” finally had 305 out of 450 seats and thus a two-thirds majority in parliament. The elections gave Putin complete control of the legislature .

Due to the 5% hurdle, only four parties with parliamentary groups (35 seats) made it into parliament, alongside United Russia (37.57%, 222 seats), the Communist Party of the Russian Federation (12.61%, 52 seats), the Liberal Democratic Party of Russia (11.45%, 38 seats) and the Rodina party, loyal to Putin (9.02%, 45 seats). 80 seats of smaller parties were given through direct mandates.

Of the remaining parties, the Communist Party is still the strongest party, but its options in the opposition are limited. It lost half of its votes compared to the 1999 Russian parliamentary election. The chairman Zyuganov spoke of election fraud and accused the government of Putin with the formation of the Rodina party of having created a left-wing nationalist party to compete with the Communist Party. Since the Liberal Democratic Party is involved in the government, the KPRF has been the only parliamentary opposition party in Russia since the elections. The nationalist Liberal Democratic Party gained some MPs.

The liberal Yabloko party lost most of its seats and failed at the five percent hurdle .

According to the OSCE , the election campaign was “ partly not fair ” and failed to meet “ democratic standards ”. The German election observer Rita Süssmuth said: " Putin and his party had a dominant presence on state TV ".

Final result of the election to the Russian Duma on December 7, 2003
Parties and voting blocks be right % Seats
United Russia ( Jedinaja Rossija ) 22,529,459 38.0 222
Communist Party of the Russian Federation ( Kommunistitscheskaja Partija Rossiskoj Federazii ) 7,622,568 12.8 51
Liberal Democratic Party of Russia ( Liberalno-Demokratischeskaja Partija Rossii ) 6,923,444 11.7 37
Rodina - Motherland-National Patriotic Union ( Rodina - Narodno-Patriotischeskij Sojuz ) 5,443,053 9.2 37
Yabloko - Russian Democratic Party Yabloko ( Rossijskaja Demokratischeskaja Partija Jabloko ) 2,601,549 4.4 4th
Union of Right Forces ( Soyuz Prawych Sil ) 2,390,868 4.0 3
Agrarian Party ( Agrarnaja Partija Rossii ) 2,201,806 3.7 3
Elective block: Russian Party of Pensioners ( Rossijskaja Partija Pensionerow ) 1,869,729 3.1 1
Social Justice Party ( Rossijskaya Partija Sprawedliwosti )
Elective block: Party of the Rebirth of Russia ( Partija Vosroschdenija Rossii ) 1,137,193 1.9 3
Russian Party of Life ( Rossijskaja Partija Schisni )
People's Party of the Russian Federation ( Narodnaja Partija Rossijskoj Federatsii ) 707.434 1.2 16
Unity ( jedinenije ) 1.2
Others and non-party 74
Total (turnout 54.7%) 59.297.970   450
Eligible voters 108,404,870
Source: Central Electoral Commission of the Russian Federation .

See also

literature

  • Heiko Pleines, Hans-Henning Schröder, The Russian Parliamentary Elections 2003 , Research Center Eastern Europe Bremen, Working Papers and Materials, No. 52 - December 2003, PDF
  • Research Center for Eastern Europe at the University of Bremen and the German Society for Eastern European Studies, Analyzes of Russia , No. 13, January 30, 2004, PDF
  • Russians obey Putin , taz, December 9, 2003, p. 1, online text
  • Putin - all power to the new Tsar , Hamburger Abendblatt, December 9, 2003, online text

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