General election in Russia 2016

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A total of 450 seats

The 7th parliamentary election in Russia in 2016 took place on September 18, 2016. The 450 members of the State Duma were elected . The elections were held for the first time after the ditch voting law , which had already been used from 1993 to 2003 . The turnout was 47.88%.

Starting position

In the 2011 general election , the party was Russia of Dmitry Medvedev strongest party despite strong losses. The Communist Party of the Russian Federation was by far the second strongest party . United Russia was able to defend its absolute majority of the seats with the election.

The 2016 parliamentary elections were originally scheduled for December 4, 2016, but were brought forward to September 18, 2016 at the initiative of the ruling United Russia party and the opposition parties, the Liberal Democratic Party of Russia and Just Russia . The move forward was justified by the fact that gubernatorial and parliamentary elections would take place in numerous federal subjects on the same day . The postponement of the election was not supported by the Communist Party, whose chairman Gennady Zyuganov fears a low turnout in the summer of September.

Before the general election in 2016, almost 43 million pensioners received a one-off payment. Prime Minister Medvedev said the 215 billion rubles (3 billion euros) that were being used to help pensioners cope with rising prices. The indexation of pensions (in February each year) only partially offset the annual inflation rate of 12.9 percent in 2015.

Suffrage

Russian suffrage is a mixture of proportional representation and majority voting . The Duma has 450 seats. Half of them (225) are elected via party lists, with a nationwide 5 percent threshold . The other half is elected in 225 individual constituencies according to the relative majority voting system, ie the candidate with the relative majority of votes wins the constituency. This electoral system already existed in the elections between 1993 and 2003. In the 2011 parliamentary election, however, there was an election based on pure proportional representation with a 7 percent threshold.

The holding of the election in Crimea has been described as illegal by Western countries; Crimean Tatar activists called for a boycott. The OSCE did not send any election observers to Crimea or, for security reasons, to any of the Caucasus republics.

Survey

When asked which party they would vote if there was a general election on Sunday, respondents responded as follows. Undecided and non-voters are excluded:

date Institute United
Russia 		KPRF LDPR Just
Russia 		People's Freedom Party Yabloko Citizens'
platform 		Rodina Patriots of
Russia 		Progress
party 		Green Right
thing 		Communists of
Russia
April 10, 2016 WCIOM 58.2% 13.1% 13.5% 8.4% 0.4% 1.9% 0.8% 0.5% 0.3% - 0.6% 0.4% 0.3%
3rd April 2016 WCIOM 63.1% 11.9% 11.2% 8.3% 0.7% 0.9% 0.5% 0.1% 0.5% - 0.3% 0.1% 0.3%
March 27, 2016 WCIOM 61.6% 11.8% 12.1% 7.0% 0.5% 2.2% 0.4% 0.5% 0.6% - 0.4% 0.3% 0.4%
March 20, 2016 WCIOM 58.0% 13.3% 12.6% 8.3% 1.1% 2% 0.7% 0.5% 0.5% - 0.4% 0.5% -
February 28, 2016 WCIOM 61.5% 12.4% 10.8% 8.4% 0.8% 1 % 0.4% 0.4% 0.9% - 0.5% 0.9% -
February 10, 2016 Levada
Center 		65% 16% 8th % 5% <1% 1 % 1 % 1 % 1 % 2% <1% - -
December 27, 2015 WCIOM 67.3% 10.3% 7.7% 6.4% - - - - - - - - -
December 10, 2015 Levada
Center 		69% 15% 8th % 4% <1% 1 % 1 % 1 % 1 % 1 % 1 % - -
November 2015 WCIOM 70% 10.5% 9% 6.5% - - - - - - - - -
October 2015 WCIOM 70.5% 10% 7.5% 6.5% - - - - - - - - -
5th October 2015 Levada
Center 		63% 17% 9% 4% 1 % 1 % 1 % 1 % 1 % 1 % 1 % - -
September 7, 2015 Levada
Center 		63% 16% 8th % 5% 1 % 1 % 1 % 1 % 1 % 2% 2% - -
20.-23. February 2015 Levada
Center 		64% 17% 8th % 2% - 1 % 2% - - 1 % - - -

Results

Overall result

Official final result of the elections to the VII State Duma of the Russian Federation .
space Political party be right % Duma seats From that:
federal list regional lists
1. United Russia 28 527 828 54.20% 343 140 203
2. Communist Party of the Russian Federation 7 019 752 13.34% 42 35 7th
3. Liberal Democratic Party of Russia 6 917 063 13.14% 39 34 5
4th Just Russia 3,275,053 6.22% 23 16 7th
5. Communists of Russia 1 192 595 2.27% 0 0 0
6th Yabloko 1 051 335 1.99% 0 0 0
7th Russian Party of Pensioners for Justice 910 848 1.73% 0 0 -
8th. Rodina 792 226 1.51% 1 0 1
9. Growth party 679 030 1.29% 0 0 0
10. Russian Ecological Party "The Greens" 399 429 0.76% 0 0 0
11. PARNAS 384 675 0.73% 0 0 0
12. Patriots of Russia 310 015 0.59% 0 0 0
13. Citizens Platform 115 433 0.22% 1 0 1
14th Citizenship 73 971 0.14% 0 0 0
Independent - - 1 - 1
Unallocated seats 982 596
All in all 51 649 253 100% 450 - -

Voting cards

  • MPs elected in 225 constituencies: United Russia LDPR KPRF Just Russia Rodina Civic Platform Independents
    
    
    
    
    
    
    

  • Majorities according to party list votes and districts for: United Russia LDPR KPRF
    
    
    

Suspected election fraud

During the parliamentary elections, allegations of electoral fraud arose. In Siberia, students were paid to cast their votes several times. The Interfax news agency quoted a head of election observers from the President’s Human Rights Council that there were regular reports of manipulation from various regions. As an example, queues of military personnel who voted in places where they were not registered were given. The voting booths were also not used, but were chosen openly at tables. In order to prevent protests like those after the 2012 elections , this election was specifically prepared in advance by the Russian leadership. NGOs such as Golos , who were able to prove electoral fraud in 2012 and thus helped trigger the protests, were classified as “foreign agents” and thus withdrawn from monitoring the election. The Lewada Center was also put under pressure and its work restricted in advance in order to influence public opinion.

Election supervisor Ella Pamfilowa declared the election invalid on September 21 at nine polling stations. In one pub in Mordovia, for example, more than the number of ballots that were actually issued were cast. According to their communication, further complaints would be considered.

Critical consideration of the election result

According to international election observers, the 2016 elections were much more orderly than the previous 2011 election. The number of election violations was far lower than in the primary. The Russian Election Commission was attested that it had made serious efforts to comply with the electoral standards. Criticism from the opposition and from Western observers and organizations focused more on the environment around the election than on the election itself. The opposition was massively hindered, while the government, with its monopoly in the state-controlled and directed media, unhindered its dominant party advertising could spread. In Russia there are only a few supraregional press organs that openly support the opposition; most media appear "synchronized". The activities of the opposition are restricted by disciplinary laws which, for example, place more intensive contact with foreign organizations than “espionage” and “foreign interference” under heavy penalties. Demonstrations or gatherings of opposition members are heavily regulated by the police and are often threatened and disturbed by thugs.

In view of the political situation, many citizens of Russia react with extensive apathy and disinterest in any form of politics. At 47.8%, voter turnout was the lowest it has ever been in a parliamentary election since the collapse of the Soviet Union . It was 12.3 percentage points below that of the last election. Only 35% of Muscovites took part (in 2011 it was 66%). It was also criticized that the various opposition groups did not understand how to bring about a common electoral platform or at least electoral agreements.

Web links

Individual evidence

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  2. ↑ https://ria.ru/infografika/20160918/1476912507.html
  3. ↑ vesti.ru: Госдума приняла закон о переносе парламентских выборов, July 3, 2015 (Russian); Reviewed on March 25, 2016
  4. ↑ NZZ, 24 August 2016, page 2
  5. ↑ The government has decided to replace the indexation of pensions with a one-off payment , novayagazeta.ru, 23 August 2016
  6. ↑ "Федеральный закон" О выборах депутатов Государственной Думы Федерального Собрания Российской Федерации "от 22.02.2014 N 20-ФЗ (действующая редакция, 2016) / КонсультантПлюс". Retrieved September 20, 2016 (Russian).
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  8. ↑ Low voter turnout in Russia , SZ, September 18, 2016
  9. ↑ a b c d Average result in the relevant month
  10. ↑ Сведения о проводящихся выборах и референдумах
  11. ↑ Постановление ЦИК РФ № 56 / 541-7 от 23 сентября 2016 года "Об установлении общих результатов выборов депутатов Государственной Думы Федерального Собрания Российской Федерации седьмого созыва " .
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  13. ↑ Putin is satisfied with the result of the parliamentary election. In: sueddeutsche.de. September 18, 2016, accessed June 18, 2018 .
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  15. ↑ Stefan Meister: Duma election in Russia: Nothing works without Putin. In: Zeit Online. September 19, 2016. Retrieved September 19, 2016 .
  16. ↑ NZZ, September 22, 2016, page 2
  17. ↑ Julius von Freytag-Loringhoven: Elections in Russia Massive repression against the opposition make fair parliamentary elections almost impossible. Focus, September 17, 2016, accessed September 20, 2016 .
  18. ↑ Gesine Donrblüth: Renewed repressive measures against NGOs. Deutschlandfunk, July 24, 2014, accessed on September 20, 2016 .
  19. ↑ Ingo Mannteufel: Comment: Obvious electoral fraud in Russia. Deutsche Welle, September 19, 2016, accessed on September 20, 2016 .
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