Ruling pro-Putin party set to win Russia’s tightly controlled wartime parliamentary election
Initial results show United Russia with 57.5% of votes as officials report record turnout and widespread electronic voting problems.
- The United Russia party leads with 57.5% of votes as polling concluded on Sunday across Russia's 11 time zones, with President Vladimir Putin seeking to cement domestic dominance ahead of final results expected by September 25.
- Meaningful opposition remains effectively nonexistent in Russia after the Supreme Court barred the registered anti-war party Yabloko from federal lists last month; Putin, who is not up for election until 2030, faces no credible challengers.
- Central Election Commission chair Ella Pamfilova reported a "very large-scale and intense" attack against infrastructure, with more than 3,000 DDoS waves recorded; some Moscow voters reported "malfunctions" and pressure to use electronic terminals instead of paper ballots.
- The vote coincided with Kyiv launching its "largest ever" drone attack on Russia overnight into Sunday, with more than 1,000 drones targeting the Moscow region; Russian officials reported the strikes killed two people and damaged an oil refinery.
- Russian authorities extended voting to occupied parts of Donetsk, Luhansk, Kherson, and Zaporizhzhia, aiming to demonstrate domestic support for the military; The Kremlin expects the outcome to validate Putin's policies and the ongoing invasion of Ukraine.
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Russia’s ruling pro-Putin party wins wartime election with over 57% of vote, near complete results show
MOSCOW, Sept 21 (Reuters) - Russia's ruling United Russia party easily won a parliamentary election that President Vladimir Putin has cast as a test of support for the war in Ukraine, the Central Election Commission said on Monday, after over 95%...
First forecasts of the Central Electoral Commission attribute to the ruling party "Some Russia" more than 57 percent of the votes in the Duma election. Many counter-candidates were excluded from the election.
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BTUnited Russia has garnered just under 58 percent of the vote in the first Russian election since the start of the Ukraine war.
In the first parliamentary elections held in Russia since the start of the war in Ukraine, preliminary official results show the ruling United Russia party leading by a wide margin with 57.5% of the vote. The final day of the election was marked by widespread drone attacks on Moscow and its surrounding areas, as well as cyberattacks targeting election systems.
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