2003 Russian legislative election

2003 Russian legislative election
All 450 seats in the State Duma; 226 seats needed for a majority
Turnout	55.75% ( 6.10 pp)
	Winning party by region (PR)
Chairman of the State Duma before election; Gennadiy Seleznyov; PVR	Elected Chairman of the State Duma ; Boris Gryzlov; United Russia

Legislative elections were held in Russia on 7 December 2003.^[1] At stake were the 450 seats in the State Duma (Gosudarstvennaya Duma), the lower house of the Federal Assembly.

As expected, the pro-Vladimir Putin United Russia party received the most votes (38%) and won the most seats, gaining an absolute majority in the Duma. The Communist Party remained the second largest, though much reduced in strength. The Liberal Democratic Party improved its position by 19 seats, while the liberal Yabloko and the liberal-conservative Union of Right Forces lost most of their seats.

Results



Party		Party-list			Constituency			Total seats	+/–
Party		Votes	%	Seats	Votes	%	Seats	Total seats	+/–
	United Russia	22,776,294	38.16	120	14,123,625	23.95	103	223	New
	Communist Party	7,647,820	12.81	40	6,577,598	11.15	12	52	−61
	Liberal Democratic Party	6,944,322	11.64	36	1,860,905	3.16	0	36	+19
	National Patriotic Union "Rodina"	5,470,429	9.17	29	1,719,147	2.92	8	37	New
	Yabloko	2,610,087	4.37	0	1,580,629	2.68	4	4	−16
	Union of Right Forces	2,408,535	4.04	0	1,764,290	2.99	3	3	−26
	Agrarian Party	2,205,850	3.70	0	1,104,974	1.87	2	2	New
	Russian Pensioners' Party–Party of Social Justice	1,874,973	3.14	0	342,891	0.58	0	0	−1
	Party of Russia's Rebirth–Russian Party of Life	1,140,413	1.91	0	1,584,904	2.69	3	3	New
	People's Party	714,705	1.20	0	2,677,889	4.54	17	17	New
	Conceptual Party "Unity"	710,721	1.19	0	9,334	0.02	0	0	New
	New Course — Automobile Russia	509,302	0.85	0	222,090	0.38	1	1	New
	For a Holy Russia	298,826	0.50	0	59,986	0.10	0	0	New
	Russian Ecological Party "The Greens"	253,985	0.43	0	69,585	0.12	0	0	0
	Development of Enterprise	212,827	0.36	0	237,527	0.40	1	1	New
	Great Russia – Eurasian Union	170,796	0.29	0	464,602	0.79	1	1	New
	Genuine Patriots of Russia	149,151	0.25	0	2,564	0.00	0	0	New
	Party of Peace and Unity	148,954	0.25	0	10,664	0.02	0	0	0
	United Russian Party Rus'	147,441	0.25	0	570,453	0.97	0	0	New
	Democratic Party	136,295	0.23	0	94,810	0.16	0	0	New
	Russian Constitutional Democratic Party	113,190	0.19	0				0	New
	Union of People for Education and Science	107,448	0.18	0	16,111	0.03	0	0	New
	People's Republican Party	80,420	0.13	0	2,995	0.01	0	0	New
	Other parties				288,866	0.49	0	0	–
	Independents				15,843,626	26.86	67	67	−38
Against all		2,851,958	4.78	–	7,744,998	13.13	–	–	–
Vacant seats							3	3	–
Total		59,684,742	100.00	225	58,975,063	100.00	225	450	0

Valid votes		59,684,742	98.44		58,975,063	97.93
Invalid/blank votes		948,435	1.56		1,247,491	2.07
Total votes		60,633,177	100.00		60,222,554	100.00
Registered voters/turnout		108,906,250	55.67		108,906,250	55.30
Source: Nohlen & Stöver, IPU, 2003 elections^[2]

Legacy

The 2003 election is cited by scholars as a turning point in Russian politics, as it marked the moment the federal parliament effectively became a rubber stamp body.^[3]^[4]^[5]

References

^ Dieter Nohlen & Philip Stöver (2010) Elections in Europe: A data handbook, p1642 ISBN 978-3-8329-5609-7
^ Сведения о зарегистрированных депутатах ГД ФС РФ четвертого созыва по одномандатным избирательным округам Archived 2006-10-16 at the Wayback Machine (in Russian)
^ Rosefielde, Steven; Hedlund, Stefan (2009). Russia Since 1980. Cambridge University Press. p. 174. ISBN 9780521849135. Retrieved 23 September 2023. Duma election of 2003, reducing the legislature to a rubber stamp.
^ Troianovski, Anton; Nechepurenko, Ivan (19 September 2021). "Russian Election Shows Declining Support for Putin's Party". The New York Times. ISSN 0362-4331. Archived from the original on 20 September 2021. Retrieved 27 September 2021.
^ China Russia Compared wesleyan.edu July 2015

External links

Election results – official information Archived 10 December 2018 at the Wayback Machine (in Russian)

[NS-1] Dieter Nohlen & Philip Stöver (2010) Elections in Europe: A data handbook, p1642 ISBN 978-3-8329-5609-7

[2] Сведения о зарегистрированных депутатах ГД ФС РФ четвертого созыва по одномандатным избирательным округам Archived 2006-10-16 at the Wayback Machine (in Russian)

[3] Rosefielde, Steven; Hedlund, Stefan (2009). Russia Since 1980. Cambridge University Press. p. 174. ISBN 9780521849135. Retrieved 23 September 2023. Duma election of 2003, reducing the legislature to a rubber stamp.

[4] Troianovski, Anton; Nechepurenko, Ivan (19 September 2021). "Russian Election Shows Declining Support for Putin's Party". The New York Times. ISSN 0362-4331. Archived from the original on 20 September 2021. Retrieved 27 September 2021.

[5] China Russia Compared wesleyan.edu July 2015

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