2003 Russian legislative election

Legislative election 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.

2003 Russian legislative election

7 December 2003
All 450 seats to the State Duma 226 seats needed for a majority
Turnout	55.7% 6 pp
Majority party Minority party Third party   Leader Boris Gryzlov Gennady Zyuganov Vladimir Zhirinovsky Party United Russia Communist Party LDPR Last election — 90 seats, 24.29% 17 seats, 5.98% Seats won 223 52 36 Seat change New 38 19 Popular vote 22,779,279 7,647,820 6,943,885 Percentage 37.57% 12.61% 11.45% Swing – 11.68pp 5.56pp   Fourth party Fifth party Sixth party   Leader Sergey Glazyev Grigory Yavlinsky Boris Nemtsov Party Rodina Yabloko Union of Right Forces Last election — 20 seats, 5.93% 29 seats, 8.52% Seats won 37 4 3 Seat change New 15 26 Popular vote 5,469,556 2,610,087 2,408,535 Percentage 9.02% 4.3% 4%
Results of the 2003 legislative election in the Russian Federation by proportional representation
Chairman before election Gennadiy Seleznyov Party of Russia's Rebirth Elected Chairman Boris Gryzlov United Russia

Election results

Distribution of the constituency seats by federal subject.

List

•   United Russia
    People's Party
    Communist Party
    Rodina
    Yabloko
    Party of Rebirth/Party of Life
    Union of Right Forces
    Agrarian Party
    Great Russia
    New Deal
    Business Development Party
    Self-nominations
    Seat not filled

As expected, the pro-Vladimir Putin United Russia party received the most votes (37.6 percent) and won the most seats. 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.

Official results

Party	PR			Constituency			Total seats	+/–
	Votes	%	Seats	Votes	%	Seats
United Russia	22,776,294	37.6	120	14,123,625	23.9	103	223	New
Communist Party	7,647,820	12.6	40	6,577,598	11.2	12	52	−61
Liberal Democratic Party	6,944,322	11.5	36	1,860,905	3.2	0	36	+19
Rodina	5,470,429	9.0	29	1,719,147	2.9	8	37	New
Yabloko	2,610,087	4.3	0	1,580,629	2.7	4	4	−16
Union of Right Forces	2,408,535	4.0	0	1,764,290	3.0	3	3	−26
Agrarian Party	2,205,850	3.6	0	1,104,974	1.9	2	2	New
Russian Pensioners' Party-Party of Social Justice	1,874,973	3.1	0	342,891	0.6	0	0	−1
Party of Russia's Rebirth-Russian Party of Life	1,140,413	1.9	0	1,584,904	2.7	3	3	New
People's Party	714,705	1.2	0	2,677,889	4.5	17	17	New
Unity	710,721	1.2	0	9,334	0.0	0	0	−73
New Course–Automobile Russia	509,302	0.8	0	222,090	0.4	1	1	New
For a Holy Russia	298,826	0.5	0	59,986	0.1	0	0	New
Russian Ecological Party "The Greens"	253,985	0.4	0	69,585	0.1	0	0	0
Development of Enterprise	212,827	0.4	0	237,527	0.4	1	1	New
Great Russia–Eurasian Union	170,796	0.3	0	464,602	0.8	1	1	New
Genuine Patriots of Russia	149,151	0.3	0	2,564	0.0	0	0	New
Peace and Unity	148,954	0.3	0	10,664	0.0	0	0	0
United Russian Party Rus'	147,441	0.2	0	570,453	1.0	0	0	New
Democratic Party of Russia	136,295	0.2	0	94,810	0.2	0	0	New
Russian Constitutional Democratic Party	113,190	0.2	0	–	–	–	0	New
Union of People for Education and Science	107,448	0.2	0	16,111	0.0	0	0	New
People's Republican Party	80,420	0.1	0	2,995	0.0	0	0	New
Other parties	–	–	–	288,866	0.5	0	0	–
Independents	–	–	–	15,843,626	26.9	67	67	−38
Against all	2,851,958	4.7	–	7,744,998	13.1	–	–	–
Vacant seats	–	–	–	–	–	3	3	–
Invalid/blank votes	948,435	–	–	1,247,491	–	–	–	–
Total	60,633,177	100	225	60,222,554	100	225	450	0
Registered voters/turnout	108,906,250	55.7	–	108,906,250	55.3	–	–	–
Source: Nohlen & Stöver, IPU, 2003 elections[2]

References

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)

External links

• Election results – official information (in Russian)