Russian legislative election, 2003

The parliamentary election in Russia in 2003 was held on 7 December 2003, there were 450 seats in the Duma ( Gossudarstwennaja Duma ), the lower house of the Russian parliament chambers forgive.

As expected, the party of President Vladimir Putin's United Russia won ( "party of power "), the largest number of votes and seats. Most other parties lost their importance. After the elections went beyond in a number of independent candidates and representatives of other parties of the Group, so that " United Russia " finally had 305 of 450 seats and thus a two-thirds majority in Parliament. Through the elections, Putin gained complete control of the legislature.

Due to the 5 % threshold, only four parties came into power fraction (35 seats) in parliament, next to 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 putin loyal party Rodina ( 9.02 %, 45 seats). 80 seats of smaller parties were awarded via direct mandates.

Of the remaining parties, the Communist Party, although still the strongest party, limited in their opportunities in the opposition, however. She lost in comparison to the Russian parliament election in 1999 half of their votes. The Chairman Zyuganov spoke of election fraud and accused the government under Putin have specifically created a left nationalist party competition for KP with the formation of the party Rodina. Because the Liberal Democratic Party is part of the government, the KPRF, the only opposition party is in fraction strength in Russia since the elections. The nationalist Liberal Democratic Party also gained some members.

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

According to the OSCE, the election campaign " in parts not fair " was run and failed "democratic standards ". The German election observer Rita Süssmuth said: "Putin and his party had a dominating presence in the State TV ".

  • ER: 222
  • CPRF: 51
  • LDPR: 37
  • Rodina: 37
  • VRF: 16
  • Yabloko: 4
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