Russian legislative election, 2011

The parliamentary election in Russia in 2011 was held on December 4.

It was the first election in which the new distribution of seats of the State Duma of Russia has been determined for a legislative period of five instead of four years. The basis for this was that entered into force 30 December 2008 law that extended well beyond the term of office of the Russian president from four to six years. The first elections in which the president was determined for six years, took place on 4 March 2012.

The Central Election Commission of Russia announced the start of preparations for the 2011 parliamentary elections in May 2009.

Participating parties

The four 2007-2011 represented in the State Duma parties:

  • United Russia - leading candidate: Dmitry Medvedev
  • Communist Party of the Russian Federation - the top candidate: Gennady Zyuganov
  • Liberal Democratic Party of Russia - leading candidate Vladimir Zhirinovsky
  • Just Russia - leading candidate Sergei Mironov

In addition to the four previously represented in the State Duma parties three other parties contested the parliamentary elections:

  • Right Cause - top candidate Andrei Dunajew
  • Yabloko - top candidate Grigori Yavlinsky
  • Patriots of Russia - leading candidate: Gennadi Semigin

At the choice unauthorized parties

Numerous parties were not allowed to vote. Russia has one of the most restrictive laws Party in Europe, and since 2007, numerous parties were barred from re or re-registration. Thus, among others, the following parties were unable to attend:

  • Party of People's Freedom "For a Russia without arbitrariness and corruption "
  • Other Russia
  • Russian United Workers Front
  • National Bolshevik Party of Russia
  • Libertarian Party of Russia
  • Pirate Party of Russia
  • Home - Healthy Mind
  • Party of the fact
  • Agrarian

Forecasts before the election

Election result

  • ER: 238
  • CPRF: 92
  • GR: 64
  • LDPR: 56

The Central Election Commission said on 5 December 2011, the United Russia party officially the winner of the elections. According to the Commission, it reached 49.5 percent of the vote and thus 238 of 450 seats in parliament. The Communists came to 19.15 percent of the vote, Just Russia on 13.17 percent and the Liberal Democratic Party Vladimir Zhirinovsky at 11.66 percent. Turnout was then at 60.21 percent.

Represented in the Duma are therefore:

Reactions

International election observers came to the conclusion that in choosing democratic principles were seriously injured. The Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE ) presented " common " manipulations and procedures laid injuries. The elections did not meet international standards, says the Head of the OSCE observers in Russia, the Swiss diplomat Heidi Tagliavini: " Our main concern is the lack of separation between the ruling party and the state. The result was a very limited political competition in which even some parties were excluded from the elections. And it led to a political climate with too little fairness and clear advantage for the ruling party. "President and leading candidate Dmitry Medvedev dismissed the criticism as unfounded and unproven.

On the evening of December 5, 2011, thousands of people in Moscow and Saint Petersburg protesting against the election result and the United Russia party. It was the largest demonstration by the opposition for years. Protesters chanted "Russia without Putin " and held up signs that read: "Give the people their voice back " Among the ongoing protests called for the ex- Soviet President Mikhail Gorbachev on December 7, 2011, the Government to cancel the elections and tender for new elections. The leading candidate of the Yabloko party, Grigory Yavlinsky, recommended that the elected representatives to resign from their positions.

Vienna statisticians calculated that United Russia would regularly come to only one third of the votes and an absolute majority is completely out of reach. They developed a method to recognize a certain method of electoral fraud: ballot stuffing " ballot clutter ". In reality ballots are doing already before the ballots thrown or people paid a lot of ballots to interject at once. Operated systematically pierce these constituencies in the statistics by a high turnout with a high share of the vote a party out and are also graphically off the diffuse cloud of the remaining constituencies. In the total of 60,000 polling districts there were irregularities at 60 %. In 3000 there were 100 constituencies % of the vote for United Russia with a voter turnout of 100 %. These districts are mainly in Dagestan and Ossetia in the Caucasus, but submitted for nationwide absolute majority of.

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