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| 2018 Russian general election | ||||
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| All 850 seats in the State Duma 426 seats needed for a majority | ||||
| 9 September 2018 | ||||
| Turnout | 67.2% (▲4.0 pp) | |||
| First party | Second party | Third party | ||
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| Leader | Vladimir Putin | Dmitry Medvedev | Valentina Tereshkova | |
| Party | United Russia | Liberal Union | National | |
| Leader since | 9 August 1999 | 14 November 2005 | 21 December 2011 | |
| Leader's seat | Saint Petersburg | Saint Petersburg | Centre | |
| Last election | 212 seats, 25.0% | 343 seats, 40.4% | 130 seats, 15.3% | |
| Seats won | 377 | 216 | 77 | |
| Seat change | ▲165 | ▼127 | ▼53 | |
| Popular vote | 104,428,000 | 59,740,000 | 21,403,200 | |
| Percentage | 44.4% | 25.4% | 9.1% | |
| Swing | ▲19.4% | ▼15.0% | ▼6.2% | |
| Fourth party | Fifth party | Sixth party | ||
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| Leader | Sergey Levchenko | Maxim Oreshkin | Vladimir Zhirinovsky | |
| Party | SDLP | Progressive Conservative | New Russia | |
| Leader since | 2 October 2015 | 11 November 2016 | 13 December 1989 | |
| Leader's seat | Moscow | Saint Petersburg | Far East | |
| Last election | 60 seats, 7.0% | 20 seats, 2.4% | 61 seats, 7.2% | |
| Seats won | 66 | 43 | 36 | |
| Seat change | ▲6 | ▲23 | ▼25 | |
| Popular vote | 18,345,600 | 11,995,200 | 8,878,400 | |
| Percentage | 7.8% | 5.1% | 4.2% | |
| Swing | ▲0.8% | ▲2.7% | ▼3.0% | |
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| Elected XXVth State Duma | ||||
A general election was held in Russia on 9 September 2018 to elect the 850 members of the State Duma.
United Russia, led by former Prime Minister Vladimir Putin won a landslide victory, winning 44% of the vote and achieving an unprecedented swing of 19% towards them. The Liberal Union, led by incumbent Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev, on the other hand, had its worst result since the 2001 election, only managing to win 25% of the vote, and suffering a 15% swing against them. The National Party retained their position as the third party in the Duma with 9.1% of the vote.
The other parties to achieve representation in the Duma were the SDLP, the Progressive Conservative Party, New Russia and the Socialist Party, which won 66, 43, 36 and 35 seats respectively.
On 24 September 2018, 15 days after the election, United Russia reached a coalition agreement with the National Party. The new government took office on 3 October 2018.
Background[]
At the previous general election in 2012, the incumbent government—composed of the Liberal Union, the SDLP and the Progressive Conservative Party—failed to win a majority and was forced to maintain its confidence-and-supply agreement with the Socialist Party.
The second Medvedev cabinet was faced with growing impopularity due to the 2014-2017 financial crisis which hit Russia in 2014. The financial crisis was a result of sanctions imposed on Russia by Western countries in retaliation for its role in the Greek War.