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
Turnout55.7% 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.

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 Russia22,776,29437.612014,123,62523.9103223New
Communist Party of the Russian Federation7,647,82012.6406,577,59811.21252−61
Liberal Democratic Party of Russia6,944,32211.5361,860,9053.2036+19
National Patriotic Union "Rodina"5,470,4299.0291,719,1472.9837New
Yabloko2,610,0874.301,580,6292.744−16
Union of Right Forces2,408,5354.001,764,2903.033−26
Agrarian Party of Russia2,205,8503.601,104,9741.922New
Russian Pensioners' Party-Party of Social Justice1,874,9733.10342,8910.600−1
Party of Russia's Rebirth-Russian Party of Life1,140,4131.901,584,9042.733New
People's Party714,7051.202,677,8894.51717New
Conceptual Party Unity710,7211.209,3340.000−73
New Course–Automobile Russia509,3020.80222,0900.411New
For a Holy Russia298,8260.5059,9860.100New
Russian Ecological Party "The Greens"253,9850.4069,5850.1000
Development of Enterprise212,8270.40237,5270.411New
Great Russia–Eurasian Union170,7960.30464,6020.811New
Genuine Patriots of Russia149,1510.302,5640.000New
Party of Peace and Unity148,9540.3010,6640.0000
United Russian Party Rus'147,4410.20570,4531.000New
Democratic Party of Russia136,2950.2094,8100.200New
Russian Constitutional Democratic Party113,1900.200New
Union of People for Education and Science107,4480.2016,1110.000New
People's Republican Party of Russia80,4200.102,9950.000New
Other parties288,8660.500
Independents15,843,62626.96767−38
Against all2,851,9584.77,744,99813.1
Vacant seats33
Invalid/blank votes948,4351,247,491
Total60,633,17710022560,222,5541002254500
Registered voters/turnout108,906,25055.7108,906,25055.3
Source: Nohlen & Stöver, IPU, 2003 elections[2]

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