United Russia Wins, Nears Record 355 Duma Seats

United Russia Wins, 57.83%, Nears Record 355 Duma Seats

Was Russia's vote a genuine election with real competition or a Kremlin-scripted result with the opposition erased from the ballot?

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United Russia Wins, Nears Record 355 Duma Seats

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Above: A man votes in Russia's parliamentary election at a polling station in Shishkin Les, Moscow, on Sept. 19. Image credit: Igor Ivanko/AFP/Getty Images

The Spin

Calling this an election insults the word. The one party that dared oppose the war, Yabloko, got erased from the ballot by the Supreme Court twelve days after registering, with two of its deputy leaders sitting in prison and candidates jailed or barred. A record 355 seats for United Russia proves nothing except that a vote with no real choice delivers whatever the Kremlin orders.

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More than 62 million Russians turned out and handed United Russia 57.83%a massive victory while cyberattackers hammered the voting infrastructure with over 1,000 waves of DDoS assaults. Ten parties competed, four cleared the threshold and international observers from the Shanghai Cooperation Organization found no violations, calling the vote transparent and credible. Yabloko even won a seat share in the Novgorod regional Duma.

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Metaculus Prediction

There is a 50% chance that Vladimir Putin will cease to hold the office of President of Russia by October 2029, according to the Metaculus prediction community.