2. Held in Russian SFSR on 12
June 1991; first presidential
election in the nation’s history,
following referendum on
electing a president in March
Result was victory for Boris
Yeltsin, who won 58.6% of the
vote , and won over CPSU
candidate Nikolai Ryzhkov
Yeltsin ran as an independent,
but was supported by
Democratic Russia
3. Presidential candidate: Boris Yeltsin
Vice-presidential candidate: Alexander Rutskoy
Party: None
Votes: 45,552,041
Percent: 58.6
Presidential candidate: Nikolai Ryzhkov
Vice-presidential candidate: Boris Gromov
Party: Communist Party of the Soviet Union
Votes: 13,395,335
Percent: 17.2
Presidential candidate: Vladimir Zhirinovsky
Vice-presidential candidate: Andrey Zavidiya
Party: Liberal Democratic Party
Votes: 6,211,007
Percent: 8.0
4. Presidential candidate: Aman Tuleyev
Vice-presidential candidate: Victor Bocharov
Party: Communist Party of the Soviet Union
Votes: 5,417,464
Percent: 7.0
Presidential candidate: Albert Makashov
Vice-presidential candidate: Aleksei Sergeyev
Party: Communist Party of the Soviet Union
Votes: 2,969,511
Percent: 3.8
Presidential candidate: Vadim Bakatin
Vice-presidential candidate: Ramazan Abdulatipov
Party: Communist Party of the Soviet Union
Votes: 2,719,757
Percent: 3.5
6. Held in Russia on 16 June 1996;
second round was held 3 July
Result was victory for
incumbent President Boris
Yeltsin, who ran as independent
and defeated opponent
Gennady Zyuganov of
Communist Party of the Russian
Federation in run-off
Yeltsin won 54.4% of the vote;
his inauguration ceremony was
held on Friday 9 August
7. Candidate: Candidate: Gennady
Boris Yeltsin Zyuganov
Party: Communist
Party: None
Party of the Russian
Votes: Federation
26,665,495 Votes: 24,211,686
Percent: 35.8 Percent: 32.5
8. Candidate: Boris Candidate: Gennady
Zyuganov
Yeltsin
Party: Communist Party
Party: None of the Russian
Federation
Votes: 40,203,948
Votes: 30,102,288
Percent: 54.4 Percent: 40.7
9. Held in Russia on 26 March
2000
Incumbent PM and acting
President Vladimir Putin,
who ascended to the
presidency in the wake of
Boris Yeltsin’s resignation on
31 December 1999, was
seeking a four-year term
Putin won the elections in
first round over Communist
opponent Gennady
Zyuganov
10. Candidate: Vladimir Putin Candidate: Aman Tuleyev
Party: None Party: None
Votes: 39,740,467 Votes: 2,217,364
Percent: 53.4 Percent: 3.0
Candidate: Gennady Candidate: Vladimir
Zyuganov Zhirinovsky
Party: Communist Party of the Party: Liberal Democratic
Russian Federation Party of Russia
Votes: 21,928,468 Votes: 2,026,509
Percent: 29.5 Percent: 2.7
Candidate: Grigory Konstantin Titov
Yavlinsky Party: None (unofficially
Party: Yabloko aligned with Union of Right
Votes: 4,351,450 Forces)
Percent: 5.9 Votes: 1,107,269
Percent: 1.5
12. Held in Russia on 14 March
2004
Incumbent President
Vladimir Putin was seeking
another four-year term
Putin was re-elected with
71.9% of the vote, winning
over Communist Party
candidate Nikolay
Kharitonov
13. Candidate: Vladimir Putin
Party: None
Votes: 49,558,328
Percent: 71.9
Candidate: Nikolay Kharitinov
Party: Communist Party of the Russian Federation
Votes: 9,514,554
Percent: 13.8
Candidate: Sergey Glazyev
Party: None
Votes: 2,850,610
Percent: 4.1
Candidate: Irina Khakamada
Party: None
Votes: 2,672,189
Percent: 3.9
14. Oleg Malyshkin
Party: Liberal Democratic Party of Russia
Votes: 1,405,326
Percent: 2.0
Sergey Mironov
Party: Russian Party of Life
Votes: 524,332
Percent: 0.8
Against all
Votes: 2,397,140
Percent: 3.5
Invalid/blank votes
Votes: 578,847
Percent: -
Total
Votes: 69,501,326
Percent: 100
Registered voters/turnout
Votes: 108,064,281
Percent: 64.3
15. Held on 2 March 2008; resulted in
election of Dmitry Medvedev as third
President of Russia
Medvedev’s candidacy was backed by
incumbent President Vladimir Putin and
five political parties (United Russia, Fair
Russia, Agrarian Party, Civilian Power,
Russian Ecological Party “The Greens”)
and he won 71% of the vote, defeating
candidates from Communist Party of the
Russian Federation, Liberal Democratic
Party of Russia and Democratic Party of
Russia
The fairness of this election was disputed
and official monitoring groups gave
conflicting reports; some reported the
election was free and fair and others
reported that not every candidate had
equal coverage from the media and that
Kremlin opposition was not treated fairly
OSCE election monitoring group declined
to monitor the election because of what it
labeled “severe restrictions on its
observers by the Russian government”, a
charge Russia fervidly dismissed
16. Candidate: Dmitry Medvedev
Nominating parties: United Russia (was also supported by Agrarian Party, Fair Russia,
Russian Ecological Party – “The Greens” and Civilian Power, but was officially nominated
by United Russia)
Votes: 52,530,712
Percent: 71.2
Candidate: Gennady Zyuganov
Nominating parties: Communist Party of the Russian Federation
Votes: 13,243,550
Percent: 18.0
Candidate: Vladimir Zhirinovsky
Nominating parties: Liberal Democratic Party of Russia
Votes: 6,988,510
Percent: 9.5
Candidate: Andrei Bogdanov
Nominating parties: Democratic Party of Russia
Votes: 968,344
Percent: 1.3
Invalid/blank ballots
Votes: 1,105,533
Percent: -
18. Held on 4 March 2012 with five officially
registered candidates: four representatives
(each one from a party represented in State
Duma) and one independent
This election was for the new and extended
term of six years
At the United Russia Congress, held in
Moscow on 24 September 2011, incumbent
President Dmitry Medvedev offered
incumbent PM and predecessor Vladimir
Putin to reclaim the presidency, which Putin
accepted, offering Medvedev in turn to
stand on United Russia ticket in legislative
election in December so Medvedev could be
PM at the close of his presidential term
Putin gained 63.64 percent of the vote with
nearly 100% of the votes counted; with this
victory, he has received a third term in the
Kremlin
Observers from Organization for Security
and Cooperation in Europe reported there
were irregularities including ballot stuffing
at nearly a third of the stations they
monitored
Next presidential election will be in 2018
19. Candidate: Vladimir Putin
Nominating parties: United Russia
Votes: 45,513,001
Percent: 63.64
Candidate: Gennady Zyuganov
Nominating parties: Communist Party of the Russian Federation
Votes: 12,288,624
Percent: 17.18
Candidate: Mikhail Prokhorov
Nominating parties: None
Votes: 5,680,558
Percent: 7.94
Candidate: Vladimir Zhirinovsky
Nominating parties: Liberal Democratic Party of Russia
Votes: 4,448,959
Percent: 6.22