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Monday, 08 December 2003

UNIFIED RUSSIA WINS BIG

Published in News Digest

By empty (12/8/2003 issue of the CACI Analyst)

The Central Election Commission\'s (TsIK) Aleksandr Veshnyakov announced that as of 10 a.m., Moscow time, that day and with 90.
The Central Election Commission\'s (TsIK) Aleksandr Veshnyakov announced that as of 10 a.m., Moscow time, that day and with 90.58 percent of the vote counted, the results of the 7 December State Duma election according to party lists were as follows: Unified Russia -- 36.84 percent; the Communist Party of Russia -- 12.74 percent; the Liberal Democratic Party of Russia (LDPR) -- 11.8 percent; the Motherland-Patriotic Union bloc -- 9.02 percent; Yabloko -- 4.3 percent; the Union of Rightist Forces (SPS) -- 3.9 percent; and the Agrarian Party -- 3.8 percent. Veshnyakov said that SPS and Yabloko have almost no chance of winning the 5 percent necessary to gain party-list seats in the new Duma. Turnout, he said, exceeded 55 percent. (Interfax)
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