State Duma Elections

1. STATE DUMA ELECTIONS (December 17, 1995) Table 1 Distribution of Votes (electoral blocs)

Note : Only those blocs which have
overcome the 5-%- barrier are
represented
YaBLoko - a ‘moderate democratic’
bloc, headed by G.Yavlinskiy
OHR (“Our Home - Russia”) - a progovernment coalition, headed by Prime
Minister V.Chernomirdin
CPRF - Communist Party of the
Russian Federation (G.Zuganov)
LDPR - Liberal -Democratic Party of
Russia (‘radical nationalists’), headed
by V.Zhirinovskiy
22.31
25.00%
20.00%
15.00%
11.06
YaBLoko
9.89
10.00%
6.93
OHR
5.00%
CPRF
0.00%
LDPR

2. THE STATE DUMA after December 1995 elections Table 2

LEFT: CPRF [Zuganov](157 seats) and its allies - the Agrarian Party[Lapshin] (20 seats), the blocs
“Communists for the USSR”[Anpilov](1 seat), and “Power - to the People”[Rizhkov] (9 seats) - 187
seats
CENTER: “Our Home - Russia” [Chernomirdin](58 seats) and minor centrist blocs (11 seats) - 69
seats
RIGHT: “Yabloko” [‘moderate democrats’, Yavlinskiy](45 seats),
“The Democratic Choice of Russia” [‘radical democrats’, Y.Gaidar]
(9 seats), and minor ‘democratic’ blocs (8 seats) - 62 seats
69
187
NATIONALISTS: LDPR [‘radical nationalists’, V.Zhirinovskiy] (51 seats)
and ‘moderate nationalists’ - “The Congress of Russian Commons”
[Lebed-Skokov](5 seats) - 56 seats
OTHERS: minor fractions (one seat each)
and independent deputies - 76 seats
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TOTAL: 450 seats
Right
Center
Left
Nationalists
Others
62
76
56

3. STATE DUMA OF THE RUSSIAN FEDERATION (July 1997) Table 3

Right Liberals (The “YaBLoko” Bloc) 46 seats
Center - 106 seats:
51
“Our Home-Russia” - 64 seats
“Russian Regions” - 42 seats
Left/Left Center/Left Nationalists
(The Popular Patriotic Union) 215 seats
“The Communist Faction” - 147 seats
“The Agrarian Faction” - 36 seats
“The Popular Power Faction” - 34 seats
Right Nationalists (The Liberal-Democratic
Party of Russia) - 51 seats
Others (independent) - 27 seats
TOTAL: 447 seats (+ 3 vacant seats)
Right Liberals
27
3
46
Center
106
217
Left/Left
Center/Left
Nationalists
Right
Nationalists
Others
Vacant Seats