The preliminary results of the elections on the single voting day have been announced. Everyone guessed it, no one is happy How the voting is going, preliminary results

At 21:00 Moscow time on March 18, voting in the presidential elections in the Russian Federation ended. The last polling stations closed in the country's westernmost region, Kaliningrad. It was only after that that the first voting results began to be made public.

According to the exit poll from VTsIOM, the absolute leader was Vladimir Putin, with 73.9% of the vote. In second place was the candidate from the Communist Party Pavel Grudinin with 11.2% of the vote. The third position was taken Vladimir Zhirinovsky(6.7%). On the fourth line is Ksenia Sobchak from 2.5%, bypassing the leader of Yabloko Grigory Yavlinsky from 1.6%. In the top three outsiders were Boris Titov (1,1%), Sergei Baburin(1.0%) and Maxim Suraikin (0,8%).

The Central Election Commission, after processing 30% of the ballots, presented preliminary results, which are slightly different from the exit poll. Vladimir Putin is also in the lead with a score of 73.11%. The remaining candidates have the following results: Grudinin - 14.96%, Zhirinovsky - 6.73%, Sobchak - 1.39%, Yavlinsky - 0.77%, Baburin - 0.62%, Suraykin - 0.61%, Titov - 0.59%. As the ballots are processed, the numbers may change, but the overall disposition is likely to remain unchanged.

At the same time, if we take into account that there are about 109 million voters in the country, and about 60 million came to the polling stations, 43 million voters cast their votes for Putin, which is even less than in 2012 and which is clearly less than even half of the electorate, not to mention the population of the entire countries where, as you know, more than 144 million people. That is, one hundred million Russians did not vote for Putin. At the same time, Grudinin, who was so diligently "drenched" by federal channels, scored more than eight million votes. If he had the same access and such praise in the media, then it is not difficult to imagine his result.

However, the votes are still being counted. The CEC promises to present the preliminary results of the elections around midnight. The vast majority of the protocols of precinct commissions with the results of voting in the 2018 presidential elections of the Russian Federation will be entered into the Vybory GAS system between 2-3 am Moscow time.

“We will not introduce foreign countries yet, not all precinct election commissions will present us with the results of the vote. We will have up to 99.9% by 2 a.m.,” said the deputy head of the CEC Nikolai Bulaev. The deputy head of the department also said that the consequences of hacker attacks on the CEC website were prevented.

It can be stated that the voting took place without any special incidents and violations and was characterized by a relatively high turnout. “There are no large-scale violations that could affect the will of Russian citizens and could indicate a failure,” the Ombudsman said. Tatyana Moskalkova at a meeting of the apparatus following the results of the monitoring of the electoral process. And the speaker of the Federation Council Valentina Matvienko expressed the opinion that society had passed the test of political maturity.

At the beginning of the voting, Free Press wrote that another winner of the elections is the Central Election Commission and its head Ella Pamfilova. Until now, the turnout in presidential elections in Russia has never exceeded 70%, although it has been approaching this figure. So, in 2008, more than 69% of voters came to vote, and it was the same in 1996. In the last elections, the turnout was 65.3%.

At the beginning of voting, it seemed that the 2018 elections were characterized by more active voters. As of 10:00 Moscow time, the turnout, according to Ella Pamfilova, was 16.55%. For comparison, in 2012 only 6.53% of voters had voted by this time. By 12:00 pm, 34.72% of citizens had already given their ballots. However, then the growth of this indicator began to slow down. At 18:00, according to the CEC, the turnout was 59.93%, which means it is still clearly lower than in 2012.

The final turnout figures will be presented along with the preliminary results of the elections, and so far this is perhaps the main intrigue of the vote. Although the head of staff of Grigory Yavlinsky Nikolai Rybakov has already acknowledged that the idea of ​​a boycott of the elections failed, and presidential candidate Ksenia Sobchak said that the voting was much more transparent than last time.

Nevertheless, there were reports of violations, although not massive ones. For example, Alexey Venediktov, the editor-in-chief of Ekho Moskvy reported that at one of the polling stations a voter threw two ballots into the ballot box. Yabloko representative, TEC observer Pavel Melnikov stated that he personally voted twice by absentee ballot within the framework of the Mobile Voter system. Chairman of the Moscow City Electoral Committee Valentin Gorbunov called these messages "pure provocation" and suggested that Melnikov "is not all right with his head." At some polling stations, possible stuffing of ballots was recorded, for example, at polling station No. 1480 in Lyubertsy and polling station No. 326 in the city of Artem. The ballot boxes with alleged stuffing were sealed.

The most serious electoral scandals occurred outside of Russia. In Ukraine, the police blocked polling stations in consular offices where citizens of the Russian Federation could vote. Despite the indignation of the Russian Foreign Ministry, the OSCE washed their hands, saying that Moscow and Kyiv should resolve this issue on their own.

There were also provocations during the early voting of Russian citizens in the United States. The Ambassador of the Russian Federation Anatoly Antonov. According to him, the buildings where the vote was supposed to take place were “doused with muck”. There were also cases of threats against people who allowed their premises to be used for voting. At the same time, as eyewitnesses write in social networks, there is a high activity of voters at foreign polling stations, at many points there were even queues of those who wanted to vote.

Recall that eight candidates took part in the presidential elections in the Russian Federation: Sergey Baburin (Russian People's Union party), Pavel Grudinin (KPRF), Vladimir Zhirinovsky (LDPR), Vladimir Putin (self-nominated), Ksenia Sobchak (Civil Initiative), Maxim Suraikin (Communists of Russia), Boris Titov (Party of Growth) and Grigory Yavlinsky (Yabloko).

The results of the elections must become known no later than three days after the voting. The deadline for summing up the results of the elections is March 30, and the publication of the results is until April 1. The winner and the new president of Russia for the next presidential term 2018-2024. the candidate who receives 50% of the vote becomes the candidate.

If no one succeeds, a second round is scheduled, in which the two candidates who receive the maximum number of votes participate. The inauguration of the new president is held on the day the term of office of the current leader of the country ends - May 7.

Recall that in Russia the second round of presidential elections was held only once - in 1996, when the Russians chose between the incumbent president of the Russian Federation Boris Yeltsin and leader of the Communist Party Gennady Zyuganov. However, now we can say with almost complete certainty that there will be no second round, and Vladimir Putin won a landslide victory.

As political scientists say, the main question is exactly how many votes the voters cast for the incumbent president. As for the results of the other candidates, they indicate that a demand has matured in society for the renewal of the entire political system, both the authorities and the opposition.

“The preliminary results of the elections did not bring any surprises, both in terms of the overall balance of power and taking into account percentages,” says director of the Institute for Applied Political Research Grigory Dobromelov.- Most likely, the indicators of Vladimir Putin and Pavel Grudinin will grow, but the distribution of seats will remain the same. And castling between Baburin, Suraykin or Titov does not fundamentally affect the result.

The most important thing now is not even the percentage of turnout and votes received by Putin, but their absolute number, which Vladimir Vladimirovich can receive as a result of these elections. It is important that the total number of voters who voted for him exceed 54 million people. That is, if the total number of voters we have is 107.2 million, it is necessary that the incumbent president receive more than half of the votes. For the presidential administration, this is a very important milestone, which, I think, will be overcome.

SP: Why is this so important?

Vladimir Putin has never received more than 50 million votes. The maximum result was 49.5 million voters. But Dmitry Medvedev in 2008 gained 51 million votes. Therefore, it is important for the incumbent president and his team to overcome this psychological level.

"SP": - If this succeeds, will this confident result somehow affect the attitude of the West towards the Russian leadership?

- Six months ago it became clear that there was no need to fight for the interpretation of the elections in the West, because they would be recognized as illegitimate by default. The West does not recognize the results of the voting in Crimea, which means it will say that the elections as a whole are not entirely legitimate. Also, Western partners will insist that it was necessary to allow for elections Alexei Navalny and in general will look for fleas in the electoral process.

"SP": - And what can be said in general about the results of the so-called liberal opposition - Ksenia Sobchak, Grigory Yavlinsky?

- The liberal opposition drove itself into a kind of electoral ghetto, from which neither Sobchak nor Yavlinsky could get out. Their result is not an indicator that the opposition has 3-5% of the votes. This is the result of ineffective mobilization. Although all the candidates, with the resources they used (and no one used them to the maximum), got exactly the result that they had worked out.

"SP": - Nevertheless, Ksenia Sobchak managed to get around Grigory Yavlinsky ...

- It is natural. Grigory Alekseevich, in fact, hammered the last nail into the lid of his political career.

Director of the Center for Political Studies of the Financial University under the Government of the Russian Federation Pavel Salin believes that the results of the presidential elections indicate a request for a renewal of power.

“We saw that with a very serious consolidation of resources and efforts, the authorities managed to sell the population the idea of ​​maintaining the status quo with some bows. Nevertheless, judging by the preliminary results, the demand for the renewal of the political system in a broad sense is crystallizing more and more clearly - both the authorities and the opposition, which in fact are sparring partners of the authorities.

"SP": - But the incumbent president seems to be winning by a huge margin. Doesn't this mean that society is happy with everything?

- No, this update request is not egregious, but it is. Now the main intrigue is what the turnout will be. Let me remind you that in 2012 it was 65.3%. If this figure is lower now, the authorities will simply make statements that the turnout is unprecedentedly high without reference to numbers. Despite the extreme strain on the resources of the authorities, despite the massive propaganda campaign to attract people to the elections, despite the simplification of the electoral process with absentee ballots, it is becoming more and more difficult to mobilize the population.

"SP": - And what about the results of other candidates?

- If the gap between Zhirinovsky and Grudinin remains so serious, this will also indicate a request to update the visual range of power. The people who voted for Grudinin did not vote for a member of the Communist Party of the Russian Federation, not for an oligarch and a Stalinist, as his opponents positioned him. They just voted for a new face. And the fact that this new face scored a fairly high result, having participated in the elections for the first time, indicates that a request for renewal has formed.

As for the other candidates, Baburin and Suraykin practically did not hide the fact that they were spoilers. If we talk about Sobchak, you need to wait for the results of voting in large cities, Moscow and St. Petersburg. The same is true for Titov. But Grudinin's second place was predictable, and this is a good result for him. Although he was under very tough pressure and his campaign was carefully moderated. If he had not been interfered with, Grudinin could count on a result two or three times more than he would score in the end, purely due to the effect of novelty and personal charisma.

"SP": - How will the election results be perceived in the West?

- External players understand that they have no chance to destabilize the situation under the slogans of illegitimate elections. Instead, a larger campaign has been launched to discredit the Russian regime. The authorities should prepare for this, but this is no longer a matter of an electoral campaign, it is a matter of a long-term strategy. And from the point of view of the electoral campaign, the West has no chance of striking at the legitimacy of the presidential election results.

Follow the results of the elections in the special topic of "Free Press" -

On March 18, a vote was held in our country and abroad, during which citizens of the Russian Federation elected the head of state for the next 6 years. Eight candidates competed for the post of the new president of the Russian Federation, 85 constituent entities of the Russian Federation and approximately 111 million voters took part in the event. Let's sum up the results of the presidential elections and find out the final results of the 2018 vote.

List of contenders

In total, from December 18 to January 12, 70 applications were submitted to the CEC from applicants for the post of head of the Russian Federation, including 46 self-nominated candidates and 24 representatives of state parties.

As a result, the commission registered 8 candidates:

• Vladimir Putin (65 years old) is the current president, self-nominated. The result of the last voting was 63.6%.
• Pavel Grudinin (57) is a candidate from the Communist Party of the Russian Federation, he participates in elections for the first time.
• Sergey Baburin (59) is a nominee from the Russian People's Union. Never ran for president before.
• Vladimir Zhirinovsky (71) is a candidate from the Liberal Democratic Party. Became a presidential candidate for the 4th time. The result in the 2012 elections is 9.35%.
• Ksenia Sobchak (36) is a candidate from the Civil Initiative. She submitted her candidacy for the first time.
• Maksim Suraikin (39) - a nominee from the Communists of Russia, had not previously taken part in the elections.
• Boris Titov (57) – Party of Growth, applied for voting for the first time.
• Grigory Yavlinsky (65) - co-founder of the Yabloko party. The last time he was nominated for president was in 2000, 5.8% of citizens voted for him.

Election turnout

According to the CEC, voter turnout reached 67.47%, which is higher than in 2012, when 65.34% of the population of the Russian Federation took part in the voting.

At the same time, such a level of civil responsibility of the population is not an absolute record - in 2008, when Medvedev was elected president, the turnout was 69%.

Purity of voting

Despite the modern technical equipment of polling stations in the form of webcams and electronic ballot boxes, ballot stuffing and other violations were noted during the elections in several regions of the country.

Also, before the election day, there was some pressure on citizens from the media and coercion to vote by employers of budgetary institutions.

According to the Associated Press, these facts do not cast doubt on Putin's crushing victory, since the absolute majority of voters voted for him.

Election results

According to the CEC

The Central Election Commission submitted the following data, obtained on the basis of processing 99.83% of the ballots. The final results will be announced after a few days.

Exit poll data

The statistical error ranges from 0.7% to 2.5% depending on the volume of the indicator (0.7% for indicators below 1% and 2.5% for indicators above 10%).

As expected, the results of the preliminary voting confirmed the final results of the presidential elections in Russia. Putin won an unconditional victory and set two new records: he collected the maximum number of votes in percentage and in number of all those who had previously participated in the elections.

President's plans for a new term

During his election campaign, the incumbent (and new) president of Russia began to implement his election promises. In particular, Putin approved a number of bills in support of his demographic reform.

After the vote, the president held a press conference at his campaign headquarters, during which he spoke about the next steps. According to Putin, in the near future he does not plan to introduce global changes to the country's Constitution, but personnel changes in the government will definitely take place, but only after his inauguration.

The president has not yet decided on a candidate for the post of prime minister - perhaps the post will remain with Medvedev.

10.09.2018

On September 10, 2018, the Information Center of the CEC of Russia announced the preliminary results of the elections on the single voting day on September 9 in the constituent entities of the Russian Federation.

“One of the largest election campaigns is coming to an end on a single voting day, which took place in 80 regions of our country,” said Ella Pamfilova, Chairman of the Russian Central Election Commission. - Despite all the skepticism, we really saw a competitive and sometimes unpredictable struggle. Some of the results came as a big surprise even to the experts. For example, in Yakutsk, the candidate from the opposition "Party for the Revival of Russia" - Sardana Avksentieva - became the winner in the mayoral elections. It is already known that in some subjects there will be a second round of voting in the elections of senior officials.

The average turnout in the seven single-member constituencies was about 30 percent, which is in line with the turnout in the by-elections to the State Duma in 2017. “At the same time, more than 15,000 voters voted at polling stations formed abroad, which is an indicator of a fairly high interest of citizens in the elections,” said Ella Pamfilova.

“At the moment, we can talk about four subjects where the second round of voting will take place,” said the Chairman of the CEC of Russia. - Regional laws of the Republic of Khakassia, the Khabarovsk Territory and the Vladimir Region suggest that the second round will take place in two weeks. Primorsky Territory legislation establishes that the second round may be held no later than 21 days after voting day. However, we hope that Primorye will organize its work in such a way that all four regions will hold the second round on the same day - September 23rd. Why? Let me remind you that the repeated elections will be held using the Mobile Voter mechanism. It is very important that all our technical services have time to prepare, so that all voters in these four regions have the opportunity to use this mechanism. Two weeks is the best option.

Ella Pamfilova said that according to the general results of voting in elections to the legislative bodies of state power of the constituent entities of the Russian Federation, 14 parties received mandates in legislative assemblies, as well as candidates nominated by self-nomination.

“The elections showed that we are moving to a new level both in the correctness of procedures and in the degree of independence of the commissions, the ability to resist various kinds of administrative pressure, to quickly work with new technological solutions, has appeared,” said Ella Pamfilova. - And the main difference between the current elections, which has never happened, is that during the whole day online it was possible to observe the turnout and the process of entering protocols. This is the maximum level of transparency. Almost all regions tried very quickly to introduce protocols into the GAS "Vybory". It is important that there was no gap between the technical innovations that we were preparing, the legal culture and the professional training of our commissions, so that all this worked together. The amount of our efforts began to turn into visible qualitative changes. And this is the work of a huge number of people.

Grigory Melkonyants

“Those administrative technologies appeared, the appearance of which we recorded even before the elections. Basically, these are signals about coercion to vote. In particular,

there is very strange data on intra-regional electoral migration, which is more than 4 times higher than inter-regional (we are talking about those people who voted outside the place of registration)

The number of attached and unattached in different areas is distributed very unevenly. In addition, people came to the polling stations in organized groups. This indirectly confirms that many voted under pressure. The unfree participation in elections of sufficiently large groups of people is the first important problem.

There are questions about the procedure for home voting. Electoral commissions complain that people who either do not live at the declared address or have already died have somehow expressed a desire to vote. In other cases, people complain that they cannot find themselves on the lists, or that there are different marks on the lists. Let's see if there will be any spikes in the distribution of votes.

There are several dozens of signals about stuffing of various calibers, mainly based on the results of video surveillance. The CEC promptly responded to some cases - for example, the Moscow Regional Electoral Committee of ballots at a polling station in Lyubertsy near Moscow. In Karachay-Cherkessia, a police officer tried to throw a pack of electoral sheets into a ballot box.

Another problem is signals from people who are dissatisfied with the design of polling stations. For example, there was a flurry of calls from Grudinin's voters, who demanded that leaflets with information about his foreign accounts be removed from posters. People also complained about the portraits of the incumbent on the stands in polling stations - in Dagestan they hung right above the booths for secret voting.

We have not yet seen any obvious cases of falsification, such as mass carousels. Administrative technologies were mainly used before the voting day and concerned unequal coverage in the media, the transfer of the President's message, and so on. Election day does not play such a role here, it is just a "general calculator" of votes.

The PR effect of the campaign to increase turnout was certainly noticeable: at 8 am, the polling stations were already full. Considering that there was no great intrigue in these elections from the very beginning, the queue of voters from the very morning is a very exotic phenomenon.

Rostislav Turovsky

political scientist

- In most regions, there is an increase in turnout compared to the previous presidential elections - we can report on the successful mobilization of voters. It must be admitted that it was unprecedented, and, most importantly, effective. The vertical worked, the governors turned on - they traveled around the region, launched information campaigns. It is clear that 80-90% turnout cannot be under any circumstances, but organizational efforts have managed to raise the bar by several points. And this is already an achievement.

Interestingly, the national republics, which gave super-high results in turnout, this time behave more restrained. From fantasy they have become more real.

Purity and transparency there, in comparison with the previous campaign, have grown - this is a fact. An important role in this was played by both observation and installations, which implied a less active use of administrative resources.

In my opinion, the level of turnout and the ratio of votes between candidates as a whole reflect the real picture. You can argue and discuss for a long time about the violations committed, but the result is quite objective.

The election result corresponds to the level of support that Vladimir Putin has. And what happened with Grudinin, who actually started his federal political career from scratch, is a very good result.

It is worth waiting for the results in Moscow and St. Petersburg. Then it will be possible to talk about whether Sobchak has her own electoral potential, which she can convert to support herself or her party during future election campaigns. Judging by the trends that exist at the moment, I will cautiously say that there is potential.

It is no coincidence that it was Sobchak who became the object of attacks by Alexei Navalny, who, following the results of the elections, realized the seriousness of his own problems. Still, in these elections she declared herself as a politician (even if the percentage of votes in the country as a whole will be small) and demonstrated the ability to attract voters. For her political career, this is certainly a step forward. How she will dispose of this capital is another question.

But it is not necessary to say that Navalny's indirect participation in the elections was successful.

And it is not entirely clear how, under these conditions, he will continue to build his activities. As a result of this campaign, Navalny did not earn political points, and it is simply ridiculous to talk about the success of the boycott of the elections with such a turnout, including in the capital's centers. Probably, he will once again have to rebuild his strategy in order to remain in the political field in some role.

Alexander Kynev

political scientist

- Everything is absolutely expected: the turnout is more than 60%, Putin has about 70%, the second is Grudinin. It will be interesting to compare the final data in the regions on turnout with the last elections and the distribution of votes between candidates. Suddenly there will be interesting nuances? And so everything is extremely predictable and the outcome was a foregone conclusion.

That administrative excess, which was demonstrated by the authorities of a number of regions, was absolutely unnecessary to anyone and, in fact, only worked to discredit the elections. I believe that everything could have been carried out more correctly, more calmly, without hysteria around observers and excessive pressure on voters.

Those candidates who should have failed, given the quality of their campaigns, deservedly failed. First of all, I mean conditionally democratic candidates - the result of Sobchak, Yavlinsky and Titov is absolutely natural.

I believe that this is a sentence that proves that Sobchak initially led a campaign to discredit the democratic movement.

In principle, Grudinin's campaign was initially organized as a failure. Image accents were made incorrectly, the game on counterattacks was not worked out at all, the candidate was simply put under attack. The whole story with Stalinism and strange going to debates turned Grudinin into a tabloid hero. There is a feeling that the whole campaign was built for another candidate, it did not fit Grudinin's personality at all. The stereotype won over common sense. But, and this is also predictable, the Communist Party of the Russian Federation has a stable electorate, ready to vote even for Ivan Ivanovich Ivanov.

The boycott of Navalny is, in fact, just a way to distance himself from supporting anyone. After all, it is absolutely clear that supporting failed campaigns in terms of image is extremely harmful. Based on the overall results, Navalny's political rating is higher than that of Sobchak, Yavlinsky and Titov combined.

In fact, in these elections there was a struggle of the old nomenklatura for the preservation of its status. The task was to prevent anyone new, and if allowed, then such a caricature candidate who would definitely not interfere with her former monopoly. They were the true beneficiaries of the campaign, not even Putin.

Dmitry Oreshkin

political scientist

- I was struck by the huge number - 6 million people who registered at the place of residence. This is a technology that increases turnout and support. Thanks to this, the integral indicator of turnout will be higher than in previous elections. Still, 6 million is almost 10% of the number of voters. This is proof that intelligent people are sitting in the Kremlin. But 70% turnout will not work, I think. If last time the figures were 65.3%, now, apparently, it will be somewhere around 67. It turns out that they removed the night falsification, but replaced it with absentee ones.

Of course, these elections could be cleaner, we saw new incentives for this - observers appeared in Chechnya, where they were previously not allowed in principle.

At least in Grozny they played their role, which was reflected in the turnout figures. Under supervision, you still can’t figure out so famously 99%. But in general, these elections did not become much cleaner, but also dirtier. We have remained at the same level.

The results for candidates are also quite predictable, approximately at the same level as last time. Ksenia Sobchak will probably gain about 3%, and maybe even more, when the central regions are connected. In any case, she will have more votes than Yavlinsky. And its result should be evaluated on the basis of its tasks. It is unlikely that she expected to win these elections, but they will not put an end to her political prospects either.

Andrey Nechaev

Chairman of the Civil Initiative party, which nominated Ksenia Sobchak

“Obviously, I wish there were more. But these are the results, where there is no Moscow, St. Petersburg, Nizhny Novgorod and other large cities yet, it can still change. But if we consider these elections as the primaries of the democratic opposition, then we won them.

Grigory Yavlinsky

presidential candidate

“We knew perfectly well what kind of campaign it would be. We understand what it is like to participate in elections in an authoritarian system. However, it was our common political decision. Its essence is as follows. Putin's policy is a danger to the future of the country. The economy has stopped, there is no growth, the incomes of citizens are falling.

According to official forecasts, we are waiting for 20 years of stagnation. Putin has no idea how to get out of this impasse.

We have shown this in detail. Macroeconomic policy, monetary policy was proposed, everything was shown. The second thing we talked about is isolation. Russia is brought to the line. War can start anywhere. And third, Putin has no idea that the law should be the same for everyone. Poverty, inequality, injustice. None of these problems is central to the current government.

This time we approached the campaign in a new way. We talked to people directly. We are sure that millions of people heard us. We have young people who work with us, and they will need our Path to the Future program very much. And the main contradiction is that the future is already coming, and the authorities have no idea about it.

Only free people can build the future. People who are willing to take risks. People with equal opportunity. This is undeniable. I want to thank the party for their incredible efforts. Special thanks to all those who voted for me today. We don't stop. This is our country, and we will not give it away to anyone.