Early results: Ruling party winning Russian parliament vote
MOSCOW — Early results on Sunday showed Russia’s ruling United Russia party winning in the parliamentary election amid reports of election violations and visible voter apathy in the country’s two largest cities.
With more than 8 per cent of the ballots counted, United Russia was recording 45 per cent of the vote for party-list seats and far ahead in single-district contests.
The Liberal Democrats and Communists were both recording about 17 per cent and A Just Russia had 6 per cent.
The results are likely to change as votes are counted from the western parts of Russia that are more urbanized and where opposition sentiment is stronger. But the election for the 450-seat State Duma, the lower house of parliament, is unlikely to substantially change the distribution of power, in which United Russia party has held an absolute majority for more than a decade.