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"Gorbachev Factor"
Post-Soviet
Dumas
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First Duma
(1993-95)
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Dominated by authoritarian parties: Communists, the Agrarian
Party, and Zhirinovsky’s LDPR
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Second Duma
(1995-99)
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Communists controlled almost half of all the seats
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Third Duma
(1999-2003) |
Unity and Fatherland—All Russia together with two smaller pro-Kremlin
parliamentary factions were able to garner simple majority,
required to rubberstamp the Kremlin’s legislative
initiatives
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Fourth Duma
(2003-07)
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The
“presidential party,” United Russia, controls 68 percent of
all seats
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Fifth Duma
(2007-)
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The
“presidential party,” United Russia
controls
over 64 percent of
all seats
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December 1993 Elections To The
FIRST Duma
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Four biggest parties/blocs |
Total seats |
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Russia’s Choice (a pro-government party
led by Yegor Gaidar) |
15.6 % |
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Liberal-Democratic Party (Vladimir
Zhirinovsky) |
14.2
% |
| Communist
Party (Gennady Zyuganov) |
10.7
% |
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Agrarian Party |
7.3
% |
December 1995 Elections to the
SECOND Duma
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Successful parties/blocs |
Party-list votes (%) |
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Communist Party (Gennady
Zyuganov) |
22.30 |
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Liberal-Democratic Party (Vladimir
Zhirinovsky) |
11.18 |
| Our Home
Is Russia (Victor Chernomyrdin) |
10.13 |
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Yabloko (Grigory Yavlinsky) |
6.89 |
December 1999 Elections to the
THIRD Duma
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Successful parties/blocs |
Party-list votes (%) |
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Communist Party (Gennady
Zyuganov) |
24.29 |
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Unity |
23.32 |
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Fatherland—All Russia |
13.33 |
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Union of Right Forces |
8.52 |
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Liberal-Democratic Party (Vladimir
Zhirinovsky) |
5.98 |
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Yabloko (Grigory Yavlinsky) |
5.93 |
December 2003 Election to the
FOURTH Duma
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Parties/blocs |
Party-list votes % |
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United Russia |
37.09 |
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CPRF |
12.67 |
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LDPR |
11.61 |
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Motherland |
9.07 |
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Yabloko |
4.34 |
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Union of Right
Forces |
3.96 |
December 2007 Election to the
FIFTH Duma
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Successful parties/blocs |
Votes % |
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United Russia |
64.30 |
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CPRF |
11.57 |
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LDPR |
8.14 |
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Fair Russia |
7.74 |
distribution of seats in the fifth
Duma
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United Russia - 315 seats
CPRF - 57 seats
LDPR - 40 seats
Fair Russia - 38 seats
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