As expected, Russian President Vladimir Putin won his fifth term as president of Russia with an overwhelming majority of over 87%. According to the statistics of the Central Election Commission of Russia (CEC), with 70% of the votes counted, Vladimir Putin wins with 87.17%.
He is followed by Nikolai Kharitonov of the Communist Party, with 4.19%, Vladislav Davankov, of the New People's Party, with 4.08% and Leonid Slutsky, of the nationalist Liberal Democratic Party, with 3.15%. None of them has ever been a worthy opponent, while the other candidates were excluded during the pre-election period by various methods. The official results, after all the votes have been counted, will be published in a few days. With more than 114 million people eligible to vote, turnout was 73%, according to international media, up from 67.5% in the previous election in 2018.
The Russian president was the undisputed favorite to win the ongoing presidential election. Elections in Russia were held from Friday to Sunday amid minor incidents, protests and arrests. In fact, Russians opposed to the veteran Kremlin leader went to their local polling stations right at noon on Sunday (and other days) either to cast invalid ballots in protest or to vote for one of the three candidates. others against Putin.
According to statistics website Statista, Putin is Russia's second longest-serving leader after Stalin.