Incumbent Russian President Vladimir Putin was re-elected in the March 18 vote winning 76.69% or 56,430,712 votes, a draft resolution of the Central Election Commission adopted at a session on Friday said.
The Communist Party’s candidate Pavel Grudinin clinched 11.77%, while the leader of the Liberal-Democratic Party Vladimir Zhirinovsky came third with 5.65% of the vote. TV personality and socialite Ksenia Sobchak (nominated by the Civil Initiative party) garnered 1.68%.
Next are head of the Yabloko Party’s federal political committee Grigory Yavlinsky (1.05%), chairman of the Party of Growth and Russian Presidential Envoy for Entrepreneurs’ Rights Boris Titov (0.76%), Maxim Suraikin, nominated by the Communists of Russia party (0.68%) and head of the Russian People’s Union party Sergei Baburin (0.65%).
