1993 Russian legislative election

1993 Russian State Duma election

← 1990 12 December 1993 1995 →
All 450 seats to the State Duma 226 seats needed for a majority
Turnout	54.81% 22.19 pp
Party Leader % Seats LDPR Vladimir Zhirinovsky 22.92% 64 VR Yegor Gaidar 15.51% 64 CPRF Gennady Zyuganov 12.40% 42 ZhR Alevtina Fedulova 8.13% 23 APR Mikhail Lapshin 7.99% 37 YaBL Grigory Yavlinsky 7.86% 27 PRES Sergey Shakhray 6.73% 22 DPR Nikolay Travkin 5.52% 14 RDDR Anatoly Sobchak 4.08% 5 Civic Union Arkady Volsky 1.93% 10 BRNI 1.25% 2 The Greens 0.76% 1 DM Konstantin Frolov 0.70% 3 Independents – 32.50% 130 This lists parties that won seats. See the complete results below. Winning party by region Chairman of the Supreme Soviet before Chairman of the State Duma after Ruslan Khasbulatov (until October 4, 1993) Independent Ivan Rybkin APR

1993 Russian Federation Council election

12 December 1993
All 178 seats to the Federation Council 89 seats needed for a majority
Turnout	54.3%
Party Leader % Seats +/– Independents – 100% 171 – – 7 This lists parties that won seats. See the complete results below. Chairman of the Federation Council after Vladimir Shumeyko Independent

Parliamentary elections were held in Russia on 12 December 1993.^[1] They were the first parliamentary elections in post-Soviet Russia and the last to the Federation Council,^[2] with future members appointed by provincial legislatures and governors.

Background[]

The 1993 general election was taking place in the aftermath of the 1993 Russian constitutional crisis, a violent confrontation on the streets of Moscow which resulted in the dissolution of the previous Russian parliament by military force. Yeltsin hoped to resolve the political turmoil by decreeing for the election to the new Russian parliament and the constitutional referendum to take place on 12 December 1993.

Electoral system[]

The new election law adopted for the 1993 Duma election stipulated half the 450 Duma members were elected by a party-list system of proportional representation, and half were elected as individual representatives from single-member districts. Every Russian voter thus received two different ballots. The proportional representation ballot required each voter to endorse an electoral organization or vote against all of them. By contrast, the single-member district ballot required a voter to endorse an individual, whose party affiliation, if any, could not be given on the ballot.

In order to nominate a list of candidates in the proportional representation ballot, a party or electoral organization had to gather 100,000 signatures from the electorate, of which no more than 15% could be from any one region or republic. The method used to calculate the number of seats won by each party was the Hare method, with a threshold of 5.0 per cent of the valid vote, including votes cast against all, but excluding invalid ballots. To secure a place on a single-member district ballot, candidates had to gather the signatures of at least 1.0 percent of the constituency electorate. The winner in each single-member districts contest was simply the candidate with plurality of votes, regardless of the number of votes cast against all.

Results[]

State Duma[]

Party		PR			Constituency			Total seats
		Votes	%	Seats	Votes	%	Seats
	Liberal Democratic Party of Russia	12,318,562	22.9	59	1,577,400	3.0	5	64
	Choice of Russia (electoral bloc)	8,339,345	15.5	40	3,630,799	6.8	24	64
	Communist Party of the Russian Federation	6,666,402	12.4	32	1,848,888	3.5	10	42
	Women of Russia	4,369,918	8.1	21	309,378	0.6	2	23
	Agrarian Party of Russia	4,292,518	8.0	21	2,877,610	5.4	16	37
	Yavlinsky–Boldyrev–Lukin	4,223,219	7.9	20	1,849,120	3.5	7	27
	Party of Russian Unity and Accord	3,620,035	6.7	18	1,443,454	2.7	4	22
	Democratic Party of Russia	2,969,533	5.5	14	1,094,066	2.1	0	14
	Russian Democratic Reform Movement	2,191,505	4.1	0	1,083,063	2.0	5	5
	Civic Union	1,038,193	1.9	0	1,526,115	2.9	10	10
	Future of Russia–New Names	672,283	1.3	0	411,426	0.8	2	2
	Kedr	406,789	0.8	0	301,266	0.6	1	1
	Dignity and Charity	375,431	0.7	0	445,168	0.8	3	3
	Other parties	–	–	–	377,863	0.7	0	0
	Independents	–	–	–	25,961,405	48.7	130	130
	Against all	2,267,963	4.2	–	8,509,300	16.0	–	–
Invalid/blank votes			–	–	4,248,927	–	–	–
Vacant seats[a]		–	–	–	–	–	6	6
Total		53,751,696	100	225	57,495,248	100	225	450
Registered voters/turnout		106,170,835		–	106,170,835	54.2	–	–
Source: Nohlen & Stöver, Politika.su

^a Five seats in Tatarstan were left vacant due to a low turnout (less than 25%) and were elected at a later date, whilst one seat in Chechnya remained unfilled.^[3]

Federation Council[]

^a Five seats were elected at a later date, whilst two seats in Chechnya remained unfilled.^[4]

Although the Federation Council was contested on a non-party basis,^[2] 11 were members of the Communist Party, six were members of Russia's Choice and nine were members of other parties.^[5]

Aftermath[]

The results of the polls proved to be disappointing for the Kremlin: the two competing pro-government parties, Russia's Choice and the Party of Russian Unity and Accord, gained 15.5% and 6.7% of the vote respectively and won 123 of the 450 seats in the State Duma. Neither party was able to control the parliamentary agenda nor impose the will of the president on the Duma. Lacking legislative success, both parties rapidly lost membership.

Parliamentary groups[]

The use of the mixed system for the election of the Duma produced a large number of deputies which were unaffiliated with any electoral bloc. By joining other parliamentary groups or forming groups of independent deputies, they could significantly influence the balance of power in the Duma. Hence, the parliamentary groups in the first two-year term of the Duma showed lack of stability and its numbers may be given only with approximation.

References[]

External links[]

• Russian general elections (Dead Link)