Russian legislative election, 1993

Russian State Duma election, 1993

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All 450 seats to the State Duma 226 seats needed for a majority
Turnout	54.81%
Majority party Minority party Third party   Leader Vladimir Zhirinovsky Yegor Gaidar Gennady Zyuganov Party LDPR Russia's Choice Communist Party Seats won 70 96 65 Popular vote 12,318,562 8,339,345 6,666,402 Percentage 22.92% 15.51% 12.4%   Fourth party Fifth party Sixth party   Leader Alevtina Fedulova Mikhail Lapshin Grigory Yavlinsky Party Women of Russia Agrarian Party of Russia Yabloko Seats won 25 47 33 Popular vote 4,369,918 4,292,518 4,223,219 Percentage 8.13% 8% 7.9%
Chairman-designate Ivan Rybkin Agrarian Party

Russian Federation Council election, 1993

12 December 1993
All 178 seats to the Federation Council
Majority party Minority party   Party Independent Vacant seats Seats won 171 7 Popular vote 53,751,696 Percentage 100%
Chairman-designate Vladimir Shumeyko Independent

Ivan Rybkin
Agrarian Party

Vladimir Shumeyko
Independent

Parliamentary elections were held in Russia on 12 December 1993. They included the last elections to the Federation Council of Russia.

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.

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 compelled 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.

^a Four seats were left vacant in Chechnya due to a boycott of the elections, whilst voting was postponed in two others.

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