Russian presidential election, 2000

Russian presidential election, 2000

1996 ← 26 March 2000 → 2004

Turnout 68.6% 0.2 pp   Nominee Vladimir Putin Gennady Zyuganov Grigory Yavlinsky Party Independent Communist Party Yabloko Home state Saint Petersburg Oryol Oblast Lviv Oblast (now Ukraine) Popular vote 39,740,467 21,928,468 4,351,450 Percentage 53.4% 29.5% 5.9%

Constituencies won by Vladimir Putin   Constituencies won by Gennady Zyuganov   Constituencies won by Aman Tuleyev   Constituencies won by Konstantin Titov

Acting President before election Vladimir Putin Independent Elected President Vladimir Putin Independent

Vladimir Putin
Independent

Vladimir Putin
Independent

Presidential elections were held in Russia on 26 March 2000. Incumbent Prime Minister and acting President Vladimir Putin, who had succeeded Boris Yeltsin on his resignation on 31 December 1999, was seeking a four-year term in his own right and won the elections in the first round. Polling stations were opened from 8:00 a.m. to 8:00 p.m.

A total of 33 candidates were nominated; 15 submitted the application forms to the Central Electoral Committee, and ultimately 12 candidates were registered. One of them withdrew shortly before the deadline, so 11 candidates took part in the elections: Vladimir Putin, Gennady Zyuganov, Grigory Yavlinsky, Amangeldy Tuleyev, Vladimir Zhirinovsky, Konstantin Titov, Ella Pamfilova, Stanislav Govorukhin, Yury Skuratov, Alexey Podberezkin, and Umar Dzhabrailov.