[EM] TABLE-Russia final election results and seats

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Is Russia now more democratic than the U.S.A., Canada, and the U.K. ??? With 
26 parties and lots of independents the district winners probably got under 
35 percent of the district votes in many districts.
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TABLE-Russia final election results and seats

   MOSCOW, Dec 23 (Reuters) - Following are the final results
of the Russian parliamentary election announced on Thursday by
Central Electoral Commission head Alexander Veshnyakov.

Half the 450 seats in the State Duma lower house were
contested among 26 parties, the rest by individual candidates in
local constituencies. Since there was no election in Chechnya
only 449 seats were contested.

A party needed at least five percent of the vote to win
seats. Votes for parties which failed to pass the threshold were
divided between the winners. The share of seats for winning
parties is thus bigger than their percentage of votes.

Only six of the 26 parties won more than five percent.

Several independents elected to parliament are likely to
affiliate themselves with party factions. Others might form a
new group.

For parties which took part in the 1995 Duma election, the
result of their party-list voting is shown in brackets.

Turnout:                      62 percent (minimum 25 pct)

                          PARTY    LISTS  INDIVIDUALS TOTAL

                            pct    seats    seats     seats

1. Communist Party

(22.30 pct)                24.29      67       46       113

2. Unity (Yedinstvo)       23.24      64        8        72

3. Fatherland-All Russia   13.12      36       30        66

4. Union Of Right-Wing

Forces                       8.6      24        5        29

5. Yabloko (6.89 pct)       5.98      17        4        21

6. Zhirinovsky bloc

(11.18 pct**)               6.40      17        0        17

7. Independents              -         -      122       122

TOTAL                      81.63***  225      215       440*

*A new vote will be held in nine constituencies where more
people voted "against all" than for any candidate.

** In 1995 ultra-nationalist Vladimir Zhirinovsky stood for
parliament at the helm of his Liberal Democratic Party (LDPR).
This year the party was barred from the election on
technicalities and Zhirinovsky hastily set up another bloc but
consistently said it was just another name for LDPR.

*** The balance of the votes -- 18.37 percent -- was won by
parties which failed to cross the five percent threshold. The
votes were therefore distributed among the six parties that
crossed the threshold.

05:40 12-23-99