2003 Russian legislative election

none February 2024 Russian Federation parliamentary 1999 Russian legislative election 1999 7 December 2003 2007 Russian legislative election 2007 All 450 seats in the State Duma 226 55.75% ( 6.10 pp) List of members of the 4th Russian State Duma ru Список депутатов Государственной думы Российской Федерации IV созыва elected members List of members of the 3rd Russian State Duma ru Список депутатов Государственной думы Российской Федерации III созыва outgoing members Boris Gryzlov 2006 (cropped).jpg 125 120 150 5 Boris Gryzlov United Russia 20 November 2002 Federal list New 223 New 22,776,294 37.56% (PL) New Zyuganov-2002 (cropped).jpg 130 120 150 5 Gennady Zyuganov Communist Party of the Russian Federation 14 February 1993 Federal list 113 seats, 24.29% 52 61 7,647,820 12.61% (PL) 11.68% Sergey Glazyev RN MOW 04-2011.jpg 150 120 150 10 Sergey Glazyev National Patriotic Union "Rodina" 14 September 2003 Podolsk New 37 New 5,470,429 9.02% (PL) New Vladimir Zhirinovsky 2009 portrait (cropped).jpg 160 120 150 20 Vladimir Zhirinovsky Liberal Democratic Party of Russia 13 December 1989 Federal list 17 seats, 5.20% 36 19 6,944,322 11.35% (PL) 6.15% Gennady Raikov.jpg 130 120 150 5 Gennady Raikov People's Party of the Russian Federation 29 September 2001 Tyumen New 17 New 714,705 1.18% (PL) New Grigory Yavlinsky.jpg 150 120 150 10 Grigory Yavlinsky Yabloko 16 October 1993 Federal list (lost) 20 seats, 5.93% 4 16 2,610,087 4.30% (PL) 1.63% Boris Nemtsov 2008-11-23 crop.png 180 120 150 20 Boris Nemtsov Union of Right Forces 27 May 2001 AvtozavodskyDid not stand for re-election. / Federal list (lost) 29 seats, 8.52% 3 26 2,408,535 3.97% (PL) 4.55% Gennady Seleznyov (2000-01-18).jpg 150 120 150 25 5 Gennadiy Seleznyov PVR–RPZh 7 September 2002 Northern SPb New 3 New 1,140,413 1.88% (PL) New Mikhail Lapshin.jpg 125 120 150 2 Mikhail Lapshin Agrarian Party of Russia 26 February 1993 Federal list (lost) 11 seats (inside OVR) 2 9 2,205,850 3.64% (PL) – 300px Winning party by district (party-list vote) 300px Party affiliation of constituency winners Chairman of the State Duma Gennadiy Seleznyov Party of Russia's Rebirth Boris Gryzlov United Russiathumb|400px|Distribution of the constituency seats by federal subject.#605ca8 United Russia#fbbf5c People's Party#ed1b23 Communist Party#f26b4e Rodina#38b549 Yabloko#bc8cbf Party of Rebirth/Party of Life#00bff3 Union of Right Forces#007236 Agrarian Party#fff468 Great Russia#a67c51 New Course — Automobile Russia#827a00 Development of Enterprisewhite Self-nominationsblack Seat not filled Legislative elections were held in Russia on 7December 2003.Dieter Nohlen & Philip Stöver (2010) Elections in Europe: A data handbook, p1642 978-3-8329-5609-7 At stake were the 450 seats in the State Duma (Gosudarstvennaya Duma), the lower house of the Federal Assembly. As expected, the pro-Vladimir Putin United Russia party received the most votes (38%) and won the most seats, gaining a plurality in the Duma. The Communist Party remained the second largest, though much reduced in strength. The Liberal Democratic Party improved its position by 19 seats, while the liberal Yabloko and the liberal-conservative Union of Right Forces lost most of their seats. Political parties and blocs No. Number on ballotParty or blochttp://www.politika.su/vybory/rde03u.html Избирательные объединения и блоки на выборах - 2003 politika.su Electoral associations and blocs in the 2003 election ru 10 February 2026Abbr. AbbreviationLead candidatesPolitical positionIdeology 1 Conceptual Party "Unity" KPE Konstantin Petrov • Vladimir Gribov • Dmitry Poltoratsky Far-right Conspiracy theory / Occultism 2 Union of Right Forces SPS Boris Nemtsov • Irina Khakamada • Anatoly Chubais Centre-right to right-wing Conservative liberalism / Neoliberalism / Atlanticism 3 Russian Party of Pensioners and Party of Social JusticeRPP, PSS RPP–PSS Vladimir Kishenin • Galiya Zelenchukova • Dmitry Senyukov Centre-left Pensioners' interests / Social justice 4 Russian United Democratic Party "Yabloko" Yabloko Grigory Yavlinsky • Vladimir Lukin • Igor Artemyev Centre Social liberalism / Liberal democracy 5 For a Holy Russia ru За Русь святую nl Voor een Heilig Rusland ZRS Sergey Popov • Aleksey Kuimov • Igor Shatalov Right-wing Conservatism / Christian nationalism 6 United Russian Party Rus'Russian Stability Party before 2003.Претенденты-2008: Богданов Андрей Владимирович https://www.scilla.ru/works/pret08/bogdanov.html 2 July 2026 scilla.ru ru ORP Rus' Valery Burkov • Lidia Rusanova • Vladimir Medvedev Right-wing Patriotism / Russian nationalism 7 New Course — Automobile RussiaLiberal Russia, RPRF, DAR Movement of Drivers of Russia NCAR Viktor Pokhmelkin • Boris Fyodorov • Leonid Olshansky Centre-right Liberalism / Drivers' interests 8 People's Republican Party of Russia NRPR Eduard Baltin • Vladimir Kushnerenko • Vitaly Pavlov Right-wing National conservatism / Patriotism / Military interests 9 Russian Ecological Party "The Greens" REPZ Anatoly Panfilov • Viktor Ignatov • Vladimir Yevstafyev Centre Green politics 10 Agrarian Party of Russia APR Mikhail Lapshin • Aleksandr Nazarchuk • Alexey Chepa Left-wing Agrarianism / Agrarian socialism 11 Genuine Patriots of RussiaIslamic Party of Russia before 2003. IPR Magomed Radzhabov • Kalsyn Tokayev • Zaur Radzhabov Centre-right Muslim interests 12 People's Party of the Russian Federation NPRF Gennady Raikov • Gennady Troshev • Nikolay Derzhavin Centre-left Populism / Social conservatism 13 Democratic Party of Russia DPR Vladimir Podoprigora • Mikhail Kislyuk • Gennady Pushko Centre-right Liberal conservatism / Federalism / Civic nationalism 14 Great Russia–Eurasian UnionEAP–SPR Eurasian Party – Union of Patriots of Russia, RPM Russian Party of Peace, GPR Civic Party of Russia VR–EAS Pavel Borodin • Ruslan Aushev • Leonid Ivashov Centre-left Eurasian integration / Left-wing populism 15 Union of People for Education and Science SLON Vyacheslav Igrunov • Nurali Latypov • Andrey Sharomov Centre to centre-left Social liberalism / Scientists' interests 16 Rodina (People's Patriotic Union)SEPR, People's Will, PRR Party of Russian Regions Rodina Sergey Glazyev • Dmitry Rogozin • Valentin Varennikov Syncretic Russian nationalism / Social conservatism / Statism 17 Party of Peace and Unity PME Sazhi Umalatova • Viktor Stepanov • Yevgeny Ishchenko Left-wing Soviet patriotism / Eurasianism 18 Liberal Democratic Party of Russia LDPR Vladimir Zhirinovsky • Alexey Ostrovsky • Igor Lebedev Right-wing Right-wing populism / Unitarism / Anti-communism 19 Party of Russia's Rebirth – Russian Party of LifePVR, RPZh PVR–RPZh Gennadiy Seleznyov • Sergey Mironov • Valentina Tereshkova Centre-left Left-wing populism / Welfare state / Social democracy 20 United Russia UR Boris Gryzlov • Sergei Shoigu • Yury Luzhkov Centre-right Statism / Social conservatism / Conservative liberalism 21 Russian Constitutional Democratic Party RKDP Vyacheslav Volkov • Irina Alfyorova • Aleksandr Kotenev Centre-right Constitutionalism 22 Development of Enterprise RP Ivan Grachev • Oksana Dmitriyeva • Andrey Nechayev Centre-right Economic liberalism 23 Communist Party of the Russian Federation CPRF Gennady Zyuganov • Nikolai Kondratenko • Nikolay Kharitonov Left-wing Socialism / Left-wing conservatism Not on ballot PartyAbbr. AbbreviationLead candidatesPolitical positionIdeologyNotes All-National Russian Political Party "Union" ORPP Soyuz Aleksandr Kudimov • Dmitry Kaplin • Mikhail Trofimov Centre Protectionism / Welfare state The party did not file paperwork for election. Conservative Party of Russia KPR Yuriy Tegin • Vladimir Burenin • Natalya Korolyova Centre-right Conservatism / Anti-communism The party did not file paperwork for election after a leadership split in October 2003.Обращение к региональным отделениям Консервативной партии России http://kpr.ru/contents/newsparty/29oct2003.shtml https://web.archive.org/web/20041227091109/http://kpr.ru/contents/newsparty/29oct2003.shtml 27 December 2004 kpr.ru ru Liberal Russia (pro-Berezovsky faction) LR Boris Berezovsky • Ivan Rybkin • Yuly Dubov Centre-right Liberalism / Liberal conservatism Federal list of candidates was rejected by the Central Election Commission following a split in party leadership. The commission sided with the anti-Berezovsky faction of Liberal Russia which ran in this election as part of the New Course — Automobile Russia alliance.На каждого БАБа свой Вешняков найдётся https://www.pravda.ru/politics/38791-bab/ 7 October 2003 28 July 2026 pravda.ru ruhttp://gd2003.cikrf.ru/328_post Постановление ЦИК РФ от 3 октября 2003 года № 35/328-4 О документах, представленных уполномоченными представителями политической партии «Либеральная Россия» для заверения федерального списка кандидатов в депутаты Государственной Думы Федерального Собрания Российской Федерации четвертого созыва ru cikrf.ru 3 October 2003 https://web.archive.org/web/20040225193613/http://gd2003.cikrf.ru/328_post 25 February 2004 dead National Patriotic Forces of the Russian Federation NPS RF Andrey Saltsinov • Schmidt Dzoblayev • Stanislav Terekhov Left-wing Left-wing populism / Multiculturalism / Federalism Federal list of candidates was withdrawn by the party citing concerns about quality of signatures gathered in their support. NPS RF candidates remained on ballot in single-member constituencies.Национально-патриотические силы сошли с дистанции 28 October 2003 https://www.kommersant.ru/doc/423513 2026-07-28 Kommersant National Patriotic Forces leave the race 4 ru 197 (2800) The following parties only competed in single-member constituencies: People's Patriotic Party of Russia Russian Communist Workers Party–Russian Party of Communists Russian United Industrial Party Russian Party of Labour Russian Political Party "Creation" Social Democratic Party of Russia. Opinion polls Polling firmFieldwork date Unity OVRCPRFLDPRRodinaYablokoSPSAPROtherUnsureAgainstallWouldn'tvoteLeadUnitedRussiaElection result19 Dec 199923.313.324.35.96.08.513.43.3126 Mar 20002000 Russian presidential election1 May 2000End of the active phase of Second Chechen War, effective Russian victoryVCIOMMay 200026633 4 89 1 9Women of Russia 4%, NRPR 2%, NDR, RNE 1%, other 1%. 4 7VCIOM24–27 Nov 200019633788 2 12Women of Russia 7%, Russia 2%, NRPR, RNE 1%, other 1%. 4 14FOM2–3 Dec 200016 3 17 3 55 27 5 121FOM10–11 Feb 20011972155 3 3 20 8 82 Apr 2001"Save NTV" protestsFOM14–15 Apr 20011952265 4 2 14 8 153FOM21–22 Apr 200122821 4 85 3 13 7 81FOM2–3 Jun 200123523555 3 16 6 11TieFOM14–15 Jul 2001226235 4 4 2 18 7 91FOM8–9 Sep 200122623 4 5 3 2 20 6 91FOM20–21 Oct 2001256225 4 3 2 18 6 103 1 Dec 2001 United Russia party foundedFOM2–3 Feb 2002212476 4 3 14 10 103FOM20 Jul 200231225 3 3 2 9VCIOM21–27 Aug 20022634986 1 12Women of Russia 6%, DPR, RNE, Russia 1%, other 3%. 5 8FOM12–13 Oct 2002 2623555 2 1 15 6 103 23–26 Oct 2002Nord-Ost Hostage CrisisARPI5–9 Dec 2002372488887132913455212169716VCIOM20–23 Dec 2002 27 27975 2 20Women of Russia 8%, PVR 3%, RNE, RPP, Development of Enterprise 2%, NPRF, Liberal Russia 1%, other 1%. 5 TieARPI6–10 Feb 2003302998681012118544515141093ARPI21–25 Feb 200334297859852016454212201094ARPI6–11 Mar 2003323288668Tie2019454291611121ARPI20–24 Mar 200331361063685212344346161092FOM5–6 Apr 2003212255 3 3 1 25 5 111ARPI3–9 Apr 20033534784751231833218198155FOM17 May 2003192175 3 2VCIOM23–26 May 200323281085 7 13 4 5ARPI27 May 200322235 4 5 1 37 3 1VCIOM20–24 Jun 2003262768 3 1 10PVR, Greens 2%, NPRF, RPP, DPR, RNE, SDPR 1%, other 1%. 16 3 1VCIOM15–18 Aug 20032328965 4 6PVR 3%, Greens, NPRF, RPP 1%, other <1%. 12 5 5CSP2–10 Sep 200326.817.07.05.75.6 5.6RPZh 3.1%, PVR 2.5%.9.8VCIOM-A19–22 Sep 200328235 2 55 2 6Greens 2%, NPRF, PVR-RPZh, DPR 1%, other 1%. 20 5 5FOM11 Oct 200320187 2 4 4 2 4PVR-RPZh 2%, NPRF, Great Russia—Eurasian Union 1%, New Course 0%. 21 5 132VCIOM-A10–13 Oct 2003 26 26 5 3 5 4 2 4Greens, PVR-RPZh, DPR, NPRF 1%. 20 5 Tie 25 Oct 2003Arrest of Mikhail Khodorkovsky, Yukos affair ru Дело ЮКОСаVCIOM-A24–28 Oct 2003 30 23 5 1 4 6 2 5RPP–PSS, Greens, VR–EAS Great Russia–Eurasian Union, Development of Enterprise, NPRF 1%. 17 6 7FOM8–9 Nov 200318.716.35.1 1.2 4.2 4.5 6.0 25.6 5.9 12.42.4VCIOM-A13–16 Nov 2003 29 23 8 3 6 6 2 4RPP–PSS 2%, NPRF, Development of Enterprise 1%. 14 5 6FOM15–16 Nov 200319.514.96.0 2.9 3.8 4.5 6.2 24.1 5.7 12.24.6VCIOM15–16 Nov 200326.219.65.3 4.1 5.45.5 1.5 6.6RPP–PSS 1.9%, Greens 1.1%, NPRF 1%, KPE 0.8%, ZRS 0.4%, NRPR, PVR–RPZh 0.3%, Development of Enterprise, VR–EAS 0.2%, ORP Rus, NC–AR, DPR, SLON 0.1% 19.8 6.0 6.6FOM22–23 Nov 200325.114.16.5 3.3 2.5 3.5 7.4 22.0 5.4 10.611ARPI27 Nov 20033295 2 4 7 2 7RPP–PSS 3%, NPRF, ORP Rus, PVR–RPZh, KPE 1%. 11 5 1623FOM29–30 Nov 200328.115.87.3 4.4 2.7 3.4 7.3 18.3 5.0 7.912.3 Seat projections Projector Date UnitedRussia CPRF LDPR Yabloko SPS Other NAPPЕсли бы выборы были в сентябре, "Единая Россия" потеряла бы контроль над Думой http://2003.newsru.com/article/408 newsru.com https://web.archive.org/web/20040417194425/http://2003.newsru.com/article/408 17 April 2004 ru 8 October 2003 dead 8 Oct 2003 185 135 21 21 22 66 NAPPНа выборах победят КПРФ, ЛДПР и «Яблоко» https://www.gazeta.ru/2003/11/01/pobeditelami.shtml gazeta.ru 26 April 2026 ru 3 November 2003 3 Nov 2003 173 108 21 25 20 103 Election result 7 Dec 2003 223 52 36 4 3 132 Exit polls Polling firm UnitedRussia CPRF LDPR Rodina Yabloko SPSAgainstall FOMhttps://www.rbc.ru/politics/07/12/2003/5703b5c09a7947783a5a4e7b ФОМ: СПС не проходит в Госдуму ru RBC 7 December 2003 19 August 20253613.311.69.25.1 4.7 ROMIRhttps://www.rbc.ru/politics/08/12/2003/5703b5c09a7947783a5a4e87 Выборы в Госдуму: свежие результаты exit polls ru RBC 8 December 2003 19 August 202534.113.210.99.55.86.1 6.8Election result37.612.611.59.0 4.3 4.0 4.7 Results Party-list Constituency File:2003 Russian State Duma election diagram.svg United Russia 22776294 120 14123625 103 223 New Communist Party 7647820 40 6577598 12 52 −61 Liberal Democratic Party 6944322 36 1860905 0 36 +19 Rodina (People's Patriotic Union) 5470429 29 1719147 8 37 New Yabloko 2610087 0 1580629 4 4 −16 Union of Right Forces 2408535 0 1764290 3 3 −26 Agrarian Party 2205850 0 1104974 2 2 New Russian Pensioners' Party–Party of Social Justice 1874973 0 342891 0 0 −1 Party of Russia's Rebirth–Russian Party of Life 1140413 0 1584904 3 3 New People's Party 714705 0 2677889 17 17 New Conceptual Party "Unity" 710721 0 9334 0 0 New New Course — Automobile Russia 509302 0 222090 1 1 New For a Holy Russia 298826 0 59986 0 0 New #408080 Russian Ecological Party "The Greens" 253985 0 69585 0 0 0 Development of Enterprise 212827 0 237527 1 1 New #14589F Great Russia – Eurasian Union 170796 0 464602 1 1 New #7C73CC Genuine Patriots of Russia 149151 0 2564 0 0 New #4D8D39 Party of Peace and Unity 148954 0 10664 0 0 0 United Russian Party Rus' 147441 0 570453 0 0 New #164C8C Democratic Party 136295 0 94810 0 0 New Russian Constitutional Democratic Party 113190 0 0 New #1F8CFC Union of People for Education and Science 107448 0 16111 0 0 New #CACBFB People's Republican Party 80420 0 2995 0 0 New #7B746F Other parties 288866 0 0 – Independents 15843626 67 67 −38 Against all 2851958 7744998 3 3 −5 948435 1247491 0 108906250 108906250 Nohlen & Stöver, IPU, 2003 electionsСведения о зарегистрированных депутатах ГД ФС РФ четвертого созыва по одномандатным избирательным округам https://web.archive.org/web/20061016222943/http://gd2003.cikrf.ru/etc/protokol1.doc 2006-10-16 ru Legacy The 2003 election is cited by scholars as a turning point in Russian politics, as it marked the moment the federal parliament effectively became a rubber stamp body.Rosefielde Steven Hedlund Stefan Russia Since 1980 2009 Cambridge University Press 9780521849135 174 https://books.google.com/books?id=lNSiw3S8NIUC&dq=rubber+stamp+%22federal+assembly%22+of+russia+inpublisher:university+inpublisher:press&pg=PA174 September 23, 2023 Duma election of 2003, reducing the legislature to a rubber stamp.Troianovski Anton Anton Troianovski Nechepurenko Ivan Ivan Nechepurenko 2021-09-19 Russian Election Shows Declining Support for Putin's Party en Russian elections are not free and fair, and Parliament’s role in recent years has mainly been to rubber-stamp the Kremlin’s initiatives while providing a veneer of democratic legitimacy to Mr. Putin’s rule. The New York Times https://www.nytimes.com/2021/09/19/world/europe/russia-election-google.html 2021-09-27 0362-4331 https://web.archive.org/web/20210920000513/https://www.nytimes.com/2021/09/19/world/europe/russia-election-google.html 2021-09-20 China Russia Compared wesleyan.edu July 2015The End of the Putin Era. What Awaits Russia After the War? Mykhailo Mykhailovych Podolyak 2026 Ukraine https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V4zqZhL-OII Mykhailo Podolyak Notes References External links Election results – official information https://web.archive.org/web/20181210041001/http://gd2003.cikrf.ru/ 10 December 2018 ru Category:Legislative elections in Russia Legislative Russia Russia Legislative Category:4th State Duma of the Russian Federation Category:Election and referendum articles with incomplete results