2005 Moscow City Duma election

none gov May 2023 December 2023 2005 Moscow City Duma election Russia Flag of Moscow, Russia.svg parliamentary no 2001 Moscow City Duma election 2001 2009 Moscow City Duma election 2009 2005 12 04 y 34.75% 4.28 pp 100px Yury Luzhkov United Russia – 1,132,523 47.25% 100px Ivan Melnikov Communist Party of the Russian Federation 0 seats 401,405 16.75% 100px Ivan Novitsky Yabloko 4 seats 266,295 11.11% Chairman Vladimir Platonov Union of Right Forces Vladimir Platonov United Russia 28 4 3 New 4 1 35 The Moscow legislative election of 2005 was held on 4 December of that year to the fourth convocation of the Moscow City Duma. On party lists via proportional representation were elected 18 of the 35 deputies, while 17 deputies were in single-member constituencies. To get into the City Duma via a party list, parties need to overcome the 10% threshold. The term of office of the new City Duma was four years. Background On 6 November 2005, Rodina was barred from taking part in the December elections to the Moscow Duma following a complaint filed by the Liberal Democratic Party of Russia that Rodina's advertising campaign incited racial hatred. The advertisement in question showed Caucasian immigrants tossing watermelon rinds to the ground and ended with the slogan "Let's clear our city of trash", calling for Russians to clean their cities of rubbish.Snyder Timothy http://www.nybooks.com/articles/archives/2014/mar/20/fascism-russia-and-ukraine/ Fascism, Russia, and Ukraine The New York Review of Books 20 March 2014 28 March 2021http://www.angi.ru/news/312575-Верховный-суд-снял-партию-Родина-со-всех-ближайших-региональных-кампаний/ Верховный суд снял партию Родина со всех ближайших региональных кампаний The Supreme Court has removed the Rodina Party from all the regional campaigns 6 March 2006 Oil and Gas Information Agency 19 March 2018Racist ads spark row in Russia's far-Right https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/europe/russia/1503752/Racist-ads-spark-row-in-Russias-far-Right.html Blomfield Adrian 23 November 2005 28 August 2016 The Daily Telegraph'Racist' Russian TV advert investigated https://www.theguardian.com/world/2005/nov/10/russia.tomparfitt Parfitt Tom 10 November 2005 28 August 2016 The Guardianhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PiBOg5jTJQs https://ghostarchive.org/varchive/youtube/20211221/PiBOg5jTJQs 2021-12-21 live Родина-2005: Очистим Москву от мусора! Rodina-2005: Clean Moscow of rubbish! politota.ru 5 November 2018 It garnered much controversy and opinion polls predicted that Rodina would come second with close to 25% in the December vote. Rodina leader Dmitry Rogozin appealed the decision, but the ban was upheld on 1 December 2005.http://eng.globalaffairs.ru/engsmi/960.html The Upheaval in France – an Inspiration for Russian Xenophobes? Babich Dmitry 15 November 2005 https://web.archive.org/web/20070505235704/http://eng.globalaffairs.ru/engsmi/960.html 5 May 2007 dead dmy-all Results First place in the voting by party lists was United Russia, which received 47.25% of the vote (13 seats). The 10-percent barrier was overcome by two other parties, the Communist Party (16.75%, 4 seats) and United Democrats who participated in the elections under the banner of Yabloko (11.11%, 3 mandates). United Russia also won all 15 single-member districts. Thus, the party won 28 seats out of 35 total. The list of United Russia party was headed by the mayor of Moscow, Yuri Luzhkov, who helped them to improve the results in Moscow compared to the 2003 Russian legislative election (in December 2003 United Russia received 34.43% of the vote). Party Party-list ConstituencyTotalseats Votes % Seats Votes % SeatsUnited Russia 47.25 13 44.56 15 28Communist Party 16.75 4 14.29 0 4Yabloko 11.11 3 3.62 0 3Liberal Democratic Party 8.00 0 5.12 0 0Russian Party of Life 4.77 0 3.06 0 0The Greens 2.64 0 – – – 0Free Russia 2.22 0 – – – 0Party of Social Justice 1.22 0 – – – 0People's Will 0.60 0 – – – 0Rodina – – – 8.50 0 0Social Democratic Party – – – 0.96 0 0Agrarian Party – – – 0.82 0 0Independents – – – 12.80 0 0Valid ballots 94.56 93.72 Invalid ballots 5.44 6.28 Total 99.16 20 99.12 15 35Refused ballots 0.84 0.88 Registered voters/turnout 34.75 34.25 Source:Выборы депутатов Московской городской Думы четвертого созыва. Итоги голосования (протокол №2) http://old.izbirkom.ru/region/region/moscow-city?action=show&root=1&tvd=2772000145683&vrn=2772000145681&region=77&global=&sub_region=77&prver=0&pronetvd=0&vibid=2772000145683&type=228 Central Election Commission 23 March 2026 ru References Category:Legislative elections in Moscow Category:2005 elections in Russia Category:2005 in Moscow