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Russian Presidential Elections-1996:
Official results

Updated 9.XI.1997 after TsIK corrections of 19.VII.1996, 10.VIII.1996, 8.X.1996, 28.III.1997 and 6.XI.1997.
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Here are results officially published in the Central Electoral Commission Bulletin, taking into account corrections included by Central Electoral Commission Resolutions on July, 19, 1996, August, 10, 1996, October, 8, 1996, March, 28, 1997 and November, 6, 1997:
  • First round: Line 'Took part in the elections' changed 19.VII.1996 due to mistakes in 14 regions.
  • Second round: All lines changed due to mistakes in Daghestan and forgery in Karachaevo-Cherkessia, Mordovia, Rostovskaya oblast, Saratovskaya oblast and Stavropolskiy krai.
  • Details: In Dagestan initially were counted 15542 more valid votes than in fact: 4436 mistaken votes were added to Yeltsin, 11018 to Zyuganov, 88 to "against both" (corrected 19.VII.1996). In Mordovia 702 Zyuganov's votes were mistakenly transferred to "against both" (corrected 10.VIII.1996). In other regions 1599 Zyuganov's votes were mistakenly transferred to Yeltsin: 279 in Saratovskaya oblast (corrected 8.X.1996), 708 in Stavropolsky krai and 362 in Rostovskaya oblast (corrected 28.III.1997) and 250 in Karachaevo-Cherkessia (corrected 6.XI.1997). Summing up all corrections, Yeltsin lost 6035 votes, Zyuganov lost 11018 and obtained 2301, "against all" lost 702.
    1st round. Sunday, June, 16, 1996
     ('Rossiyskaia gazeta', June, 22, 1996, 'Vestnik TsIK', N 15, 1996
    corrections - 'Vestnik TsIK', N 17, 1996)

    Total electorate - 108.495.023
    Took part in the elections (i.e. number of balots received by voters) - 75.744.553 (69.81%)
    Took part in the voting (i.e. number of valid and invalid ballots found in ballot-boxes) - 75.587.139 
    Yeltsin            26.665.495  (35.28%)
Zyuganov           24.211.686  (32.03%)
Lebed              10.974.736  (14.52%)
Yavlinsky           5.550.752   (7.34%)
Zhirinovsky         4.311.479   (5.70%)
Fyodorov              699.158   (0.92%)
Gorbachev             386.069   (0.51%)
Shakkum               277.068   (0.37%)
Vlasov                151.282   (0.20%)
Bryntsalov            123.065   (0.16%)
Tuleyev (pre-term*)       308   (0.00%)
Against all         1.163.921   (1.54%)
Invalid ballots     1.072.120   (1.42%)
    * - Aman Tuleyev withdrawn his candidature on June, 13. His name was struck off the already-printed ballots. The ballots with his name marked considered as invalid EXCEPT those filled before June 13 (at pre-term voting overseas and in remote regions).

    2nd round. Wednesday, July, 3, 1996
     ('Rossiyskaia gazeta', July, 10, 1996
    corrections - 'Vestnik TsIK', 1996, NN 17, 18, 19, 1997, N 3
    latest corrections not yet published)

    Total electorate - 108.589.050
    Took part in the elections (i.e. number of balots received by voters) - 74.800.449 (68.88%)
    Took part in the voting (i.e. number of valid and invalid ballots found in ballot-boxes) - 74.691.290 
    Yeltsin            40.202.349  (53.82%)
Zyuganov           30.104.589  (40.31%)
Against all         3.603.760   (4.82%)
Invalid ballots       780.592   (1.05%)
    Boris Yeltsin elected the President of Russian Federation for his second term (4-years). Assumed office on August, 9, 1996.
    LINKS:
  • Russian Presidential Elections - 1996. Links collection
  • M.Filippov: Russian 1996 Presidential Elections: Results by regions
  • M.Filippov: Fraud or Fiction: Who Stole What in Russian Elections
  • A.Sobyanin's reply to M.Filippov's manuscript
  • Derksen: Elections in Russia
  • Results on-line (including by regions) by NNS
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