{"id":588,"date":"2021-09-20T06:23:50","date_gmt":"2021-09-20T06:23:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.asiafreepress.com\/?p=588"},"modified":"2021-09-25T17:40:26","modified_gmt":"2021-09-25T17:40:26","slug":"putins-party-leads-as-polls-close-in-russian-parliamentary-election","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.asiafreepress.com\/en\/world\/putins-party-leads-as-polls-close-in-russian-parliamentary-election\/","title":{"rendered":"Putin&#8217;s party leads as polls close in Russian parliamentary election"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"has-text-align-center\"><strong>United Russia wins 45.2% of votes, followed by Communist Party with 21%, according to exit poll<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>MOSCOW, September,20 (AA): Polls closed on Sunday after Russians voted in a three-day parliamentary election.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The voting, which was expanded to three days as part of coronavirus measures, ended as of 20.00 p.m. local time (1700 GMT).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>With 14 parties competing for 450 seats in the State Duma, the lower house of the parliament, only the MPs that pass the 5% threshold will win a seat.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Citing data from the Central Election Commission, Russia&#8217;s TASS news agency said at least five parties passed the 5% threshold.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>According to the Insomar exit poll, President Vladimir Putin&#8217;s party United Russia secured 45.2% of the votes, the Communist Party 21%, the Liberal Democrat Party 8.6 %, and Fair Russia 7.9 % to pass the election threshold.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Following the voting, Russia&#8217;s Central Election Commission head Ella Pamfilova announced over 45% election turnout across the country.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>She said the ballot boxes were monitored via video surveillance and 99.98% efficiency was obtained from the system.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>She also stated that as of 17.30 local time (1430 GMT), 8,539 ballots were deemed invalid due to technical defects in 54 ballot boxes.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Meanwhile, the Russian Foreign Ministry said that 38,000 Russian citizens cast their ballots at diplomatic missions in 54 countries.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Elections in 12 federal regions, including the republics of Chechnya, Dagestan, Mordovia, and Tuva, for heads and governors, parliamentary polls in 39 regions, by-elections in 19 regions, parliamentary elections in the administrative centers of 11 regions, and local elections in five provinces also wrapped up.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>United Russia wins 45.2% of votes, followed by Communist Party with 21%, according to exit poll MOSCOW, September,20 (AA): Polls closed on Sunday after Russians voted in a three-day parliamentary election. The voting, which was expanded to three days as part of coronavirus measures, ended as of 20.00 p.m. local time (1700 GMT). With 14 [&hellip;]<\/p>","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":589,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[342,6],"tags":[260,259,226,199],"class_list":["post-588","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-politics","category-world","tag-election","tag-parlimentary","tag-putin","tag-russia"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.asiafreepress.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/588"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.asiafreepress.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.asiafreepress.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.asiafreepress.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.asiafreepress.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=588"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.asiafreepress.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/588\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.asiafreepress.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/589"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.asiafreepress.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=588"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.asiafreepress.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=588"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.asiafreepress.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=588"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}