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Vladimir Putin’s party has won a record number of seats in Russia’s carefully planned parliamentary election in which no parties critical of the president took part.

Preliminary results showed Putin’s United Russia party won 355 seats in the 450-seat Duma lower house of parliament, Ella Pamfilova, the electoral chief, announced on Monday – a supermajority larger than the party’s previous record of 343 seats.

The election result is expected to further tighten Putin’s grip on power.

Some fear a new military mobilisation in Russia, something the president has denied, while Kyiv accuses Moscow of planning a call-up in coming weeks.

The election, Russia’s first since launching its full-scale invasion of Ukraine in 2022, was tightly controlled by the Kremlin, which has banned criticism of its military campaign.

Most opposition candidates were excluded, including Yabloko – Russia’s only liberal, anti-war party – which was banned from the ballot and allowed to compete only in single-ballot races.

Some anti-war politicians were jailed or forced to flee abroad before the campaign.

Ms Pamfilova said turnout was more than 59 per cent, the highest in a parliamentary election in over a decade. She thanked Russians for voting despite what she called “psychological pressure” on the country and denounced “more than a thousand” cyber-attacks targeting the electronic voting system, which she blamed on Ukraine.

Parties that nearly always vote for Kremlin initiatives won seats in the State Duma. Russia’s Communist party came second, winning 40 seats. The nationalist LDPR party won 25 seats and the New People party won 20 seats.

Electronic balloting was available in many regions and encouraged by authorities. Critics said it made it easier for the government to control the outcome of the vote.

Yabloko and the Communist Party, which has criticised some aspects of government policy but carefully avoided any criticism of Putin, said many of their observers were turned away from polling stations.

Russia did not invite observers from the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE), the Russian foreign ministry having accused the body of “double standards” for its criticism of Russia. Pere Joan Pons, the president of the OSCE Parliamentary Assembly, said that the decision was a breach of Russia’s commitments as a member state of the organisation.

Photographs of polling stations showed armed soldiers watching over people as they voted.

Ms Pamfilova said that more than 95 per cent of votes have been counted and that final results will be announced later this week.

A recent uptick in hybrid attacks suspected to have come from Russia have led to concerns in Europe that Putin will use his electoral success as an excuse to ramp up mobilisation, escalate its war on Ukraine and attack Nato.

With Ukrainian drone incursions increasingly attacking deeper into Russian territory, it was unsurprising the Kremlin kept a tight watch over the elections.

Kyiv has increasingly sought to humiliate Moscow and unnerve Russians with its heavy drone campaigns.

On Sunday, the final day of the elections, three people were killed after Moscow and the surrounding regions were pummelled with hundreds of drones.

Volodymyr Zelensky claimed the strikes damaged one of Russia’s “key oil facilities”.

In response, Russia has installed enormous anti-drone protective structures over the capital’s oil facilities.

Footage appeared to show workmen standing on layers of giant nets covering an oil refinery, held up by scaffolding.

BlackViper:
●Putin wins record number of seats in sham elections

●Fears of military mobilisation after tightly controlled vote in which most opposition candidates were banned

●The election was Russia’s first since launching its full-scale invasion of Ukraine in 2022



https://www.telegraph.co.uk/world-news/2026/09/21/putin-wins-record-number-of-seats-in-sham-elections/

SonOfWords:
Your country that held an election that was observed by all the international bodies including emissaries from Mars and Pluto, still ended up smuggling a kleptomaniacal drug baron into the presidency in the middle of the night.

Russians are not complaining, make una rest😤.

They think a lot of people are still gullible like before. .

Mattswaggz:
The headline has already made it obvious that this report is from some western propaganda network......they can't see the dictators doing their bidding like the corrupt comedian in Ukraine, Paul biya of Cameroon etc....but once it's those that aren't willing to bow to their rhetorics they'll start singing their usual song. .

Threedoorsdown:
The putin zombies and fascists would soon troop in to tell us how western media and propaganda have made people dislike him. As if it isn't glaring enough why they do

You can equally tell us why we hardly see such reports about Western allies that have more brutal and real time dictators running things. .

SonOfWords:
Your country that held an election that was observed by all the international bodies including emissaries from Mars and Pluto, still ended up smuggling a kleptomaniacal drug baron into the presidency in the middle of the night.

Russians are not complaining, make una rest😤.

BlackViper:
Banning and imprisoning opposition politicians, using the military to intimidate voters, barring internship observers etc
Can you imagine that Nigerian elections are now more credible than Russian elections?
The Kremlin midget is turning the once mighty Russia into a 3rd world hell hole.

Mattswaggz:
You can equally tell us why we hardly see such reports about Western allies that have more brutal and real time dictators running things. .

Kokaine:
This is what we should do to NDC and the rest. If they don't want to have sense we force it down their throats.

They should be banned from all these nonsense interviews they're making online and mama p and her cohort should be jailed

FreeStuffsNG:
Hypocrites! They are the worst culprit in sham elections and vote-buying!

Below is a report exposing their electoral fraud.

https://www.usccr.gov/files/pubs/vote2000/report/ch9.htm

Voting Irregularities in Florida During the 2000 Presidential Election

Chapter 9

Findings and Recommendations

The great majority of Americans . . . are uneasy with injustice but unwilling yet to pay a significant price to eradicate it.[1]

OVERVIEW

The U.S. Commission on Civil Rights conducted an extensive public investigation of allegations of voting irregularities during the 2000 presidential election in Florida. The investigation, utilizing the Commission's subpoena power, included three days of hearings, more than 30 hours of testimony, 100 witnesses, and a systematic review of more than 118,000 pages of pertinent documents.

Perhaps the most dramatic undercount in Florida's election was the uncast ballots of countless eligible voters who were turned away at the polls or wrongfully purged from voter registration rolls.

While statistical data, reinforced by credible anecdotal evidence, point to widespread disenfranchisement and denial of voting rights, it is impossible to determine the extent of the disenfranchisement or to provide an adequate remedy to the persons whose voices were silenced in this historic election by a pattern and practice of injustice, ineptitude, and inefficiency.

Despite the closeness of the election, it was widespread voter disenfranchisement, not the dead-heat contest, that was the extraordinary feature in the Florida election. The disenfranchisement was not isolated or episodic. And state officials failed to fulfill their duties in a manner that would prevent this disenfranchisement.

SonOfWords:
Your country that held an election that was observed by all the international bodies including emissaries from Mars and Pluto, still ended up smuggling a kleptomaniacal drug baron into the presidency in the middle of the night.

Russians are not complaining, make una rest😤.

BlackViper:
Banning and imprisoning opposition politicians, using the military to intimidate voters, barring internship observers etc

Can you imagine that Nigerian elections are now more credible than Russian elections?

The Kremlin midget is turning the once mighty Russia into a 3rd world hell hole.