Moscow-Sana
The Russian Communist Party announced that it had achieved good results in the Russian Duma elections, which brought it to second place after the ruling United Russia party.
The head of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of the Russian Federation Gennady Zhuganov said at a press conference today that the preliminary results of the parliamentary elections in the country were "satisfactory for the Communist Party and led to the party reaching second place."
It is noteworthy that, according to the preliminary results of the parliamentary elections, after 90.56 percent of the votes were counted, the United Russia Party ranked first with 49.47 percent of the votes, while the Russian Communist Party came in second place with 19.41 percent of the votes, while the Liberal Democratic Party came third with 7.50 percent. The Just Russia Party for Truth came fourth with 7.37 percent, and the New People's Party came fifth with 5.42 percent of the vote.
Individually mandated constituencies indicate that the United Russia party initially won 199 seats, making it again achieve a constitutional majority in the State Duma, while the Communist Party of the Russian Federation won nine seats, and Just for Truth won eight seats, while the party each received The Liberal Democrats, the Rodina Party, the Rosta Party and the Civic Base have one seat.
The polling stations for the elections of members of the State Duma in its eighth session, which lasted for 3 days, closed yesterday evening, and the counting of votes began immediately.
