Russia Elections | United Russia wins majority in parliamentary vote

Russia has concluded its three-day parliamentary elections held 18 to 20 September 2026.

Preliminary results show President Vladimir Putin's United Russia won 57.8% of the party-list vote, projected to take three-hundred and fifty-five of four-hundred and fifty seats in the State Duma.

That would be a record supermajority and a constitutional majority, up from three-hundred and twenty-four seats in 2021 and three-hundred and forty-three in 2016.

For more on this, we are joined by Professor of international relations at Wits University, Professor Malte Brosig.

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