List of Political Parties (2003-2011)

For the December 2011 election, 7 parties were permitted to nominate candidates and all of them registered a list of candidates with the Central Electoral Commission:

Name of party Date registered by CEC
A Fair Russia 17 October 2011
Communist Party of the Russian Federation 14 October 2011
Liberal-Democratic Party of Russia 5 October 2011
Patriots of Russia 27 October 2011
Right Cause 24 October 2011
United Russia 18 October 2011
Yabloko 27 October 2011

The Central Election Commission registered eleven parties for a place on the ballot on 2 December 2007, and refused registration to three. The results of the nomination process are shown below.

  List vote, % (2007) Address of internet site Basis of registration.
Parties which have been registered for a place on the ballot (top 3 candidates)
United Russia (Putin@) 64.1 http://www.edinros.ru/ Won list seats in 2003
Communist Party (Zyuganov, Alferov, Kharitonov) 11.6 http://www.cprf.ru/ Won list seats in 2003
Liberal-Democratic Party (Zhirinovsky, Lugovoi, Lebedev) 8.2 http://www.ldpr.ru/ Won list seats in 2003
Fair Russia: Motherland, Pensioners, Life (Mironov, Goryacheva, Shargunov)* 7.8 http://www.spravedlivo.ru/ Paid deposit
Agrarian Party of Russia (Plotnikov, Brusnikova, Shandybin) 2.3 http://www.agroparty.ru/ Collected signatures
Yabloko (Yavlinsky, Kovalev, Ivanenko) 1.6 http://www.yabloko.ru/ Paid deposit
Civil Strength (Barshchevsky, Ryavkin, Pokhmelkin) 1.1 http://www.gr-sila.ru Collected signatures
Union of Right Forces (Belykh, Nemtsov, Chudakova) 1.0 http://www.sps.ru/ Paid deposit
Patriots of Russia 0.9 http://www.patriot-rus.ru/ Paid deposit
Party of Social Fairness (Podberezkin, Leskov, Vorotnikov)** 0.2 http://www.pp-pss.ru/ Collected signatures
Democratic Party of Russia (Bogdanov, Smirnov, Gimazov) 0.1 http://www.democrats.ru Collected signatures
Parties which have been refused registration for a place on the ballot
  List vote, % (2003) Address of internet site Basis of refusal.
Greens (Panfilov, Konegen, Semenov) 0.4 http://www.greenparty.ru/ Insufficient valid signatures
Peace and Unity (Umalatova, Tyrin, Veduta) 0.3 http://www.patriotparty.ru/ Insufficient valid signatures
People's Union (Baburin, Alksnis, Batanov) Did not compete http://www.partia-nv.ru/ Insufficient valid signatures
Party which failed to certify a list of candidates:
Rebirth of Russia*** 1.9 http://www.seleznev-inform.ru/ --
Competed in 2003 but no longer registered as a political party:
  List vote, % (2003) Address of internet site  
People's Party-NPRF 1.2 http://www.narod-party.ru/  
Conceptual Party 'Unity' 1.2 http://www.kpe.ru/  
New Course: Automobiles 0.8    
For Holy Russia 0.5    
Development of Enterprise 0.4 http://www.grachev.ru/middle/  
Real Patriots of Russia 0.3    
Eurasian Union 0.3    
Constitutional-Democratic Party 0.2    
Union of People for Education and Science (SLON) 0.2 http://slon-party.ru/  
Popular-Republican Party 0.1    
United Russian Party Rus' 0.2    
Source: Central Election Commission, http://www.cikrf.ru/cikrf/politparty/index.jsp Accessed 29.10.07.
http://www.vybory.izbirkom.ru/region/region/izbirkom?
action=show&root=1&tvd=100100021960186&vrn=100100021960181®ion=0
&global=1&sub_region=0&prver=0&pronetvd=null&vibid=100100021960181&type=236, Accessed 29.10.07

Notes

@United Russia nominated only one candidate, Putin, to the all-federalist section of its list, which normally consists of a party's top 3 candidates.

* In 2003 ran as Motherland.� During 2006 Motherland merged with Party of Pensioners (which with Party of Social Fairness in 2003 won 3.1%) and Party of Life (which with Rebirth of Russia in 2003 won 1.9%).� The combined party is called "Fair Russia: Motherland, Pensioners, Life" or "Fair Russia" for short.

** In 2003 ran as a joint list with Party of Pensioners.

*** In 2003, ran as a joint list with Party of Life.


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