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Russian presidential election, 1996
July 3, 1996
Nominee		Boris Yeltsin	Gennady Zyuganov
Party		Independent	CPRF
Popular vote		40,208,384	30,113,306
Percentage		53.8%	40.3%
Incumbent President Boris Yeltsin Independent President-elect Boris Yeltsin Independent

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Presidential elections were held in Russia in 1996. Incumbent Russian President Boris Yeltsin was seeking a four-year term. The first round was held on Sunday, June 16, 1996. Boris Yeltsin and Communist challenger Gennady Zyuganov met in the runoff round on July 3; they finished first and second in the first round (June 16) with 35 and 32 percent of the vote respectively. Yeltsin won the second round with 53 percent of the vote compared to Zyuganov's 40 percent. The inauguration ceremony took place on August 9, 1996.

[edit] Results

e • d 16 June and 3 July 1996 Russian presidential election results

Candidates	Nominating parties	1st round		2nd round
		Votes	%	Votes	%
Boris Yeltsin		26,665,495	35.3	40,208,384	53.8
Gennady Zyuganov	CPRF	24,211,686	32.0	30,113,306	40.3
Alexander Lebed		10,974,736	14.5
Grigory Yavlinsky	Yabloko	5,550,752	7.3
Vladimir Zhirinovsky	LDPR	4,311,479	5.7
Svyatoslav Fyodorov	PWSR	699,158	0.9
Mikhail Gorbachev		386,069	0.5
Martin Shakkum	RSPP	277,068	0.4
Yuri Vlasov	PP	151,282	0.2
Vladimir Bryntsalov	RSP	123,065	0.2
Aman Tuleyev		308	0.0
Against all		1,163,921	1.5	3,604,550	4.8
Invalid ballots		1,072,120	1.4	780,405	1.0
TOTAL		74,387,754	100.00	74,706,645	100.00

[edit] See also

• History of post-Soviet Russia#The 1996 presidential election
• The election was chronicled in the movie Spinning Boris

[edit] External links

• Russian Presidential Elections-96 Open Society Archives, Budapest
• Russian Presidential Elections-96 (Indiana University)
• Polls open for Russian presidential election CNN - Polls open for Russian presidential election - June 15, 1996
• CNN - Pivotal Elections: Russia 1996
• Poynter Online - Russian Presidential Election (From the Poynter Institute for Media Studies [1]; includes a larger list of external links)

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