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United Russia's victory in the 2026 parliamentary election stories

Sep 20, 2026

Russia's United Russia party wins record parliamentary majority in wartime election

Vladimir Putin's United Russia party secured a record supermajority with approximately 355 of 450 State Duma seats in Russia's first parliamentary election since the full-scale invasion of Ukraine, in a tightly controlled vote that excluded opposition parties critical of the Kremlin.

Sep 20, 2026·30 sources
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Top claims

  • ▪Russia's Central Election Commission reported that voter turnout in the September 2026 parliamentary election was just over 59%, the highest for a parliamentary election in over a decade
  • ▪For the first time, Russia's September 2026 parliamentary election included voting in four partially occupied Ukrainian regions—Donetsk, Luhansk, Kherson, and Zaporizhzhia—which Moscow claimed to annex in 2022
  • ▪Russian society is genuinely united behind the war in Ukraine

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Russia-Ukraine war1Russia’s domestic politics1Russia’s wartime governance1Russian parliamentary election 20261

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