Politics
United Russia wins record Duma majority as 49 war veterans elected
September 21, 2026 at 02:28 PM · Updated 25d ago
Coverage
4 reports · 1 in Arabic, 3 in English · over 12 hours
AJAl Jazeera English
Putin’s party wins supermajority in Russia’s parliamentary election
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TGThe Guardian
Putin consolidates grip on Russia as 49 Ukraine war veterans elected to parliament
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AJAl Jazeera English
Russia election results show Putin’s party winning: What we know
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AJAl Jazeera Arabic
انتخابات روسيا.. حزب بوتين يكتسح الدوما تحت وابل من المسيرات الأوكرانية
(opens the publisher’s site)Vladimir Putin's United Russia party has won a record 355 of the State Duma's 450 seats in Russia's first parliamentary election since the 2022 invasion of Ukraine.
- United Russia won 355 seats in preliminary results, a super-majority exceeding its 2016 record of 343, with the Communist Party second on roughly 40 seats.
- Officials said 49 veterans of the Ukraine war won seats; United Russia general secretary Vladimir Yakushev called it a substantial contribution.
- Voting covered four Ukrainian regions annexed in 2022 plus Crimea; the anti-war party Yabloko was barred, and EU diplomat Kaja Kallas called the election "another major setback for Russian democracy."
- Ukrainian drone attacks during the vote killed people in the Moscow region and Russian-held Kherson and damaged Moscow's oil refinery; officials said air defenses downed more than 1,600 drones.
- United Russia won over 58 percent of the vote, according to near-complete official results announced Monday.
- Yabloko entered the Novgorod regional parliament with about six percent of the vote, winning no national seats.
- The absence of OSCE observation was criticized as violating Russia's commitments as a member state.