He surpassed himself

The result of the “70 to 70” result did not work out. According to preliminary data, Putin receives a record for himself 75%, and the turnout lagged behind the given value

The first results

According to the preliminary data of the Central Election Commission announced at 23:00 in Moscow time (35.01% of the final protocols of the precinct election commissions), the current president is gaining 73.71% of the vote. All other candidates (seven people) were far behind. According to the CEC, the Communist Party candidate Pavel Grudinin is in second place (14.96% of the vote), the veteran of Russian politics Vladimir Zhirinovsky, who was running for the presidential post, received half as much - 6.73% of the vote. In fourth place is Ksenia Sobchak, she has 1.39%. Grigory Yavlinsky, Sergey Baburin, Maxim Suraykin and Boris Titov are still gaining less than one percent.

In the Crimea, whose residents first took part in the presidential election, Vladimir Putin (according to preliminary data) is gaining 91.7%, in Sevastopol - 92%.

In Moscow, after processing 1.66% of the protocols, Putin leads with a result of 72.15%. In St. Petersburg, where 1.75% of the protocols were processed, 75.87% of the vote.

The results of the ec-regulations give a similar picture. According to the Public Opinion Foundation (FOM), Vladimir Putin is gaining 77% of the vote. Pavel Grudinin - 11.8%, LDPR leader Vladimir Zhirinovsky - 5.9%. Candidate from the Civil Initiative party Ksenia Sobchak in fourth place with 1.8%. The remaining candidates are less than one percent. The FOM website notes that 112.7 thousand people in 83 constituent entities of the Russian Federation were interviewed.

According to sociologists of the All -Russian Center for the Study of Public Opinion (VTsIOM), Vladimir Putin is gaining 73.9%Pavel Grudinin - 11.2%, Vladimir Zhirinovsky - 6.7%. At the same time, Ksenia Sobchak has 2.5%, and Grigory Yavlinsky had 1.6%.

The Exit Pole was carried out by order of the expert institution of social research (EISI) at 1200 polling stations in 68 constituent entities of the Russian Federation. 37.2% of respondents refused to answer questions from sociologists.

In early March, answering the question of sociologists of the VTsIOM, 69%of respondents expressed their readiness to vote for Vladimir Putin, 7%for Pavel Grudinin, and 5%Vladimir Zhirinovsky. According to the FOM survey, the beginning of March, the rating of Vladimir Putin was 64.9%, Pavel Grudinin - 6.7%, Vladimir Zhirinovsky - 6.2%.

Thus, in the next election, Putin broke his previous records. In the 2012 elections, Putin received 63.60%. In 2004, running for a second term, Vladimir Putin received 71.3% with a turnout of 64.4%.

The turnout has grown

According to the data at 18:00 Moscow time, the turnout amounted to 60%, the chairman of the CEC Ella Pamfilova said. As the movement in defense of the rights of voters “Voice” recalls, in 2012 at 18:00 it was 56.72%.

In the capital, they voted more actively than six years ago. According to the Mosgorisbirkom at 18:00, 52.71% of voters came to polling stations in Moscow. In 2012, as of this time, 49.12%took part in the vote.

In the election in the elections in 2012, the turnout as of 18:00 amounted to 77.57%. This year - 83.36%. But in the Republic of Tatarstan, considered “electoral sultanate”, 59.38% and 57.93%, respectively.

According to the CEC, the highest turnout was recorded in the Chukotsk Autonomous Okrug (76.34%), the Yamal-Nenets Autonomous Okrug (84.86%), the Republic of Tuva (83.36%), the Kemerovo region (75.05%), the Chuvash Republic (76.61%). In Chechnya, the turnout amounted to 78.99%, in Kabardino-Balkaria-84.05%.

In the “lagging” - Irkutsk region (50.19%), Tver region (51.69%), the Republic of Karelia (51.26%) and the Astrakhan region (52.97%).

The total turnout increased by less than 5%, the experts of the Voice stated.

In December 2016, RBC reported that at the seminar for vice-governors in domestic politics, in which the first deputy head of the presidential administration Sergey Kiriyenko participated, approximate figures were discussed, which AP wanted to see “at the exit”, 70% of the vote “for” with a 70 percent of the turnout. However, a few days before the elections, sources close to the Kremlin told the same publication that if, following the results of the presidential election, the turnout of the turnout is from 65%, this will be considered a good result.