The Central Election Commission reported on Putin's victory in the presidential elections

Based on the results of processing 99.67% of polling station protocols, Vladimir Putin won the presidential election in Russia, gaining 87.32% of the votes. These are the data from the calculations of the Central Election Commission.

The remaining three candidates received less than 5% of the vote each. Thus, 4.3% of voters voted for Nikolai Kharitonov from the Communist Party of the Russian Federation, Vladislav Davankov from the New People party received 3.82% of the votes, and Leonid Slutsky from the Liberal Democratic Party - 3.2%.

The final turnout, as of 18:00 Moscow time on March 17, was 74.22%. And the turnout for remote electronic voting, as reported by the Ministry of Digital Development, was 94%.

Both indicators—the turnout and the number of votes cast for Putin—significantly exceeded the results of the presidential elections in 2018. Then 67.54% exercised their right to vote, and Putin received 76.69% of the votes.

Data from some polling stations significantly differed from the overall picture. Thus, at polling station No. 95 in Barnaul, Nikolai Kharitonov received 763 votes, which turned out to be ten times more than the number of votes for Vladimir Putin. After the media wrote about this, it became known that the votes were being recounted at the polling station. The results of the recount were not reported.

Speaking at Gostinny Dvor after polling stations in Russia closed, Putin publicly uttered the name “Navalny” for the first time. He called the death of a politician in the colony a “sad event” and recalled that this also “happened more than once” in US correctional institutions. Putin also confirmed earlier press reports about the impending exchange of Navalny for Russians imprisoned in Western countries.

According to Putin, as soon as he heard such a proposal, he immediately agreed to it, but on one condition - “that he should not return.”

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