Skip to content
Surf Wiki
Save to docs
politics

From Surf Wiki (app.surf) — the open knowledge base

1993 Russian legislative election

none

1993 Russian legislative election

none

FieldValue
countryRussian Federation
typeparliamentary
previous_election1990 Russian Supreme Soviet election
previous_year1990
election_date12 December 1993
next_election1995 Russian legislative election
next_year1995
seats_for_electionAll 450 seats to the State Duma
majority_seats226
elected_membersList of members of the 1st Russian State Duma
turnout54.33% ( 22.07 pp)
image1[[File:Vladimir Zhirinovsky 01-03-1995 (cropped).jpg150x150px]]
leader1Vladimir Zhirinovsky
party1Liberal Democratic Party of Russia
leader_since113 December 1989
leaders_seat1Shchyolkovo
seats1**64**
popular_vote1**12,318,562**
percentage1**21.35%** (PL)
image2[[File:YegorGaidar.jpg150x150px]]
leader2Yegor Gaidar
party2Choice of Russia (electoral bloc)
leader_since216 October 1993
leaders_seat2Federal list
seats262
popular_vote28,339,345
percentage214.45% (PL)
image3[[File:Gennady Zyuganov and Govorukhin in 1998 (cropped).jpg150x150px]]
leader3Gennady Zyuganov
party3Communist Party of the Russian Federation
leader_since314 February 1993
leaders_seat3Federal list
seats342
popular_vote36,666,402
percentage311.55% (PL)
image4[[File:Mikhail Lapshin.jpg150x150px]]
leader4Mikhail Lapshin
party4Agrarian Party of Russia
leader_since426 February 1993
leaders_seat4Federal list
seats438
popular_vote44,292,518
percentage47.44% (PL)
image5[[File:Ba-yavlinsky-g-a-1999-june (sq, cropped).jpg150x150px]]
leader5Grigory Yavlinsky
party5YaBL
leader_since516 October 1993
leaders_seat5Federal list
seats527
popular_vote54,223,219
percentage57.32% (PL)
image6{{CSS image crop
ImageAlevtina Fedulova (duma.gov.ru).jpg
bSize150
cWidth120
cHeight150
oTop0
oLeft17
leader6Alevtina Fedulova
party6Women of Russia
leader_since61 October 1993
leaders_seat6Federal list
seats624
popular_vote64,369,918
percentage67.57% (PL)
image7[[File:Sergey Shakhray in circa 1993 (cropped).jpg150x150px]]
leader7Sergey Shakhray
party7Party of Russian Unity and Accord
leader_since717 October 1993
leaders_seat7Federal list
seats722
popular_vote73,620,035
percentage76.27% (PL)
image8[[File:Nikolay Travkin in 1991 (cropped).jpg150x150px]]
leader8Nikolay Travkin
party8Democratic Party of Russia
leader_since826 May 1990
leaders_seat8Federal list
seats815
popular_vote82,969,533
percentage85.15% (PL)
image9[[File:Arkady Volsky.jpg150x150px]]
leader9Arkady Volsky
party9Civic Union (Russia)
leader_since921 October 1993
leaders_seat9*Federal list (lost)*
seats97
popular_vote91,038,193
percentage91.80% (PL)
map
titleChairman of the Supreme Soviet
posttitleChairman of the State Duma after
before_electionRuslan Khasbulatov
before_partyIndependent politician
after_electionIvan Rybkin
after_partyAgrarian Party of Russia

Parliamentary elections were held in Russia on 12 December 1993 to elect all 450 seats of the 1st State Duma of the Russian Federation. Additionally, the elections were the first and only instance of direct elections to the Federation Council, with future members appointed by provincial legislatures and governors.

The far-right Liberal Democratic Party of Russia won a total of 64 seats, the most deputies of any single bloc in the chamber. The pro-government Choice of Russia bloc came second with 62 deputies, and the anti-government Communist Party of the Russian Federation came third with 42. Five seats in Tatarstan were left vacant due to turnout below 25%, and one seat in Chechnya was also unfilled.

The elections were held concurrently with the 1993 Russian constitutional referendum.

Background

Since January 1993, there had been efforts between both elements within the Congress of People's Deputies of Russia and President Boris Yeltsin's inner circle. Boris Yeltsin and his alies hoped to create a parliament sympathetic to his reform agenda and minimise elements that were critical of his programme.

On 21 September Yeltsin declared the Congress of People's Deputies and the Supreme Soviet dissolved. Alexander Rutskoy called Yeltsin's move a step toward a coup d'état. The next day, the Constitutional Court held that Yeltsin had violated the constitution and could be impeached. During an all-night session, parliament declared the president's decree null and void. This began the 1993 Russian constitutional crisis.

With Yeltsin being victorious over parliament in the crisis, electoral law he declared by presidential decree was enacted, and his preferred constitutional draft put to referendum. Reformist parties supportive of Yeltsin were unsure how they would fare under the new electoral system.

Most political parties were not well-established, and instead functioned more akin to parliamentary groups than political parties. The parties with the most established organisational structures were there Communist Party of the Russian Federation, and the Agrarian Party of Russia. Political parties development were impacted by crises, and by their own improvisation in response to new institutions and the crises. Parties with less established structures had only a small window of time to prepare for Federal campaigning.

There were a total of 490 candidates competing for seats in the Federation Council, and for the State Duma, there were 1,757 candidates on party lists for the proportional representation seats, and 1,567 candidates running for the first-past-the-post electoral district seats.

Electoral system

The new election law adopted for the 1993 Duma election stipulated a parallel voting system, with the 225 of the 450 seats being party-list proportional seats, and the other 225 as single-member constituency seats elected via first-past-the-post voting. Every voter thus received two different ballots, one for both kinds of seat. The party-list proportional representation ballot required each voter to endorse an electoral organization or vote against all of them. By contrast, the single-member constituency ballot required a voter to endorse an individual, whose party affiliation, if any, could not be given on the ballot.

The new election law also saw the introduction of an 'Against all' option on ballots.

In order to nominate a list of candidates for the party-list proportional representation ballot, a party or electoral alliance had to gather 100,000 signatures from the electorate, of which no more than 15% could be from any one region or republic. The method used to calculate the number of seats won by each party was the Hare method, with a threshold of 5.0 per cent of the valid vote, including votes cast against all, but excluding invalid ballots.

To secure a place on a single-member constituency ballot, candidates had to gather the signatures of at least 1.0 percent of that constituency's electorate. The winner in each single-member districts contest was simply the candidate with the plurality of votes, regardless of the number of votes cast against all.

Additionally, an election was held for the upper house, the Federation Council. Each of the 89 federal subjects of Russia served as a dual-member constituency, meaning a total of 178 seats. The two most voted-for candidates winning the seats. As the new constitution stated, both houses were elected for a two-year term.

Political blocs

BlocAbbr.First troikaPolitical positionIdeologiesNotes
**1**Agrarian Party of Russia}};"Agrarian Party of RussiaAPRMikhail Lapshin • Alexander Davydov • Alexander ZaveryukhaLeft-wingAgrarian socialism / Collectivism
**2**Yabloko}};"Yavlinsky–Boldyrev–Lukin
RPRF, SDPR, RHDS–NDYaBLGrigory Yavlinsky • Yury Boldyrev • Vladimir LukinCentre-leftSocial democracy / Social liberalism
**3**Future of Russia–New Names}};"Future of Russia–New Names
NPSR, "Civic Union" AssociationBRNIVyacheslav Laschevsky • Oleg Sokolov • Vladimir MironovCentreYouth politics / Social policies
**4**Democratic Choice of Russia}};"Choice of Russia
VR, DR, PDI, KPRVRYegor Gaidar • Sergei Kovalev • Ella PamfilovaCentre-rightConservative liberalism / Liberal conservatism
**5**Civic Union (Russia)}};"Civic Union for Stability, Justice and Progress
RSPP, Renewal, RSDC, APPR, VVZMGSArkady Volsky • Nikolay Bekh • Alexander VladislavlevCentre to centre-leftSocial democracy / Anti-Yeltsinism / Federalism
**6**Democratic Party of Russia}};"Democratic Party of RussiaDPRNikolay Travkin • Stanislav Govorukhin • Oleg BogomolovCentre-rightConservatism
**7**Dignity and Charity}};"Dignity and Charity
VSV, VOI, Chernobyl Union of RussiaDMKonstantin Frolov • Nikolai Gubenko • Vyacheslav GrishinBig tentFederalism / Veterans' rights / Disabled rights
**8**Communist Party of the Russian Federation}};"Communist Party of the Russian FederationCPRFGennady Zyuganov • Vitaly Sevastyanov • Viktor IlyukhinLeft-wing to far-leftCommunism / Marxism–Leninism / Left-wing nationalism
**9**Russian Ecological Party "The Greens"}};"Constructive-Ecological Movement of Russia "Kedr"KEDRLyubov Lymar • Vladimir Chiburayev • Stanislav BaranovCentre to centre-leftGreen politics / Agrarianism
**10**Liberal Democratic Party of Russia}};"Liberal Democratic Party of RussiaLDPRVladimir Zhirinovsky • Viktor Kobelev • Vyacheslav MarychevRight-wing to far-rightRight-wing populism / Pan-Slavism
**11**Party of Russian Unity and Accord}};"Party of Russian Unity and AccordPRESSergey Shakhray • Alexander Shokhin • Konstantin ZatulinCentre-rightModerate liberalism / Conservatism / Regionalism
**12**Women of Russia}};"Women of RussiaZhRAlevtina Fedulova • Ekaterina Lakhova • Natalya GundarevaCentreWomen's rights / Pacifism
**13**Russian Democratic Reform Movement}};"Russian Democratic Reform MovementRDDRAnatoly Sobchak • Svyatoslav Fyodorov • Oleg BasilashviliCentreLiberal democracy / Federalism

Opinion polls

Polling firmFieldwork dateLDPRVRCPRFYaBLZhRDPRRDDRPRESAPRGSBRNIDMKEDRAgainst
allUnsureNot
voting
Liberal Democratic Party of Russia}}"Democratic Choice of Russia}}"Communist Party of the Russian Federation}}"Yabloko}}"Women of Russia}}"Democratic Party of Russia}}"Russian Democratic Reform Movement}}"Party of Russian Unity and Accord}}"Agrarian Party of Russia}}"Civic Union (Russia)}}"Future of Russia–New Names}}"Dignity and Charity}}"Russian Ecological Party "The Greens"}}"
title=Россия-95: накануне выборовtrans-title=Russia-95: On the eve of the electionlanguage=rueditor=G.V. Osipoveditor-link=Gennady Osipovurl=https://xn--h1aauh.xn--p1ai/wp-content/uploads/2019/04/Doklad-95.pdflocation=Moscowpublisher=ISPR RASyear=2014pages=2224isbn=}}4–5 Dec 1993**11****14**4**8****10****6**43214**9****5**21321
ISPR RAS
(exit poll)12 Dec 1993**18****22****11****12****8****6****5****5**4321122

Results

State Duma

By region

RegionTotal
seatsSeats wonLDPRVRCPRFAPRYablokoZhRPRESDPRGSRDDRDMBRNIKedrInd.Vacant1141121622115212211421111211142122211174222211115102161143312431628115424725123122221242412225
Adygea000000000000010
Agin-Buryat Autonomous Okrug000000000000010
Altai Krai000100000100020
Altai Republic000000000000010
Amur Oblast000000001000000
Arkhangelsk Oblast000000001000010
Astrakhan Oblast000000000000010
Bashkortostan000100100000040
Belgorod Oblast000000000000020
Bryansk Oblast001100000000000
Buryatia000000000000010
Chechnya000000000000001
Chelyabinsk Oblast030000001000100
Chita Oblast000000000000020
Chukotka000000000000010
Chuvashia000000000000020
Dagestan000000000000020
Evenk Autonomous Okrug000000000000010
Ingushetia000000000000010
Irkutsk Oblast000100000000030
Ivanovo Oblast010000000000010
Jewish Autonomous Oblast000000000000010
Kabardino-Balkaria000000000000010
Kaliningrad Oblast000000000100000
Kalmykia000000000000010
Kaluga Oblast010100000000000
[[File:Flag_of_Kamchatka_Oblast.svgborder22x22px]] Kamchatka Oblast000000000000010
Karachay-Cherkessia000000000000010
Karelia010000000000000
Kemerovo Oblast000000000000040
Khabarovsk Krai000000000000020
Khakassia010000000000000
Khanty–Mansi Autonomous Okrug010000000000010
Kirov Oblast100000000000010
Komi Republic000000000000020
Komi-Permyak Autonomous Okrug000000000000010
Koryak Okrug000000000000010
Kostroma Oblast000000000010000
Krasnodar Krai000100000000060
Krasnoyarsk Krai100100000000020
Kurgan Oblast000000000000020
Kursk Oblast001000000000010
Leningrad Oblast000000000100010
Lipetsk Oblast000001000000010
Magadan Oblast000000000000010
Mari El000000100000000
Mordovia001000000000000
Moscow050000000110080
Moscow Oblast100030000001050
Murmansk Oblast020000000000000
Nenets Autonomous Okrug000000001000000
Nizhny Novgorod Oblast000000000000060
North Ossetia–Alania000000000000010
Novgorod Oblast000000100000000
Novosibirsk Oblast010100001010000
Omsk Oblast000000000000030
Orenburg Oblast000110000000010
Oryol Oblast000000000000010
Penza Oblast001010000000000
[[File:Flag_of_Perm_Krai.svg25x25px]] Perm Oblast010000001000020
Primorsky Krai000010000000020
Pskov Oblast100000000000000
Rostov Oblast001000000000050
Ryazan Oblast000000001000010
Saint Petersburg020000001000050
Sakha000000000000010
Sakhalin Oblast000000000000010
Samara Oblast001001000100020
Saratov Oblast100000000000030
Smolensk Oblast001100000000000
Stavropol Krai000100000000030
Sverdlovsk Oblast010100000000050
Tambov Oblast002000000000000
Tatarstan000000000000005
Taymyr Autonomous Okrug000000000000010
Tomsk Oblast020000000000000
Tula Oblast010100000000010
Tuva000000000000010
Tver Oblast001000000000010
Tyumen Oblast000000000000020
Udmurtia000000100000010
Ulyanovsk Oblast000000000000020
Ust-Orda Buryat Autonomous Okrug000000000000010
Vladimir Oblast000200000000000
Volgograd Oblast000010000000030
Vologda Oblast000100000000010
Voronezh Oblast010000001000020
Yamalo-Nenets Autonomous Okrug000000000000010
Yaroslavl Oblast000000000000020
Party list59403221202118140000000
**Russia****450****64****64****42****37****27****23****22****14****9****5****3****1****1****132****6**

--

Federation Council

Although the Federation Council was contested on a non-party basis, 11 were members of the Communist Party, six were members of Russia's Choice and nine were members of other parties.

Aftermath

Opening of the 1st State Duma of the Russian Federation

The results of the election proved to be disappointing for the government: the two competing pro-government parties, Russia's Choice and the Party of Russian Unity and Accord, gained 15.5% and 6.7% of the vote respectively and won 123 of the 450 seats in the State Duma. Neither party was able to control the parliamentary agenda nor impose the will of the president on the Duma. Lacking legislative success, both parties rapidly lost membership.

Deputies elected for single-member constituency seats not already affiliated to a political party or bloc were able to affiliate or associate themselves with such. Some of these deputies chose to informally associate themselves with multiple.

The new Duma ratified the Yeltsin Constitution. The new constituiton produced a strong Presidency, particularly over the Duma as it confirmed the ability for the president to dissolve parliament, and to pass laws by presidential decree.

Parliamentary groups

The use of the mixed system for the election of the Duma produced a large number of deputies which were unaffiliated with any electoral bloc. By joining other parliamentary groups or forming groups of independent deputies, they could significantly influence the balance of power in the Duma. Hence, the parliamentary groups in the first two-year term of the Duma showed lack of stability and its numbers may be given only with approximation.

Parliamentary groupLeaderSeats
Liberal Democratic Party of RussiaVladimir Zhirinovsky53–64
Russia's ChoiceYegor Gaidar47–78
Communist Party of the Russian FederationGennady Zyuganov45–47
Women of RussiaYekaterina Lakhova20–24
Agrarian Party of RussiaMikhail Lapshin50–55
YablokoGrigory Yavlinsky27–28
Party of Russian Unity and AccordSergey Shakhray12–34
Democratic Party of RussiaNikolay Travkin8–15
Liberal Democratic Union of 12 DecemberIrina Khakamada11–38
New Regional Politics – Duma-96V. Medvedev30–67
RussiaI. Shichanin34–38
StabilityA. Leushkin34–40
Russian Way (*unregistered*)Sergei Baburin11–14
Strong State (*Derzhava*) (*unregistered*)V. Kobelev4–5

Notes

References

Sources

References

  1. {{Harvb. Remington. Smith. 1996
  2. {{Harvb. Remington. Smith. 1996
  3. "Указ Президента РФ от 21.09.1993 N 1400 "О поэтапной конституционной реформе в Российской Федерации" (с изменениями и дополнениями) | ГАРАНТ".
  4. "Заключение Конституционного Суда РФ от 21.09.1993 N З-2 "О соответствии Конституции Российской Федерации действий и решений Президента Российской Федерации Б.Н. Ельцина, связанных с его Указом "О поэтапной конституционной реформе в Российской Федерации" от 21 сентября 1993 года N 1400 и Обращением к гражданам России 21 сентября 1993 года" | ГАРАНТ".
  5. [http://pravo.gov.ru/proxy/ips/?docbody=&link_id=1&nd=102026173&intelsearch= Постановление Верховного Совета Российской Федерации от 22 сентября 1993 года № 5790-I «О неотложных мерах по преодолению государственного переворота 21 сентября 1993 года»]
  6. {{Harvb. Remington. Smith. 1996
  7. {{Harvb. Remington. Smith. 1996
  8. {{Harvb. Remington. Smith. 1996
  9. {{Harvb. Remington. Smith. 1995
  10. (11 December 1993). "Sunday's election". [[United Press International.
  11. {{Harvb. Remington. Smith. 1996
  12. {{Harvb. Remington. Smith. 1995
  13. {{Harvb. Remington. Smith. 1996
  14. {{ws. [[s:Constitution of Russia#SECOND SECTION. CONCLUDING AND TRANSITIONAL PROVISIONS. 1993 Constitution of Russia. Section 2]] 7.
  15. "Выборы в Государственную Думу Федерального Собрания Российской Федерации первого созыва".
  16. (2014). "Россия-95: накануне выборов". [[ISPR RAS]].
  17. [http://www.politika.su/fs/gd1ood.html Результаты выборов в Думу I созыва] {{in lang. ru.
  18. {{Harvb. Remington. Smith. 1995
Info: Wikipedia Source

This article was imported from Wikipedia and is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Content has been adapted to SurfDoc format. Original contributors can be found on the article history page.

Want to explore this topic further?

Ask Mako anything about 1993 Russian legislative election — get instant answers, deeper analysis, and related topics.

Research with Mako

Free with your Surf account

Content sourced from Wikipedia, available under CC BY-SA 4.0.

This content may have been generated or modified by AI. CloudSurf Software LLC is not responsible for the accuracy, completeness, or reliability of AI-generated content. Always verify important information from primary sources.

Report