JNN 22nd September 2026 Moscow : Vladimir Putin’s United Russia won just under 58% of the vote, the electoral commission said. Meanwhile, Putin ally Ramzan Kadyrov won nearly 100% of the vote in elections in the Russian republic of Chechnya.
Russia‘s electoral commission on Monday said that the ruling United Russia party has won the Parliamentary election.
It’s the first parliamentary poll since Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine and President Vladimir Putin has cast it as a referendum of support for what is termed in Russia, the “Special Military Operation.”
Parties that support Putin and the Kremlin’s war in Ukraine are the only ones registered to run, and the opposition was barred from taking part.
The polls took place amid rising prices, a crackdown on political opponents and the internet, fuel shortages and rumors of another mobilization drive following the elections.
Russian Election Results Analysis:
The Central Election Commission said that with 95% of ballots counted, the party of Russian President Vladimir Putin won 57.83% of the vote.
Commission chair Ella Pamfilova said that according to the preliminary results, United Russia would get 355 seats in the 450-seat Duma, giving the party around 20 more seats than it currently holds and marking the strongest result in its history.
The result handed Putin’s party an increased supermajority and beat its previous record of 343 seats — giving it a free hand for constitutional changes.
Russia’s Communist party came second in the vote, winning 40 Duma seats. The nationalist LDPR party took 25 seats and the New People party won 20.
The election result is expected to further tighten Putin’s grip on power.
The parliamentary vote was also the first to include residents of four regions in Ukraine — those being Donetsk, Luhansk, Kherson and Zaporizhzhia — that were occupied and annexed by Moscow later that year.
Voting was also held in Crimea, which was annexed by Russia in 2014.
Chechen Muslim Ally receives nearly 100% of votes
Russia’s electoral commission also announced that close Putin ally, Ramzan Kadyrov, has been re-elected to a fifth term as leader of Chechnya, a Russian republic in the North Caucasus region ( کوہ قاف ) (Land of Fairy Tales) .
Electoral officials said he achieved 99.85% of the vote, a slight improvement from the 99.73% garnered in 2021.
International observers have previously severely criticised electoral processes in the small region.
Kadyrov’s government has been accused of widespread rights violations by human rights organizations, including targeting journalists and homosexuals, something he denies.
Russia concluded elections on Sunday to its national parliament, as well as for regional legislatures and governors, a test of the country’s tightly controlled political system after 4-1/2 years of war in Ukraine. Kremlin-backed parties and candidates swept the board after most anti-war candidates were barred from running, results showed.
Koh Qaf ( کوہ قاف )
It is primarily a legendary construct in literature and oral traditions, from Asia to Europe and all classical fairy tales originate from the caucuses Mountain, rather the fair race is still called the Caucasian race due to their fair skin, historians and geographers connect the concept to real-world locations
The Caucasus Mountains: Etymologically and geographically, Koh Qaf is believed to refer to the Caucasus Mountain range (located between the Black Sea and the Caspian Sea). To ancient Middle Eastern and South Asian civilizations, this vast, snow-capped, rugged range at the edge of the known world seemed mysterious and impassable, spawning endless legends of hidden worlds
The Caucasus Mountains form the real-world geographic origin of the myth of Koh-e-Qaf, Chechnya literally sits in the heart of that legendary mountain land.
The Chechen republic spans from rugged mountain valleys and alpine meadows in the south down to forested foothills and agricultural plains (the Terek and Sunzha valleys) in the north.