Party rating before the 2016 State Duma elections

The elections to the State Duma will be held on September 18, 2016. Three weeks before this event, experts from the Levada Center conducted a study of the political preferences of Russians and their desire to participate in the upcoming elections. Based on the research, a preliminary rating of parties was compiled before the 2016 State Duma elections.

1600 people living in 48 regions of the Russian Federation were interviewed, and at the end of the study it turned out that the people are not eager to vote - 16% are firmly sure that they will not vote, 12% doubt whether it is worth it, 20% hesitate. However, 28% will vote in the 2016 State Duma elections, the rating of the parties in the poll was formed thanks to this majority, and 20%, according to the forecast, firmly believe that nothing will stop them on their way to the coveted ballot paper and the ballot box. But who exactly do the Russians prefer? Top 10 Russian political parties on our list!

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10. "Civic Platform", "Party of Growth", "Civil Power"

The rating of parties in 2016 is currently being opened by three parties at once, gaining less than 1%. The first is right-wing, the second is liberal-conservative, and the third is simply liberal.

8-9. Motherland and Apple

The 8th and 9th seats are occupied by two parties that are very different in their programs and platforms - the national-conservative Rodina, founded by Dmitry Rogozin, and the democratic Yabloko, founded by Grigory Yavlinsky. The rating of the Yabloko party in the 2016 elections, as well as the Rodina party, is 1%.

7. Environmental Party Greens and the Russian Party of Pensioners for Justice

In 2016, thanks to the victory in the elections in Kabardino-Balkaria, the Greens were exempted from collecting signatures. 1% of the respondents are ready to vote for them. The former Party of Pensioners has a long history. Founded in 1997, since then it has been repeatedly dissolved, reformed and reborn under a different name. The recent scandals with the denial of a number of candidates from the "pensioners" to the elections by the Central Election Commission did not affect their not too great popularity.

6. PARNASS

The Conservative Liberal Party of People's Freedom, or PARNAS for short, which has set itself the goal of "being the spokesman for Yakimanka, Bolotnaya and Sakharov," enjoys a stable reputation with no ups and downs. As in January it would have been chosen by 2%, so in August PARNAS rating in the elections to the State Duma in 2016 is the same 2%.

5. Communists of Russia

Created as an alternative to the Communist Party of the Russian Federation, the Communists of Russia party demands nationalization, the abolition of medical reform, a ban on raising the retirement age, and supports atheism. In the first half of 2016, the number of people willing to give their votes to the "Communists of Russia" increased from 1% to 2%.

4. Fair Russia

Created in 2006 as a “second leg” that the Kremlin could “step over” when the first one goes numb, Just Russia later separated from the Kremlin and went its own way. Over the past six months, its popularity has almost doubled. In January, 5% of respondents would vote for the party, and in August already 9%.

3. LDPR

Since January, the popularity of the party among Russians has almost doubled - in January it was 8%, and in August it was 14%. Apparently, this time Zhirinovsky came up with successful slogans.

2. Communist Party

The party is headed by the permanent leader Gennady Zyuganov. The attitude of the respondents towards it is quite stable - in January the rating of the Communist Party of the Russian Federation was 16%, and in August it became 15%. By 2016, the Communist Party of the Russian Federation had turned from an opposition party into a supportive one: the views of the Kremlin and the post-Soviet communists coincide on all major strategic issues, such as Crimea, Donbass and the independence of Abkhazia.

1. United Russia

The United Russia rating in the 2016 State Duma elections is the first place. 50% of those polled would vote for it. It is interesting to note that this is 15% less than it was at the beginning of this year and 7% less than it was just a month ago. At the same time, starting in 2016, the authorities, feeling that the people were tired of the lack of alternatives, decided to form party lists using the primaries method, i.e. on a competitive basis. As a result, those who like to observe the vicissitudes of the electoral struggle were pleased with several juicy scandals about “gross violations of internal party democracy”. On the one hand, with the introduction of the primaries, the EDR became more transparent for an outside observer, on the other, the lovingly cultivated vertical of power within the party suffered.

Rating of political parties VTsIOM September 2016