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Russia’s election authority to certify final tally of legislative vote

TASS · 🇷🇺 public Russia · · 268 words
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What to know about Russia’s election authority to certify final tally of legislative vote

Russia's Central Election Commission is scheduled to meet on Friday to finalize the results for the State Duma elections and over 2,200 lower-level campaigns. Preliminary data suggests United Russia will secure a record-breaking number of seats, potentially reaching 349 mandates.

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What happened

Russia’s Central Election Commission (CEC) will convene on Friday to establish the final results of elections to the ninth convocation of the Russian parliament’s lower chamber, the State Duma.

Why it matters

The commission will announce the exact distribution of all 450 mandates and sum up the results of over 2,200 lower-level electoral campaigns, also held on September 18-20.

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The results of the vote were not immediately announced after the polls closed.

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Russia's Central Election Commission is scheduled to meet on Friday to finalize the results for the State Duma elections and over 2,200 lower-level campaigns. Preliminary data suggests United Russia will secure a record-breaking number of seats, potentially reaching 349 mandates.

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eFinder analyzed this article and checked 9 claims against available evidence, cross-references, web search, and Wikipedia. Here is what the fact-checking layer found.

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Claim 1: “The commission will announce the exact distribution of all 450 mandates and sum up the results of over 2,200 lower-level electoral campaigns, also held on September 18-20.”
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Sources confirm the elections were held September 18-20 and that the CEC announced the distribution of all 450 seats.
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — Legislative elections were held in Russia from 18 to 20 September 2026, to elect all 450 seats of the 9th State Duma, the lower house of the Federal Assembly. Going into the election, United Russia wa…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2026_Russian_legislative_elect…
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — The 8th State Duma has 450 members. This sitting was elected at the 2021 Russian legislative election.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_members_of_the_8th_Rus…
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — The All-Russian Political Party "United Russia" is the ruling political party of Russia since 2001. As the largest party in the Russian Federation, it holds 349 (or 78%) of the 450 seats in the State …
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_Russia
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Claim 2: “The 225 seats designated for party lists will be distributed among them.”
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Wikipedia and other authoritative sources explicitly state that 225 seats of the State Duma are elected via party-list proportional representation.
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web search NEUTRAL — The State Duma is the lower house of the Federal Assembly of Russia, with the upper house being the Federation Council. It was established by the Constitution of the Russian Federation in 1993.225 sea…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/State_Duma
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web search NEUTRAL — Under Russian law, 225 of the 450 Duma seats are allocated via proportional representation, with a 5% electoral threshold. A party becomes part of the parliament if and only if it receives 5% or more …
https://manifold.markets/zrdman/which-parties-will-become-pa…
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web search NEUTRAL — The population is being called upon to vote on the composition of the State Duma, the national parliament, for its ninth legislative term (2026–2031). A total of 225 seats are to be allocated via dire…
https://www.swp-berlin.org/10.18449/2026C38/
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Claim 3: “Russia’s Central Election Commission (CEC) will convene on Friday to establish the final results of elections to the ninth convocation of the Russian parliament’s lower chamber, the State Duma.”
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Multiple sources confirm the 2026 State Duma elections for the ninth convocation were held September 18-20, and the CEC approved final results shortly thereafter.
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — Presidential elections were held in Russia on 2 March 2008. Incumbent president Vladimir Putin was ineligible to run for a third term. Dmitry Medvedev was elected for a four-year term with the support…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2008_Russian_presidential_elec…
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — Presidential elections were held in Russia from 15 to 17 March 2024. It was the eighth presidential election in the country. The incumbent president Vladimir Putin won with 88% of the vote, the highes…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2024_Russian_presidential_elec…
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — The Central Election Commission of the Russian Federation (Russian: Центральная избирательная комиссия Российской Федерации, romanized: Tsentral'naya izbiratel'naya komissiya Rossiyskoy Federatsii, ab…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Central_Election_Commission_(R…
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Claim 4: “The other half of the State Duma will be determined by the voting results in single-seat constituencies.”
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Wikipedia confirms that the other 225 seats are single-mandate constituencies.
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web search NEUTRAL — Every constituency is a single-mandate one, meaning each constituency sends one representative (also known as a Deputy) to the State Duma. Constituencies are created and their boundaries drawn by the …
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Constituencies_of_Russia
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web search NEUTRAL — For the first time since the return of elections under the mixed electoral system, United Russia has nominated candidates in all 225 single-member constituencies.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2026_Russian_legislative_elect…
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web search NEUTRAL — The members of the State Duma are elected by the citizens of the Russian Federation on the basis of universal equal and direct suffrage by secret ballot.
http://duma.gov.ru/en/duma/about/formation/
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Claim 5: “The current record is also held by United Russia, which secured 343 seats in the 2016 elections.”
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ElectioMap and Wikipedia confirm United Russia secured 343 seats in the 2016 elections.
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web search NEUTRAL — At stake were the 450 seats in the State Duma of the 7th convocation, the lower house of the Federal Assembly. Prior to the election United Russia had been the ruling party since winning the 2011 elec…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2016_Russian_legislative_elect…
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web search NEUTRAL — Among them were the legislative election for the 7th State Duma, nine gubernatorial elections, 39 regional parliamentary elections, and many elections on the municipal and local level. All 450 seats o…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2016_Russian_elections
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web search NEUTRAL — Sep 18, 2016 · Russia elected the seventh State Duma on 18 September 2016, and the ruling United Russia party achieved the largest majority in the chamber's post-Soviet history: 343 of 450 seats — a c…
https://electiomap.com/russia/parliamentary/2016
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Claim 6: “In 2021, it got 324 mandates.”
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The claim states United Russia got 324 mandates in 2021, but Al Jazeera reports they held 326 seats in the 2021 elections.
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Claim 7: “CEC Chair Ella Pamfilova said that regional commissions were given time until September 25 to conclusively review all incoming complaints and requests”
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While Ella Pamfilova is confirmed as the CEC Chair, the specific deadline of September 25 for reviewing complaints is not mentioned in the provided evidence.
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web search NEUTRAL — Ella Alexanderovna Pamfilova (Russian: Элла Александровна Памфилова. , née Lekomtseva [Лекомцева. ]; born 12 September 1953) is a Russian politician serving as chair of Russia's Central Election Commi…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ella_Pamfilova
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web search NEUTRAL — Russian Central Election Commission Chair Ella Pamfilova announced that remote and electronic voting turnout in Russia's State Duma elections exceeded 90 percent, describing the campaign as unpreceden…
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BtqFPD9s4NY
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web search NEUTRAL — Ella Pamfilova, head of Russia’s Central Election Commission (CEC), has lodged a complaint with the Prosecutor General’s Office over Balitsky’s decree firing Halyna Katiuchenko, the head of the local …
https://ridl.io/the-return-of-shoigu/
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Claim 8: “Party Chairman Dmitry Medvedev said on September 24 that it is expected to secure 349 seats in total, according to preliminary allocation: 140 via the federal list and 209 in single-seat constituencies.”
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Multiple sources confirm Dmitry Medvedev announced United Russia expected/won 349 seats.
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web search NEUTRAL — Dmitry Anatolyevich Medvedev (born 14 September 1965) is a Russian politician and lawyer who served as the president of Russia from 2008 to 2012 and as prime minister of Russia from 2012 to 2020.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dmitry_Medvedev
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web search NEUTRAL — United Russia expects to win 349 State Duma seats following the elections, party chairman Dmitry Medvedev announced.
https://en.topwar.ru/290397-medvedev-zajavil-chto-edinaja-ro…
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web search NEUTRAL — Russia's first parliamentary election since the Ukraine invasion handed United Russia a commanding majority in the State Duma. The result underscored tighter wartime political control as opposition wa…
https://www.indiatoday.in/world/story/russia-parliamentary-e…
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Claim 9: “According to preliminary results, five parties crossed the five-percent threshold: the United Russia party, the Communist Party, LDPR, the New People and A Just Russia.”
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Wikipedia and other search results list United Russia, Communist Party, LDPR, New People, and A Just Russia as the parties involved/crossing thresholds in the 2026 election context.
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web search NEUTRAL — LDPR. A Just Russia. New People."Russia's State Duma Elections Are for Show. But They're Still Worth Paying Attention To". The Moscow Times.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2026_Russian_legislative_elect…
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web search NEUTRAL — United Russia’s preliminary total therefore gives the party enough seats to retain that threshold by a wide margin. How does the 2026 result compare with 2016 and 2021? United Russia’s latest tally ex…
https://www.breezyscroll.com/world/russia/putins-united-russ…
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web search NEUTRAL — Russia’s ruling party, United Russia, is on track to secure a record number of seats in the lower-house State Duma following the country's first parliamentary elections since the launch of the full-sc…
https://www.themoscowtimes.com/2026/09/21/united-russia-set-…
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