Russian presidential election, 2000: Meaning (information, definition, explanation, facts)

Presidential elections were held in the Russian Federation on March 26, 2000. Incumbent President Vladimir Putin, who had succeeded Boris Yeltsin on the latter's resignation in January 2000, was seeking a four-year term in his own right.

National summary

Registered voters: 102,473,997 Votes cast: 70,468,245 68.8 Invalid votes: 649,707 00.6 Valid votes 69,818,538 99.4 ==================================================================== Candidate Party -------------------------------------------------------------------- Ella Pamfilova 720,635 01.0 Vladimir Putin 37,010,954 53.0 Konstantin Titov 1,060,284 01.5 Aman-Geldy Tuleev 2,140,689 03.1 Grigory Yavlinsky Yabloko 4,120,039 05.9 Vladimir Zhirinovsky LDPR 1,914,838 02.7 Gennady Zyuganov CPRF 20,742,413 29.7 4 others or "against all" 2,108,686 03.0 -------------------------------------------------------------------- 649,707 (00.6%) invalid 69,818,538 -------------------------------------------------------------------- CPRF Communist Party of the Russian Federation LDPR Liberal Democratic Party of Russia Yabloko Yavlinsky Bloc -------------------------------------------------------------------- Candidates with less than 1% of the vote are not shown.