Preliminary exit polls by Vote Abroad indicate that the incumbent Russian President, Vladimir Putin, secured 8% of the vote at a polling station in Almaty. This is the lowest result in Central Asia and among the lowest globally. In contrast, Vladislav Davankov received 69% of the votes. Interestingly, 14% of the polled Russian citizens spoiled their ballots, and 7% declined to respond to the volunteers’ questions.
In Kyrgyzstan, Putin received 35% of the votes. The figures were similar in Uzbekistan, with 35% of respondents in Samarkand and 36% in Tashkent voting for Putin.
Internationally, Putin’s highest support came from Greece, where 59% of respondents in Athens voted for him. Conversely, the lowest percentages were recorded in the Netherlands (2%), Poland, Serbia, and Montenegro (3% each).
According to the official data from the Russian Central Election Commission (CEC), Putin won 71.52% of votes abroad. His competitors, Vladislav Davankov, Nikolai Kharitonov, and Leonid Slutsky, received 17.40%, 2.18%, and 1.99% of the votes, respectively. The CEC has not yet released data on individual polling stations abroad.
Putin, who is running for a fifth term of presidency, is winning the election with a record margin of votes. After processing 99% of the protocols, 87.33% of voters voted in his favour. None of Putin’s opponents managed to exceed even 5% of the votes gained. Specifically, Nikolai Kharitonov from the CPRF received 4.31% of the votes, Vladislav Davankov from New People received 3.79% of the votes, and Leonid Slutsky from the LDPR received 3.19% of the votes. The voter turnout for the election was 74.22%.
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