CEC summarized preliminary results of elections

The Central Election Commission (CEC) summed up the preliminary results of the vote in the presidential election after the closure of the last polling station in the Kaliningrad region. By 22:00 Moscow time, more than 30% of ballots were processed.

According to preliminary information from the electoral committee, Vladimir Putin won the election. 73.11% of voters voted for him. He is followed by Pavel Grudinin - 14.96% of the vote, in third place - Vladimir Zhirinovsky (6.73%). Also in the top five - Ksenia Sobchak - it was supported by 1.39% of Russians, followed by Grigory Yavlinsky (0.78% of the vote). According to the CEC, 0.63% of voters voted for Sergei Baburin, 0.62% for Maxim Suraykin, 0.61% for Boris Titov.

At the same time, the first exit polls of the All-Russian Public Opinion Research Center showed the victory of Vladimir Putin with 73.9% of the vote. In second place, according to the survey results, Pavel Grudinin (11.2% of votes), the third, as analysts found, was taken by Vladimir Zhirinovsky (for him, according to sociologists, 6.7% voted). Ksenia Sobchak, according to the All-Russian Public Opinion Research Center, gained 2.5%, Grigory Yavlinsky enlisted the support of 1.6% of Russians, Boris Titov - 1.1%, Sergei Baburin - 1%, Maxim Suraykin - 0.8%. In total, analysts interviewed 162,601 people. 62.8% of the respondents agreed to answer the questions.

The turnout data, which arrived at 18:00 Moscow time, indicate that 60% of registered voters came to the polls, the head of the Central Electoral Commission Ella Pamfilova told RBC. In 2012, by this time, it was estimated at 56.72%. In total, according to the election commission results, 65.34% of voters came to polling stations all over Russia. At the same time in Moscow by this time in 2018, 52.91% of residents voted (in 2012 - 49.12% of Russians), in St. Petersburg - 55.47% (in 2012 - 50.19%), in Crimea - 63.86% (this region participates in the presidential elections in Russia for the first time). Earlier, this year, the estimates for the turnout "for most regions" are higher than those in the presidential election in 2012, attention was paid by the deputy chairman of the CEC, Nikolai Bulaev.

Serious violations in the voting process, the Central Election Commission, according to Pamfilova, did not record. "At this time, we have analyzed, pro-rated everything that is possible, what has arrived. So far this [number of violations], thank God, is rather modest, "added the head of the commission.

On the day of the election, as the deputy head of the Ministry of Internal Affairs, Alexander Gorovoy, specified earlier, the police received 642 reports of violations of the electoral law, while two cases - section No. 1480 in Lyubertsy and PEC # 326 in the city of Artem, Primorsky Krai - "criminal cases may be opened "Gorovoy stressed. Before, there were recorded ballot stuffing. The urns after these incidents were sealed, the ballots from them during the counting of votes were declared invalid.

Also violations with ballot stuffing were recorded in the capital. The largest of them, the Moscow Public Headquarters for monitoring the presidential elections, considered the throw-in that occurred at station No. 1204 on Znamenka Street. Later, a similar incident occurred at station No. 1353 in the Kuzminki area. In this connection, the Mositsbirk Committee decided to seal the ballot boxes on both sites, all ballots from them during the counting of votes will also be declared invalid.

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