Russian legislative election, 1995

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Legislative elections were held in the Russian Federation on December 17, 1995. At stake were the 450 seats in the State Duma (Gosudarstvennaya Duma), the lower house of the Federal Assembly of Russia (The legislature).

The election law adopted for the 1995 election was similar to that adopted for the 1993 election, with some minor modifications. First, to secure a place on the proportional representation ballot, parties had to have registered with the Ministry of Justice no later than six months before the election, and the number of signatures they had to gather rose from 100,000 to 200,000. Second, invalid votes were now included in the calculation of the 5.0 percent threshold. Third, on the single-member district ballot, party endorsements of candidates were indicated.

[edit] Results

Parties and coalitions	%	Seats
Communist Party of the Russian Federation (Kommunističeskaja partija Rossijskoj Federacii)	34.9	157
Our Home is Russia	12.2	55
Liberal Democratic Party of Russia (Liberal'no-demokratičeskaja partija Rossii)	11.3	51
Yabloko	10.0	45
Agrarian Party of Russia	4.4	20
Power to the People!	2.0	9
Russia's Choice	2.0	9
Congress Russian Communities	1.1	5
Women of Russia	0.7	3
Forward Russia!	0.7	3
Ivan Rybkin Bloc	0.7	3
Pamfilova–Gurov–Lysenko Bloc	0.4	2
Communists of USSR	0.2	1
Workers' Self-Government	0.2	1
Union of Labor	0.2	1
Workers' Self-Government	0.2	1
Stanislav Govorukhin Bloc	0.2	1
Russian Unity and Concord	0.2	1
independents	17.1	77
against all	9.6%	-
Invalid votes	2.3%	-
Total (turnout 64.4%)		450
Registered voters