Russian presidential election, 1991

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Presidential elections were held in the Russian Federation on June 12, 1991. It was the first presidential election in the country's history. Boris Yeltsin was elected President of the Russian Soviet Republic. His running-mate, Alexander Rutskoi, became Vice-President.

[edit] Results

e•d 12 June 1991 Russian presidential **election** results
Candidates	Nominating parties	Votes	%
Boris Yeltsin / Alexander Rutskoy	Democratic Russia	45,552,041	57.30
Nikolai Ryzhkov / Boris Gromov	Communist Party of the Soviet Union	13,359,335	16.85
Vladimir Zhirinovsky / Andrey Zavidiya	Liberal Democratic Party of Soviet Union	6,211,007	7.81
Aman Tuleyev / Viktor Bocharov		5,417,464	6.85
Albert Makashov / Alexey Sergeev		2,969,511	2.02
Vadim Bakatin / Ramazan Abdulatipov		2,719,757	0.75
Against all		1,525,410	1.92
Invalid ballots		1,716,757	2.16
TOTAL		79,471,282	100.00

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