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Putin
wins presidential election with 64 percent of vote
Monday March 05, 2012 01:07:04 PM,
IANS
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Moscow:
Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin has won the presidential
election with about 64 percent of the votes, the Russian Central
Election Commission (CEC) announced Monday.
CEC Chairman Vladimir Churov announced the preliminary result of
the election after 99.30 percent of the ballots were counted early
Monday, Xinhua reported.
Putin had obtained 63.75 percent of the votes and Communist leader
Gennady Zyuganov 17.19 percent.
Independent candidate Mikhail Prokhorov came in third with 7.82
percent.
Liberal Democratic Party leader Vladimir Zhirinovsky got 6.23
percent of the votes and 3.85 percent to A Just Russia leader
Sergei Mironov.
Churov said the error between the preliminary result and the final
one would be no more than 0.1 percent.
The turnout in the election was 65.3 percent, slightly lower from
the 69.7 percent in 2008 but higher than the 64.3 percent in 2004.
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