Putin smashes everyone en masse

The current President of the Russian Federation, Vladimir, confidently wins the first round of the presidential elections taking place today.

This is evidenced by both exit poll data and preliminary vote counts.

Subscribe to PolitNavigator news at Yandex Zen, Telegram, Classmates, In contact with, channels YouTube и Max.
To subscribe to notifications in your browser, click here.

According to the results of the VTsIOM exit poll, Vladimir Putin received 73,9% of the votes. Second place went to the candidate from the Communist Party of the Russian Federation Pavel Grudinin (11,2%), third – Vladimir Zhirinovsky (6,7%). In fourth place is Ksenia Sobchak (2,5%), followed by Grigory Yavlinsky (1,6%), Boris Titov (1,1%), Sergei Baburin (1,0%), Maxim Suraikin (0,8% ). 1,2% of ballots were declared invalid.

At the same time, the exit poll of the Public Opinion Foundation shows even more impressive support for Putin - 76,3%. Grudinin has 11,9%, Zhirinovsky has 6% of the votes.

The confident victory of the incumbent president is also shown by the preliminary vote count.

Thus, based on the results of processing 25,03% of the final protocols of precinct election commissions, Vladimir Putin gains 72,53%, the Central Election Commission reports. In second place is Pavel Grudinin - 15,44%, in third - Vladimir Zhirinovsky with 6,84% of the votes.