1996 Russian presidential election
Results
Notes Withdrew his candidacy before the election, but received 308 votes during the early voting (up to the withdrawal of the candidature), which were credited as valid.

1996 Russian presidential election

Section Title: Results
Table Section Text: Notes Withdrew his candidacy before the election, but received 308 votes during the early voting (up to the withdrawal of the candidature), which were credited as valid.

Candidate	Party	First round	Second round

Votes	%	Votes	%

Boris Yeltsin	Independent	26,665,495	35.8	40,203,948	54.4

Gennady Zyuganov	Communist Party	24,211,686	32.5	30,102,288	40.7

Alexander Lebed	Congress of Russian Communities	10,974,736	14.7

Grigory Yavlinsky	Yabloko	5,550,752	7.4

Vladimir Zhirinovsky	Liberal Democratic Party	4,311,479	5.8

Svyatoslav Fyodorov	Party of Workers' Self-Government	699,158	0.9

Mikhail Gorbachev	Independent	386,069	0.5

Martin Shakkum	Independent	277,068	0.4

Yury Vlasov	Independent	151,282	0.2

Vladimir Bryntsalov	Russian Socialist Party	123,065	0.2

Aman Tuleyev	Independent	308	0.0

Against all	1,163,921	1.6	3,604,462	4.9

Invalid/blank votes	1,072,120	–	780,592	–

Total	75,587,139	100	74,691,290	100

Registered voters/turnout	108,495,023	69.7	108,589,050	68.8

Source: Nohlen & Stöver, Colton

Sentence(s)

Yeltsin defeated Communist Gennady Zyuganov in the 1996 Russian presidential election, receiving 54.4% of the vote.

final_sentence: Yeltsin defeated Communist Gennady Zyuganov in the 1996 Russian presidential election, receiving 54.4% of the vote.