# Electoral history of Gennady Zyuganov

* This article is part of a series aboutGennady Zyuganov
Chairman of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of the Russian Federation
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Early life
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Electoral history
1996 (campaign)
2000 (campaign)
2008 (campaign)
2012 (campaign)
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Electoral history of Gennady Zyuganov, Member of the State Duma (1993–present), and Leader of Communist Party (1993–present). Communist presidential candidate, 1996, 2000, 2008 and 2012.

## Presidential elections
### 1996

First round of 1996 presidential election :
| Candidate | Candidate | Party | Votes | % |
| | Boris Yeltsin | Independent | 26,665,495 | 35.8 |
| | Gennady Zyuganov | Communist Party | 24,211,686 | 32.5 |
| | 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 | Against all | Against all | 1,163,921 | 1.6 |
| Source: Nohlen & Stöver, Colton |||||||
Second round of 1996 presidential election :
| Candidate | Candidate | Party | Votes | % |
| | Boris Yeltsin | Independent | 40,203,948 | 54.4 |
| | Gennady Zyuganov | Communist Party | 30,102,288 | 40.7 |
| Against all | Against all | Against all | 1,163,921 | 1.6 |
| Source: Nohlen & Stöver, Colton |||||||

### 2000

2000 presidential election :
| Candidate | Candidate | Party | Votes | % |
| | Vladimir Putin | Independent | 39,740,467 | 53.4 |
| | Gennady Zyuganov | Communist Party | 21,928,468 | 29.5 |
| | Grigory Yavlinsky | Yabloko | 4,351,450 | 5.9 |
| | Aman Tuleyev | Independent | 2,217,364 | 3.0 |
| | Vladimir Zhirinovsky | Liberal Democratic Party | 2,026,509 | 2.7 |
| | Konstantin Titov | Independent | 1,107,269 | 1.5 |
| | Ella Pamfilova | For Civic Dignity | 758,967 | 1.0 |
| | Stanislav Govorukhin | Independent | 328,723 | 0.4 |
| | Yury Skuratov | Independent | 319,189 | 0.4 |
| | Alexey Podberezkin | Spiritual Heritage | 98,177 | 0.1 |
| | Umar Dzhabrailov | Independent | 78,498 | 0.1 |
| Against all | Against all | Against all | 1,414,673 | 1.9 |
| Source: Nohlen & Stöver, University of Essex |||||

### 2008

2008 presidential election :
| Candidates | Candidates | Party | Votes | % |
| | Dmitry Medvedev | United Russia | 52,530,712 | 71.2 |
| | Gennady Zyuganov | Communist Party | 13,243,550 | 18.0 |
| | Vladimir Zhirinovsky | Liberal Democratic Party | 6,988,510 | 9.5 |
| | Andrei Bogdanov | Democratic Party | 968,344 | 1.3 |
| Source: Nohlen & Stöver |||||

### 2012

2012 presidential election :
| Candidates | Candidates | Party | Votes | % |
| | Vladimir Putin | United Russia | 45,602,075 | 63.60 |
| | Gennady Zyuganov | Communist Party | 12,318,353 | 17.18 |
| | Mikhail Prokhorov | Independent | 5,722,508 | 7.98 |
| | Vladimir Zhirinovsky | Liberal Democratic Party | 4,458,103 | 6.22 |
| | Sergey Mironov | A Just Russia | 2,763,935 | 3.85 |
| Source: Central Election Commission of the Russian Federation |||||