page_title: 2012 Russian presidential election
section_title: Results
hierarchical_section_title: 2012 Russian presidential election / Results
caption_attribution_description: Русский: Выборы президента Российской Федерации (2012 год)
context_page_description: The 2012 Russian presidential election was held on 4 March 2012. There were five officially registered candidates: four representatives of registered parties, and one nominal independent.
  These elections were the first after the constitutional amendments in 2008. In this election, the President was elected for the first time for six years, not four as before.
  At the United Russia congress in Moscow on 24 September 2011, President Dmitry Medvedev proposed that his predecessor, Vladimir Putin, stand for the presidency in 2012, an offer which Putin accepted. Putin immediately offered Medvedev the opportunity to stand on the United Russia ticket in the parliamentary elections in December 2011 and become Prime Minister at the end of his presidential term.
  All independents had to register by 15 December 2011, and candidates nominated by parties were required to register by 18 January 2012. The final list was announced on 29 January. On 2 March, outgoing President Medvedev addressed the nation on the national television channels about the upcoming elections, inviting citizens to vote.
  Putin received 63.6% of the vote, securing a record third term in the Kremlin.
context_section_description: There were over 108,000,000 eligible voters and almost all 95,000 polling stations had webcams to observe the voting process. Following criticism of the vote in the December elections, 2 web cameras were dedicated to streaming the activities at each polling station, at an expense of five million dollars, i.e. about $50 per polling station.
caption: Election of the President of the Russian Federation (2012)
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