Democratic Party of Russia

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Democratic Party of Russia
Демократическая партия России
European affiliationEuropean People's Party (2007–2008)
Colours  Gold
  Blue
Seats in the State Duma
0 / 450
Seats in the Regional Parliaments
0 / 3,787
Website
democrats.ru
An ID card of a party member
(1992–2006)
An ID card of a party member
(2006–08)

The Democratic Party of Russia or DPR (Russian: Демократическая Партия России, Demokraticheskaya Partiya Rossii) is a conservative Russian political party that was founded in 1990. Under the leadership of

Right Cause
. It was re-established as a party and officially registered again in 2012.

History

The Democratic Party of Russia was founded by

anticommunism to centrism (1992–1993) and later to moderate Russian nationalism (1994–1995).[2]

In 1991, the Democratic Party differed from other liberal/democratic organizations with its 'demopatriotic' stance (similar to Aksyuchits' Christian-Democratic Party and

Constitutional Democrats). The Democratic Party was opposed to the dissolution of the Soviet Union
and criticised Latvia's and Estonia's policies towards their Russian-speaking minorities. After the signing of the Belovezhye treaty, the DP organized a number of demonstrations against the treaty.

In the 1993 parliamentary elections in Russia, the party received 5.52% of the Proportional Representation ballot vote (2,969,533 votes) as well as 2.1% (1,094,066 votes) of votes on individual district ballots. This translated into 14 and 7 seats, respectively, for a total of 21 seats in the 450-seat Duma.

The party's stance on

Our Home is Russia
movement.

Govorukhin and Glazyev supporters. In the 1995 Russian legislative election, the Glazyev wing took part within the Congress of Russian Communities list, whilst Govorukhin formed his own list, called the Stanislav Govorukhin Bloc.[3]

In the 1996 presidential election, the Democratic Party supported Alexander Lebed, though some of its regional leaders supported Yeltsin's campaign. In the 2000 presidential election, the party supported Vladimir Putin.

In 2001 the party was reformed by

opposition parties
.

17 September 2007, with the support of the European People's Party in the headquarters of the European Union in Brussels, hosted the XXI Congress of the Democratic Party of Russia, which adopted the decision on the accession of Russia to the European Union.[1]

In the 2007 Russian legislative election the party won 0.13% of votes, not breaking the 7% barrier, and thus no seats in the Duma. As of 1 January 2007, according to the Federal Registration Service, the party had 82,183 members.

According to the results of the regional elections of 2012, 2013, and 2014, the party failed to win in regional and city parliaments.

In 2014

Communist Party of Social Justice, leader of the Democratic Party of Russia was elected his brother Timur Bogdanov.[5]

Electoral results

Presidential elections

Election Candidate First round Second round Result
Votes % Votes %
1991 Endorsed Boris Yeltsin 45,552,041
57.30%
Elected Green tickY
1996 Endorsed Alexander Lebed 10,974,736
14.52%
Lost Red XN
2000 Endorsed Vladimir Putin 39,740,434
52.94%
Elected Green tickY
2004 Boycotted the elections
2008
Andrei Bogdanov
968,344
1.30%
Lost Red XN
2012 Party was part of Right Cause and did not participate in the elections
2018 Endorsed Oleg Bulayev Withdrew from the elections
2024 Endorsed Vladimir Putin TBD TBD Elected Green tickY

Legislative elections

Election Party leader Performance Rank Government
Votes % ± pp Seats +/–
1993 Nikolay Travkin 2,969,533
5.52%
New
14 / 450
New 8th Minority
1995 Sergey Glazyev 7,737,431
4.31%
(CRC)
Decrease 1.21
5 / 450
Decrease 9 Steady 8th Minority
1999 Georgy Hatsenkov Did not contest Extra-parliamentary
2003 Vladimir Podoprigora 136,295
0.22%
Decrease 4.09
0 / 450
Steady 0 Decrease 20th Extra-parliamentary
2007
Andrei Bogdanov
89,780
0.13%
Decrease 0.09
0 / 450
Steady 0 Increase 11th Extra-parliamentary
2011 Party was part of Right Cause and did not participate in the elections
2016 Timur Borganov Did not contest Extra-parliamentary

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