Democratic Party of Russia
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Democratic Party of Russia Демократическая партия России | |
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Centre-right | |
European affiliation | European People's Party (2007–2008) |
Colours | Gold Blue |
Seats in the State Duma | 0 / 450 |
Seats in the Regional Parliaments | 0 / 3,787
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Website | |
democrats.ru | |
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
History
The Democratic Party of Russia was founded by
In 1991, the Democratic Party differed from other liberal/democratic organizations with its 'demopatriotic' stance (similar to Aksyuchits' Christian-Democratic Party and
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
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
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
Electoral results
Presidential elections
Election | Candidate | First round | Second round | Result | ||
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Votes | % | Votes | % | |||
1991 | Endorsed Boris Yeltsin | 45,552,041 | 57.30% |
Elected | ||
1996 | Endorsed Alexander Lebed | 10,974,736 | 14.52% |
Lost | ||
2000 | Endorsed Vladimir Putin | 39,740,434 | 52.94% |
Elected | ||
2004 | Boycotted the elections | |||||
2008 | Andrei Bogdanov
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968,344 | 1.30% |
Lost | ||
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 |
Legislative elections
Election | Party leader | Performance | Rank | Government | ||||
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Votes | % | ± pp | Seats | +/– | ||||
1993 | Nikolay Travkin | 2,969,533 | 5.52% |
New | 14 / 450
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New | 8th | Minority |
1995 | Sergey Glazyev | 7,737,431 | 4.31% |
1.21 | 5 / 450
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9 | 8th | Minority |
1999 | Georgy Hatsenkov | Did not contest | Extra-parliamentary | |||||
2003 | Vladimir Podoprigora | 136,295 | 0.22% |
4.09 | 0 / 450
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0 | 20th | Extra-parliamentary |
2007 | Andrei Bogdanov
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89,780 | 0.13% |
0.09 | 0 / 450
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0 | 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 |
References
- ^ a b The democratic Congress Democratic party of Russia in Brussels//17 September 2007
- ISBN 978-1-85567-233-8.
- ^ History and goals of the Democratic party of Russia
- ^ 2007 Russian legislative election results Archived 6 December 2007 at the Wayback Machine
- ^ Andrey Bogdanov became the main Communist