2005 Moscow City Duma election

The Moscow legislative election of 2005 was held on 4 December of that year to the fourth convocation of the Moscow City Duma. On party lists via proportional representation were elected 18 of the 35 deputies, while 17 deputies were in single-member constituencies. To get into the City Duma via a party list, parties need to overcome the 10% threshold. The term of office of the new City Duma was four years.

2005 Moscow City Duma election

5 December 2005 (2005-12-05)
Turnout34.75% Increase4.28 pp
  First party Second party Third party
 
Leader Yury Luzhkov Ivan Melnikov Ivan Novitsky
Party United Russia Communist Yabloko
Last election 4 seats
Seats won 28 4 3
Seat change Decrease 1
Popular vote 1,132,523 401,405 266,295
Percentage 47.25% 16.75% 11.11%

  Fourth party Fifth party
 
RPL
Leader Vladimir Zhirinovsky Irina Rukina
Party LDPR RPL
Seats won 0 0
Popular vote 191,833 114,329
Percentage 8% 4.77%

Results

First place in the voting by party lists was United Russia, which received 47.25% of the vote (13 seats). The 10-percent barrier was overcome by two other parties, the Communist Party (16.75%, 4 seats) and United Democrats who participated in the elections under the banner of Yabloko (11.11%, 3 mandates).

Parties which did not pass 10% threshold:

United Russia also won all 15 single-member districts. Thus, the party won 28 seats out of 35 total. The list of United Russia party was headed by the mayor of Moscow, Yuri Luzhkov, who helped them to improve the results in Moscow compared to the 2003 Duma elections (in December 2003 United Russia received 34.43% of the vote).

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