Home International Medvedev wins first round of presidential poll with 70 percent of votes

Medvedev wins first round of presidential poll with 70 percent of votes

By KUNA

Moscow : Russia’s central elections committee announced here on Monday landslide victory of the front-runner presidential candidate, Dmitry Medvedev, in the nationwide presidential poll with 70.2 percent of the votes.

Meanwhile, Communist Party leader, Gennady Zyuganov, came second with 17.8 percent of the ballot, while, Nationalist Vladimir Zhirinovsky gained 9.4 percent as the the leader of the Democratic Party. Another contender, Andrei Bogdanov, was left with only 1.3 percent.

More than 70 percent of Russian voters participated in the presidential elections.

Medvedev’s victory was seen as largely a fruit of backing from the current Russian President, Vladimir Putin.