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1996 Russian presidential election
← 1991
16 June 1996 (first round) 3 July 1996 (second round)
2000 →
Opinion polls
Registered
108,589,050 (second round)
Turnout
68.78% (5.89pp) (second round)
Nominee
Boris Yeltsin
Gennady Zyuganov
Party
Independent
Communist
Popular vote
40,203,948
30,102,288
Percentage
54.40%
40.73%
Second round results by federal subject Yeltsin: 45–50% 50–55% 55–60% 60–65% 65–70% 70–75% 75–80% Zyuganov: 45–50% 50–55% 55–60% 60–65%
President before election
Boris Yeltsin
Independent
Elected President
Boris Yeltsin
Independent
Presidential elections were held in Russia on 16 June 1996, with a second round being held on 3 July. It resulted in a victory for the incumbent President of Russia Boris Yeltsin, who ran as an independent politician. Yeltsin defeated Communist challenger Gennady Zyuganov in the run-off, receiving 54.4% of the vote. Yeltsin's second inauguration ceremony took place on 9 August.
Yeltsin would not complete the second term for which he was elected, as he resigned on 31 December 1999, eight months before the scheduled end of his term on 9 August 2000. This was the first presidential election to take place in post-Soviet Russia. This has also been so far the only Russian presidential election in which no candidate was able to win on the first round, and as such a run-off was necessary.
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5.89pp) (second round)
