2005 Chechen legislative election
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27 November 2005
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| Turnout | 69.56% | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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This lists parties that won seats. See the complete results below. | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
2005 Chechen legislative election took part on November 27 of that year. This was the first parliamentary election in the Chechen Republic since the constitutional referendum that took place in 2003 and resulted in the adoption of the Constitution of the Chechen Republic.
Background
[edit | edit source]In August 2005 Russian president Vladimir Putin signed a presidential decree "On the election to Parliament of the Chechen Republic of the first convocation" announcing the election were to be held on November 27.[1]
Electoral system
[edit | edit source]The first Parliament of the Chechen Republic was a bicameral legislative body with Council of the Republic as its upper house and People's Assembly as lower house. 18 members of the Council were elected in municipality-based single-member districts. 40 members of the People's Assembly were elected via parallel voting (20 seats in a republic-wide party-list vote with 5% electoral threshold and 20 seats in single-member districts).[2]
Results
[edit | edit source]| Party | Proportional | District seats |
Total seats | ||||
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| Votes | % | Seats | |||||
| United Russia | 251,737 | 60.65% | 14 | 10 | 24 | ||
| Union of Right Forces | 51,419 | 12.39% | 3 | 1 | 4 | ||
| Communist Party | 50,644 | 12.20% | 3 | 0 | 3 | ||
| Eurasian Union | 15,973 | 3.85% | 0 | 0 | 0 | ||
| Yabloko | 13,087 | 3.15% | 0 | 0 | 0 | ||
| Rodina | 9,904 | 2.39% | 0 | 0 | 0 | ||
| Liberal Democratic Party | 6,044 | 1.46% | 0 | 0 | 0 | ||
| People's Will | 5,343 | 1.29% | 0 | 0 | 0 | ||
| Independent | – | – | 0 | 9 | 9 | ||
| Against all | 6,274 | 1.51% | |||||
| Invalid ballots | 4,606 | 1.10% | |||||
| Total | 415,031 | 100% | 20 | 20 | 40 | ||
| Registered voters/turnout | 596,567 | 69.56% | |||||