1999 Russian legislative election

Legislative elections were held in Russia on 19 December 1999 to elect the 450 seats in the State Duma, the lower house of the Federal Assembly. Like in the previous elections in 1995, the electoral system resulted in many parties competing for the proportional seats and a significant number of independent deputies elected.

1999 Russian legislative election
19 December 1999
All 450 seats in the State Duma
226 seats needed for a majority
PartyLeader % Seats +/–
Communist Gennady Zyuganov 24.78 113 −44
Unity Sergei Shoigu 23.79 73 New
OVR Yevgeny Primakov 13.59 68 New
SPS Sergey Kiriyenko 8.68 29 New
Zhirinovsky Bloc Vladimir Zhirinovsky 6.10 17 −34
Yabloko Grigory Yavlinsky 6.05 20 −25
RPP Yakov Ryabov 1.99 1 New
NDR Viktor Chernomyrdin 1.21 7 −48
KRO Yury Boldyrev 0.62 1 −4
DPA Viktor Ilyukhin 0.59 2 New
SNT-PST Andrei Nikolayev 0.57 1 0
ROS Sergey Baburin 0.38 2 −7
RSP Vladimir Bryntsalov 0.24 1 New
Spiritual Heritage Alexey Podberezkin 0.10 1 New
Independents – – 105 +28
This lists parties that won seats. See the complete results below.
Winning party by region
Chairman of the State Duma before Chairman of the State Duma after
Gennadiy Seleznyov
Communist		 Gennadiy Seleznyov
Communist
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