title: Electoral history of Vladimir Putin
text: # Electoral history of Vladimir Putin
  
  * This article is part of a series aboutVladimir Putin
  
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  Electoral history of Vladimir Putin, second and fourth President of Russia and 33rd Prime Minister of Russia.
  
  ## Presidential elections
  
  ### 2000
  
  2000 presidential election :
  
  | Candidate | Candidate | Party | Votes | % |
  | - | - | - | - | - |
  | | Vladimir Putin | Independent | 39,740,467 | 53.4 |
  | | Gennady Zyuganov | Communist Party | 21,928,468 | 29.5 |
  | | Grigory Yavlinsky | Yabloko | 4,351,450 | 5.9 |
  | | Aman Tuleyev | Independent | 2,217,364 | 3.0 |
  | | Vladimir Zhirinovsky | Liberal Democratic Party | 2,026,509 | 2.7 |
  | | Konstantin Titov | Independent | 1,107,269 | 1.5 |
  | | Ella Pamfilova | For Civic Dignity | 758,967 | 1.0 |
  | | Stanislav Govorukhin | Independent | 328,723 | 0.4 |
  | | Yury Skuratov | Independent | 319,189 | 0.4 |
  | | Alexey Podberezkin | Spiritual Heritage | 98,177 | 0.1 |
  | | Umar Dzhabrailov | Independent | 78,498 | 0.1 |
  | Against all | Against all | Against all | 1,414,673 | 1.9 |
  | Source: Nohlen & Stöver, |||||
  
  ### 2004
  
  2004 presidential election :
  
  | Candidate | Candidate | Party | Votes | % |
  | - | - | - | - | - |
  | | Vladimir Putin | Independent | 49,558,328 | 71.9 |
  | | Nikolay Kharitonov | Communist Party | 9,514,554 | 13.8 |
  | | Sergey Glazyev | Independent | 2,850,610 | 4.1 |
  | | Irina Khakamada | Independent | 2,672,189 | 3.9 |
  | | Oleg Malyshkin | Liberal Democratic Party | 1,405,326 | 2.0 |
  | | Sergey Mironov | Russian Party of Life | 524,332 | 0.8 |
  | Against all | Against all | Against all | 2,397,140 | 3.5 |
  | Source: Nohlen & Stöver |||||
  
  ### 2012
  
  **United Russia nomination**
  
  | For | For | Against | Against |
  | - | - | - | - |
  | 614 | 100.0% | 0 | 0.0% |
  | Source: ||||
  
  **General election**
  
  2012 presidential election :
  
  | Candidates | Candidates | Party | Votes | % |
  | - | - | - | - | - |
  | | Vladimir Putin | United Russia | 45,602,075 | 63.60 |
  | | Gennady Zyuganov | Communist Party | 12,318,353 | 17.18 |
  | | Mikhail Prokhorov | Independent | 5,722,508 | 7.98 |
  | | Vladimir Zhirinovsky | Liberal Democratic Party | 4,458,103 | 6.22 |
  | | Sergey Mironov | A Just Russia | 2,763,935 | 3.85 |
  | Source: |||||
  
  ### 2018
  
  2018 presidential election :
  
  | Candidates | Candidates | Party | Votes | % |
  | - | - | - | - | - |
  | | Vladimir Putin | Independent | 56,430,712 | 76.69 |
  | | Pavel Grudinin | Communist Party | 8,659,206 | 11.77 |
  | | Vladimir Zhirinovsky | Liberal Democratic Party | 4,154,985 | 5.65 |
  | | Ksenia Sobchak | Civic Initiative | 1,238,031 | 1.68 |
  | | Grigory Yavlinsky | Yabloko | 769,644 | 1.05 |
  | | Boris Titov | Party of Growth | 556,801 | 0.76 |
  | | Maxim Suraykin | Communists of Russia | 499,342 | 0.68 |
  | | Sergey Baburin | Russian All-People's Union | 479,013 | 0.65 |
  | Source: CEC |||||
  
  ## Prime Minister nominations
  
  ### 1999
  
  | For | For | Against | Against | Abstaining | Abstaining | No voting | No voting |
  | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - |
  | 233 | 51.8% | 84 | 18.7% | 17 | 3.8% | 105 | 23.3% |
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  ### 2008
  
  | For | For | Against | Against | Abstaining | Abstaining | No voting | No voting |
  | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - |
  | 392 | 87.1% | 56 | 12.4% | 0 | 0.0% | 2 | 0.4% |
  | Source: ||||||||
  