Electoral history of Boris Yeltsin
Elections featuring President of Russia
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Electoral history of Boris Yeltsin, 1st President of Russia.
People's Deputy of the Soviet Union
1989
1st Moscow constituency:
- Boris Yeltsin — 91.53%[1]
Chairman of the Supreme Soviet of Russia
1990
- Boris Yeltsin — 535 votes (53.9%)[2]
- Aleksandr Vlasov — 467 votes (47.1%)
President of Russia
1991
| 1991 presidential election | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Nominee | Running mate | Party | Votes | % | |
| Boris Yeltsin | Alexander Rutskoy | Independent | 45,552,041 | 58.6 | |
| Nikolai Ryzhkov | Boris Gromov | Communist Party | 13,395,335 | 17.2 | |
| Vladimir Zhirinovsky | Andrey Zavidiya | Liberal Democratic Party | 6,211,007 | 8.0 | |
| Aman Tuleyev | Viktor Bocharov | Independent | 5,417,464 | 7.0 | |
| Albert Makashov | Aleksei Sergeyev | Independent | 2,969,511 | 3.8 | |
| Vadim Bakatin | Ramazan Abdulatipov | Independent | 2,719,757 | 3.5 | |
| Against all | 1,525,410 | 2.0 | |||
| Source: Nohlen & Stöver, University of Essex, Voice of Russia | |||||
1996
| First round of 1996 presidential election | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Candidate | Party | Votes | % | |||
| Boris Yeltsin | Independent | 26,665,495 | 35.8 | |||
| Gennady Zyuganov | Communist Party | 24,211,686 | 32.5 | |||
| Alexander Lebed | Congress of Russian Communities | 10,974,736 | 14.7 | |||
| Grigory Yavlinsky | Yabloko | 5,550,752 | 7.4 | |||
| Vladimir Zhirinovsky | Liberal Democratic Party | 4,311,479 | 5.8 | |||
| Svyatoslav Fyodorov | Party of Workers' Self-Government | 699,158 | 0.9 | |||
| Mikhail Gorbachev | Independent | 386,069 | 0.5 | |||
| Martin Shakkum | Independent | 277,068 | 0.4 | |||
| Yury Vlasov | Independent | 151,282 | 0.2 | |||
| Vladimir Bryntsalov | Russian Socialist Party | 123,065 | 0.2 | |||
| Aman Tuleyev | Independent | 308 | 0.0 | |||
| Against all | 1,163,921 | 1.6 | ||||
| Source: Nohlen & Stöver,[3] Colton[4] | ||||||
| Second round of 1996 presidential election | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Candidate | Party | Votes | % | |||
| Boris Yeltsin | Independent | 40,203,948 | 54.4 | |||
| Gennady Zyuganov | Communist Party | 30,102,288 | 40.7 | |||
| Against all | 1,163,921 | 1.6 | ||||
| Source: Nohlen & Stöver,[5] Colton[6] | ||||||