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With near final Duma votes counted, results were:
- United Russia - 49.67%
- the Communist Party - 19.15%
- Just Russia - 13.16%
- the Liberal Democratic Party - 11.67%
- Yabloko - 3.21%, and
- two small parties getting under 1% each.
Under Russian electoral laws, Duma seats are proportionally distributed to parties getting at least 7% of the vote.
Because several didn't qualify, United Russia maintains a ruling majority. Nonetheless, President Medvedev expressed willingness to have coalition partners, saying:
"We will have to take into account the more complex configuration of the Duma and for some issues we will have to join coalition bloc agreements."
Ballots were cast in 94,000 domestic polling stations across Russia and about 370 overseas locations in over 140 foreign countries.
CEC officials said irregularities disqualified 1% of electoral ballots.
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