Remembering March 18, 2018, we can say with confidence that almost no one doubted the results of the vote for candidates for public office No. 1 in our country. After all, the presidential race that year did not bring any surprises to the Russian voters, and the overwhelming majority of the votes were cast precisely for Vladimir Vladimirovich Putin, as a person with an almost endless credit for political trust.
The history of the election to the presidency of Russia has seven campaigns since 1991. And the current leader of the state, Vladimir Vladimirovich Putin, was first elected to this position in March 2000. It was after the change of B.N. Yeltsin, the current President of the Russian Federation no longer left politics. Four years later, he was again elected and re-elected. And even during the presidency of D.A. Medvedev, which lasted from 2008 to 2012, V.V. Putin fulfilled his duty to our country as prime minister.
Since 2012, he was again elected head of state for a term of six years. And the last presidential election was held on March 18, 2018. And again, V.V. Putin received the unconditional support of the citizens of our country by assuming public office No. 1.
Since the presidential race involves not only the election of the most titular post in the country, but also powerful coverage of all political life, many party leaders use this landmark event, trying to leave as bright a mark in the hearts and minds of their electorate as possible. Residents of the country, with understandable cyclicality, got acquainted with new electoral technologies and programs that were implemented by various political groups as part of their budget campaigns. In 2018, for example, V.V. Putin appeared before the country's voters in his usual working regime, while P.N. Grudinin regularly visited Bolshevichka, and K.A. Sobchak was chosen by Washington.
The history of the institution of the Presidency in Russia has various regulations for being in this post. So, in 1991, this post implied a five-year term of government by the state, and in 1993 this time was reduced to four years (the norm came into force in 1996). Accordingly, the elections of 2000, 2004 and 2008 were held in this format. But in 2008, amendments were again made to the tenure of the presidency, which entered into force in 2012 and amounted to a six-year tenure.
The era of Yeltsin
The first election of the head of state took place on June 12, 1991. The lists of voters contained about one hundred and seven million people. The turnout was 75%. Six pairs of candidates participated in the election campaign (the president and vice president were declared in one pair), which were approved by the CEC. Then Boris Yeltsin, paired with Alexander Rutsky, won 46 million votes, which amounted to 57% of the total number of voters. The second place was taken by Nikolai Ryzhkov (former Prime Minister of the USSR) and Boris Gromov, who collected a little more than 16% of the vote. And the third place (8% of the vote) remained with V.V. Zhirinovsky and A.F. Envy. The 1991 presidential race cost the state treasury the sum of 155 million rubles.
The next time the country elected its state leader on June 16, 1996. At that time, one hundred and nine million people contained voter lists. The elections were remembered by ten candidates, including the current President of the Russian Federation B.N. Yeltsin, and immediately at the last moment from the distance of the presidential race of Aman Tuleyev. The most prominent figures who then acted as candidates for the post of President of Russia were Gorbachev, Zhirinovsky, Zyuganov and Yavlinsky. In the first round of voting, Yeltsin scored only 35% of the vote (the most), which was the reason for the second round. After all, the rules for the election of the President of the Russian Federation implied the boundary of the viability of the elections, which was equal to a level exceeding 50% of the vote. Repeated elections took place on July 3, 1996. With a result of 54% of the votes of the authorized Russians, Boris Nikolayevich Yeltsin won.
The beginning of a new era
The beginning of the new millennium in 2000 was marked for our country by the early elections of the President of the Russian Federation. Then B.N. Yeltsin announced his early resignation on the last day of 1999. And the elections were scheduled for March 26, 2000. The presidential race of eleven candidates was won by the acting head of our state Vladimir Vladimirovich Putin. Then he scored 53% of the vote. And the costs of the Russian budget for the presidential campaign were then estimated by the CEC at one billion four hundred and twenty million rubles. A new era of Russia has begun!
The presidential election of March 14, 2004 was remembered for the fact that the electoral list contained more than one hundred eight million people, and six candidates were indicated on the ballot papers. It is interesting that in that year the political centenarian V.V. Zhirinovsky prudently missed the presidential race, believing, apparently, that its result is completely predetermined. Then V.V. Putin won a landslide victory with 71% of the vote. And the country's budget "felt better" by two and a half billion rubles. Analysts of the Electoral Commission then stated that there is a steady tendency to increase costs in the election of the President of the Russian Federation.
The elections for the post of head of the Russian state in 2008 were significant in that the current President of the Russian Federation, according to the Constitution, could not participate in them for the third time in a row. Therefore, V.V. Putin was subsequently appointed by the elected President of Russia D.A. Medvedev to the post of head of the Russian government. Medvedev confidently won those elections, gaining 70% of the vote (52.5 million people). In addition, it was these elections that became the first in the history of Russia, when the line “against all” disappeared from the ballots. And the CEC estimated the cost of the presidential race at five billion rubles.
2012 election
Interestingly, in recent years, it is the first month of spring that is elective. This happened in 2012, when on March 4, the Federation Council appointed regular elections of the President of the Russian Federation. Among the five candidates registered by the CEC were Zyuganov, Zhirinovsky and Prokhorov.
With a result of 64% of the vote, once again the presidency went to Vladimir Putin. And the country's budget has said goodbye to more than ten billion rubles.
