Turnout: 77.49%
About this election
Russia's 2024 presidential election, held over three days from 15 to 17 March, returned Vladimir Putin for a fifth term with an official 87.28% of the vote on an official turnout of 77.49% — both the highest figures ever announced in a post-Soviet Russian presidential election. It was the first presidential vote since the full-scale invasion of Ukraine, the first held across three days with large-scale online voting, and the first extended to the occupied Ukrainian regions of Donetsk, Luhansk, Zaporizhzhia and Kherson, where balloting — sometimes conducted door-to-door by officials accompanied by armed soldiers — was condemned as illegitimate by Ukraine, the EU and the UN General Assembly's members.
Putin ran as an independent, enabled by the 2020 constitutional amendments that reset his term count. The three other names on the ballot were all systemic loyalists who supported the war: Nikolay Kharitonov of the Communist Party (4.31%), Vladislav Davankov of New People (3.85%) and Leonid Slutsky of the LDPR (3.20%). The only would-be candidates campaigning against the war — Boris Nadezhdin, whose signature queues briefly became a national event, and Yekaterina Duntsova — were disqualified by the Central Election Commission on technical grounds. One month before the vote, on 16 February 2024, Alexei Navalny died in an Arctic penal colony; his funeral drew crowds chanting his name, and his widow Yulia Navalnaya endorsed the "Noon Against Putin" protest — synchronised queues outside polling stations at 12:00 on the final day, the campaign's only visible act of dissent.
With no meaningful observation — OSCE monitors were not invited, and independent observers faced criminal risk — verification fell to statisticians. The independent outlet Meduza and analysts in the Shpilkin tradition concluded the 2024 election was "almost certainly the most fraudulent" in modern Russian history, with the tell-tale correlation of turnout and Putin's share dominating the official data and anomalies estimated in the tens of millions of votes. Golos, whose co-chair Grigory Melkonyants was in jail awaiting trial, said the election "did not comply with constitutional standards".
The announced 87.28% was itself the message: a wartime plebiscite staged to demonstrate overwhelming consent for the invasion and for Putin's rule to 2030 — with the option, under the amended constitution, of a further term to 2036. Putin was inaugurated on 7 May 2024. The next scheduled federal vote, the 2026 State Duma election, is covered on its own ElectioMap page.
Vote shares are the Central Election Commission's official percentages of all ballots cast, exactly as announced on 21 March 2024, to two decimal places. Regional tables exist only in the CEC's Russian-language database, so no interactive map is shown for this election.
Compiled and reviewed by Bartłomiej Paruzel, Election Data Analyst, from official results. See our data methodology.