349 seats for United Russia, Ukrainian attacks on polling stations: CEC statements

TASS · 🇷🇺 public Russia · Sep 25, 2026 · 1470 words

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CEC Chairwoman Ella Pamfilova presented the results of the 2026 State Duma elections, reporting a voter turnout of 59.8% and a victory for the United Russia party. The report emphasizes the challenges of organizing the election amid cyberattacks, Ukrainian military strikes on polling stations, and external political pressure.

Propaganda risk 60%

Claims checked 35

Techniques found 5

Topics 3

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What happened

The State Duma election campaign was held amid unprecedented threats and differed markedly from all previous elections, Central Election Commission (CEC) Chairwoman Ella Pamfilova said at a meeting summing up the results of the State Duma elections.

Why it matters

She noted that voter turnout in the State Duma elections reached 59.8%, with the United Russia party winning 349 seats.

Common ground

According to Pamfilova, roughly 75 polling station buildings in 11 regions across Russia were damaged as a result of targeted attacks by the Ukrainian military during the recent elections.

Perspective signals

The tension in the story is sharpened by Loaded Language, Appeal to Fear, Appeal to Anger: language that can make the dispute feel more urgent, personal, or adversarial than the underlying facts alone.

Follow-up questions

What new context would change how readers understand this External Adversaries story?
What evidence would most clearly confirm or weaken the claim that In 2021, 51.82% of voters, or 56,484,685 people, cast their ballots?
How does this story connect External Adversaries with Election Legitimacy over the next few days?

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Significant concerns. Multiple propaganda techniques detected.

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eFinder identified 5 propaganda techniques in this article. These signals explain how wording, emphasis, or missing context can shape a reader's interpretation.

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Loaded Language 90% confidence

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Appeal to Fear 75% confidence

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fact_checkClaims Checked

eFinder analyzed this article and checked 35 claims against available evidence, cross-references, web search, and Wikipedia. Here is what the fact-checking layer found.

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Claim 1: “In 2021, 51.82% of voters, or 56,484,685 people, cast their ballots”

SINGLE SOURCE

The specific turnout figures for 2021 (51.82% or 56,484,685 people) are provided in the CEC statements summary, but other sources (like the '3-day State Duma election' article) mention a slightly different figure (51.72%), making it a single-source specific claim.

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wikipedia NEUTRAL — The All-Russian Political Party "United Russia" is the ruling political party of Russia since 2001. As the largest party in the Russian Federation, it holds 349 (or 78%) of the 450 seats in the State …
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_Russia

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wikipedia NEUTRAL — Legislative elections were held in Russia from 17 to 19 September 2021 to elect all 450 seats of the State Duma. Going into the elections, United Russia was the ruling party after winning the 2016 ele…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2021_Russian_legislative_elect…

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wikipedia NEUTRAL — The State Duma is the lower house of the Federal Assembly of Russia, with the upper house being the Federation Council. It was established by the Constitution of the Russian Federation in 1993. The Du…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/State_Duma

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Claim 2: “About 28 million potentially dangerous cyberattacks have been recorded on the CEC’s resources since the start of the election campaign”

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Claim 3: “in 2016, 47.88% of voters, or 52,700,992 people, did so”

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The 2016 turnout figures (47.88% or 52,700,992 people) are mentioned in the CEC statements summary. The other search results for this claim were irrelevant/spam.

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https://www.indoav.com/

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https://bokephot.net/categories/indonesia/

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Claim 4: “Rodina received one seat”

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Claim 5: “Nearly half of the deputies will be new”

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Claim 6: “A total of 46 veterans of the special military operation were elected to the State Duma, including 41 from United Russia”

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This claim was extracted as a checkable statement from the article. eFinder labels it pending based on the available evidence and source context shown below.

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Claim 7: “the Communist Party (CPRF) received 37 seats”

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While the CPRF is mentioned in Wikipedia and other articles, none of the provided evidence specifies that they won 37 seats in the 2026 election.

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web search NEUTRAL — Seats in the State Duma.The youth organisation of the party is the Leninist Young Communist League. The CPRF can trace its origin to the Russian Social Democratic Labour Party (RSDLP) established in M…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Communist_Party_of_the_Russian…

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web search NEUTRAL — The State Duma has undergone a significant renewal following the elections: "This is a significant renewal. Nearly half of the deputies will be new. But a very strong core, which worked admirably and …
https://tass.com/politics/2192899

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web search NEUTRAL — With 97.37% of the vote counted, United Russia is not merely winning the State Duma elections but is set to form the largest parliamentary faction in the Duma’s history, securing a constitutional majo…
https://russian-election-monitor.org/you-cant-overdo-it-in-t…

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Claim 8: “As many as 13 waves of targeted DDoS attacks were recorded, with a total duration of 468 minutes”

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This claim was extracted as a checkable statement from the article. eFinder labels it pending based on the available evidence and source context shown below.

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Claim 9: “In 25 regions, 976 people out of 41,610 declared observers were not permitted to monitor [the elections]”

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Claim 10: “The average age of State Duma deputies has fallen from 57 to 53 following the elections”

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Claim 11: “During the voting days, out of 184,106 observers sent by parties, 15 people were removed from polling stations by court decision”

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Claim 12: “The LDPR was backed by 14,683 people, or 5.2%, the CPRF was supported by 28,970 people, or 10.3%, A Just Russia had 16,027 backers, or 5.7%, while the New People party was supported by 37,122 people, or 13.2% [abroad]”

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This claim was extracted as a checkable statement from the article. eFinder labels it pending based on the available evidence and source context shown below.

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Claim 13: “in 2021 only three observers were removed and in 2024 there were two such cases”

PENDING

This claim was extracted as a checkable statement from the article. eFinder labels it pending based on the available evidence and source context shown below.

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Claim 14: “333 polling stations were opened in 152 countries, including seven in the city of Baikonur, Kazakhstan”

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This claim was extracted as a checkable statement from the article. eFinder labels it pending based on the available evidence and source context shown below.

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Claim 15: “United Russia won the vote abroad in the State Duma elections, receiving more than 58% of the ballots cast, with 162,355 people supporting it”

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This claim was extracted as a checkable statement from the article. eFinder labels it pending based on the available evidence and source context shown below.

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Claim 16: “only 31 appeals [related to coercion to vote]”

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Claim 17: “voter turnout in the State Duma elections reached 59.8%”

CORROBORATED

The claim that voter turnout reached 59.8% is reported by both a CEC statement summary and a TASS report.

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wikipedia NEUTRAL — Duma Gideon Boko (born 31 December 1969) is a Motswana politician and lawyer who is currently serving as the sixth president of Botswana since 1 November 2024 and as President of the Umbrella for Demo…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Duma_Boko

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wikipedia NEUTRAL — Legislative elections were held in Russia from 18 to 20 September 2026, to elect all 450 seats of the 9th State Duma, the lower house of the Federal Assembly. Going into the election, United Russia wa…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2026_Russian_legislative_elect…

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Claim 18: “A Just Russia received 17 seats”

INSUFFICIENT EVIDENCE

No evidence was found in the provided search results to support or refute the claim regarding A Just Russia.

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Claim 19: “The share of invalid ballots stood at 1.36%”

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This claim was extracted as a checkable statement from the article. eFinder labels it pending based on the available evidence and source context shown below.

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Claim 20: “the CEC received a total of 6,598 appeals and "only 766 appeals contained information about alleged violations"”

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Claim 21: “There were 1,126 observers and experts from 133 countries”

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Claim 22: “No observers from North Korea came to the State Duma elections, but there were observers from South Korea”

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This claim was extracted as a checkable statement from the article. eFinder labels it pending based on the available evidence and source context shown below.

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Claim 23: “the United Russia party winning 349 seats”

CORROBORATED

Multiple independent sources, including Wikipedia (United Russia page), a report on Putin's meeting with party leaders, and a Meduza article, confirm United Russia won 349 seats.

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wikipedia NEUTRAL — The United States and Russia maintain strategic foreign relations since the establishment in 1991, a continuation of the relationship the United States has had with various Russian governments since 1…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Russia–United_States_relations

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Claim 24: “roughly 75 polling station buildings in 11 regions across Russia were damaged as a result of targeted attacks by the Ukrainian military during the recent elections”

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The specific detail regarding 75 polling stations in 11 regions being damaged by Ukrainian attacks is reported by both TASS and a summary of CEC statements.

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wikipedia NEUTRAL — The casualties in the Russo-Ukrainian war include six deaths during the 2014 annexation of Crimea by the Russian Federation, 14,200–14,400 military and civilian deaths during the war in Donbas, and be…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Casualties_of_the_Russo-Ukrain…

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wikipedia NEUTRAL — The Russo-Ukrainian war began in February 2014 and is ongoing. Following Ukraine's Revolution of Dignity, Russia occupied Crimea and annexed it from Ukraine. It then supported Russian separatist armed…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Russo-Ukrainian_war

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wikipedia NEUTRAL — On 24 February 2022, Russia invaded Ukraine, starting the largest and deadliest war in Europe since World War II, in a major escalation of the existing war between the two countries that began when Ru…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Russo-Ukrainian_war_(2022–pres…

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Claim 25: “As many as 17 precinct election commission members were removed in four regions, with six of them from the Yabloko party”

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This claim was extracted as a checkable statement from the article. eFinder labels it pending based on the available evidence and source context shown below.

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Claim 26: “the New People party secured 19 seats”

INSUFFICIENT EVIDENCE

No evidence was found in the provided search results to support or refute the claim regarding the New People party.

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Claim 27: “As many as four independent candidates also secured seats in the State Duma”

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This claim was extracted as a checkable statement from the article. eFinder labels it pending based on the available evidence and source context shown below.

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Claim 28: “United Russia received 50.79% of the vote, New People got 13.04%, the CPRF received 11.45%, the LDPR won 8.97% and A Just Russia got 6.34% [in remote electronic voting]”

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This claim was extracted as a checkable statement from the article. eFinder labels it pending based on the available evidence and source context shown below.

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Claim 29: “As many as six election commission members were killed during the campaign as a result of attacks that Russian officials attributed to forces under Vladimir Zelensky”

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This claim was extracted as a checkable statement from the article. eFinder labels it pending based on the available evidence and source context shown below.

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Claim 30: “More than 280,000 people voted at polling stations abroad during the elections”

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This claim was extracted as a checkable statement from the article. eFinder labels it pending based on the available evidence and source context shown below.

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Claim 31: “A total of 280,355 people participated in the elections [abroad]”

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Claim 32: “More than seven million people in 33 regions participated in remote electronic voting”

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Claim 33: “Voter turnout in the State Duma elections in 2026 was 59.8%, "a total of 67,448,094 people cast their ballots."”

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The specific number of voters (67,448,094) is mentioned in the CEC statements summary, but not independently corroborated by other provided sources.

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wikipedia NEUTRAL — The State Duma of the Federal Assembly of the Russian Federation of the 8th convocation (Russian: Государственная Дума Федерального Собрания Российской Федерации восьмого созыва) was the convocation o…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/8th_State_Duma

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wikipedia NEUTRAL — The State Duma of the Federal Assembly of the Russian Federation of the 9th convocation (Russian: Государственная дума Федерального собрания Российской Федерации девятого созыва) is the convocation of…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/9th_State_Duma

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Claim 34: “during the voting and vote-counting days on September 18-22, there were over 14.7 million potentially dangerous attacks”

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Claim 35: “the Liberal Democratic Party (LDPR) received 23 seats”

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The provided evidence mentions the LDPR's history and a past result of 'nearly 23 percent of the nationwide vote', but does not confirm they won 23 seats in the 2026 election.

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web search NEUTRAL — Photo: TASS. The State Duma election campaign was held amid unprecedented threats and differed markedly from all previous elections, Central Election Commission (CEC) Chairwoman Ella Pamfilova said at…
https://en.interaffairs.ru/article/cec-statements-349-seats-…

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web search NEUTRAL — It succeeded the Liberal Democratic Party of the Soviet Union in Russia after the dissolution of the Soviet Union. The party was led by Vladimir Zhirinovsky since its inception until his death in Apri…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Liberal_Democratic_Party_of_Ru…

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web search NEUTRAL — ...the first since the Soviet Union's collapse two years earlier: Zhirinovsky's deceptively named Liberal Democratic Party of Russia (LDPR) won nearly 23 percent of the nationwide vote for the State D…
https://www.rferl.org/a/week-russia-zhirinovsky-eclipsed/317…

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