Russian presidential election, 1991

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Russian presidential election, 1991
June 12, 1991
Nominee		Boris Yeltsin	Nikolai Ryzhkov
Party		Independent	CPRF
Running mate		Alexander Rutskoy	Boris Gromov
Popular vote		45,552,041	13,359,335
Percentage		57.30%	16.85%
Incumbent President None President-elect Boris Yeltsin Independent

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Presidential elections were held in the Russian Federation on 12 June 1991. It was the first presidential election in the country's history. Boris Yeltsin was elected President of the Russian Soviet republic. His running-mate, Alexander Rutskoi, became Vice-President.

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Candidates	Nominating parties	Votes	%
Boris Yeltsin / Alexander Rutskoy	Democratic Party of Russia	45,552,041	57.30
Nikolai Ryzhkov / Boris Gromov	Communist Party of the Soviet Union	13,359,335	16.85
Vladimir Zhirinovsky / Andrey Zavidiya	Liberal Democratic Party of Soviet Union	6,211,007	7.81
Aman Tuleyev / Viktor Bocharov		5,417,464	6.85
Albert Makashov / Alexey Sergeev		2,969,511	2.02
Vadim Bakatin / Ramazan Abdulatipov		2,719,757	0.75
Against all		1,525,410	1.92
Invalid ballots		1,716,757	2.16
TOTAL		79,471,282	100.00

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