Journal article

Shifting Electoral Geography in Russia's 1991 and 1996 Presidential Elections

Year:

2013

Published in:

Post-Soviet Geography and Economics

Authors:

Russia's presidential elections
electoral geography
Boris Yel'tsin
urban-rural divide
regional voting patterns

This research note reexamines Russia's 1991 and 1996 presidential elections, focusing—unlike studies emphasizing stability of Russia's electorate—on differences in electoral geography in the two elections, with oblast-level vote totals for Boris Yel'tsin in 1991 and 1996 being only poorly correlated. Although Yel'tsin's performance in both elections was better in urban than in rural regions, the urbanrural divide in 1996 is shown to differ from that in 1991. Nonetheless, the Russian electorate is stable after 1993, regional voting patterns between 1993 and 1996 being both similar to each other and different from that in the 1991 election. 

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