VNA correspondent in Moscow reported that at 9:00 p.m. Moscow time on March 17 (8:00 p.m. Kaliningrad time or 1:00 a.m. Hanoi time on March 18), the last polling stations in the Russian presidential election in the westernmost province of Kaliningrad closed, ending the 8th presidential election in Russia lasting 3 days from March 15 to 17.
According to the exit poll conducted during the three election days by the All-Russian Center for Public Opinion Research (VTsIOM), independent candidate and current President Vladimir Putin came in first place, winning 87.97% of the votes.
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Coming in second was the candidate of the Communist Party of the Russian Federation (KPRF) Nikolai Kharitonov, receiving 4.6% of the vote.
In third place was Vladislav Davankov of the “New People” Party with 4.2% of the votes and in fourth place was the leader of the Liberal Democratic Party (LDPR), Leonid Slutsky with 3% of the votes.
Meanwhile, according to data published by the Central Election Commission (CEC) of the Russian Federation on its bulletin board, as of 8:00 p.m. on March 17, the total number of voters who voted in person in the nationwide election was 73.33%. This data does not include the number of voters who voted remotely online.
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