According to the first data of the Central Election Commission of Russia, the current president of that country, Vladimir Putin, won the presidential elections again with 87.97 percent of the votes.
After the polls closed, the Russian Central Election Commission announced the first preliminary results, according to which Putin has a convincing majority among the four candidates.
Nikolay Kharitonov, chairman of the Lower House committee for the development of the Far East and the Arctic, received 4.6 percent of the vote.
The deputy speaker of the lower house Vladislav Davankov got 4.2 percent, and Leonid Slutsky, the chairman of the committee for international affairs of the lower house – 3 percent, according to an exit poll conducted by the Russian Center for Public Opinion Research.
More than 74 percent of the 112.3 million voters in Russia, who have the right to vote, went to the polls. Voting lasted for three days.
