Dmitry Medvedev, first prime minister of Russian President Putin's cabinet, won nearly 70 percent of the accounted ballots in Sunday's presidential election, according to the Central Election Commission (CEC).
The CEC had accounted 56.08 percent of the received ballots in which Medvedev won 68.47 percent.
Communist leader Gennady Zyuganov was left far behind with 18.49 percent. Liberal Democratic Party leader Vladimir Zhirinovsky won 10.42 percent and Democratic Party leader Andrei Bogdanov 1.34 percent, CEC figures showed.
As of 19:00 Moscow time (1600 GMT), the voters turnout was about 64 percent, higher than the figure in 2004 presidential election, when it hit 61 percent, Chairman of the Central Election Commission Vladimir Churov said on Sunday evening.
There are some 108.94 million eligible voters who were expected to go to the 96,301 polling stations scattered around the vast country on Sunday and among which, 364 polling stations were opened in 142 countries and regions for Russian citizens aboard.
Source:Xinhua
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