Russia’s antiwar Yabloko party was barred from seven of eight regional races. In the one where it made the ballot, it’s set to enter the regional legislature.
With 96.86% of precinct tallies counted, Yabloko is on track to win seats in the Novgorod regional legislature’s eighth convocation, according to data from Russia’s Central Election Commission.
The party has 6.2% of the vote. United Russia leads with 38.37%, followed by the Communist Party with 14.54%, the LDPR with 12.01%, New People with 9.87%, A Just Russia with 7.7%, and the Party of Pensioners with 5.55%.
“Peace, freedom, and a life without fear are values that resonated deeply with people,” the party’s Novgorod branch said of the result.
The Novgorod region was the only one of eight regions where Yabloko’s party list made it onto the ballot for a regional parliament. In St. Petersburg and the Leningrad region, the party’s lists were not registered. In Karelia and the Kaliningrad, Sverdlovsk, Tomsk, and Pskov regions, they were struck from the ballot after other parties sued.
On August 10, Russia’s Supreme Court removed Yabloko’s federal list from the State Duma elections. The ruling came in a lawsuit filed by the Rodina party, which alleged that Yabloko’s campaign materials infringed copyright and that the party had received foreign funding.
Yabloko was the only party that ran on an antiwar platform.
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