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minus-squareanticolonialist@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up0·6 months agoBefore the election Yeltsin had a 6% approval rating, and somehow won the election by a landslide. “Yanks to the rescue” was the headline by Time Magazine
minus-squarenxdefiant@startrek.websitelinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up0·6 months agoYestsin won with 58 and 54 percent of the vote in his two elections, hardly a ‘landslide’: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/1991_Russian_presidential_election https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/1996_Russian_presidential_election Putin’s lowest was 53, in his first election. The latest was 88%, with most of the others being in the 70% range. Historically though, Russians, have a way of guaranteeing results like that. Yeltsin is kind of a low percentage outlier by comparison: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/1937_Soviet_Union_legislative_electionr https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Purge https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/1950_Soviet_Union_legislative_election https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/1954_Soviet_Union_legislative_election https://www.npr.org/2024/03/18/1196979929/in-unsurprising-result-putin-is-reelected
Before the election Yeltsin had a 6% approval rating, and somehow won the election by a landslide.
“Yanks to the rescue” was the headline by Time Magazine
Yestsin won with 58 and 54 percent of the vote in his two elections, hardly a ‘landslide’:
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/1991_Russian_presidential_election
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/1996_Russian_presidential_election
Putin’s lowest was 53, in his first election. The latest was 88%, with most of the others being in the 70% range.
Historically though, Russians, have a way of guaranteeing results like that. Yeltsin is kind of a low percentage outlier by comparison:
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/1937_Soviet_Union_legislative_electionr
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Purge
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/1950_Soviet_Union_legislative_election
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/1954_Soviet_Union_legislative_election
https://www.npr.org/2024/03/18/1196979929/in-unsurprising-result-putin-is-reelected