Shifting electoral geography in Russia's 1991 and 1996 presidential elections

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Scott Gehlbach
Post-Soviet Geography and Economics, vol. 41(5), 2000, pp. 379-387

DOI: 10.1080/10889388.2000.10641147

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Gehlbach, S. (2000). Shifting electoral geography in Russia's 1991 and 1996 presidential elections. Post-Soviet Geography and Economics, 41(5), 379–387. https://doi.org/10.1080/10889388.2000.10641147

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Gehlbach, Scott. “Shifting Electoral Geography in Russia's 1991 and 1996 Presidential Elections.” Post-Soviet Geography and Economics 41, no. 5 (2000): 379–387.

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Gehlbach, Scott. “Shifting Electoral Geography in Russia's 1991 and 1996 Presidential Elections.” Post-Soviet Geography and Economics, vol. 41, no. 5, 2000, pp. 379–87, doi:10.1080/10889388.2000.10641147.

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@article{gehlbach2000a,
  title = {Shifting electoral geography in Russia's 1991 and 1996 presidential elections},
  year = {2000},
  issue = {5},
  journal = {Post-Soviet Geography and Economics},
  pages = {379-387},
  volume = {41},
  doi = {10.1080/10889388.2000.10641147},
  author = {Gehlbach, Scott}
}

Abstract

This essay reexamines Russia's 1991 and 1996 presidential elections. In contrast to some studies which argue that the Russian electorate was stable between 1991 and 1996, this paper demonstrates that the electoral geography in the two elections was quite different, with oblast-level vote totals for Boris Yel'tsin in 1991 and 1996 only poorly correlated. Further, while Yel'tsin's performance in both elections was better in urban than in rural regions, the urban-rural divide in 1996 is found to be different from that in 1991. Finally, in support of the argument of Russian electoral stability after 1993, regional voting patterns between 1993 and 1996 are shown to be both similar to each other and different from that in the 1991 election.