The incumbent President of the Russian Federation Vladimir Putin received 85.13% of the vote after processing 100% of the protocols of the election for the head of state. This data was published on the website of the Russian Central Election Commission, TASS reported.
The number of territorial election commissions is 128. The number of territorial election commissions that have submitted information is 128. Vladimir Vladimirovich Putin's result is 85.13%," the statement said.
Vladislav Davankov, the candidate of the New People's Party, received 6.65% of the vote, Nikolai Kharitonov of the Communist Party of Russia (CPRF) - 3.84%, Leonid Slutsky of the LDPR - 2.83%. In the remote electronic voting Putin received 89.1%, Davankov - 4.4%, Kharitonov and Slutsky - 3.3% and 3.2% respectively.
Putin thanked Russians for voting and supporting him in the election, which he was expected to win by a landslide.
"I want to thank the citizens of Russia who came to the polling stations and voted," Putin said after exit polls and early CEC results showed he was on track to get 88 % of the vote.
As the offensive in Ukraine entered its third year, he expressed "special words of gratitude to our soldiers who are carrying out the most important task of defending our people."
Vladimir Putin said Russia would not be "intimidated" as he hailed an election victory that paves the way for the former spy to become Russia's longest-serving leader in more than 200 years.
The 71-year-old Putin's main opponents are all dead, in jail or in exile, and he has presided over a ruthless crackdown on anyone who publicly opposes his rule or his military offensive in Ukraine.
"I want to thank all of you and all the citizens of the country for your support and for this trust," Putin said early on the morning of March 18 at a news conference at his campaign headquarters in Moscow hours after polls closed.
"No matter who and how much wants to intimidate us, no matter who and how much wants to suppress us, our will, our consciousness - no one in history has ever succeeded in such a thing. It has not succeeded now and it will not succeed in the future. Never," he added.
The three-day election was marked by a wave of deadly Ukrainian bombings, incursions by pro-Kiev sabotage groups into Russian territory and vandalism at polling stations.
The Kremlin described the election as a moment when Russians backed a full-scale "military operation" in Ukraine, where voting is also taking place in Russian-controlled territories.
In his post-election speech in Moscow, Putin gave special thanks to Russian troops fighting in Ukraine.
He kept insisting that his forces had a big advantage on the battlefield, even after a week in which Ukraine carried out some of its most significant air raids against Russia and in which pro-Ukrainian militias besieged Russian border villages with armed raids.
"The initiative belongs entirely to the Russian armed forces. In some areas our guys just mowed them down," he said.
Kiev and its allies have declared the vote - which was also staged in parts of Ukraine controlled by Russian forces - a sham. President Volodymyr Zelensky declared Putin a dictator who is "intoxicated with power."
"There is no evil he has not committed to extend his personal power," Zelensky said.
On the very first day of voting in the election, EU chief Charles Michel sarcastically congratulated Putin on his "crushing victory."
If he completes another full term in the Kremlin, Putin will stay in power longer than any Russian leader since Catherine the Great in the 18th century.
Allies of the late Alexei Navalny - Putin's most prominent rival, who died in an Arctic prison last month - tried to derail his inevitable victory by urging voters to flood polling stations at midday and damage their ballot papers.
His wife Yulia Navalny was greeted by supporters with flowers and applause in Berlin. After voting at the Russian embassy, she said she had written her late husband's name on her ballot paper.
Some voters in Moscow responded to the opposition's call, saying they had come to honour Navalny's memory and express their dissent in the only legal way possible.
"I came to show that we are many, that we exist, that we are not some insignificant minority," said 19-year-old student Artyom Minasyan at a polling station in central Moscow.
Putin said the protest had no impact and that those who damaged their ballot papers "will have to answer for it".
In his first public comments on Navalny's death last month, Putin called his passing "a sad event."
Using his name publicly for the first time in years during a televised news conference, Putin said, "As for Mr. Navalny. Yes, he died. This is always a sad event."
Putin said a colleague of his had offered to swap Navalny a few days before his death for "some people" currently in prisons in Western countries.
"The person who spoke to me had not finished his sentence and I said 'I agree'".
Meanwhile, former Russian leader Dmitry Medvedev congratulated Putin on his "magnificent victory" long before the final results were announced.
And state television praised Russians for rallying around "colossal support for the president" as well as the country's "incredible unity" behind its leader.
At Navalny's grave in a Moscow cemetery, AFP reporters saw scattered ballots with the opposition leader's name placed on a pile of flowers.
"We live in a country where we will go to jail if we speak out. So when I come across moments like this and I see a lot of people, I realise we are not alone," said 33-year-old Regina.
There were repeated protests in the early days of the vote, with Russians arrested and accused of pouring paint on ballot boxes or setting them on fire.
Any public dissent in Russia has been severely punished since Moscow's offensive in Ukraine began on February 24, 2022, and there have been repeated warnings from the authorities against election protests.
Police watchdog group OVD-Info said at least 80 people have been detained in nearly 20 cities across Russia for election-related protest actions. / BGNES
