He announced Mr. Putin's vote figures in federal districts. According to the Central Election Commission, Vladimir Putin garnered 64.9 percent of the vote in the Far Eastern Federal District, 66.5 percent – in the Siberian Federal District, 73.6 percent – in the Urals Federal District, 74 percent – in the Volga Federal District, 75.6 percent – in the Southern Federal District, 67.4 percent – in the Central Federal District, and 74.7 percent – in the North West Federal District.

Mr. Putin received his strongest voter support in the southern republics of Ingushetia, Kabardino-Balkaria and Dagestan, the Chairman of the Central Election Commission said. He gathered 98.2 percent of the vote in Ingushetia, 96.5 percent – in Kabardino-Balkaria and 94.6 percent – in Dagestan.

In Moscow, 68.7 percent of voters voted for Vladimir Putin.

Communist Party candidate Nikolai Kharitonov is second with 13.7 percent. Sergei Glazyev, a self-nominated candidate, gathered 4.1 percent of the vote, and independent candidate Irina Khakamada has 3.9 percent. Oleg Malyshkin, nominated by the Liberal Democratic Party of Russia, has 2 percent. Sergei Mironov, Speaker of the Federation Council (the upper house of Parliament), garnered 0.8 percent of the vote. And 3.5 percent of voters voted against all candidates.

99.2 percent of ballots have been tallied already. The turnout in the elections was 64.3 percent.

There are 109m eligible voters in Russia. A 50 percent turnout is required to validate the poll.