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Two independent exit polls covering 27 countries put New People first with around 45% and United Russia as low as 2.8%, the reverse of official results inside Russia, where Putin's party took nearly 58%. Exit poll organisers said the gap "destroys the image of supposed support for the authorities."
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Five Western nations and Kyiv condemned the voting in occupied Ukraine as illegal, while a Ukrainian drone strike on Moscow on the final day of polling killed two people.
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The election, held to elect members in all seats of the lower house State Duma, is the first since Moscow launched its full-scale invasion of Ukraine in 2022.
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The vote comes as the Russian capital was hit by what its governor described as the "largest-scale attack" on the city since the war in Ukraine began.
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