President Vladimir Putin's United Russia party has won 62.8 per cent of the vote in Russia's parliamentary election, first official results showed today.

Vladimir Churov, head of Russia's electoral commission, told reporters that more than 12 per cent of the vote had been counted so far.

The Communist Party had won 11.5 per cent, the nationalist LDPR party had won 10.6 per cent and Fair Russia had won 7.1 perc ent, Mr Churov said.

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