MOSCOW, March 18. /TASS/. Voter turnout in Russia's 2024 presidential election has set a record in the country's modern history, reaching 77.44%, Russian Central Election Commission (CEC) Chairwoman Ella Pamfilova said.

"As of 10:00 a.m. Moscow time [7:00 a.m. GMT], a total of 87,113,127 voters had taken part in the election. This is a [level of] turnout that we are seeing for the first time; it is record-breaking, unprecedented, it has never happened before; it is 77.44%," she said. "We’ve analyzed the data, all in all, this has never happened in Russia’s modern history, this is the first time," the elections chief pointed out.

The total turnout in the 2024 presidential elections is the highest in the history of Russian presidential elections, surpassing the 1991 record, when 74.66% of citizens came out to the polls to cast their votes.

The 2024 Russian presidential election was held on March 15-17. For the first time ever, the election was held over a three-day voting period with the option of remote electronic voting, which was available in 29 regions, or about one-third of Russia's regions. During the 2018 presidential election, the voter turnout was 67.54%, while in 2012 it was 65.34%. In 2008, the turnout was 69.81%, in 2004 it amounted to 64.38%, and in 2000 it was 68.80%. In 1996, the turnout in the first round of the presidential election was 69.81%, and in the second round it was 68.88%.