If Russian elections had American voting patterns

[bagelman]

You know, actual democratic elections instead of the obviously fixed ones.

[Crumpets]

Here's a map I made that shows which party beat its national average by the biggest margin in each region, so that might give an idea of what a close election in Russia would look like keeping current voters and parties. Think of it being a bit like a PVI map.



Vladimir Putin (United Russia) - Dark Blue
Gennady Zyuganov (Communist Party) - Red
Mikhail Prokhorov (Independent) - Dark Gray
Vladimir Zhirinovsky (LDPR) - Medium Blue
Sergey Mironov (A Just Russia) - Orange

Then again, if by "American voting patterns" you mean if Russians had the same values, mindset, and hot issues as the US does, you'd probably have A Just Russia winning the center-left vote with some support going to Yabloko. Prokhorov and Civic Platform would win centrists and business-minded people, sort of the Bloomberg wing. And the center-right would vote overwhelmingly for United Russia. The LDPR might win over a couple of Tea Party-type people, but I imagine it would be much more of a fringe movement - sort of like the LaRouche movement in the US.