2012 Presidential elections
Russian language resources
Spiders and Data
- Aleksey Shipilev has posted code to spider the results and a time-series of the preliminary results here: http://shipilev.net/pub/articles/elections2012/cik-r1/
Blog posts
- http://podmoskovnik.livejournal.com/143728.html A first look at the data
English language resources
News articles
- http://www.nytimes.com/2012/03/06/world/europe/observers-detail-flaws-in-russian-election.html?partner=rss&emc=rss
- http://www.aljazeera.com/news/europe/2012/03/20123510832989114.html
- http://www.washingtonpost.com/world/europe/moscow-police-to-be-out-in-force-as-protest-planned-after-putin-wins-presidency/2012/03/05/gIQAF8l8rR_story.html
2011 Duma elections
Russian language resources
If you don’t speak Russian Google Chrome’s built-in translate option is very helpful for these, and is much easier to use than plugging each link into a translator.
Blog posts
- http://eugenyboger.livejournal.com/4514.html Appears to be the first in-depth post
- http://eugenyboger.livejournal.com/5057.html#cutid1 more analysis
- http://ejafarov.livejournal.com/27514.html?view=25210#t25210 links mostly to first
- http://eugenyboger.livejournal.com/5349.html#cutid1 plots for every region
- http://kobak.livejournal.com/102646.html#cutid1 Discussed “Churov’s Comb”
- http://jemmybutton.livejournal.com/1359.html?thread=17231#t17231 Very detailed discussion of several things, including normal distributions, correlation between parties and turnout, and the comb
- http://podmoskovnik.livejournal.com/129843.html a brief early look at the distribution by party
- http://www.echo.msk.ru/blog/varfolomeev/836376-echo/ Blog looks at nearby districts
- http://kireev.livejournal.com/702745.html Looks like origin of the most commonly used comb image
- http://altz-gamer.livejournal.com/407274.html Very early, looked at correlation between turnout and party
- http://podmoskovnik.livejournal.com/3915.html
News articles
- http://lenta.ru/articles/2011/12/06/elections/ Brief overview by Andrew Konyaev
- http://esquire.ru/elections Sergei Shpilkin
English language resources
Blog posts
- http://antonnikolenko.blogspot.com/2011/12/russian-legislative-elections-2011.html Meta-analysis in English, also has detailed instructions on how to spider source in comments
- http://www.sublimeoblivion.com/2011/12/26/measuring-churovs-beard/#comment-20175 Another meta-analysis in English
- http://www.sublimeoblivion.com/2011/12/27/fraud-estimates-russia-2011/ A very comprehensive list of all estimates of total fraud
News articles
- http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052970203391104577124540544822220.html The Wall Street Journal does its own analysis, but doesn’t provide a lot of details
Web sites
- http://ruelect.com/en/?nr=1 Compares official vote tallies with the ones made on-site
Academic
- http://www-personal.umich.edu/~wmebane/ Walter Mebane
- http://polisci.uoregon.edu/facbios.php?name=Mikhail_Myagkov Mikhail Myagkov
- http://home.uchicago.edu/~asimpser/ Alberto Simpser
Other languages
Not statistics
- http://www.nu.nl/politiek/2669299/rusland-hekelt-verkiezingswaarnemer-sp.html A Dutch observer on the process