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| 1613 | Michael |  |
| 21st Feb The elecoral assembly of 700 select Michael as the new Tsar |
| 1917 | Kerensky, Alexander Fedorovich | |
| 12th Mar Petrograd Elected Vice Chairman of the Petrograd Soviet |
| 9th Aug Moscow The Provisional Government schedules Constituent Assembly elections for 12 Nov |
| 14th Nov Elections to the Constituent Assembly, the Socialist Revolutionaries the largest party |
| 1917 | Lenin, Vladimir Ilyich Ulyanov | |
| 25th Nov In the Constituent Assembly elections the Bolsheviks win 9.8 of 41.7 million votes |
| 25th Nov The Bolsheviks win 175 seats out of 707 |
| 25th Nov The Socialist Revolutionaries win 17.5 million votes |
| 1917 | Stalin, Joseph | |
| 23rd Sep The Party Central Committee approves the list of Bolshevik candidates to the Constituent Assembly, which includes Lenin and Stalin |
| 1922 | Kirov, Sergei Mironovich | |
| Elected Member of the Central Committee |
| 1987 | Gorbachev, Mikhail Sergeyevich | |
| Mar Pravda uses the word "democracy" for "multi-candidate" elections |
| 1988 | Gorbachev, Mikhail Sergeyevich | |
| 29th Nov The Congress of People's Deputies will elect the Supreme Soviet |
| 1989 | Belyakov, Oleg Sergeevich | |
| Elected Deputy for Mari for the USSR Congress of Peoples Deputies |
| 1989 | Gorbachev, Mikhail Sergeyevich | |
| Mar Communist Party members have to stand in elections for the 1st time ever |
| Mar Elections for the Congress of People's Deputies, 80% of candidates are CPSU members |
| Mar Fails to support Yeltsin against the conservatives, leads to Gorbachev's downfall |
| 1989 | Medvedev, Roy | |
| Mar Elected Member of the Congress of People's Deputies |
| 1989 | Sakharov, Andrei | |
| Mar Elected Member of the Congress of People's Deputies |
| 1989 | Yeltsin, Boris Nikolayevich | |
| Mar Promises to "free Moscow from the mafia of bureacrats" |
| Mar Yeltsin's presence in the Supreme Soviet's Chamber of People's Deputies provided a focus for the reformist minority, the legislature becomes a more pluralist body than Gorbachev intends |
| Mar Yeltsin wins an overwhelming election victory of 89% to the quasi-representative legislature, the Supreme Soviet |
| 26th Mar The first free elections take place in the Soviet Union, Yeltsin is elected, voters in the Soviet Union filled 1,500 of more than 2,000 seats in the new Congress of People's Deputies, beginning embarrassing CP defeats |
| 26th Mar Yeltsin is surprisingly elected to the Soviet parliament, his political career is revived by his vocal campaign against corruption within the political elite |
| 27th Mar Yeltsin and other anti-establishment candidates claim victory in parliamentary elections for the new Congress of People's Deputies |
| 29th May Bowing to public demand, the Supreme Soviet allows Boris Yeltsin to take a seat in the standing legislature. |
| 1990 | Gorbachev, Mikhail Sergeyevich | |
| Elected Head of State by the Congress of People's Deputies |
| Elections are held after the USA & Russia agree not to support Contras & Sandanistas |
| Reformers & Popular Fronts sweep to victory to the Supreme Soviet of the Union |
| Mar "Democratic Russia" wins 56% of seats in the city soviet |
| Mar "Democratic Russia" wins 85% of the seats in the Congress of People's Deputies |
| Mar Radical groups win in the cities & many prominent party officials are defeated |
| 8th June Yeltsin is elected President of Russia, the largest Republic |
| 28th Oct Georgia Non Communist Parties triumph in elections in Georgia & call for independence |
| 1990 | Yeltsin, Boris Nikolayevich | |
| 26th May Yeltsin fails in a second round of voting to win the presidency of the Russian Federation, succeeds in a third round of balloting three days later |
| 29th May Elected President of the Russian republic in the third round of balloting by the Russian Parliament, gives him a base from which to attack Soviet president Mikhail Gorbachev |
| 8th June Elected President of the Russian Federation |
| 1991 | Bakatin, Vadim Viktorovich | |
| Runs against Yeltsin as Gorbahcov's candidate but only polls 3.4% |
| 1991 | Gorbachev, Mikhail Sergeyevich | |
| 12th June Russia stages it 1st ever general election |
| 1991 | Yeltsin, Boris Nikolayevich | |
| 12th June Russians go to the polls and elect Yeltsin as President |
| 1993 | Yeltsin, Boris Nikolayevich | |
| Dec Communists & ultra-nationalists make large gains |
| 1996 | Lebed, Aleksandr | |
| 16th June Yeltsin's re-election hinges on co-opting the support of the third placed Aleksandr Lebed (a retired General who receives 14.5% of the vote) |
| 1st Dec Wins 45% in the first round of the Presidential Elections in the Republic of Khakasiya |
| 22nd Dec Winner of the 2nd round of the Presidential elections on Khakasiya with 71.0% |
| 1996 | Yeltsin, Boris Nikolayevich | |
| 3rd April Officially registered for the presidential election, not aligned to any party |
| 16th June Yeltsin's re-election hinges on co-opting the support of the third placed Aleksandr Lebed (a retired General who receives 14.5% of the vote) |
| July Re-lected as President of the Russian Federation in the 2nd round |
| 3rd July Despite suffering a heart attack in June, Yeltsin wins a second term in office, defeating communist Gennady Zyuganov by 13 points in the national election |
| 3rd July Yeltsin defeats Gennadiy Zyuganov with 53.7% against 40.4% |
| Oct Yeltsin is re-elected with 53% of the vote |
| 1996 | Zyuganov, Gennady | |
| 3rd July Despite suffering a heart attack in June, Yeltsin wins a second term in office, defeating communist Gennady Zyuganov by 13 points in the national election |
| 1999 | Putin, Vladimir Vladimirovich | |
| Dec Putin pledges his support to the newly formed Unity Party which wins the second largest percentage of the popular vote (23,32%) in the Duma elections |
| 1999 | Yeltsin, Boris Nikolayevich | |
| 19th Dec Parliamentary elections are held, the Communist Party lead with over24% of the vote, 4 of the next 5 parties are centrist groups with Unity at 23.2%. |
| 19th Dec Russians take advantage of their democratic franchise by voting for a moderate political party, the Kremlin backed 'Unity' Party |
| 2000 | Putin, Vladimir Vladimirovich | |
| 11th Jan Putin announces a 20% increase in pensions ahead of the Mar 26 elections |
| 26th Mar Presidential elections are held, Putin wins in the first round, becomes the 2nd post-Communist President with 52.5% vote |
| May Putin wins the election |
| 2000 | Yeltsin, Boris Nikolayevich | |
| 15th May Presidential elections scheduled, by law, Yeltsin may not seek another term |
| 2004 | Putin, Vladimir Vladimirovich | |
| 14th Mar Putin wins the re-election to the presidency for a second term, earning 71 percent of the vote |
| Dec Visits the Ukraine twice before the election to show his support for Ukrainian Prime Minister Viktor Yanukovych and congratulated him on his alleged victory before the official election results had been announced |
