(VOVworld) - Ruling United Russia party won 51% of votes in the nation's State Duma or parliamentary election, according to Russia’s Central Electoral Committee.

A plenary session of the Russian State Duma in Moscow (Photo: AFP/VNA)

It is followed by the nationalist LDPR and the Communist party with about 15.1 and 14.9% each, the exit polls said.

Liberal opposition parties appear to have failed to pass the 5% threshold needed for party-list representation. The Central Electoral Committee said this is the biggest ever election in the history of modern Russia with 110 million voters.