RELIGION AND ELECTORAL BEHAVIOR IN RUSSIA:
REGIONAL DIMENSION
M. V. Uhvatova
Postgraduate Student, Department of Political Science,
National Research University Higher School of Economics, St. Petersburg
The paper analyzes regional diversity of the relationship between religiosity and the
voting behavior in Russia in the 2010s. The existing
studies of the Russian case
demonstrate that there is a correlation to a
certain extent; however, there
are no stu-
dies focused on the regional level. The results of the statistical analysis based on a
religious survey, conducted by the research group SREDA,
show a correlation be-
tween religiosity and the outcome of the federal elections in 2011–2012. Religiosity
is positively associated with voting for the party “United Russia” in 2011 and for
Vladimir Putin in 2012.
Keywords:
voting behavior; religion and politics; religiosity.