JOIN USIn a televised sitting of the Central Election Commission (CEC), its Chairman Vladimir Churov signed the official results declaring the United Russia party bagged 238 seats in the 450-strong sixth Duma elected for five years.
In the wake of anti-incumbency wave it lost absolute majority by losing 77 seats.
The runners-up the Communist Party (KPRF) won 92 seats followed by A Just Russia with 64 and Liberal Democratic Party of Russia (LDPR) with 56 seats respectively.
Remaining three parties in the fray including liberal Yabloko failed to clear 7 percent threshold to get seats in the lower house on the proportionate basis.
While signing the finals results at least one member of the CEC recorded his 'special view' on the poll outcome, while the representative of the Communist Party demanded the resignation of Churov in view of numerous reports of fraud and ballot rigging stoking wave of protests across the nation.
National protests rolled from Russia's Far East to Moscow today as furious voters demanded the annulment of disputed elections in the biggest challenge yet to strongman Putin's 12-year rule.
Moscow authorities gave permission for 30,000 people to gather on a square across the river from the Kremlin at 2:00 pm (1000 GMT) after detaining some 1,600 activists who joined unsanctioned rallies against last weekend's vote.
A demonstration of that size would be the largest to hit Moscow in more than a decade.