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DATE: SUNDAY, December 26, 1993                   TAG: 9312260021
SECTION: NATIONAL/INTERNATIONAL                    PAGE: B-7   EDITION: METRO 
SOURCE: Associated Press
DATELINE: MOSCOW                                LENGTH: Short

FINAL RESULTS OF RUSSIAN VOTE TALLIED

Final results were released Saturday from the parliamentary elections in which reformers took a beating from ultranationalists, but who will dominate remains unclear.

The results released by Central Election Commission chairman Nikolai Ryabov were for only half of the 450 seats in the Duma, the parliament's powerful lower house. Those 225 seats were allocated according to what percentage of the vote a party received.

The other half of the Duma's seats were filled in individual contests, in which the reformers are believed to have done better. But some of those affiliations may not become clear until after the parliament convenes Jan. 11.

The ultranationalist Liberal Democratic Party of Vladimir Zhirinovsky won 23 percent of the vote and will get 59 seats. It wants to dismantle Yeltsin's economic policies and rebuild the Russian empire.

The second largest vote-getter was the main pro-Yeltsin coalition, Russia's Choice, formed by several of the president's top advisers. It received 8.3 million votes, or 15 percent, and will get 40 seats.

by CNB