Russian woman, just like in Europe and the United States, vote more often than men, according to a survey just in from VTSIOM pollsters here in Moscow.

As the parliamentary elections draw nearer, the public interest in politics is going up and it now looks like more than half of all eligible voters will come to the polling stations on December 4.  In an interview with the Voice of Russia, VTSIOM director Valery Fyodorov said that people in the regions traditionally vote more actively than those in the capital.

“With the average national voter turnout  expected at 56 percent, in the big cities it will be 49 percent and over 60 in the countryside. Village folk generally vote for the ruling United Russia party (up to 60%), unlike in the big cities where the figure is down to 50 percent. The Communists and the Social Democrats from the Just Russia party are more popular with big city dweller with the Liberal Democrats’ support base being almost equal in both.”

Russian woman are more active voters everywhere.

Including in the US where Barack Obama owes much of his victory to representatives of the fair sex. Most of the Russian woman voters are middle aged with young and energetic ladies also pretty much active at the ballot box because they know full well what they want from life, men and politicians.

According to sociologists, Russian woman prefer to vote for the so-called “party of power”. Valery Fyodorov again:

“Up to 60 percent of women and more than 49 percent of men are going to vote for United Russia… Age-wise, UR enjoys the support  of people under  45, while one in every four of those over 45 normally votes for the Communists… The Liberal Democrats  are mostly popular among disgruntled  young males. The situation is not so clear with the Just Russia party, while the support base of the so-called non-parliamentary parties is too small to even talk about…”

Narrator: There could be some last minute changes of course; due mainly to a clever PR campaign in the media which experts believe could sway the votes of the so-called fence-sitters.

The VTSIOM poll surveyed 1,600 people and 10 political analysts in 138 cities and villages in 46 Russian regions with  a margin of error less than 3.4 percent.