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The results are in. The election was not free or fair, but official results have been published and Putin "won" 87% of the vote. This market resolves to 85% to 90%.

When will Putin be removed from power? Will the next election take place as planned in 2030? Predict here:

When will Putin cease to be the President of Russia?

Will the next Russian Presidential election take place in 2030?27%‌

I bet that he would "win" over 90%. Not too far off.

@SimonGrayson what exactly in the election process was not free or fair?

@CyfralCoot multiple candidates were disqualified for no good reason. (They'd be meaningfully competitive, you see.) Plenty of potential candidates and their organizations are already prosecuted or declared illegal for no good reason. There was a wide-scale campaign to coerce goverment employees into voting for the candidate. Reported voter statistics in many regions were noticeably unrealistic, with the inference that there was a lot of freedom to allocate fake votes by non-existing or dead people. It is generally believed that electronic voting results are not connected to reality.

@mxxun on top of that, statistical analysis demonstrates massive falsification in purely on-paper voting. There's an estimate of 22 millions of fabricated votes. My napkin math says that's 30-50% of total votes, depending on assumptions about Russian demographics and voter turnout.

Behold e.g. the graph of # of votes cast at election posts with a given turnout:

As they say, with good enough data you don't really need to do statistics on it.

Podmoskovie exit poll. Moscow is the most oppositional city, so Putin's score elsewhere is expected to be higher.