MOSCOW, Dec 2: President Vladimir Putin’s United Russia party won a landslide in parliamentary elections on Sunday with more than 60 per cent of the vote, according to two exit polls.

An exit poll by the All-Russian Centre for the Study of Public Opinion gave United Russia 61 per cent of the vote. A second one by the Public Opinion Foundation gave the party 62.3 per cent.

Both polls predicted that the Communist Party had come in second.—AFP