The main Kremlin party retained its majority in Russia’s parliament, election officials said Monday, after a carefully orchestrated balloting that excluded most opposition candidates and helped the government maintain its tight grip on power.
Results from over 95% of the polling stations gave the Kremlin’s United Russia party just under 58% of the vote for the 225 seats apportioned by parties, according to the Central Election Commission. Another 225 lawmakers were chosen in single-ballot races, and the results showed United Russia candidates leading in 208 of those races.
Central Election Commission chair Ella Pamfilova said the preliminary results indicated that United Russia would get 355 seats out of 450.
It was the first parliamentary election held since President Vladimir Putin launched the full-scale invasion of Ukraine in 2022, and the first to include residents of four regions of that country that were seized and illegally annexed by Moscow later that year. Voting also was held in Crimea, which was illegally annexed by Russia in 2014. Kyiv denounced the voting in those regions as illegal.
The Kremlin tightened its crackdown on opposition ahead of the election, including barring Russia’s only liberal, anti-war party from the ballot and allowing it to compete only in single-ballot races.
Along with United Russia, several other parties that almost always vote for Kremlin initiatives also won seats in the State Duma, the lower house of parliament.
The Kremlin has sought the parliamentary election to showcase popular support for the war, and strove to avoid political risks by stamping out any dissent.
A massive state media campaign and tight control over the election in the absence of genuine opposition left little doubt that Kremlin will keep tight control of Russian politics as economic costs rise and Ukrainian drone attacks increase deep inside the country.
Voters cast two separate ballots, filling half of the Duma’s 450 seats by selecting political parties listed on the ballot. The rest were contested in single-seat constituencies, with voters choosing individual candidates.
The liberal Yabloko party, the only registered political entity that dared to publicly criticize the war, was removed from the ballot last month by Russia’s Supreme Court, and only has a few dozen candidates in the single-constituency races. Additionally, some anti-war politicians were imprisoned or forced to flee abroad ahead of the campaign.
Yabloko and the Communist Party, which has criticized some aspects of government policy but carefully avoided any criticism of Putin, said many of their observers were turned away from polling stations.
Russia didn’t invite observers from the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe, with the Russian Foreign Ministry accusing the body of “double standards” for its criticism of Russia. OSCE Parliamentary Assembly President Pere Joan Pons said that the decision was a breach of Russia’s commitments as a member state of the organization.
At one polling station in the Russian-held part of the Donetsk region, voters dropped their ballots in a box as an armed Russian soldier stood nearby and watched.
Vladimir Yakushev, a secretary of the General Council of the United Russia party, speaks during a news conference following parliamentary elections, in Moscow, Russia, Monday, Sept. 21, 2026. (AP Photo/Alexander Zemlianichenko)
A voter fills-in a ballot during Russia's parliamentary election in Donetsk, in the Russian-controlled part of the Donetsk region, Ukraine, Friday, Sept. 18, 2026. (AP Photo)
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LabVantage Solutions, Inc., a leading global provider of laboratory informatics solutions and services, has been named a Visionary Leader in two 2026 Frost Radar™ reports by Frost & Sullivan: Frost Radar™: Life Sciences Laboratory Information Management Systems, 2026 and Frost Radar™: Laboratory Information Management Systems in Industrial Applications, 2026. Announced at LabVantage’s Customer Training and Education Conference (CTEC) Europe 2026 in Paris, the dual recognition marks LabVantage’s fourth consecutive year of Frost Radar leadership.
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The Frost Radar is an independent benchmarking analysis that evaluates companies on a Growth Index and an Innovation Index. The Growth Index measures a company’s growth performance, track record, and ability to execute its growth strategy, while the Innovation Index assesses its ability to develop globally applicable solutions that evolve with changing customer needs. For the 2026 assessments, Frost & Sullivan benchmarked 16 companies in life sciences and screened 50 vendors in industrial applications, plotting the top 10. LabVantage placed as a Visionary Leader in both.
“LabVantage is the first enterprise LIMS vendor to offer a comprehensive agentic AI framework, called LabVantage CORTEX,” said Anantharaman Viswanathan, Research Director, Frost & Sullivan. “By building LabVantage CORTEX separately from the validated LIMS core, the company allows AI capabilities to evolve quickly without disrupting regulated operations. Combined with a broad footprint across industries well beyond life sciences and strong, double-digit growth in the LIMS market, this earns LabVantage a Visionary Leader position in both of our 2026 LIMS Frost Radar assessments.”
In its life sciences evaluation, Frost & Sullivan highlighted LabVantage’s configurable, browser-based platform, which integrates LIMS, electronic laboratory notebook (ELN), laboratory execution system (LES), scientific data management system (SDMS), and advanced analytics. The report noted that LabVantage CORTEX extends the company’s position from traditional LIMS to AI-enabled laboratory intelligence and enables traceable, auditable AI within laboratory workflows. It also recognized more than 40 years of regulatory expertise, growing SaaS adoption, and customer retention above 98%.
The industrial applications report focused on LabVantage’s footprint beyond life sciences, including food and beverage, oil and gas, consumer goods, forensics, and government laboratories. Frost & Sullivan identified this breadth as a key driver of the company’s strong, double-digit growth in the LIMS market. The report also noted LabVantage’s investments in cybersecurity and compliance, as well as its approach to augmentation over full automation or dark laboratories. This reflects LabVantage’s human-in-the-loop model, in which robotics, automation, and agentic AI support the scaling of routine workflows while scientists retain interpretation and critical decisions.
“I value nothing more than independent validation from the clients and the everyday heroes in the lab,” said Mikael Hagstroem, Chief Executive Officer at LabVantage Solutions. “Offering a trusted agentic AI environment for high-stakes, regulated industries is a proud milestone, and I am incredibly grateful to my colleagues for launching LabVantage CORTEX. Built in collaboration with leading global laboratories, CORTEX delivers relevant and impactful agentic AI that gives scientists trusted auditable automation without compromising compliance or data integrity. Celebrating our fourth consecutive year of Frost Radar leadership at CTEC Europe is the perfect way to honor the customer-led innovation that drives us forward.”
The Frost & Sullivan summary reports are available at this link. For more information on LabVantage and LabVantage CORTEX, visit www.labvantage.com or email info@labvantage.com.
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LabVantage Solutions is a global leader in laboratory informatics, driving digital transformation through LabVantage CORTEX™. This AI, analytics, and automation platform unifies LIMS, ELN, LES, SDMS, and analytics in a 100% browser-based environment with agentic AI. With 40+ years of LIMS expertise and 1,500+ customers across industries, LabVantage helps streamline workflows and support compliance. Headquartered in Somerset, New Jersey, LabVantage serves customers worldwide through global teams, regional offices, and partners. Learn more at www.labvantage.com.
LabVantage Named a Visionary Leader in Life Sciences and Industrial LIMS by Frost & Sullivan
