The preliminary results showed that the current ruling party of Russia has passed a critical test and gained another five years at the helm of the lower house of parliament.

Local analysts said United Russia's victory will secure political stability in the country and pave the way for its leader, incumbent Prime Minister Vladimir Putin, to return to presidency.

Founded on December 1, 2001, United Russia won a landslide victory in the 2007 Duma election and gained 315 seats, enjoying a constitutional majority in the chamber.

Although the party's seats in the new Duma decreased sharply from the previous election, it still keeps an absolute majority in the house, enabling the party to implement its major policies.

Several senior members of the ruling party, including First Deputy Secretary of United Russia's General Council Presidium Andrei Isayev, said the party doesn’t want to seek another "constitutional majority" in the new Duma, because an "absolute majority" was enough for the party to push bills through.

In recent years, the association of United Russia with Putin, the most influential political figure in Russia, yielded tangible results in political, economic and social areas in the country.

Such a tie was seen as one of the main factors for United Russia's victory in December 11 election.