Russia's ruling party loses majority in seats targeted by Navalny

"Navalny is banned from having a party...his supporters are not allowed to compete for the regional parliaments, of course they're not registered for governor elections, so that only leaves local politics," she said.

As he has lain in hospital for several weeks, his allies have pressed ahead with the strategy, naming more than 1,000 politicians they thought were well placed to beat ruling party candidates and urging Russians to vote for them.In Tomsk, a vibrant student town that was Navalny's last campaign stop, at least 16 of those candidates won. United Russia secured no more than 11 out of 37 seats in the city council, partial results showed.

Navalny supporter Andrei Fateev, 32, also won a seat in Tomsk. Sergei Boyko, another ally of Navalny, won a seat on the council in Novosibirsk."They tell us Navalny has 2% support and it's all hipsters inside the garden ring road, but these people got a majority of votes in normal suburbs of normal Russian cities," Leonid Volkov, a close ally of Navalny, told Reuters.

But Dmitry Asantsev, a United Russia official, said three independents had joined the party's faction in Novosibirsk giving it a slender majority there, the Moskovsky Komsomolets newspaper reported.

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