Russian politicas are going through a change, but United Russia is still the dominant force.
His party, United Russia, will nominate him as their main man on Sunday, local press reported.
Dmitry Peskov, his spokesman, has tried to draw a distinction between Mr Putin and United Russia.
At a voting station in a central Moscow school, Elvira Kryuchkova said she voted for United Russia.
Vladimir Putin was nominated by his United Russia Party to retake the controls in the Kremlin in March 2012.
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Moreover, according to the data, 49% of Russians relate positively to United Russia.
Although Mr Putin has distanced himself from United Russia, his promises and speeches are now met with the same indifference.
Putin's United Russia Party grabbed a little more than 64 percent of the vote in an election that saw heavy turnout.
The ruling party, United Russia, lost a quarter of its seats in the vote - a big slump in its support.
For that reason, Mr Gudkov would have kept his seat if the vote had been secret, says a United Russia deputy.
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Putin would run for president under United Russia, a party in which he heads, and Medvedev would likely become the prime minister.
Putin himself has indicated that a major victory by United Russia could prompt him to take up the post of prime minister.
Mr. Pekhtin's speech was warmly applauded by United Russia members, who flocked to shake his hand on the floor of the Duma floor.
Mr Putin's next step could be to dump United Russia, leaving it in the hands of his faithful (and dispensable) lieutenant, Mr Medvedev.
Most of the Kremlin's efforts were focused on Moscow, where an exit poll suggested that United Russia had won less than 30% support.
These were also held on Sunday, and United Russia also did well (the two liberal parties won a handful of seats in these district elections).
According to a poll by Moscow-based Levada Center, nearly a third of Russian voters say that the United Russia party is most representative of their political interests.
Mr Pozgalev, a former governor of Vologda, an ethnic Russian region that includes Cherepovets, identified the mood swing while campaigning for United Russia in last year's elections.
In the Duma, members of United Russia worry that their vote to expel Mr Gudkov might lead to a broader purge of Duma representatives who have commercial interests.
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The Russian leader hasn't budged on opposition demands for a rerun of December parliamentary elections or an investigation of alleged vote fraud that has allowed his party, United Russia, to dominate Parliament.
That has had little effect so far, although one United Russia deputy, Vladimir Burmatov, stepped down from his post as head of the education committee amid allegations that he had poached much of his dissertation on teaching methods from another published four years earlier at a university in Bryansk.
And then they also discussed -- President Medvedev and President Obama discussed and President Medvedev made the point that in the period of transition upcoming in Russia, that the commitment to the reset of relations between the United States and Russia will continue.
The foreign secretary said he believed the Occupied Palestinian Territories had largely met the criteria for UN membership but the government wanted the Quartet - the United Nations, EU, Russia and the United States - to help the Israelis and Palestinians resume "meaningful negotiations" and reach a two-state deal.
She said political settlements will be based on the road map for Middle East peace backed by the United States, the European Union, Russia and the United Nations.
The senior aide said the administration would be focused on making sure the "international quartet" -- the United States, the European Union, Russia and the United Nations, as well as Arab states -- support the president's plan.
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