Table 1. Electoral cleavages in the 2016 elections

Variable Factor Loadings (Unrotated) (Spreadsheet1)
Extraction: Principal components
(Marked loadings are >,700000)
Factor 1 Factor 2 Factor 3
Invalid 0.588 -0.52 0.028
Rodina 0.623 0.259 0.212
Communists of Russia 0.159 -0.668 0.116
Russian Party of Pensioners for Social Justice 0.816 -0.284 -0.079
United Russia -0.881 0.421 -0.001
Russian Ecological Party “The Greens” 0.892 0.212 0.087
Civic Platform 0.486 -0.06 -0.25
LDPR 0.513 -0.69 0.035
People's Freedom Party 0.847 0.412 0.053
Party of Growth 0.676 0.495 -0.023
Civilian Power 0.667 0.397 -0.03
Yabloko 0.784 0.513 0.012
CPRF 0.341 -0.536 0.15
Patriots of Russia 0.087 -0.079 0.801
A Just Russia 0.409 -0.274 -0.533
Expl.Var 6.023 2.77 1.089
Prp.Totl 40.16% 18.46% 7.26%