It is the Communist Party that was supposed to come out on top in the 2011 parliamentary election, says a leading think-tank.

      A group of researchers led by the head of Russian Railways, Vladimir Yakunin, applied math to analyze the official results of the contraversial poll that re-ignited the protest movement in Russia in late 2011.

      According to the study, the Communist Party was expected to garner 25-30 percent of the vote, with United Russia trailing behind with 20-25 percent.

      However, the presidential election was fair, concluded the experts.