As near-final results came in on Monday for Russia’s first parliamentary elections since President Vladimir V. Putin invaded Ukraine, the Kremlin largely let the numbers do the talking. United Russia, the ruling party, was on track to win more seats than ever. Turnout, according to preliminary statistics, was the highest for a parliamentary vote in 15 years.

The elections were engineered in various ways to achieve the desired results, according to analysts, who cautioned that the numbers shouldn’t be read as an expression of how the Russian public feels. But they can be viewed for the message that the Kremlin was trying to send: Russia is rallying around Mr. Putin, who remains firmly in control despite the war’s challenges.

“The turnout categorically shows that the country supports the commander in chief, the country supports its army at war, and the country believes that we are acting justly, and that right is on our side,” Yevgeny Poddubny, a war correspondent for state television who ran as a United Russia candidate, said during a talk show on Sunday after voting had concluded.

It was a message designed for both domestic and international consumption, as the election authorities said United Russia had won as many as 355 of the 450 seats in the State Duma and claimed about 58 percent of the vote. That was higher than even state-run pollsters had projected.