 Of the 2,250 legislators to be elected, one hundred — termed the "Red Hundred" by the press — were directly chosen by the Communist Party, with Gorbachev ensuring many were reformists.Although over 85% of elected deputies were party members, many of those elected—including Sakharov and Yeltsin—were liberalisers.Gorbachev was happy with the result, describing it as "an enormous political victory under extraordinarily difficult circumstances".