Arkhangelsk constituency

Arkhangelsk single-member constituency
Constituency of the Russian State Duma
Constituency boundaries since 2016
Deputy	Aleksandr Spiridonov United Russia
Federal subject	Arkhangelsk Oblast
Districts	Arkhangelsk (Maymaksansky, Oktyabrsky, Severny, Solombalsky), Kargopolsky, Konoshsky, Nyandomsky, Onezhsky, Plesetsky, Primorsky (Ostrovnoye, Pertominskoye, Primorskoye, Solovetskoye, Zaostrovskoye), Severodvinsk, Velsky
Other territory	Uzbekistan (Tashkent-3)
Voters	425,117 (2021) [1]

The Arkhangelsk constituency (No.72 ^[a] ) is a Russian legislative constituency in Arkhangelsk Oblast. The constituency covers northern half of Arkhangelsk and western Arkhangelsk Oblast.

The constituency has been represented since 2021 by United Russia deputy Aleksandr Spiridonov, Sevmash engineer, who won the open seat after defeating one-term United Russian incumbent Dmitry Yurkov in the primary.

Boundaries

1993–2003: Arkhangelsk, Leshukonsky District, Mezensky District, Pinezhsky District, Primorsky District, Severodvinsk, Solovetsky District, Arctic Ocean islands ^{[2] [3]}
The constituency covered the entirety of Arkhangelsk, major shipyard Severodvinsk and norther Arkhangelsk Oblast, including all of Arctic Ocean islands.

2003–2007: Arkhangelsk, Leshukonsky District, Mezensky District, Novodvinsk, Pinezhsky District, Primorsky District, Severodvinsk, Solovetsky District, Arctic Ocean islands ^[4]
After 2003 the constituency was slightly changes as it gained the industrial city of Novodvinsk from Kotlas constituency.

2016–present: Arkhangelsk (Maymaksansky, Oktyabrsky, Severny, Solombalsky), Kargopolsky District, Konoshsky District, Nyandomsky District, Onezhsky District, Plesetsky District, Primorsky District (Ostrovnoye, Pertominskoye, Primorskoye, Solovetsky District, Zaostrovskoye), Severodvinsk, Velsky District ^{[5] [6]}
The constituency was re-created for the 2016 election and it retained northern half of Arkhangelsk, Severodvinsk and Solovetsky Islands, losing the rest to Kotlas constituency. This seat gained western Arkhangelsk Oblast from the former Kotlas constituency.

Members elected

Election		Member	Party
	1993	Sergey Shulgin	Civic Union
	1995	Vasily Grishin	Independent
	1999	Aleksandr Piskunov [b]	Fatherland – All Russia
	2003	Vladimir Krupchak	Independent
2007		Proportional representation - no election by constituency
2011
	2016	Dmitry Yurkov	United Russia
	2021	Aleksandr Spiridonov	United Russia

Election results

1993

Summary of the 12 December 1993 Russian legislative election in the Arkhangelsk constituency

Candidate		Party	Votes	%
	Sergey Shulgin	Civic Union	133,809	47.75%
	Ivan Degtyaryov	Independent	–	–
	Valentina Konovalova	Independent	–	–
Total			280,205	100%
Source:				[7]

1995

Summary of the 17 December 1995 Russian legislative election in the Arkhangelsk constituency

Candidate		Party	Votes	%
	Vasily Grishin	Independent	95,818	27.53%
	Pavel Pozdeyev	Independent	65,187	18.73%
	Galina Anisimova	Independent	26,702	6.76%
	Yury Grishin	Independent	25,333	7.28%
	Mikhail Danilov	Democratic Choice of Russia – United Democrats	21,393	6.15%
	Yury Shcherbachev	Stanislav Govorukhin Bloc	13,845	3.98%
	Nikolay Zalyvsky	Social Democrats	13,465	3.87%
	Sergey Kurochkin	Liberal Democratic Party	12,483	3.59%
	Anatoly Koltunov	Power to the People	9,457	2.72%
	Igor Zaborsky	Independent	7,799	2.24%
	Vladimir Lushin	Independent	3,021	0.87%
	against all		46,106	13.24%
Total			348,103	100%
Source:				[8]

1999

Summary of the 19 December 1999 Russian legislative election in the Arkhangelsk constituency

Candidate		Party	Votes	%
	Aleksandr Piskunov	Fatherland – All Russia	75,497	23.30%
	Vasily Grishin (incumbent)	Independent	50,978	15.74%
	Tatyana Podyakova	Independent	38,770	11.97%
	Pyotr Skidan	Independent	28,990	8.95%
	Mikhail Silantyev	Liberal Democratic Party	17,558	5.42%
	Viktor Shiryayev	Russian Socialist Party	15,519	4.79%
	Igor Zaborsky	Kedr	12,389	3.82%
	Viktor Shershnev	Independent	8,909	2.75%
	Ivan Bentsa	Independent	8,542	2.64%
	Aleksandr Krasnoshtan	Independent	7,122	2.20%
	Sergey Perervus	Independent	4,767	1.47%
	Vladislav Goldin	Spiritual Heritage	4,380	1.35%
	Sergey Startsev	Independent	3,830	1.18%
	against all		42,231	13.04%
Total			323,963	100%
Source:				[9]

2001

The results of the by-election were annulled due to low turnout (22.13%).

Summary of the 7 October 2001 by-election in the Arkhangelsk constituency

Candidate		Party	Votes	%
	Tamara Rumyantseva	Independent	58,811	50.86%
	Nikolay Malakov	Independent	13,517	11.69%
	Aleksandr Novikov	Independent	10,420	9.01%
	Aleksandr Chaplinsky	Independent	5,983	5.17%
	Yelena Pozhidayeva	Independent	4,186	3.62%
	Mikhail Silantyev	Independent	3,200	2.77%
	Valentin Gintov	Independent	2,715	2.35%
	Pavel Nozhnin	Independent	1,022	0.88%
	against all		13,834	11.96%
Total			115,637	100%
Source:				[10]

2003

Summary of the 7 December 2003 Russian legislative election in the Arkhangelsk constituency

Candidate		Party	Votes	%
	Vladimir Krupchak	Independent	115,176	37.27%
	Tamara Rumyantseva	United Russia	63,086	20.41%
	Yury Guskov	Communist Party	21,793	7.05%
	Mikhail Silantyev	Liberal Democratic Party	14,051	4.55%
	Mikhail Sokolov	Yabloko	10,098	3.27%
	Galina Zhuravleva	Independent	9,342	3.02%
	Natalya Korzhinevskaya	Agrarian Party	5,151	1.67%
	Andrey Georgiyev	Independent	3,977	1.29%
	Alfiya Grishko	Independent	2,740	0.89%
	Pavel Nozhnin	People's Republican Party of Russia	2,401	0.78%
	Yevgeny Kislov	Party of Russia's Rebirth-Russian Party of Life	1,874	0.61%
	Aleksandr Selyagin	Great Russia – Eurasian Union	1,344	0.43%
	against all		54,361	17.59%
Total			309,463	100%
Source:				[11]

2016

Summary of the 18 September 2016 Russian legislative election in the Arkhangelsk constituency

Candidate		Party	Votes	%
	Dmitry Yurkov	United Russia	55,025	34.43%
	Olga Yepifanova	A Just Russia	38,742	24.24%
	Aleksandr Novikov	Communist Party	22,576	14.13%
	Sergey Pivkov	Liberal Democratic Party	20,709	12.96%
	Mikhail Butorin	People's Freedom Party	4,645	2.91%
	Mikhail Silantyev	Rodina	4,535	2.84%
	Andrey Churakov	Yabloko	3,797	2.38%
	Yury Rusakov	Communists of Russia	2,543	1.59%
	Vyacheslav Yerykanov	Patriots of Russia	1,958	1.23%
Total			159,799	100%
Source:				[12]

2021

Summary of the 17-19 September 2021 Russian legislative election in the Arkhangelsk constituency

Candidate		Party	Votes	%
	Aleksandr Spiridonov	United Russia	49,635	28.93%
	Oleg Mandrykin	Yabloko	30,125	17.56%
	Nadezhda Vinogradova	Communist Party	27,469	16.01%
	Vladimir Sukharev	Liberal Democratic Party	15,685	9.14%
	Igor Gubinskikh	New People	12,288	7.16%
	Oleg Chernenko	A Just Russia — For Truth	11,576	6.75%
	Sergey Filonov	Party of Pensioners	6,313	3.68%
	Yaroslav Savichev	Rodina	4,031	2.35%
	Dmitry Kargapoltsev	Communists of Russia	3,890	2.27%
	Vladimir Kogut	Russian Party of Freedom and Justice	3,239	1.89%
Total			171,593	100%
Source:				[1]

Notes

1. No.60 in 1993-1995, No.59 in 1995-2003, No.61 in 2003-2007
2. appointed Auditor of the Accounts Chamber of Russia in April 2001

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