Cheboksary constituency

Cheboksary single-member constituency
Constituency of the Russian State Duma
Constituency boundaries from 2016 to 2026
Deputy	Alla Salayeva United Russia
Federal subject	Chuvash Republic
Districts	Alatyr, Alatyrsky, Alikovsky, Cheboksarsky (Bolshekatrasskoye, Chirshkasinskoye, Ishakskoye, Ishleyskoye, Kshaushskoye, Lapsarskoye, Sarabakasinskoye, Sinyal-Pokrovskoye, Vurman-Syukterskoye, Yanyshskoye), Cheboksary (Leninsky, Moskovsky), Ibresinsky, Krasnochetaysky, Morgaushsky, Poretsky, Shumerlinsky, Shumerlya, Vurnarsky, Yadrinsky
Other territory	Belarus (Minsk-3)
Voters	446,052 (2021) [1]

The Cheboksary constituency (No. 38 ^[a] ) is a Russian legislative constituency in Chuvashia. The constituency covers western half of Chuvashia, including western Cheboksary, Alatyr and Shumerlya.

The constituency has been represented since 2021 by United Russia deputy Alla Salayeva, former Deputy Prime Minister of Chuvashia, who won the open seat, succeeding one-term United Russia incumbent Leonid Cherkesov.

Boundaries

1993–2007: Cheboksarsky District, Cheboksary, Novocheboksarsk, Kozlovsky District, Mariinsko-Posadsky District ^{[2] [3] [4]}
The constituency covered the republican capital of Cheboksary, industrial satellite city of Novocheboksarsk as well as surrounding area in northern Chuvashia.

2016–2026: Alatyr, Alatyrsky District, Alikovsky District, Cheboksarsky District (Bolshekatrasskoye, Chirshkasinskoye, Ishakskoye, Ishleyskoye, Kshaushskoye, Lapsarskoye, Sarabakasinskoye, Sinyal-Pokrovskoye, Vurman-Syukterskoye, Yanyshskoye), Cheboksary (Leninsky, Moskovsky), Ibresinsky District, Krasnochetaysky District, Morgaushsky District, Poretsky District, Shumerlinsky District, Shumerlya, Vurnarsky District, Yadrinsky District ^[5]
The constituency was re-created for the 2016 election. This seat retained only western Cheboksary and Cheboksarsky District, losing the rest to Kanash constituency. In its new configuration the constituency was pushed into western Chuvashia, which was previously part of Kanash constituency.

Since 2026: Alatyr, Alatyrsky District, Alikovsky District, most of Cheboksarsky District, Cheboksary (Leninsky, Moskovsky), Ibresinsky District, Krasnochetaysky District, Morgaushsky District, Poretsky District, Shumerlinsky District, Shumerlya, Vurnarsky District, Yadrinsky District ^[6]
After the 2025 redistricting the constituency was slightly altered, gaining more localities of Cheboksarsky District from Kanash constituency.

Members elected

Election		Member	Party
	1993	Nadezhda Bikalova	Independent
	1995	Svyatoslav Fyodorov	Party of Workers' Self-Government
	1999	Anatoly Aksakov	Independent
	2003		People's Party
2007		Proportional representation – no election by constituency
2011
	2016	Leonid Cherkesov	United Russia
	2021	Alla Salayeva	United Russia

Election results

1993

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

Candidate		Party	Votes	%
	Nadezhda Bikalova	Independent	35,748	13.02%
	Igor Molyakov	Independent	34,683	12.60%
	Vitaly Alekseyev	Democratic Party	–	–
	Vladislav Alekseyev	Independent	–	–
	Mikhail Demidov	Party of Russian Unity and Accord	–	–
	Lev Fyodorov	Independent	–	–
	Aleksey Guryev	Future of Russia–New Names	–	–
	Svetlana Lyapidovskaya	Independent	–	–
	Stanislav Lyapunov	Civic Union	–	–
	Anatoly Sharapov	Independent	–	–
	Arseny Suvorov	Independent	–	–
	Ivan Toreyev	Independent	–	–
Total			274,487	100%
Source:				[7] [8]

1995

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

Candidate		Party	Votes	%
	Svyatoslav Fyodorov	Party of Workers' Self-Government	112,160	41.03%
	Nadezhda Bikalova (incumbent)	Independent	69,789	25.53%
	Eduard Kubarev	Democratic Choice of Russia – United Democrats	11,347	4.15%
	Vladimir Izhederov	Independent	10,668	3.90%
	Aleksandr Shipov	Liberal Democratic Party	7,583	2.77%
	Tatyana Petrova	Our Home – Russia	6,645	2.43%
	Valery Petrov	Trade Unions and Industrialists – Union of Labour	5,009	1.83%
	Anatoly Sharapov	Independent	3,817	1.40%
	Alimzhan Abubikerov	Russian Lawyers' Association	3,315	1.21%
	Valery Bobkov	Ivan Rybkin Bloc	2,925	1.07%
	Vladislav Alekseyev	Social Democrats	2,566	0.94%
	Yury Chetkov	Independent	2,498	0.91%
	Eduard Arlanov	Common Cause	2,185	0.80%
	Gennady Sokolov	Independent	1,785	0.65%
	Valery Saperov	People's Union	1,124	0.41%
	Galina Ruban	Independent	943	0.35%
	against all		15,004	5.49%
Total			273,332	100%
Source:				[9]

1999

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

Candidate		Party	Votes	%
	Anatoly Aksakov	Independent	116,729	40.41%
	Igor Molyakov	Communist Party	84,990	29.42%
	Oleg Nasakin	Liberal Democratic Party	17,285	5.98%
	Valentin Malyutkin	Yabloko	12,536	4.34%
	Vladimir Izhederov	Stalin Bloc – For the USSR	9,869	3.42%
	Vakhtang Chkuaseli	Independent	6,491	2.25%
	Vitaly Malinov	Movement in Support of the Army	4,131	1.43%
	Vladimir Petrov	Independent	3,549	1.23%
	Valery Mikhaylov	Independent	1,921	0.67%
	Yury Metlov	Independent	833	0.29%
	against all		22,585	7.82%
Total			288,849	100%
Source:				[10]

2003

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

Candidate		Party	Votes	%
	Anatoly Aksakov (incumbent)	People's Party	135,222	47.32%
	Igor Molyakov	Communist Party	71,385	24.98%
	Vladimir Mayorov	Independent	13,691	4.79%
	Yevgeny Lin	Yabloko	7,275	2.55%
	Arina Ryzhova	United Russian Party Rus'	7,142	2.50%
	Viktor Fedorov	Independent	5,403	1.89%
	Valery Zhukov	Party of Russia's Rebirth-Russian Party of Life	3,418	1.20%
	Sergey Drandrov	Independent	3,368	1.18%
	against all		31,390	10.99%
Total			285,917	100%
Source:				[11]

2016

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

Candidate		Party	Votes	%
	Leonid Cherkesov	United Russia	125,456	46.77%
	Oleg Nikolayev	A Just Russia	32,153	11.99%
	Valentin Shurchanov	Communist Party	31,881	11.88%
	Sergey Belobayev	Liberal Democratic Party	20,430	7.62%
	Sergey Shulyatyev	Communists of Russia	8,058	3.00%
	Oleg Nikolayev	The Greens	7,567	2.82%
	Vladimir Mayorov	People's Freedom Party	5,204	1.94%
	Oleg Nikolayev	Independent	4,938	1.84%
	Vladislav Arkadyev	Yabloko	4,548	1.70%
	Andrey Kulagin	Patriots of Russia	4,099	1.53%
	Aleksandr Golitsyn	Civic Platform	3,497	1.30%
	Mikhail Gorbatin	Party of Growth	3,439	1.28%
	Nina Ryleyeva	Rodina	3,257	1.21%
Total			268,264	100%
Source:				[12]

2021

Summary of the 17–19 September 2021 Russian legislative election in the Cheboksary constituency

Candidate		Party	Votes	%
	Alla Salayeva	United Russia	97,548	39.63%
	Igor Molyakov	A Just Russia — For Truth	45,197	18.36%
	Vladimir Andreyev	Communists of Russia	27,788	11.29%
	Vladislav Tsapin	Communist Party	22,502	9.14%
	Stanislav Pesin	Party of Pensioners	13,750	5.59%
	Konstantin Stepanov	Liberal Democratic Party	13,596	5.52%
	Sergey Pavlov	Rodina	5,934	2.41%
	Sergey Sorokin	Civic Platform	4,957	2.01%
	Vladislav Arkadyev	Yabloko	3,231	1.31%
Total			246,150	100%
Source:				[13]

Notes

1. No. 34 in 1993–1995 and 2003–2007, No. 33 in 1995–2003

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