Jewish constituency

Jewish single-member constituency
Constituency of the Russian State Duma
Deputy	Alexander Petrov United Russia
Federal subject	Jewish Autonomous Oblast
Districts	Birobidzhan, Birobidzhansky, Leninsky, Obluchensky, Oktyabrsky, Smidovichsky
Other territory	Latvia (Liepāja)
Voters	124,504 (2021) [1]

The Jewish constituency (No.220 ^[a] ) is a Russian legislative constituency in the Jewish Autonomous Oblast. The constituency encompasses the entire territory of the Jewish Autonomous Oblast.

The constituency has been represented since 2021 by United Russia deputy Alexander Petrov, three-term State Duma member and pharmaceutical businessman, who won the open seat, succeeding one-term United Russia incumbent Anatoly Tikhomirov.

Boundaries

1993–2007, 2016–present: Birobidzhan, Birobidzhansky District, Leninsky District, Obluchensky District, Oktyabrsky District, Smidovichsky District ^{[2] [3] [4] [5] [6]}
The constituency has been covering the entirety of the Jewish Autonomous Oblast since its initial creation in 1993.

Members elected

Election		Member	Party
	1993	Anatoly Biryukov	Independent
	1995	Sergey Shtogrin	Communist Party
	1999
	2003
2007		Proportional representation - no election by constituency
2011
	2016	Anatoly Tikhomirov	United Russia
	2021	Alexander Petrov	United Russia

Election results

1993

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

Candidate		Party	Votes	%
	Anatoly Biryukov	Independent	18,695	26.55%
	Vladimir Ulanov	Independent	15,365	21.82%
	Dmitry (Motya) Weiserman	Choice of Russia	13,080	18.57%
	against all		17,997	25.55%
Total			70,426	100%
Source:				[7] [8]

1995

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

Candidate		Party	Votes	%
	Sergey Shtogrin	Communist Party	20,216	22.71%
	Maria Zhirdetskaya	Independent	17,979	20.19%
	Alla Gerber	Independent	12,398	13.92%
	Georgy Gulyayev	Pamfilova–Gurov–Lysenko	6,677	7.50%
	Anatoly Biryukov (incumbent)	Agrarian Party	6,409	7.20%
	Anatoly Beskhmelnitsyn	Independent	6,038	6.78%
	Miron Fishbein	Congress of Russian Communities	1,833	2.06%
	Anatoly Gorelik	Social Democrats	1,148	1.29%
	against all		15,147	17.01%
Total			89,035	100%
Source:				[9]

1999

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

Candidate		Party	Votes	%
	Sergey Shtogrin (incumbent)	Independent	38,739	48.46%
	Anatoly Tikhomirov	Our Home – Russia	11,456	14.33%
	Konstantin Ashurov	Independent	10,204	12.77%
	Valentina Bychkova	Independent	6,204	7.76%
	against all		11,901	14.89%
Total			79,932	100%
Source:				[10]

2003

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

Candidate		Party	Votes	%
	Sergey Shtogrin (incumbent)	Communist Party	37,203	48.11%
	Andrey Vinogradov	United Russia	19,241	24.88%
	Artur Amelin	Liberal Democratic Party	4,298	5.56%
	Aleksey Khomchenko	Yabloko	3,722	4.81%
	Anatoly Maksimov	Independent	2,646	3.42%
	Yevgeny Shimanovich	Independent	1,229	1.59%
	against all		7,778	10.06%
Total			77,393	100%
Source:				[11]

2016

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

Candidate		Party	Votes	%
	Anatoly Tikhomirov	United Russia	21,783	41.50%
	Konstantin Lazarev	Communist Party	10,384	19.79%
	Galina Timchenko	Liberal Democratic Party	8,041	15.32%
	Ivan Prokhodtsev	Independent	3,688	7.03%
	Vladimir Dudin	A Just Russia	2,699	5.14%
	Konstantin Larionov	Communists of Russia	1,952	3.72%
	Vasily Dmitriyenko	Yabloko	988	1.88%
Total			52,483	100%
Source:				[12]

2021

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

Candidate		Party	Votes	%
	Alexander Petrov	United Russia	41,421	53.19%
	Konstantin Lazarev	Communist Party	14,256	18.31%
	Vasily Gladkikh	Liberal Democratic Party	5,727	7.35%
	Vladimir Dudin	A Just Russia — For Truth	4,052	5.20%
	Tatyana Fain	Party of Pensioners	3,310	4.25%
	Marina Smirnova	Communists of Russia	3,127	4.02%
	Grigory Zinich	Rodina	2,069	2.66%
Total			77,872	100%
Source:				[13]

Notes

1. Birobidzhansky constituency No.214 in 1993-2007

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