Karelia constituency

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Karelia single-member constituency
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Federal Subject Republic of Karelia
Districts Belomorsky, Kalevalsky, Kemsky, Kondopozhsky, Kostomuksha, Lakhdenpokhsky, Loukhsky, Medvezhyegorsky, Muyezersky, Olonetsky, Petrozavodsk, Pitkyarantsky, Prionezhsky, Pudozhsky, Pryazhinsky, Segezhsky, Sortavala, Suoyarvsky [1]
Voters509,700 (2021) [2]

The Karelia Constituency (No.17 [lower-alpha 1] ) is a Russian legislative constituency in the Republic of Karelia. The constituency is the only one in Karelia, and occupies the whole of its territory.

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Members elected

ElectionMemberParty
1993 Ivan Chukhin Choice of Russia
1995 Larisa Zlobina Independent
1999 Valentina Pivnenko Independent
2003 United Russia
2007 Proportional representation - no election by constituency
2011
2016 Valentina Pivnenko United Russia
2021

Election results

1993

Summary of the 12 December 1993 Russian legislative election in the Karelia constituency
CandidatePartyVotes%
Ivan Chukhin Choice of Russia 112,80336.98%
Anatoly Anikeev Independent -21.20%
Total305,015100%
Source: [3]

1995

Summary of the 17 December 1995 Russian legislative election in the Karelia constituency
CandidatePartyVotes%
Larisa Zlobina Independent 101,89428.12%
Natalya Kotsyuba Our Home – Russia 64,46217.79%
Boris Tyukov Communist Party 48,17313.29%
Ivan Chukhin (incumbent) Democratic Choice of Russia – United Democrats 34,9929.66%
Mikhail Maksimov Liberal Democratic Party 23,3216.44%
Anatoly Artemyev Independent 21,7496.00%
Nikolay Levin For the Motherland! 13,6443.76%
Aleksandr Titov Independent 7,0951.96%
Sergey Romanenko Independent 2,8750.79%
against all36,97010.20%
Total362,391100%
Source: [4]

1999

Summary of the 19 December 1999 Russian legislative election in the Karelia constituency
CandidatePartyVotes%
Valentina Pivnenko Independent 106,37130.46%
Aleksandr Chazhengin Yabloko 47,04513.47%
Artur Myaki Union of Right Forces 45,81813.12%
Boris Tyukov Communist Party 42,48912.17%
Larisa Zlobina (incumbent) Russian Socialist Party 27,7677.95%
Mikhail Maksimov Liberal Democratic Party 21,5806.18%
Mikhail Mrykhin Congress of Russian Communities-Yury Boldyrev Movement 6,6611.91%
against all44,58212.77%
Total349,224100%
Source: [5]

2003

Summary of the 7 December 2003 Russian legislative election in the Karelia constituency
CandidatePartyVotes%
Valentina Pivnenko (incumbent) United Russia 150,52150.44%
Irina Petelyaeva Yabloko 52,19817.49%
Artur Myaki Union of Right Forces 30,58910.25%
Boris Tyukov Communist Party 17,9116.00%
Aleksey Belyaninov Independent 8,3992.81%
Viktor Potievsky United Russian Party Rus'2,3120.77%
Vladimir ShilikGreat Russia–Eurasian Union1,9720.66%
Vladimir Liminchuk Party of Russia's Rebirth-Russian Party of Life 1,9470.65%
against all28,7239.62%
Total298,683100%
Source: [6]

2016

Summary of the 18 September 2016 Russian legislative election in the Karelia constituency
CandidatePartyVotes%
Valentina Pivnenko United Russia 77,65336.56%
Irina Petelyaeva A Just Russia 37,11817.48%
Boris Kashin Communist Party 24,36911.47%
Timur Zornyakov Liberal Democratic Party 21,77610.25%
Natalia Kiselene Yabloko 18,9838.94%
Nikolay Tarakanov Rodina 5,0092.36%
Yelena Gnyotova Party of Growth 4,9962.35%
Igor Prokhorov Patriots of Russia 4,5722.15%
Mikhail Bynkov The Greens 3,8831.83%
Aleksey Malevanny Civic Platform 2,3381.10%
Total212,376100%
Source: [7]

2021

Summary of the 17-19 September 2021 Russian legislative election in the Karelia constituency
CandidatePartyVotes%
Valentina Pivnenko (incumbent) United Russia 55,67727.69%
Emilia Slabunova Yabloko 29,75114.79%
Yevgeny Ulyanov Communist Party 26,36813.11%
Viktor Stepanov A Just Russia — For Truth 25,85812.86%
Aleksandr Chazhengin Party of Pensioners 12,9476.44%
Aleksandr Pakkuev Liberal Democratic Party 10,5555.25%
Vladimir Kvanin New People 10,1225.03%
Anna Pozdnyakova Party of Growth 8,9564.45%
Denis Bazankov Russian Party of Freedom and Justice 7,9513.95%
Ivan Kadayas Rodina 2,1051.05%
Total201,105100%
Source: [8]

Notes

  1. No.16 in 1995-2003

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