Central constituency (Saint Petersburg)

The Central constituency (No.216^[a]) is a Russian legislative constituency in Saint Petersburg. It covers Central Saint Petersburg since 2016. In 1995-2007 Central Saint Petersburg was split between now disestablished Admiralteysky constituency (centred on the Admiralteysky District) and Central constituency (centred on the Tsentranly District with the latter also taking some districts to the east.

Central single-member constituency
Constituency of the Russian State Duma
Deputy	Sergey Solovyov United Russia
Federal subject	Saint Petersburg
Districts	Admiralteysky, Petrogradsky, Tsentralny (Municipal Okrug 78, Dvortsovy, Liteyny, Vladimirsky), Vasileostrovsky
Other territory	Germany (Bonn-4)[1]
Voters	428,689 (2021)[2]

Members elected

Election		Member	Party
	1993	Aleksandr Nevzorov	Independent
	1995	Pyotr Shelishch[b]	Independent
	1999
	2003
2007		Proportional representation - no election by constituency
2011
	2016	Vladimir Bortko	Communist Party
	2021	Sergey Solovyov	United Russia

Election results

1993

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

Candidate		Party	Votes	%
	Aleksandr Nevzorov	Independent	65,619	27.01%
	Yury Vdovin	Independent	-	25.60%
	Yury Nesterov	Yavlinsky—Boldyrev—Lukin	-	-
	Gennady Shuklin	Russian Democratic Reform Movement	-	-
	Yury Shutov	Independent	-	-
Total			242,954	100%
Source:				[3][4]

1995

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

Candidate		Party	Votes	%
	Pyotr Shelishch	Independent	57,389	20.99%
	Arkady Kramarev	Pamfilova–Gurov–Lysenko	39,625	14.49%
	Nikita Ananov	Independent	30,759	11.25%
	Aleksey Vorontsov	Independent	21,545	7.88%
	Yury Shutov	Independent	20,764	7.59%
	Yevgeny Kozlov	Communists and Working Russia - for the Soviet Union	16,000	5.85%
	Nikolay Arzhannikov	Transformation of the Fatherland	14,134	5.17%
	Mikhail Kiselyov	Independent	8,556	3.13%
	Anatoly Yemets	Congress of Russian Communities	8,155	2.98%
	Valery Sokolov	Independent	6,501	2.38%
	Leonid Rogozin	Independent	1,683	0.62%
	Andrey Sabor	Independent	1,605	0.59%
	against all		39,992	14.63%
Total			273,443	100%
Source:				[5]

1999

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

Candidate		Party	Votes	%
	Pyotr Shelishch (incumbent)	Independent	40,420	18.30%
	Anatoly Sobchak	Independent	36,355	16.46%
	Andrey Ananov	Fatherland – All Russia	34,315	15.54%
	Yelena Drapeko	Communist Party	26,331	11.92%
	Vyacheslav Shevchenko	Independent	14,684	6.65%
	Yury Shutov	Independent	14,507	6.57%
	Lyudmila Yermolayeva	Liberal Democratic Party	8,915	4.04%
	Faig Askerov	Independent	3,199	1.45%
	Mikhail Korobkov	Social-Democrats	1,330	0.60%
	against all		38,368	17.37%
Total			220,863	100%
Source:				[6]

2003

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

Candidate		Party	Votes	%
	Pyotr Shelishch (incumbent)	Independent	53,708	29.66%
	Nikita Ananov	Independent	25,035	13.82%
	Yury Shutov	Independent	14,024	7.74%
	Ivan Sabilo	Communist Party	12,061	6.66%
	Valery Papshev	Independent	10,893	6.01%
	Andrey Sharonov	Independent	9,999	5.52%
	Aleksey Maksimov	Independent	9,483	5.24%
	Nikolay Nazha	Development of Enterprise	6,894	3.81%
	Sergey Tikhomirov	Liberal Democratic Party	6,306	3.48%
	against all		30,459	16.82%
Total			181,414	100%
Source:				[7]

2016

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

Candidate		Party	Votes	%
	Vladimir Bortko	Communist Party	34,167	23.88%
	Maksim Reznik	Party of Growth	24,062	16.82%
	Boris Paykin	Liberal Democratic Party	23,011	16.08%
	Nikolay Rybakov	Yabloko	18,974	13.26%
	Sergey Popov	A Just Russia	14,473	10.11%
	Arkady Chaplygin	People's Freedom Party	4,842	3.38%
	Aleksandr Startsev	The Greens	4,832	3.38%
	Pavel Spivachevsky	Rodina	4,701	3.29%
	Galina Kirichenko	Civic Platform	3,473	2.43%
	Vitaly Glavatsky	Communists of Russia	3,183	2.22%
Total			143,097	100%
Source:				[8]

2021

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

Candidate		Party	Votes	%
	Sergey Solovyov	United Russia	55,272	34.03%
	Boris Vishnevsky	Yabloko	37,438	23.05%
	Mikhail Bogdanov	A Just Russia — For Truth	11,450	7.05%
	Gennady Denisov	Communist Party	11,153	6.87%
	Aleksey Kovalyov	Party of Growth	11,087	6.83%
	Darya Sadovskaya	New People	8,909	5.49%
	Yekaterina Lebedeva	Liberal Democratic Party	5,761	3.55%
	Gennady Detkov	Party of Pensioners	4,834	2.98%
	Boris Vishnevsky	The Greens	3,352	2.06%
	Gennady Makoyev	Communists of Russia	2,713	1.67%
	Andrey Ivanov	Rodina	2,230	1.37%
	Aleksey Terekhov	Green Alternative	1,371	0.84%
	Sergey Ivanov	Civic Platform	884	0.54%
Total			162,401	100%
Source:				[9]

Notes

1. No.210 in 1993-1995, No.211 in 1995-2007
2. elected to the Civic Chamber of the Russian Federation in November 2007