Kamchatka constituency

The Kamchatka constituency (No.45^[a]) is a Russian legislative constituency in Kamchatka Krai. The constituency encompasses the entire territory of Kamchatka Krai.

Kamchatka single-member constituency
Constituency of the Russian State Duma
Constituency boundaries since 2016
Deputy	Irina Yarovaya United Russia
Federal subject	Kamchatka Krai
Districts	Aleutsky, Bystrinsky, Karaginsky, Milkovsky, Olyutorsky, Penzhinsky, Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky, Sobolevsky, Tigilsky, Ust-Bolsheretsky, Ust-Kamchatsky, Vilyuchinsk, Yelizovo, Yelizovsky
Voters	227,934 (2021)[1]

The constituency has been represented since 2021 by United Russia deputy Irina Yarovaya, Deputy Chairwoman of the State Duma and four-term State Duma member, who won the open seat, succeeding one-term United Russia incumbent Konstantin Slyshchenko.

Boundaries

1993–2007: Aleutsky District, Bystrinsky District, Milkovsky District, Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky, Sobolevsky District, Ust-Bolsheretsky District, Ust-Kamchatsky District, Vilyuchinsk, Vulkanny, Yelizovsky District^[2][3][4]
The constituency has been covering the entirety of Kamchatka Oblast since its initial creation in 1993.

2016–present: Aleutsky District, Bystrinsky District, Karaginsky District, Milkovsky District, Olyutorsky District, Penzhinsky District, Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky, Sobolevsky District, Tigilsky District, Ust-Bolsheretsky District, Ust-Kamchatsky District, Vilyuchinsk, Yelizovo, Yelizovsky District^[5][6]
The constituency was re-created for the 2016 election in Kamchatka Krai which was created by the merger of Kamchatka Oblast and Koryak Autonomous Okrug in 2007. The constituency retained all of its former territory and gained the entirety of the dissolved Koryak constituency.

Members elected

Election		Member	Party
	1993	Aivars Lezdiņš	Independent
	1995	Mikhail Zadornov[b]	Yabloko
	1998	Aleksandr Zaveryukha	Independent
	1999	A by-election was scheduled after Against all line received the most votes
	2000	Valery Dorogin	Independent
	2003	Viktor Zavarzin	Independent
2007		Proportional representation - no election by constituency
2011
	2016	Konstantin Slyshchenko	United Russia
	2021	Irina Yarovaya	United Russia

Election results

1993

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

Candidate		Party	Votes	%
	Aivars Lezdiņš	Independent	34,222	27.58%
	Sergey Sharov	Independent	–	17.30%
	Ivan Dankulinets	Independent	–	–
	Stanislav Demeshchenko	Liberal Democratic Party	–	–
	Valery Pilipenko	Kedr	–	–
	Aleksandr Zemtsov	Yavlinsky–Boldyrev–Lukin	–	–
Total			124,064	100%
Source:				[7]

1995

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

Candidate		Party	Votes	%
	Mikhail Zadornov	Yabloko	36,892	22.28%
	Boris Oleynikov	Independent	23,955	14.47%
	Nina Solodyakova	Independent	20,261	12.24%
	Yekaterina Temchura	Independent	19,486	11.77%
	Lyudmila Grigoryeva	Independent	13,146	7.94%
	Vladimir Korneyev	Liberal Democratic Party	8,165	4.93%
	Igor Belozertsev	Independent	8,020	4.84%
	Viktor Yershov	Independent	7,474	4.51%
	Sergey Grishin	Independent	6,119	3.70%
	Yury Eytigon	Forward, Russia!	2,635	1.59%
	Valery Garnovsky	Independent	1,741	1.05%
	against all		15,262	9.22%
Total			165,578	100%
Source:				[8]

1998

Summary of the 19 April 1998 by-election in the Kamchatka constituency

Candidate		Party	Votes	%
	Aleksandr Zaveryukha	Independent	16,092	20.17%
	Vladislav Shved	Independent	14,213	17.81%
	Yury Golenishchev	Independent	10,803	13.54%
	Vladimir Obukhov	Independent	5,233	6.56%
	Olga Sopova	Independent	4,751	5.95%
	Kantemir Karamzin	Independent	3,468	4.35%
	Vadim Maksimov	Independent	3,024	3.79%
	Vyacheslav Lazarchuk	Independent	2,131	2.67%
	Pyotr Ivanov	Independent	1,567	1.96%
	against all		16,054	20.12%
Total			57,958	100%
Source:				[9]

1999

A by-election was scheduled after Against all line received the most votes.

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

Candidate		Party	Votes	%
	Yury Golenishchev	Communist Party	22,022	14.41%
	Vladimir Boltenko	Independent	21,958	14.37%
	Valery Dorogin	Fatherland – All Russia	19,451	12.73%
	Irina Yarovaya	Yabloko	16,695	10.93%
	Valery Kim	Independent	6,360	4.16%
	Viktor Yershov	Independent	5,978	3.91%
	Olga Chirkova	Independent	5,224	3.42%
	Sergey Pavlov	Independent	5,153	3.37%
	Aleksandr Pukalo	Independent	4,870	3.19%
	Kantemir Karamzin	Independent	4,538	2.97%
	Vladislav Shved	Independent	3,703	2.42%
	Vladimir Semchev	Independent	3,563	2.33%
	Ivan Dankulinets	Independent	3,230	2.11%
	Aleksey Gurkin	Independent	1,782	1.17%
	Aleksandr Bikbulatov	Independent	1,493	0.98%
	Valery Zimnukhov	Spiritual Heritage	311	0.20%
	Pavel Mukhortov	Independent	214	0.14%
	against all		24,163	15.81%
Total			152,805	100%
Source:				[10]

2000

Summary of the 26 March 2000 by-election in the Kamchatka constituency

Candidate		Party	Votes	%
	Valery Dorogin	Independent	45,693	27.60%
	Yury Golenishchev	Independent	33,215	20.06%
	Vladimir Boltenko	Independent	32,367	19.55%
	Irina Yarovaya	Independent	15,987	9.66%
	Aleksey Kazantsev	Independent	5,925	3.58%
	Nikolay Pegin	Independent	4,539	2.74%
	Vyacheslav Koroteyev	Independent	1,737	1.05%
	Anatoly Ababko	Independent	743	0.45%
	against all		23,028	13.91%
Total			165,543	100%
Source:				[11]

2003

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

Candidate		Party	Votes	%
	Viktor Zavarzin	Independent	33,713	24.88%
	Valery Dorogin (incumbent)	Great Russia–Eurasian Union	31,841	23.50%
	Irina Yarovaya	Yabloko	27,548	20.33%
	Viktor Kravchenko	Independent	7,395	5.46%
	Svyatoslav Chayka	Independent	5,190	3.83%
	Mikhail Yekimov	Liberal Democratic Party	4,383	3.23%
	Dmitry Bobrovskikh	United Russian Party Rus'	2,933	2.16%
	Aleksandr Nikitin	Agrarian Party	2,270	1.68%
	Vladimir Chayka	Independent	2,181	1.61%
	Nadezhda Balyulina	Conceptual Party "Unity"	1,797	1.33%
	Vladimir Shumanin	Independent	1,633	1.21%
	against all		13,572	10.02%
Total			135,639	100%
Source:				[12]

2016

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

Candidate		Party	Votes	%
	Konstantin Slyshchenko	United Russia	35,322	38.35%
	Valery Kalashnikov	Liberal Democratic Party	19,929	21.64%
	Mikhail Smagin	Communist Party	10,028	10.89%
	Mikhail Mashkovtsev	Communists of Russia	9,747	10.58%
	Mikhail Puchkovsky	A Just Russia	7,219	7.84%
	Vladimir Elchaparov	Yabloko	3,000	3.26%
Total			92,094	100%
Source:				[13]

2021

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

Candidate		Party	Votes	%
	Irina Yarovaya	United Russia	37,070	40.43%
	Roman Litvinov	Communist Party	17,470	19.05%
	Valery Kalashnikov	Liberal Democratic Party	10,589	11.55%
	Yekaterina Zaytseva	New People	9,728	10.61%
	Dmitry Bobrovskikh	A Just Russia — For Truth	8,584	9.36%
	Viktor Khomyakov	Party of Pensioners	3,878	4.23%
Total			91,692	100%
Source:				[14]

Notes

1. No.88 in 1993-1995 and 2003-2007, No.87 in 1995-2003
2. appointed Minister of Finance in November 1997