Karelia constituency

The Karelia constituency (No.17^[a]) is a Russian legislative constituency in the Republic of Karelia. The constituency encompasses the entire territory of Karelia.

Karelia single-member constituency
Constituency of the Russian State Duma
Deputy	Valentina Pivnenko United Russia
Federal subject	Republic of Karelia
Districts	Belomorsky, Kalevalsky, Kemsky, Kondopozhsky, Kostomuksha, Lakhdenpokhsky, Loukhsky, Medvezhyegorsky, Muyezersky, Olonetsky, Petrozavodsk, Pitkyarantsky, Prionezhsky, Pudozhsky, Pryazhinsky, Segezhsky, Sortavala, Suoyarvsky
Voters	509,700 (2021)[1]

The constituency has been represented since 1999 (except for 2007–2016) by United Russia deputy Valentina Pivnenko, a six-term State Duma member and former union leader.

Boundaries

1993–2007, 2016–present: Belomorsky District, Kalevalsky District, Kemsky District, Kondopozhsky District, Kostomuksha, Lakhdenpokhsky District, Loukhsky District, Medvezhyegorsky District, Muyezersky District, Olonetsky District, Petrozavodsk, Pitkyarantsky District, Prionezhsky District, Pudozhsky District, Pryazhinsky District, Segezhsky District, Sortavala, Suoyarvsky District^{[2][3][4][5][6]}
The constituency has been covering the entirety of the Karelia since its initial creation in 1993.

Members elected

Election		Member	Party
	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

Candidate		Party	Votes	%
	Ivan Chukhin	Choice of Russia	112,803	36.98%
	Anatoly Anikeyev	Independent	–	21.20%
	Alfred Sieppi	Yavlinsky–Boldyrev–Lukin	–	–
Total			305,015	100%
Source:				[7]

1995

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

Candidate		Party	Votes	%
	Larisa Zlobina	Independent	101,894	28.12%
	Natalya Kotsyuba	Our Home – Russia	64,462	17.79%
	Boris Tyukov	Communist Party	48,173	13.29%
	Ivan Chukhin (incumbent)	Democratic Choice of Russia – United Democrats	34,992	9.66%
	Mikhail Maksimov	Liberal Democratic Party	23,321	6.44%
	Anatoly Artemyev	Independent	21,749	6.00%
	Nikolay Levin	For the Motherland!	13,644	3.76%
	Aleksandr Titov	Independent	7,095	1.96%
	Sergey Romanenko	Independent	2,875	0.79%
	against all		36,970	10.20%
Total			362,391	100%
Source:				[8]

1999

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

Candidate		Party	Votes	%
	Valentina Pivnenko	Independent	106,371	30.46%
	Aleksandr Chazhengin	Yabloko	47,045	13.47%
	Artur Myaki	Union of Right Forces	45,818	13.12%
	Boris Tyukov	Communist Party	42,489	12.17%
	Larisa Zlobina (incumbent)	Russian Socialist Party	27,767	7.95%
	Mikhail Maksimov	Liberal Democratic Party	21,580	6.18%
	Mikhail Mrykhin	Congress of Russian Communities-Yury Boldyrev Movement	6,661	1.91%
	against all		44,582	12.77%
Total			349,224	100%
Source:				[9]

2003

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

Candidate		Party	Votes	%
	Valentina Pivnenko (incumbent)	United Russia	150,521	50.44%
	Irina Petelyayeva	Yabloko	52,198	17.49%
	Artur Myaki	Union of Right Forces	30,589	10.25%
	Boris Tyukov	Communist Party	17,911	6.00%
	Aleksey Belyaninov	Independent	8,399	2.81%
	Viktor Potiyevsky	United Russian Party Rus'	2,312	0.77%
	Vladimir Shilik	Great Russia–Eurasian Union	1,972	0.66%
	Vladimir Liminchuk	Party of Russia's Rebirth-Russian Party of Life	1,947	0.65%
	against all		28,723	9.62%
Total			298,683	100%
Source:				[10]

2016

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

Candidate		Party	Votes	%
	Valentina Pivnenko	United Russia	77,653	36.56%
	Irina Petelyayeva	A Just Russia	37,118	17.48%
	Boris Kashin	Communist Party	24,369	11.47%
	Timur Zornyakov	Liberal Democratic Party	21,776	10.25%
	Natalia Kiselene	Yabloko	18,983	8.94%
	Nikolay Tarakanov	Rodina	5,009	2.36%
	Yelena Gnyotova	Party of Growth	4,996	2.35%
	Igor Prokhorov	Patriots of Russia	4,572	2.15%
	Mikhail Bynkov	The Greens	3,883	1.83%
	Aleksey Malevanny	Civic Platform	2,338	1.10%
Total			212,376	100%
Source:				[11]

2021

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

Candidate		Party	Votes	%
	Valentina Pivnenko (incumbent)	United Russia	55,677	27.69%
	Emilia Slabunova	Yabloko	29,751	14.79%
	Yevgeny Ulyanov	Communist Party	26,368	13.11%
	Viktor Stepanov	A Just Russia — For Truth	25,858	12.86%
	Aleksandr Chazhengin	Party of Pensioners	12,947	6.44%
	Aleksandr Pakkuyev	Liberal Democratic Party	10,555	5.25%
	Vladimir Kvanin	New People	10,122	5.03%
	Anna Pozdnyakova	Party of Growth	8,956	4.45%
	Denis Bazankov	Russian Party of Freedom and Justice	7,951	3.95%
	Ivan Kadayas	Rodina	2,105	1.05%
Total			201,105	100%
Source:				[12]

Notes

1. No.16 in 1995-2003