Kineshma constituency

The Kineshma constituency (No.92^[a]) is a Russian legislative constituency in Ivanovo Oblast. The constituency covers eastern half of Ivanovo and northern Ivanovo Oblast. After 2025 redistricting Ivanovo Oblast is slated to lose one of its two constituencies, so Kineshma constituency is going to be dissolved and merged with Ivanovo constituency.

Kineshma single-member constituency
Constituency of the Russian State Duma
Constituency boundaries from 2016 to 2026
Deputy	Mikhail Kizeyev United Russia
Federal subject	Ivanovo Oblast
Districts	Furmanovsky, Ivanovo (Leninsky, Sovetsky), Ivanovsky (Bogorodskoye, Kulikovskoye, Ozernovskoye, Podvyaznovskoye, Timoshokhskoye), Kineshma, Kineshemsky, Privolzhsky, Rodnikovsky, Vichuga, Vichugsky, Yuryevetsky, Zavolzhsky
Other territory	Belgium, Czech Republic, Georgia, Italy
Voters	400,688 (2021)[1]

The constituency has been represented since 2021 by United Russia deputy Mikhail Kizeyev, former Member of Ivanovo Oblast Duma and ophthalmologist, who won the open seat, succeeding one-term United Russia incumbent Yury Smirnov.

Boundaries

1993–1995: Furmanov, Kineshemsky District, Kineshma, Lezhnevsky District, Lukhsky District, Palekhsky District, Pestyakovsky District, Privolzhsky District, Puchezhsky District, Rodnikovsky District, Savinsky District, Shuya, Shuysky District, Sokolsky District, Verkhnelandekhovsky District, Vichuga, Vichugsky District, Yuryevetsky District, Yuzhsky District, Zavolzhsky District^[2]
The constituency covered rural central and eastern Ivanovo Oblast, including the cities of Furmanov, Kineshma, Shuya and Vichuga.

1995–2007: Furmanov, Kineshemsky District, Kineshma, Lezhnevsky District, Lukhsky District, Palekhsky District, Pestyakovsky District, Privolzhsky District, Puchezhsky District, Rodnikovsky District, Savinsky District, Shuya, Shuysky District, Verkhnelandekhovsky District, Vichuga, Vichugsky District, Yuryevetsky District, Yuzhsky District, Zavolzhsky District^[3][4]
The constituency lost Sokolsky District in its far east, which was transferred from Ivanovo Oblast to Nizhny Novgorod Oblast in 1994.

2016–2026: Furmanovsky, Ivanovo (Leninsky, Sovetsky), Ivanovsky (Bogorodskoye, Kulikovskoye, Ozernovskoye, Podvyaznovskoye, Timoshikhskoye), Kineshemsky, Kineshma, Privolzhsky, Rodnikovsky, Vichuga, Vichugsky, Yuryevetsky, Zavolzhsky^[5]
The constituency was re-created for the 2016 election and retained its northern half, losing the rest to Ivanovo constituency. This seat instead stretched westwards, gaining eastern Ivanovo and its suburbs from Ivanovo constituency.

Members elected

Election		Member	Party
	1993	Sergey Zenkin	Civic Union
	1995	Vladimir Tikhonov[b]	Communist Party
	1999
	2001	Valentina Krutova	Independent
	2003	Mikhail Babich	United Russia
2007		Proportional representation - no election by constituency
2011
	2016	Yury Smirnov	United Russia
	2021	Mikhail Kizeyev	United Russia

Election results

1993

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

Candidate		Party	Votes	%
	Sergey Zenkin	Civic Union	86,483	30.19%
	Nadezhda Zotina	Independent	56,418	19.69%
	Valery Lyutarevich	Russian Democratic Reform Movement	27,193	9.49%
	Dmitry Belov	Party of Russian Unity and Accord	24,753	8.64%
	Aleksandr Lyubovskikh	Liberal Democratic Party	19,490	6.80%
	Nikolay Spanovsky	Independent	12,066	4.21%
	against all		37,152	12.97%
Total			286,461	100%
Source:				[6]

1995

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

Candidate		Party	Votes	%
	Vladimir Tikhonov	Communist Party	75,819	23.95%
	Igor Yushkevich	Independent	47,482	15.00%
	Vasily Boyko	Independent	39,664	12.53%
	Sergey Zenkin (incumbent)	Ivan Rybkin Bloc	28,568	9.03%
	Sergey Budnitsky	Liberal Democratic Party	23,961	7.57%
	Aleksandr Sokolov	Independent	23,231	7.34%
	Valentina Gubernatorova	Kedr	13,364	4.22%
	Yelena Shuvalova	Power to the People	12,412	3.92%
	Igor Gladkov	Independent	6,941	2.19%
	Boris Chernyakov	Yabloko	5,917	1.87%
	Rudolf Martynov	Democratic Choice of Russia – United Democrats	4,694	1.48%
	Vladimir Manyakin	Federal Democratic Movement	4,638	1.47%
	Albert Shamgulov	Independent	1,973	0.62%
	against all		21,057	6.65%
Total			316,536	100%
Source:				[7]

1999

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

Candidate		Party	Votes	%
	Vladimir Tikhonov (incumbent)	Communist Party	110,153	39.41%
	Marina Anferova	Fatherland – All Russia	47,170	16.88%
	Viktor Yelizarov	Independent	38,540	13.79%
	Igor Cheremushkin	Liberal Democratic Party	16,971	6.07%
	Sergey Reznik	Independent	16,621	5.95%
	Valery Agalakov	Our Home – Russia	12,662	4.53%
	against all		32,112	11.49%
Total			279,503	100%
Source:				[8]

2001

Summary of the 27 May 2001 by-election in the Kineshma constituency

Candidate		Party	Votes	%
	Valentina Krutova	Independent	61,119	55.91%
	Viktor Yelizarov	Independent	30,748	28.13%
	Sergey Grigoryev	Independent	5,852	5.25%
	Vasily Kopytov	Independent	2,086	1.91%
	against all		7,458	6.82%
Total			109,325	100%
Source:				[9]

2003

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

Candidate		Party	Votes	%
	Mikhail Babich	United Russia	91,404	40.47%
	Aleksandr Maslov	Party of Russia's Rebirth-Russian Party of Life	50,990	22.57%
	Alyona Shevyakova	Liberal Democratic Party	23,458	10.39%
	Valery Nevolin	Yabloko	12,226	5.41%
	against all		40,872	18.09%
Total			226,043	100%
Source:				[10]

2016

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

Candidate		Party	Votes	%
	Yury Smirnov	United Russia	56,666	36.83%
	Vladimir Klenov	Communist Party	38,299	24.89%
	Maksim Veryasov	Liberal Democratic Party	21,963	14.28%
	Dmitry Sivokhin	A Just Russia	12,277	7.98%
	Viktor Kuzmenko	Communists of Russia	6,427	4.18%
	Andrey Valkov	Patriots of Russia	5,878	3.82%
	Ivan Melnikov	Yabloko	5,817	3.78%
	Yury Ganenko	Civic Platform	1,546	1.00%
Total			153,855	100%
Source:				[11]

2021

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

Candidate		Party	Votes	%
	Mikhail Kizeyev	United Russia	48,191	34.64%
	Stanislav Nizovskikh	Communists of Russia	15,929	11.45%
	Pavel Popov	A Just Russia — For Truth	12,209	8.77%
	Nikolay Yershov	Party of Pensioners	10,718	7.70%
	Sergey Rimsky	Yabloko	10,114	7.27%
	Aleksey Pereletov	Liberal Democratic Party	9,865	7.09%
	Mikhail Mikhaylov	New People	9,629	6.92%
	Denis Komarovsky	Rodina	8,607	6.19%
	Oleg Lebedev	The Greens	3,550	2.55%
Total			139,135	100%
Source:				[12]

Notes

1. No.80 in 1993-1995, No.79 in 1995-2003, No.81 in 2003-2007
2. elected Governor of Ivanovo Oblast in December 2000