Koryak constituency

The Koryak constituency (No.217) was a Russian legislative constituency in the Koryak Autonomous Okrug in 1993-2007. It encompassed the entire territory of Koryak Autonomous Okrug. The seat was last occupied by United Russia faction member Rafael Gimalov, a banker, who defeated first-term incumbent State Duma member Grigory Oynvid in the 1999 election.

Koryak single-member constituency
Constituency of the Russian State Duma
Constituency boundaries from 1993 to 2007
Deputy	None
Federal subject	Koryak Autonomous Okrug
Districts	Karaginsky, Olyutorsky, Palana, Penzhinsky, Tigilsky
Voters	18,175 (2003)[1]

The constituency was dissolved in 2007 when State Duma adopted full proportional representation for the next two electoral cycles. Earlier in 2007 Koryak Autonomous Okrug was merged with Kamchatka Oblast to form Kamchatka Krai. Currently the territory of the former Koryak constituency is part of the Kamchatka constituency.

Boundaries

1993–2007: Karaginsky District, Olyutorsky District, Palana, Penzhinsky District, Tigilsky District^[2][3][4]
The constituency had been covering the entirety of Koryak Autonomous Okrug since its initial creation in 1993.

Members elected

Election		Member	Party
	1993	Mikhail Popov	Independent
	1995	Grigory Oynvid	Independent
	1999	Rafael Gimalov	Independent
	2003

Election results

1993

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

Candidate		Party	Votes	%
	Mikhail Popov	Independent	1,969	14.65%
	Marat Abdeyev	Independent	–	–
	Aleksandr Denisov	Independent	–	–
	Sergey Khlopkov	Liberal Democratic Party	–	–
	Vladimir Korchmit	Independent	–	–
	Leonid Kozlovsky	Independent	–	–
Total			13,436	100%
Source:				[5]

1995

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

Candidate		Party	Votes	%
	Grigory Oynvid	Independent	2,494	18.00%
	Vladimir Mizinin	Independent	1,695	12.24%
	Viktor Limonov	Independent	1,473	10.63%
	Yevgeny Kotlyarov	Independent	1,146	8.27%
	Aleksandr Denisov	Independent	967	6.98%
	Aleksandr Leginov	Independent	641	4.63%
	Mikhail Popov (incumbent)	Independent	516	3.72%
	Anatoly Bachish	Liberal Democratic Party	505	3.65%
	Marat Abdeyev	Independent	492	3.55%
	Igor Ankhani	Independent	483	3.49%
	Gennady Stepanov	Independent	370	2.67%
	Yury Neverov	Independent	267	1.93%
	Vladimir Kuznetsov	Independent	169	1.22%
	Aleksey Vlasov	Independent	137	0.99%
	against all		2,234	16.13%
Total			13,853	100%
Source:				[6]

1999

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

Candidate		Party	Votes	%
	Rafael Gimalov	Independent	5,032	38.05%
	Sergey Leushkin	Independent	1,530	11.57%
	Nina Solodyakova	Independent	1,313	9.93%
	Grigory Oynvid (incumbent)	Independent	1,031	7.80%
	Mikhail Glubokovsky	Yabloko	910	6.88%
	Sergey Klemantovich	Independent	746	5.64%
	Yevgeny Mel	Independent	599	4.53%
	Andrey Semikolennykh	Independent	353	2.67%
	Nikolay Moskalev	Independent	251	1.90%
	Aleksandr Denisov	Independent	106	0.80%
	Vladimir Korchmit	Independent	98	0.74%
	Aleksandra Klyuchnikova	Independent	88	0.67%
	Ella Oshchepkova	Independent	42	0.32%
	against all		823	6.22%
Total			13,226	100%
Source:				[7]

2003

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

Candidate		Party	Votes	%
	Rafael Gimalov (incumbent)	Independent	6,725	59.83%
	Valentina Bronevich	Independent	1,658	14.75%
	Aleksandr Suvorov	Communist Party	1,270	11.30%
	Aleksandr Kaptsevich	Independent	320	2.85%
	against all		1,104	9.82%
Total			11,289	100%
Source:				[8]