Lgov constituency

The Lgov constituency (No.98^[a]) was a Russian legislative constituency in Kursk Oblast in 1993–2007. It covered western and central Kursk Oblast. The seat was last occupied by United Russia deputy Aleksey Volkov, militsiya major general and former Kursk Oblast MVD Division chief, who defeated one-term incumbent State Duma member Aleksandr Chetverikov in the 2003 election.

Lgov single-member constituency
Constituency of the Russian State Duma
Constituency boundaries from 1993 to 2007
Deputy	None
Federal subject	Kursk Oblast
Districts	Belovsky, Bolshesoldatsky, Dmitriyevsky, Fatezhsky, Glushkovsky, Khomutovsky, Konyshyovsky, Korenevsky, Kurchatov, Kurchatovsky, Lgovsky, Medvensky, Oboyansky, Oktyabrsky, Ponyrovsky, Pristensky, Rylsky, Sudzhansky, Zheleznogorsk, Zheleznogorsky, Zolotukhinsky
Voters	517,696 (2003)[1]

The constituency was dissolved in 2007 when State Duma adopted full proportional representation for the next two electoral cycles. Lgov constituency was not re-established for the 2016 election, currently most of former Lgov constituency is part of Kursk constituency.

Boundaries

1993–2007: Belovsky District, Bolshesoldatsky District, Dmitriyevsky District, Fatezhsky District, Glushkovsky District, Konyshyovsky District, Korenevsky District, Khomutovsky District, Kurchatov, Kurchatovsky District, Lgov, Lgovsky District, Medvensky District, Oboyansky District, Oktyabrsky District, Ponyrovsky District, Pristensky District, Rylsky District, Sudzhansky District, Zheleznogorsk, Zheleznogorsky District, Zolotukhinsky District^[2][3][4]
The constituency covered western and central Kursk Oblast, including the towns of Kurchatov, Lgov and Zheleznogorsk.

Members elected

Election		Member	Party
	1993	Aleksandr Potapenko	Independent
	1995		Communist Party
	1999	Aleksandr Chetverikov	Independent
	2003	Aleksey Volkov	United Russia

Election results

1993

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

Candidate		Party	Votes	%
	Aleksandr Potapenko	Independent	64,447	19.10%
	Valentina Luneva	Agrarian Party	–	15.50%
	Anatoly Baskakov	Independent	–	–
	Artur Chubur	Liberal Democratic Party	–	–
	Aleksey Lunev	Civic Union	–	–
	Pyotr Nadein	Independent	–	–
	Anatoly Rukavitsyn	Independent	–	–
	Larisa Samotes	Russian Democratic Reform Movement	–	–
Total			337,343	100%
Source:				[5]

1995

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

Candidate		Party	Votes	%
	Aleksandr Potapenko (incumbent)	Communist Party	140,716	38.92%
	Vladimir Mikhalchev	Derzhava	56,106	15.52%
	Sergey Alferov	Independent	42,591	11.78%
	Vitaly Gukov	Agrarian Party	41,730	11.54%
	Anatoly Bozhko	Independent	13,995	3.87%
	Aleksandr Klesov	Independent	13,849	3.83%
	Vasily Domnikov	Independent	9,622	2.66%
	Viktor Androsov	My Fatherland	6,058	1.68%
	against all		28,790	7.96%
Total			361,537	100%
Source:				[6]

1999

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

Candidate		Party	Votes	%
	Aleksandr Chetverikov	Independent	86,950	28.13%
	Aleksandr Potapenko (incumbent)	Communist Party	74,160	24.00%
	Aleksey Volkov	Independent	45,074	14.58%
	Aleksandr Chukhrayov	Fatherland – All Russia	32,684	10.58%
	Vladimir Bushenkov	Independent	19,057	6.17%
	Pyotr Novikov	Independent	16,612	5.38%
	Sergey Vasilyev	Independent	7,760	2.51%
	Vasily Korchev	Our Home – Russia	2,331	0.75%
	Vladimir Kutsenko	Independent	2,090	0.68%
	against all		31,108	9.84%
Total			316,051	100%
Source:				[7]

2003

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

Candidate		Party	Votes	%
	Aleksey Volkov	United Russia	72,622	25.40%
	Aleksandr Chetverikov (incumbent)	Independent	50,721	17.74%
	Viktor Vyrozhemsky	Independent	36,897	12.90%
	Aleksandr Potapenko	Communist Party	31,499	11.02%
	Viktor Zyukin	Independent	22,775	7.96%
	Vasily Oleynikov	Independent	8,791	3.07%
	Vitaly Gukov	Agrarian Party	6,486	2.27%
	Vadim Chelpanov	Liberal Democratic Party	5,657	1.98%
	Margarita Aseyeva	Russian Communist Workers' Party — Russian Party of Communists	5,105	1.79%
	Mikhail Smolin	Yabloko	3,362	1.18%
	Pyotr Zerin	Independent	2,818	0.99%
	Valery Skripkin	Union of Right Forces	1,582	0.55%
	Violetta Kuznetsova	United Russian Party Rus'	1,455	0.51%
	Grigory Amnuel	Party of Russia's Rebirth-Russian Party of Life	872	0.30%
	Anatoly Nevezhin	Great Russia–Eurasian Union	769	0.27%
	against all		25,440	8.90%
Total			286,127	100%
Source:				[8]

Notes

1. No.99 in 1993-1995, No.97 in 1995-2003