Lipetsk constituency

The Lipetsk constituency (No.114^[a]) is a Russian legislative constituency in Lipetsk Oblast. The constituency covers parts of Lipetsk and northern Lipetsk Oblast. In 1993–2007 the constituency was more compact, covering the entirety of Lipetsk and its surroundings, but during 2016 redistricting Lipetsk constituency was gerrymandered, shedding nearly half of Lipetsk to newly created Levoberezhny constituency, while taking nether rural districts and the city of Yelets from eliminated Yelets constituency.

Lipetsk single-member constituency
Constituency of the Russian State Duma
Deputy	Dmitry Averov United Russia
Federal subject	Lipetsk Oblast
Districts	Chaplyginsky, Dankovsky, Dobrovsky, Krasninsky, Lebedyansky, Lev-Tolstovsky, Lipetsk (Pravoberezhny, Sovetsky), Lipetsky (Bolshekuzminsky, Ivovsky, Kosyrevsky, Kuzmino-Otverzhsky, Lubnovsky, Novoderevensky, Novodmitriyevsky, Pruzhinsky, Sentsovsky, Telezhensky, Vvedensky), Stanovlyansky, Yelets, Yeletsky
Other territory	Moldova (Chișinău-7)[1]
Voters	463,558 (2021)[2]

Members elected

Election		Member	Party
	1993	Tamara Chepasova	Women of Russia
	1995	Viktor Minakov	Communist Party
	1999	Lev Yarkin	Independent
	2003	Sergey Afendulov	Independent
2007		Proportional representation – no election by constituency
2011
	2016	Nikolay Bortsov[b]	United Russia
	2021
	2023	Dmitry Averov	United Russia

Election results

1993

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

Candidate		Party	Votes	%
	Tamara Chepasova	Women of Russia	49,112	19.12%
	Viktor Minakov	Independent	–	17.50%
Total			256,883	100%
Source:				[3]

1995

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

Candidate		Party	Votes	%
	Viktor Minakov	Communist Party	69,998	23.75%
	Lyudmila Kurakova	Our Home – Russia	34,533	11.72%
	Maria Sorokina	Derzhava	32,070	10.88%
	Nikolay Puzikov	Liberal Democratic Party	23,420	7.95%
	Tamara Chepasova (incumbent)	Ivan Rybkin Bloc	22,688	7.70%
	Sergey Vasilyev	Yabloko	22,093	7.50%
	Anatoly Kleymenov	Congress of Russian Communities	11,968	4.06%
	Nikolay Ponomarev	Democratic Choice of Russia – United Democrats	10,699	3.63%
	Aleksandr Biryukov	Forward, Russia!	10,181	3.45%
	Viktor Arzhanykh	Independent	9,857	3.34%
	Viktor Krysanov	Independent	8,271	2.81%
	against all		30,358	10.30%
Total			294,719	100%
Source:				[4]

1999

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

Candidate		Party	Votes	%
	Lev Yarkin	Independent	94,584	32.24%
	Viktor Minakov (incumbent)	Communist Party	84,677	28.86%
	Aleksandr Zaytsev	Union of Right Forces	25,765	8.78%
	Anatoly Koltsov	Independent	19,863	6.77%
	Anatoly Kleymenov	Congress of Russian Communities-Yury Boldyrev Movement	11,214	3.82%
	Oleg Kravchenko	Our Home – Russia	9,648	3.29%
	Sergey Grishin	Spiritual Heritage	2,952	1.01%
	against all		38,669	13.18%
Total			293,361	100%
Source:				[5]

2003

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

Candidate		Party	Votes	%
	Sergey Afendulov	Independent	70,699	29.49%
	Viktor Minakov	Communist Party	33,739	14.07%
	Igor Polosin	Party of Russia's Rebirth-Russian Party of Life	30,609	12.77%
	Nikolay Biryukov	Independent	23,477	9.79%
	Valentin Sviridov	Liberal Democratic Party	11,015	4.59%
	Mikhail Kolchev	Rodina	9,489	3.96%
	Gennady Kuptsov	Independent	4,933	2.06%
	Sergey Kazarov	National Patriotic Forces of Russia	2,481	1.03%
	against all		48,258	20.13%
Total			240,158	100%
Source:				[6]

2016

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

Candidate		Party	Votes	%
	Nikolay Bortsov	United Russia	130,520	54.89%
	Nikolay Razvorotnev	Communist Party	31,079	13.07%
	Maksim Khalimonchuk	Liberal Democratic Party	18,895	7.95%
	Svetlana Tyunina	A Just Russia	16,684	7.02%
	Sergey Valetov	Rodina	13,415	5.64%
	Vadim Trofimov	Communists of Russia	7,496	3.15%
	Vadim Kovrigin	Yabloko	5,026	2.11%
	Yelena Yerkina	Party of Growth	4,565	1.92%
	Vladimir Fomichev	People's Freedom Party	1,985	0.83%
Total			237,770	100%
Source:				[7]

2021

Summary of the 17–19 September 2021 Russian legislative election in the Lipetsk constituency

Candidate		Party	Votes	%
	Nikolay Bortsov (incumbent)	United Russia	114,865	48.15%
	Nikolay Bykovskikh	Communist Party	47,552	19.93%
	Aleksandr Fomin	A Just Russia — For Truth	15,269	6.40%
	Anatoly Yemelyanov	Liberal Democratic Party	13,809	5.79%
	Igor Basinskikh	New People	13,544	5.68%
	Maksim Chuvashov	Communists of Russia	11,638	4.88%
	Sergey Vasin	The Greens	6,573	2.76%
	Zhanna Khayredinova	Rodina	2,509	1.23%
Total			238,579	100%
Source:				[8]

2023

Summary of the 8–10 September 2023 by-election in the Lipetsk constituency

Candidate		Party	Votes	%
	Dmitry Averov	United Russia	106,525	58.78%
	Sergey Tokarev	Communist Party	25,305	13.96%
	Anatoly Yemelyanov	Liberal Democratic Party	17,553	9.69%
	Larisa Ksenofontova	A Just Russia – For Truth	15,618	8.62%
	Oleg Tokarev	Communists of Russia	11,783	6.50%
Total			181,222	100%
Source:				[9]

Notes

1. No.103 in 1993–1995 and 2003–2007, No.102 in 1995–2003
2. died in April 2023