Mari El constituency

The Mari El constituency (No.22^[a]) is a Russian legislative constituency in Mari El. The constituency encompasses the entire territory of Mari El.

Mari El single-member constituency
Constituency of the Russian State Duma
Deputy	Sergey Kazankov Communist Party
Federal subject	Mari El Republic
Districts	Gornomariysky, Kilemarsky, Kozmodemyansk, Kuzhenersky, Mari-Tureksky, Medvedevsky, Morkinsky, Novotoryalsky, Orshansky, Paranginsky, Sernursky, Sovetsky, Volzhsk, Volzhsky, Yoshkar-Ola, Yurinsky, Zvenigovsky
Voters	531,199 (2021)[1]

The constituency has been represented since 2016 by Communist Sergey Kazankov, an agriculture executive and son of former State Duma member Ivan Kazankov.

Boundaries

1993–2007, 2016–present: Gornomariysky District, Kilemarsky District, Kozmodemyansk, Kuzhenersky District, Mari-Tureksky District, Medvedevsky District, Morkinsky District, Novotoryalsky District, Orshansky District, Paranginsky District, Sernursky District, Sovetsky District, Volzhsk, Volzhsky District, Yoshkar-Ola, Yurinsky District, Zvenigovsky District^{[2][3][4][5][6]}
The constituency has been covering the entirety of Mari El since its initial creation in 1993.

Members elected

Election		Member	Party
	1993	Anatoly Popov	Party of Russian Unity and Accord
	1995	Nikolay Polyakov	Agrarian Party
	1999	Ivan Kazankov	Independent
	2003	Valery Komissarov	United Russia
2007		Proportional representation - no election by constituency
2011
	2016	Sergey Kazankov	Communist Party
	2021

Election results

1993

Summary of the 12 December 1993 Russian legislative election in the Mari El constituency

Candidate		Party	Votes	%
	Anatoly Popov	Party of Russian Unity and Accord	85,593	27.78%
	Lyudmila Ivanova	Independent	–	19.50%
	Roman Trakhtenberg	Independent	–	–
	Igor Vinokurov	Independent	–	–
Total			308,079	100%
Source:				[7]

1995

Summary of the 17 December 1995 Russian legislative election in the Mari El constituency

Candidate		Party	Votes	%
	Nikolay Polyakov	Agrarian Party	96,831	26.35%
	Leonid Markelov	Liberal Democratic Party	69,927	19.03%
	Anatoly Popov (incumbent)	Ivan Rybkin Bloc	43,808	11.92%
	Gennady Grigoryev	Environmental Party of Russia "Kedr"	39,348	10.71%
	Aleksandr Kazimov	Pamfilova–Gurov–Lysenko	25,323	6.89%
	Gennady Oshchepkov	Independent	24,663	6.71%
	Valery Loskutov	My Fatherland	21,867	5.95%
	against all		37,904	10.32%
Total			367,464	100%
Source:				[8]

1999

Summary of the 19 December 1999 Russian legislative election in the Mari El constituency

Candidate		Party	Votes	%
	Ivan Kazankov	Independent	136,358	37.75%
	Leonid Markelov	Independent	91,893	25.44%
	Viktor Bogdan	Independent	25,285	7.00%
	Viktor Vasilyev	Independent	23,845	6.60%
	Vyacheslav Paydoverov	Independent	22,690	6.28%
	Vasily Grigoryev	For Civil Dignity	12,365	3.42%
	Nikolay Polyakov (incumbent)	Independent	7,066	1.96%
	Vladimir Mikheyev	Independent	3,048	0.84%
	Vitaly Lezhanin	Andrey Nikolayev and Svyatoslav Fyodorov Bloc	2,645	0.73%
	Aleksey Popov	Socialist Party of Russia	1,992	0.55%
	Leonid Loskutov	Independent	1,864	0.52%
	Vladimir Maskimov	Independent	1,420	0.39%
	Vitaly Trubitsin	Independent	1,412	0.39%
	Gennady Khrolenko	Independent	1,069	0.30%
	against all		20,853	5.77%
Total			361,242	100%
Source:				[9]

2003

Summary of the 7 December 2003 Russian legislative election in the Mari El constituency

Candidate		Party	Votes	%
	Valery Komissarov	United Russia	141,583	44.17%
	Ivan Kazankov (incumbent)	Communist Party	61,013	19.03%
	Igor Kudryavtsev	Agrarian Party	22,829	7.12%
	Vyacheslav Kislitsyn	Independent	19,024	5.94%
	Yevgeny Bochkarev	Democratic Party	13,940	4.35%
	Nikolay Svistunov	Independent	11,458	3.57%
	Rezeda Gilmanova	United Russian Party Rus'	4,187	1.31%
	Vladimir Karpochev	Independent	3,053	0.95%
	Namik Muradov	Great Russia–Eurasian Union	1,174	0.37%
	against all		36,920	11.52%
Total			320,637	100%
Source:				[10]

2016

Summary of the 18 September 2016 Russian legislative election in the Mari El constituency

Candidate		Party	Votes	%
	Sergey Kazankov	Communist Party	133,447	46.23%
	Larisa Yakovleva	United Russia	107,112	37.11%
	Oleg Kazakov	Independent	12,145	4.21%
	Albert Fedorov	Liberal Democratic Party	10,162	3.52%
	Natalia Glushchenko	A Just Russia	9,284	3.22%
	Roman Zolotukhin	Rodina	2,673	0.93%
	Yekaterina Ulanova	Yabloko	2,603	0.90%
	Yury Zonov	The Greens	2,061	0.71%
	Denis Shparber	Communists of Russia	1,740	0.60%
	Andrey Smyshlyayev	Civic Platform	1,533	0.53%
Total			288,630	100%
Source:				[11]

2021

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

Candidate		Party	Votes	%
	Sergey Kazankov (incumbent)	Communist Party	122,851	50.36%
	Vladimir Kozhanov	Independent	41,961	17.20%
	Natalia Glushchenko	A Just Russia — For Truth	18,463	7.57%
	Ivan Kazankov	Communists of Russia	16,740	6.86%
	Aleksey Sherstobitov	Liberal Democratic Party	8,502	3.49%
	Valentina Zlobina	Party of Pensioners	8,165	3.35%
	Ilya Kulalayev	New People	7,838	3.21%
	Andrey Smyshlyayev	Rodina	4,966	2.04%
	Sergey Gartvik	Civic Platform	2,336	0.96%
	Vladimir Rovensky	Party of Growth	1,498	0.61%
Total			243,922	100%
Source:				[12]

Notes

1. No.19 in 1993-1995 and in 2003-2007, No.18 in 1995-2003