Monchegorsk constituency

The Monchegorsk constituency (No.115) was a Russian legislative constituency in the Murmansk Oblast in 1993–2003. It covered western Murmansk Oblast. The constituency was last occupied by United Russia deputy and Regions of Russia faction member Igor Chernyshenko, former Deputy Governor of Murmansk Oblast, who won a by-election in 2000.

Monchegorsk single-member constituency
Constituency of the Russian State Duma
Deputy	None
Federal subject	Murmansk Oblast
Districts	Apatity, Kandalaksha, Kirovsk, Kolsky, Kovdorsky, Monchegorsk, Olenegorsk, Pechengsky, Polyarny, Polyarnye Zori, Skalisty, Snezhnogorsk, Zaozyorsk
Voters	374,889 (1999)[1]

The constituency was dissolved in 2003 due to declining population in Murmansk Oblast, which resulted in Monchegorsk constituency being merged with Murmansk constituency.

Boundaries

1993–2003: Apatity, Kandalaksha, Kirovsk, Kolsky District, Kovdorsky District, Monchegorsk, Olenegorsk, Pechengsky District, Polyarny, Polyarnye Zori, Skalisty, Snezhnogorsk, Zaozyorsk^[2][3]
The constituency covered western Murmansk Oblast, including the towns of Apatity, Kandalaksha, Kirovsk, Monchegorsk, Olenegorsk, Polyarny and Polyarnye Zori.

Members elected

Election		Member	Party
	1993	Vladimir Manannikov	Choice of Russia
	1995	Lyudmila Pobedinskaya	Our Home – Russia
	1999	Gennady Luzin[a]	Independent
	2000	Igor Chernyshenko	Independent

Election results

1993

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

Candidate		Party	Votes	%
	Vladimir Manannikov	Choice of Russia	29,494	14.23%
	Viktor Ladan	Independent	–	13.70%
	Pavel Bogushevich	Independent	–	–
	Aleksandr Fufygin	Party of Russian Unity and Accord	–	–
	Gennady Luzin	Civic Union	–	–
	Anatoly Smirnov	Independent	–	–
Total			207,288	100%
Source:				[4]

1995

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

Candidate		Party	Votes	%
	Lyudmila Pobedinskaya	Our Home – Russia	42,083	16.70%
	Mikhail Antropov	Communist Party	36,406	14.45%
	Natalya Lazareva	Independent	30,433	12.08%
	Vladimir Manannikov (incumbent)	Democratic Choice of Russia – United Democrats	30,310	12.03%
	Ivan Vishnyakov	Kedr	15,826	6.28%
	Yury Sukhachev	Independent	14,906	5.92%
	Andrey Matorin	Duma-96	11,354	4.51%
	Vasily Kalaida	Independent	9,916	3.94%
	Anatoly Shevchenko	Independent	9,326	3.70%
	Konstantin Kolomiyets	Independent	5,196	2.06%
	Vladimir Musatyan	Independent	2,930	1.16%
	Mikhail Solovey	Independent	2,268	0.90%
	against all		36,752	14.59%
Total			251,944	100%
Source:				[5]

1999

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

Candidate		Party	Votes	%
	Gennady Luzin	Independent	61,329	26.17%
	Mikhail Antropov	Communist Party	40,779	17.40%
	Boris Misnik	Yabloko	36,224	15.46%
	Vladimir Veregin	Independent	35,576	15.18%
	Lyudmila Pobedinskaya (incumbent)	Our Home – Russia	21,702	9.26%
	Natalya Gerivenko	Spiritual Heritage	6,897	2.94%
	against all		29,119	12.42%
Total			234,380	100%
Source:				[6]

2000

Summary of the 3 December 2000 by-election in the Monchegorsk constituency

Candidate		Party	Votes	%
	Igor Chernyshenko	Independent	62,419	45.08%
	Boris Misnik	Independent	26,514	19.15%
	Viktor Ladan	Independent	15,178	10.96%
	Vladislav Shved	Independent	7,095	5.12%
	Bogdan Khmelnitsky	Independent	5,385	3.89%
	against all		19,430	14.00%
Total			138,456	100%
Source:				[7]

Notes

1. died in January 2000