Central constituency (Moscow)

The Central constituency (No.208^[a]) is a Russian legislative constituency in Moscow. The constituency covers all of Central Moscow and Lefortovo District to its immediate east.

Central single-member constituency
Constituency of the Russian State Duma
Constituency boundaries since 2016
Deputy	Oleg Leonov Independent
Federal subject	Moscow
Districts	Central AO, South-Eastern AO (Lefortovo)
Other territory	Bulgaria (Ruse), Kazakhstan (Oral)
Voters	475,442 (2021)[1]

The constituency has been represented since 2021 by New People faction member Oleg Leonov, founder of Liza Alert nonprofit and former telecommunications executive, who narrowly won the open seat as an Independent after six-term United Russia incumbent Nikolay Gonchar lost the primary.

Boundaries

1993–1995: Central Administrative Okrug (Arbat District, Basmanny District, Khamovniki District, Krasnoselsky District, Meshchansky District, Presnensky District, Tagansky District, Tverskoy District)^[2]
The constituency was based entirely within Central Moscow, covering its part on the left bank of Moskva River.

1995–2003: Central Administrative Okrug (Arbat District, Basmanny District, Khamovniki District, Kitay-gorod,^[b] Krasnoselsky District, Meshchansky District, Presnensky District, Tverskoy District, Yakimanka District, Zamoskvorechye District)^[3]
After the 1995 redistricting the constituency was significantly changed, losing Tagansky District to Avtozavodsky constituency. This seat instead gained Yakimanka, Zamoskvorechye from the former Nagatinsky constituency.

2003–2007: Central Administrative Okrug (Arbat District, Basmanny District, Khamovniki District, Kitay-gorod, Krasnoselsky District, Meshchansky District, Presnensky District, Tagansky District, Tverskoy District, Yakimanka District, Zamoskvorechye District)^[4]
Following the 2003 redistricting the constituency was altered, re-gaining Tagansky District from Avtozavodsky constituency and covering all of Central Moscow.

2016–present: Central Administrative Okrug (Arbat District, Basmanny District, Khamovniki District, Kitay-gorod, Krasnoselsky District, Meshchansky District, Presnensky District, Tagansky District, Tverskoy District, Yakimanka District, Zamoskvorechye District), South-Eastern Administrative Okrug (Lefortovo)^[5][6]
The constituency was re-created for the 2016 election and retained all of its former territory as well as gained Lefortovo in South-Eastern Moscow from the former Avtozavodsky constituency.

Members elected

Election		Member	Party
	1993	Artyom Tarasov	Independent
	1995	Nikolay Gonchar	Independent
	1999
	2003
2007		Proportional representation - no election by constituency
2011
	2016	Nikolay Gonchar	United Russia
	2021	Oleg Leonov	Independent

Election results

1993

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

Candidate		Party	Votes	%
	Artyom Tarasov	Independent	37,966	14.12%
	Fyodor Shelov-Kovedyayev	Independent	–	13.76%
	Vera Balakireva	Russian Democratic Reform Movement	–	–
	Anatoly Basargin	Independent	–	–
	Valery Fadeyev	Independent	–	–
	Aleksandr Frolov	Communist Party	–	–
	Vladimir Knyazev	Kedr	–	–
	Aleksandr Kotenyov	Independent	–	–
	Vladimir Kozhemyakin	Party of Russian Unity and Accord	–	–
	Aleksandr Krasnov	Independent	–	–
	Valery Kubarev	Independent	–	–
	Aleksandr Minkin	Independent	–	–
	Konstantin Petrosyan	Yavlinky–Boldyrev–Lukin	–	–
	Sergey Vladimirov	Civic Union	–	–
	Yevgeny Vostrikov	Independent	–	–
	Aleksey Zuyev	Liberal Democratic Party	–	–
Total			268,877	100%
Source:				[7]

1995

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

Candidate		Party	Votes	%
	Nikolay Gonchar	Independent	74,175	25.85%
	Fyodor Shelov-Kovedyayev	Democratic Choice of Russia – United Democrats	33,631	11.72%
	Mikhail Motorin	Yabloko	27,551	9.60%
	Aleksey Podberezkin	Communist Party	26,811	9.34%
	Aleksandr Krasnov	Stanislav Govorukhin Bloc	16,482	5.74%
	Sergey Goncharov	Congress of Russian Communities	16,051	5.59%
	Andrey Nuykin	Independent	10,813	3.77%
	Tatyana Krylova	Independent	9,080	3.16%
	Galina Khovanskaya	Independent	7,925	2.76%
	Valery Belousov	Independent	6,490	2.26%
	Boris Uvarov	Power to the People!	5,967	2.08%
	Andrey Shestakov	Independent	5,030	1.75%
	Andrey Strygin	Liberal Democratic Party	3,816	1.33%
	Nikolay Chigarentsev	Independent	3,357	1.17%
	Sergey Chernyakhovsky	Communists and Working Russia - for the Soviet Union	3,349	1.17%
	Yevgeny Shvedov	Independent	2,285	0.80%
	Sergey Drogush	Independent	1,174	0.41%
	Igor Brumel	Independent	1,044	0.36%
	against all		26,975	9.40%
Total			286,917	100%
Source:				[8]

1999

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

Candidate		Party	Votes	%
	Nikolay Gonchar (incumbent)	Independent	88,456	32.24%
	Aleksandr Minkin	Independent	65,644	23.92%
	Alla Gerber	Union of Right Forces	31,048	11.32%
	Aleksey Rogozhin	Independent	14,662	5.34%
	Aleksey Podberezkin	Spiritual Heritage	12,601	4.59%
	Sergey Ruzavin	Independent	11,055	4.03%
	Gennady Bulgakov	Liberal Democratic Party	4,175	1.52%
	Valery Bobkov	Independent	3,399	1.24%
	Sergey Shevchenko	Independent	3,095	1.13%
	Grigory Loza	Russian Socialist Party	2,783	1.01%
	against all		32,151	11.72%
Total			274,390	100%
Source:				[9]

2003

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

Candidate		Party	Votes	%
	Nikolay Gonchar (incumbent)	Independent	97,066	36.57%
	Aleksandr Pleshakov	Independent	34,860	13.13%
	Olga Andronova	Rodina	28,780	10.84%
	Yelena Karpukhina	Communist Party	26,471	9.97%
	Aleksandr Russky	Independent	5,837	2.20%
	Boris Pashintsev	Independent	4,789	1.80%
	Igor Vashurkin	Great Russia – Eurasian Union	3,848	1.45%
	Aleksandr Kuznetsov	United Russian Party Rus'	3,848	1.45%
	against all		56,489	21.28%
Total			266,649	100%
Source:				[10]

2016

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

Candidate		Party	Votes	%
	Nikolay Gonchar	United Russia	57,110	34.25%
	Pavel Tarasov	Communist Party	21,442	12.86%
	Andrey Zubov	People's Freedom Party	18,789	11.27%
	Maria Baronova	Independent	13,197	7.92%
	Mikhail Degtyarev	Liberal Democratic Party	12,573	7.54%
	Kristina Simonyan	A Just Russia	8,095	4.86%
	Ksenia Sokolova	Party of Growth	6,912	4.15%
	Maria Katasonova	Rodina	6,569	3.94%
	Dmitry Zakharov	Communists of Russia	4,956	2.97%
	Anton Umnikov	The Greens	4,125	2.47%
	Andrey Rudenko	Civic Platform	3,160	1.90%
	Oleg Eston	Patriots of Russia	2,744	1.65%
	Aleksey Mikhaylov	Civilian Power	2,338	1.40%
Total			166,733	100%
Source:				[11]

2021

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

Candidate		Party	Votes	%
	Oleg Leonov	Independent	57,505	26.28%
	Sergey Mitrokhin	Yabloko	47,815	21.85%
	Nina Ostanina	Communist Party	22,146	10.12%
	Maksim Shevchenko	Russian Party of Freedom and Justice	13,961	6.38%
	Andrey Shirokov	Party of Pensioners	13,935	6.37%
	Tatyana Vinnitskaya	New People	13,787	6.30%
	Magomet Yandiyev	A Just Russia — For Truth	12,979	5.93%
	Dmitry Koshlakov-Krestovsky	Liberal Democratic Party	11,533	5.28%
	Dmitry Zakharov	Communists of Russia	7,411	3.39%
	Ketevan Kharaidze	Green Alternative	5,745	2.63%
	Yakov Yakubovich	Party of Growth	4,219	1.93%
	Anatoly Yushin	Civic Platform	2,307	1.05%
Total			218,839	100%
Source:				[12]

Notes

1. No.202 in 1993-2007
2. merged with Tverskoy District in 2002