Murmansk constituency

The Murmansk constituency (No.128^[a]) is a Russian legislative constituency in Murmansk Oblast. The constituency encompasses the entire territory of Magadan Oblast.

Murmansk single-member constituency
Constituency of the Russian State Duma
Deputy	Tatyana Kusayko United Russia
Federal subject	Murmansk Oblast
Districts	Alexandrovsk, Apatity, Kandalakshsky, Kirovsk, Kolsky, Kovdorsky, Lovozersky, Monchegorsk, Murmansk, Olenegorsk, Ostrovnoy, Pechengsky, Polyarnye Zori, Severomorsk, Tersky, Vidyayevo, Zaozyorsk
Voters	583,785 (2021)[1]

The constituency has been represented since 2021 by United Russia deputy Tatyana Kusayko, former Senator and pediatrician, who won the open seat, succeeding one-term United Russia incumbent Alexey Veller after the latter successfully sought in Yeniseysk constituency.

Boundaries

1993–2003: Lovozersky District, Murmansk, Ostrovnoy, Severomorsk, Tersky District^[2][3]
The constituency covered the cities Murmansk and Severomorsk as well as sparsely populated eastern Murmansk Oblast.

2003–2007, 2016–present: Alexandrovsk, Apatity, Kandalakshsky District, Kirovsk, Kolsky District, Kovdorsky District, Lovozersky District, Monchegorsk, Murmansk, Olenegorsk, Ostrovnoy, Pechengsky District, Polyarnye Zori, Severomorsk, Tersky District, Vidyayevo, Zaozyorsk^[4][5][6]
The constituency has been covering the entirety of the Murmansk Oblast since 2003 redistricting, absorbing Monchegorsk constituency, as the region lost a second constituency due to population loss.

Members elected

Election		Member	Party
	1993	Andrey Kozyrev	Choice of Russia
	1995		Independent
	1999	Vladimir Gusenkov[b]	Independent
	2003	Igor Chernyshenko	United Russia
2007		Proportional representation - no election by constituency
2011
	2016	Alexey Veller	United Russia
	2021	Tatyana Kusayko	United Russia

Election results

1993

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

Candidate		Party	Votes	%
	Andrey Kozyrev	Choice of Russia	76,917	38.51%
	Yury Lysenko	Independent	–	12.10%
	Galina Ilyina	Independent	–	–
	Vasily Ipatov	Russian Democratic Reform Movement	–	–
	Igor Lebedev	Yavlinsky–Boldyrev–Lukin	–	–
	Aleksandr Makarevich	Civic Union	–	–
	Valery Mararitsa	Independent	–	–
	Pavel Sazhinov	Independent	–	–
	Valery Shaposhnikov	Dignity and Charity	–	–
	Aleksey Zolotkov	Party of Russian Unity and Accord	–	–
Total			199,757	100%
Source:				[7]

1995

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

Candidate		Party	Votes	%
	Andrey Kozyrev (incumbent)	Independent	93,029	40.04%
	Lyubov Zhirinovskaya	Liberal Democratic Party	21,574	9.28%
	Igor Lebedev	Yabloko	18,352	7.90%
	Igor Chernyshenko	Congress of Russian Communities	17,126	7.37%
	Yury Tarakanov	Independent	15,462	6.65%
	Yevgeny Borodich	Independent	9,418	4.05%
	Vyacheslav Zilanov	Independent	7,012	3.02%
	Svetlana Vodolazhko	Independent	5,066	2.18%
	Olga Kiseleva	Independent	5,019	2.16%
	Aleksandr Lysakov	Pamfilova–Gurov–Lysenko	3,987	1.72%
	Valery Kuzmin	Agrarian Party	3,254	1.40%
	Vladislav Loskutov	Social Democrats	2,931	1.26%
	Oleg Chernobylsky	Independent	2,644	1.14%
	against all		22,769	9.80%
Total			232,363	100%
Source:				[8]

1999

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

Candidate		Party	Votes	%
	Vladimir Gusenkov	Independent	71,206	32.55%
	Vasily Kalaida	Independent	36,439	16.65%
	Irina Paykacheva	Yabloko	29,301	13.39%
	Lyubov Zhirinovskaya	Liberal Democratic Party	25,137	11.49%
	Tamara Kononenko	Spiritual Heritage	15,769	7.21%
	Yan Mezentsev	Andrey Nikolayev and Svyatoslav Fyodorov Bloc	5,576	2.55%
	against all		32,527	14.87%
Total			218,788	100%
Source:				[9]

2003

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

Candidate		Party	Votes	%
	Igor Chernyshenko (incumbent)[c]	United Russia	177,191	46.04%
	Vasily Kalaida	Communist Party	56,509	14.68%
	Rimma Kuruch	Russian Pensioners' Party-Party of Social Justice	31,366	8.15%
	Igor Lebedev	Yabloko	24,854	6.46%
	Aleksandr Kudasov	Liberal Democratic Party	23,218	6.03%
	Aleksandr Voytenko	Independent	7,401	1.92%
	Vitaly Golovkov	United Russian Party Rus'	4,483	1.16%
	against all		55,394	14.39%
Total			385,308	100%
Source:				[10]

2016

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

Candidate		Party	Votes	%
	Alexey Veller	United Russia	108,555	44.16%
	Maksim Belov	Liberal Democratic Party	38,052	15.48%
	Gennady Stepakhno	Communist Party	31,277	12.72%
	Aleksandr Makarevich	A Just Russia	26,415	10.75%
	Igor Morar	Civic Platform	10,804	4.39%
	Oleg Drozdov	Yabloko	7,431	3.02%
	Sergey Pakhomov	Rodina	6,781	2.76%
	Andrey Kapitonov	People's Freedom Party	4,383	1.78%
Total			245,832	100%
Source:				[11]

2021

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

Candidate		Party	Votes	%
	Tatyana Kusayko	United Russia	86,223	34.38%
	Aleksandr Makarevich	A Just Russia — For Truth	46,852	18.68%
	Valery Yarantsev	Communist Party	40,828	16.28%
	Stanislav Gontar	Liberal Democratic Party	23,067	9.20%
	Artyom Maryshev	New People	21,022	8.38%
	Sergey Yevsyukov	Party of Pensioners	16,658	6.64%
	Nikolay Palchenko	Party of Growth	3,394	1.35%
Total			250,787	100%
Source:				[12]

Notes

1. No.116 in 1993-2007
2. died in November 2002
3. redistricted from Monchegorsk constituency