Sakhalin constituency

The Sakhalin constituency (No.167^[a]) is a Russian legislative constituency in Sakhalin Oblast. The constituency encompasses the entire territory of Sakhalin Oblast. It is also the only Russian constituency situated exclusively on islands.

Sakhalin single-member constituency
Constituency of the Russian State Duma
Deputy	Georgy Karlov United Russia
Federal subject	Sakhalin Oblast
Districts	Alexandrovsk-Sakhalinsky, Anivsky, Dolinsky, Kholmsky District, Korsakovsky, Kurilsky, Makarovsky, Nevelsky, Nogliksky, Okhinsky, Poronaysky, Severo-Kurilsky, Smirnykhovsky, Tomarinsky, Tymovsky, Uglegorsky, Yuzhno-Kurilsky, Yuzhno-Sakhalinsk
Other territory	Latvia (Riga)
Voters	381,883 (2021)[1]

The constituency has been represented since 2016 by United Russia deputy Georgy Karlov, three-term State Duma member and businessman.

Boundaries

1993–2007, 2016–present: Alexandrovsk-Sakhalinsky District, Anivsky District, Dolinsky District, Kholmsky District, Korsakovsky District, Kurilsky District, Makarovsky District, Nevelsky District, Nogliksky District, Okhinsky District, Poronaysky District, Severo-Kurilsky District, Smirnykhovsky District, Tomarinsky District, Tymovsky District, Uglegorsky District, Yuzhno-Kurilsky District, Yuzhno-Sakhalinsk^{[2][3][4][5][6]}
The constituency has been covering the entirety of Sakhalin Oblast since its initial creation in 1993.

Members elected

Election		Member	Party
	1993	Boris Tretyak	Independent
	1995	Ivan Zhdakayev[b]	Communist Party
	1999
	2003
	2006	Svetlana Ivanova	Communist Party
2007		Proportional representation - no election by constituency
2011
	2016	Georgy Karlov	United Russia
	2021

Election results

1993

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

Candidate		Party	Votes	%
	Boris Tretyak	Independent	55,041	23.29%
	Aleksandr Grishko	Civic Union	–	20.90%
	Valentin Fyodorov	Independent	–	–
	Viktor Sirenko	Party of Russian Unity and Accord	–	–
Total			236,294	100%
Source:				[7]

1995

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

Candidate		Party	Votes	%
	Ivan Zhdakayev	Communist Party	61,582	23.42%
	Boris Tretyak (incumbent)	Independent	55,031	20.93%
	Lyubov Shubina	Women of Russia	27,653	10.52%
	Mikhail Romanovsky	Political Movement of Transport Workers	23,269	8.85%
	Nikolay Dolgikh	Independent	17,489	6.65%
	Mikhail Glazov	Liberal Democratic Party	17,229	6.55%
	Sergey Ponomarev	Congress of Russian Communities	11,431	4.35%
	Yury Stiplin	Kedr	8,337	3.17%
	Anatoly Zhilin	Independent	5,573	2.12%
	Valentin Chumakov	Independent	4,108	1.56%
	Tatyana Yatsmirskaya	Federal Democratic Movement	3,658	1.39%
	against all		23,584	8.97%
Total			262,943	100%
Source:				[8]

1999

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

Candidate		Party	Votes	%
	Ivan Zhdakayev (incumbent)	Independent	55,267	24.43%
	Boris Tretyak	Independent	46,475	20.55%
	Sergey Ponomarev	Independent	22,859	10.11%
	Viktor Dolgikh	Independent	13,224	5.85%
	Pavel Alborov	Independent	9,864	4.36%
	Valery Kulbakov	Independent	7,962	3.52%
	Valery Kukushkin	Independent	7,104	3.14%
	Sergey Sedov	Party of Pensioners	6,769	2.99%
	Vladislav Rukavets	Our Home – Russia	6,112	2.70%
	Nina Moskvina	Independent	5,780	2.56%
	Nina Gultyayeva	Independent	4,815	2.13%
	Larisa Moskvina-Yevgrashina	Independent	2,523	1.12%
	against all		33,518	14.82%
Total			226,197	100%
Source:				[9]

2003

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

Candidate		Party	Votes	%
	Ivan Zhdakayev (incumbent)	Communist Party	61,888	28.12%
	Vladimir Yefremov	United Russia	46,262	21.02%
	Sergey Podolyan	Independent	44,209	20.09%
	Viktor Yefremov	Union of Right Forces	12,314	5.60%
	Olga Blinova	Independent	6,062	2.75%
	Andrey Polukhanov	Liberal Democratic Party	5,480	2.49%
	Nadezhda Veter	United Russian Party Rus'	3,903	1.77%
	Irina Yanko	Independent	3,313	1.51%
	Oleg Lopatka	Independent	1,553	0.71%
	Valery Voytenkov	Great Russia – Eurasian Union	1,072	0.49%
	against all		29,289	13.31%
Total			220,053	100%
Source:				[10]

2006

Summary of the 29 June 2006 Russian by-election in the Sakhalin single-member constituency

Candidate		Party	Votes	%
	Svetlana Ivanova	Communist Party	42,049	41.31%
	Aleksandr Gusto	United Russia	31,512	30.96%
	Andrey Nagibin	The Greens	7,933	7.79%
	Andrey Polukhanov	Liberal Democratic Party	2,686	2.63%
	Vitaly Guliy	Independent	2,664	2.61%
	Aleksandr Kolodkin	Independent	1,396	1.37%
	against all		11,378	11.17%
Total			101,780	100%
Source:				[11]

2016

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

Candidate		Party	Votes	%
	Georgy Karlov	United Russia	60,280	42.88%
	Svetlana Ivanova	Communist Party	35,148	25.00%
	Dmitry Fleyer	Liberal Democratic Party	15,458	11.00%
	Aleksandr Zenkin	Communists of Russia	5,616	3.99%
	Eduard Taran	A Just Russia	5,550	3.95%
	Veniamin Park	Yabloko	4,801	3.41%
	Aleksey Grigorenko	Rodina	4,722	3.36%
	Irina Repina	Patriots of Russia	2,838	2.02%
Total			140,586	100%
Source:				[12]

2021

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

Candidate		Party	Votes	%
	Georgy Karlov (incumbent)	United Russia	56,558	38.65%
	Aleksey Korniyenko	Communist Party	35,820	24.48%
	Roman Vedeneyev	New People	14,488	9.90%
	Dmitry Fleyer	Liberal Democratic Party	9,792	6.69%
	Aleksandr Anistratov	A Just Russia — For Truth	9,176	6.27%
	Oleg Koretsky	Communists of Russia	6,914	4.72%
	Aleksandr Konkov	Rodina	3,624	2.48%
	Anton Gurkin	Yabloko	3,130	2.14%
Total			146,345	100%
Source:				[13]

Notes

1. No.159 in 1993-1995, No.160 in 1995-2007
2. died in December 2005