Samara constituency

Samara constituency (No. 158^[a]) is a Russian legislative constituency in Samara Oblast. In its current configuration the constituency covers parts of Samara, Novokuybyshevsk and south-eastern Samara Oblast.

Samara single-member constituency
Constituency of the Russian State Duma
Deputy	vacant
Federal subject	Samara Oblast
Districts	Samara city districts: Zheleznodorozhny, Kuybyshevsky, Leninsky, Oktyabrsky, Samarsky Cities: Novokuybyshevsk Districts: Alexeyevsky, Bolsheglushitsky, Bolshechernigovsky, Volzhsky (except its north-eastern part), Neftegorsky[1]
Other territory	Abkhazia (Sukhum–3)[1]
Voters	504,264 (2021)[2]

The constituency has been vacant since December 5, 2024, following the resignation of five-term United Russia deputy, former investigative journalist and Chairman of the Duma Committee on Information Policy, Information Technologies and Communications, who was appointed acting Governor of Kursk Oblast.

Boundaries

1993–2007: Samara (Kuybyshevsky, Leninsky, Oktyabrsky, Samarsky, Sovetsky, Zheleznodorozhny)^[3][4][5]
The constituency was based in urban Samara and covered southern and central Samara.

2016–present: Alexeyevsky District, Bolsheglushitsky District, Bolshechernigovsky District, most of Volzhsky District (except its north-eastern part), Neftegorsky District, Novokuybyshevsk, parts of Samara (Kuybyshevsky, Leninsky, Oktyabrsky, Samarsky, Zheleznodorozhny)^[6]
The constituency was re-created for the 2016 election and in its new configuration it took southern half of Samara, industrial city of Novokuybyshevsk to the south-west, from the eliminated Novokuybyshevsk constituency and rural areas in the south-eastern corner of Samara Oblast, from former Syzran constituency.

Members

By-election are shown in italics.

Election		Member	Party
	1993	Lyubov Rozhkova	Communist Party
	1995	Vladimir Tarachyov	Our Home – Russia
	1999	Aleksandr Belousov	Independent
	2003		People's Party
2007		Proportional representation - no election by constituency
2011
	2016	Nadezhda Kolesnikova[b]	United Russia
	2018	Alexander Khinshtein[c]	United Russia
	2021

Election results

1993

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

Candidate		Party	Votes	%
	Lyubov Rozhkova	Communist Party	50,787	21.56%
	Vladimir Belousov	Russian Democratic Reform Movement	–	–
	Yevgeny Kladishchev	Independent	–	–
	Valery Ovchinnikov	Yavlinsky–Boldyrev–Lukin	–	–
	Yevgeny Pavlov	Independent	–	–
	Maria Voronina	Independent	–	–
	Andrey Yeremin	Independent	–	–
	Yury Yerugin	Future of Russia–New Names	–	–
	Yury Yudin	Independent	–	–
	Sergey Yurin	Democratic Party	–	–
Total			235,578	100%
Source:				[7]

1995

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

Candidate		Party	Votes	%
	Vladimir Tarachyov	Our Home – Russia	36,801	12.73%
	Lyubov Rozhkova (incumbent)	Independent	33,879	11.72%
	Yury Sakharnov	Trade Unions and Industrialists – Union of Labour	32,087	11.10%
	Natalya Morozova	Union of Communists	28,135	9.74%
	Vladimir Zakharchenko	Independent	25,308	8.76%
	Vladimir Shorin	Independent	21,969	7.60%
	Valery Semyonychev	Bloc of Independents	12,019	4.16%
	Mark Feygin	Democratic Choice of Russia – United Democrats	11,818	4.09%
	Andrey Kireyev	Liberal Democratic Party	11,228	3.89%
	Yevgeny Lartsev	Stanislav Govorukhin Bloc	9,825	3.40%
	Yevgeny Kladishchev	Independent	8,234	2.85%
	Sergey Trakhirov	Ivan Rybkin Bloc	7,322	2.53%
	Aleksey Leushkin	Stable Russia	7,059	2.44%
	Oleg Tikhonov	Pamfilova–Gurov–Lysenko	6,451	2.23%
	Vladislav Marshansky	Independent	1,969	0.68%
	against all		26,422	9.14%
Total			288,989	100%
Source:				[8]

1999

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

Candidate		Party	Votes	%
	Aleksandr Belousov	Independent	95,214	34.89%
	Nikolay Musatkin	Communist Party	57,049	20.90%
	Vladimir Tarachyov (incumbent)	Unity	32,942	12.07%
	Vyacheslav Sonin	Independent	25,245	9.25%
	Nikolay Gavrilov	Yabloko	12,987	4.76%
	Vladimir Zakharchenko	Independent	11,617	4.26%
	Leonid Tikhun	Andrey Nikolayev and Svyatoslav Fyodorov Bloc	4,071	1.49%
	Aleksandr Shvarev	Party of Pensioners	3,119	1.14%
	Yury Yudin	Russian Ecological Party "Kedr"	2,774	1.02%
	Lyubov Rozhkova	Russian Party	2,709	0.99%
	against all		21,979	8.05%
Total			272,927	100%
Source:				[9]

2003

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

Candidate		Party	Votes	%
	Aleksandr Belousov (incumbent)	People's Party	67,844	32.37%
	Sergey Orlov	Communist Party	28,520	13.61%
	Irina Skupova	Yabloko	21,983	10.49%
	Mikhail Matveyev	Independent	14,078	6.72%
	Vladimir Sherstnev	Rodina	12,899	6.15%
	Vladislav Loskutov	Independent	9,136	4.36%
	Pyotr Yershov	Liberal Democratic Party	9,041	4.31%
	Aleksandr Martynov	Party of Russia's Rebirth-Russian Party of Life	3,883	1.85%
	Anatoly Morozenko	Independent	1,437	0.69%
	Yevgeny Yezhov	Independent	1,353	0.65%
	Nikolay Prokhodtsev	United Russian Party Rus'	1,160	0.55%
	Nikolay Pereyaslov	Great Russia–Eurasian Union	991	0.47%
	against all		34,277	16.35%
Total			210,237	100%
Source:				[10]

2016

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

Candidate		Party	Votes	%
	Nadezhda Kolesnikova	United Russia	109,435	45.03%
	Mikhail Matveyev	Communist Party	49,984	20.57%
	Oksana Lantsova	Liberal Democratic Party	24,104	9.92%
	Vadim Baykov	Communists of Russia	11,781	4.85%
	Pyotr Zolotarev	A Just Russia	11,432	4.70%
	Sergey Sovetkin	Yabloko	6,126	2.52%
	Yekaterina Gerasimova	People's Freedom Party	5,843	2.40%
	Pyotr Vasilyev	Party of Growth	4,488	1.85%
	Vladimir Dovbysh	The Greens	4,096	1.68%
	Oleg Sabantsev	Patriots of Russia	2,642	1.09%
	Aleksey Ofitserov	Civic Platform	2,610	1.07%
Total			243,031	100%
Source:				[11]

2018

Summary of the 9 September 2018 by-election in the Samara constituency

Candidate		Party	Votes	%
	Aleksandr Khinshtein	United Russia	117,726	56.98%
	Mikhail Abdalkin	Communist Party	29,868	14.46%
	Vadim Baykov	Communists of Russia	15,288	7.40%
	Roman Sinelnikov	Liberal Democratic Party	13,318	6.45%
	Aleksandr Gusev	A Just Russia	12,478	6.04%
	Igor Yermolenko	Yabloko	6,758	3.27%
Total			206,602	100%
Source:				[12]

2021

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

Candidate		Party	Votes	%
	Aleksandr Khinshtein (incumbent)	United Russia	115,721	51.12%
	Mikhail Abdalkin	Communist Party	47,695	21.07%
	Aleksey Mitrofanov	A Just Russia — For Truth	12,989	5.74%
	Maria Bolshakova	Communists of Russia	11,338	5.01%
	Aleksey Neudakhin	New People	10,894	4.81%
	Andrey Sedogin	Liberal Democratic Party	9,646	4.26%
	Yevgeny Lartsev	Party of Freedom and Justice	5,713	2.52%
	Aleksandr Shatilov	Yabloko	4,277	1.89%
Total			226,365	100%
Source:				[13]

Notes

1. No.152 in 1993-1995, No.153 in 1995-2007
2. resigned in June 2018
3. appointed acting Governor of Kursk Oblast in December 2024