Shakhty constituency

The Shakhty constituency (No.154^[a]) is a Russian legislative constituency in Rostov Oblast. The constituency covers most of coal-mining Eastern Donbass. After 2025 redistricting Rostov Oblast is slated to lose one of its seven constituencies, so Shakhty constituency is going to be dissolved and partitioned between Neklinovsky, Belaya Kalitva and Ust-Donetsky constituencies.

Shakhty single-member constituency
Constituency of the Russian State Duma
Constituency boundaries from 2016 to 2026
Deputy	Yekaterina Stenyakina United Russia
Federal subject	Rostov Oblast
Districts	Gukovo, Krasnosulinsky, Novoshakhtinsk, Oktyabrsky, Rodionovo-Nesvetaysky, Shakhty, Zverevo
Other territory	Israel (Tel Aviv-1)
Voters	427,930 (2021)[1]

The constituency has been represented since 2021 by United Russia deputy Yekaterina Stenyakina, Member of Legislative Assembly of Rostov Oblast, who won the open seat, succeeding one-term United Russia incumbent Maksim Shchablykin.

Boundaries

1993–1995: Bagayevsky District, Gukovo, Krasnosulinsky District, Krasny Sulin, Novoshakhtinsk, Oktyabrsky District, Rodionovo-Nesvetaysky District, Shakhty, Ust-Donetsky District, Zverevo^[2]
The constituency covered coal-mining Eastern Donbass in western Rostov Oblast, including the cities Gukovo, Krasny Sulin, Novoshakhtinsk, Shakhty and Zverevo.

1995–2007: Gukovo, Krasnosulinsky District, Krasny Sulin, Novoshakhtinsk, Kuybyshevsky District, Rodionovo-Nesvetaysky District, Shakhty, Zverevo^[3][4]
After the 1995 redistricting Rostov Oblast gained the seventh constituency, so all other districts were redrawn. The constituency retained most of its territory, losing Bagayevsky, Oktyabrsky and Ust-Donetsky districts to new Belaya Kalitva constituency. This seat instead gained Kuybyshevsky District to its west from Taganrog constituency.

2016–2026: Gukovo, Krasnosulinsky District, Novoshakhtinsk, Oktyabrsky District, Rodionovo-Nesvetaysky District, Shakhty, Zverevo^[5]
The constituency was re-created for the 2016 election and retained almost all of its former territory, losing only Kuybyshevsky District to Taganrog constituency. This seat re-gained Oktyabrsky District from the former Belaya Kalitva constituency.

Members elected

Election		Member	Party
	1993	Ivan Bespalov	Independent
	1995	Vladimir Katalnikov	Independent
	1999
	2003
2007		Proportional representation - no election by constituency
2011
	2016	Maksim Shchablykin	United Russia
	2021	Yekaterina Stenyakina	United Russia

Election results

1993

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

Candidate		Party	Votes	%
	Ivan Bespalov	Independent	81,056	29.15%
	Ruben Badalov	Independent	76,836	27.63%
	Lev Lyapayev	Independent	32,454	11.67%
	Vladimir Bayburtyan	Yavlinsky–Boldyrev–Lukin	17,360	6.24%
	against all		46,504	16.72%
Total			278,104	100%
Source:				[6][7]

1995

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

Candidate		Party	Votes	%
	Vladimir Katalnikov	Independent	90,874	32.64%
	Vitaly Linnik	Our Home – Russia	43,900	15.77%
	Ivan Bespalov (incumbent)	Communist Party	40,805	14.66%
	Oleg Boyarkin	Independent	22,269	8.00%
	Vladimir Kalinko	Congress of Russian Communities	15,427	5.54%
	Viktor Tkachev	Liberal Democratic Party	9,056	3.25%
	Vyacheslav Gushchin	Communists and Working Russia - for the Soviet Union	7,055	2.53%
	Sergey Shatsky	Independent	7,023	2.52%
	Nikolay Shevchenko	Independent	6,157	2.21%
	Viktor Demyanchenko	Russian All-People's Movement	5,551	1.99%
	Yevgeny Dulimov	Education — Future of Russia	5,388	1.94%
	Aleksandr Aleksandrov	Independent	4,331	1.56%
	against all		14,276	5.13%
Total			278,436	100%
Source:				[6]

1999

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

Candidate		Party	Votes	%
	Vladimir Katalnikov (incumbent)	Independent	96,065	36.61%
	Mikhail Fetisov	Independent	57,737	22.00%
	Vladimir Protsenko	Communist Party	43,444	16.56%
	Sergey Khoroshilov	Independent	21,832	8.32%
	Anatoly Sapronov	Independent	5,845	2.23%
	Anatoly Osovsky	Independent	3,753	1.43%
	Aleksandr Yukhanayev	Russian Socialist Party	3,398	1.29%
	Vladimir Sitnikov	Independent	2,396	0.91%
	against all		23,095	8.80%
Total			262,400	100%
Source:				[8]

2003

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

Candidate		Party	Votes	%
	Vladimir Katalnikov (incumbent)	Independent	89,121	44.66%
	Nikolay Kozitsyn	Independent	24,372	12.21%
	Viktor Anpilov	Independent	19,666	9.85%
	Vitaly Chernyshov	Russian Pensioners' Party-Party of Social Justice	15,515	7.77%
	Igor Malikov	Independent	7,431	3.72%
	Yury Udovichenko	Russian Communist Workers Party-Russian Party of Communists	6,785	3.40%
	Dmitry Usoltsev	Independent	2,230	1.12%
	Vadim Petriyenko	United Russian Party Rus'	2,129	1.07%
	against all		28,206	14.13%
Total			199,868	100%
Source:				[9]

2016

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

Candidate		Party	Votes	%
	Maksim Shchablykin	United Russia	128,865	61.92%
	Gennady Shcherbakov	Communist Party	24,217	11.64%
	Mikhail Sorokin	Liberal Democratic Party	22,186	10.66%
	Nikolay Maslinnikov	A Just Russia	1,197	5.38%
	Georgy Khugayev	Communists of Russia	5,411	2.60%
	Aleksandr Tishchenko	Rodina	3,654	1.75%
	Sergey Sarabyev	Patriots of Russia	2,841	1.36%
	Alfred Minin	The Greens	2,201	1.06%
	Sergey Anipko	Civic Platform	1,992	0.96%
Total			208,118	100%
Source:				[10]

2021

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

Candidate		Party	Votes	%
	Yekaterina Stenyakina	United Russia	90,608	48.17%
	Sergey Shapovalov	Communist Party	37,068	19.70%
	Yury Mezinov	A Just Russia — For Truth	16,163	8.59%
	Aleksandr Kuleshov	New People	9,691	5.15%
	Konstantin Koshlyakov	Party of Pensioners	8,621	4.58%
	Ilya Ptushkin	Liberal Democratic Party	8,550	4.55%
	Vladimir Kalinin	Yabloko	6,498	3.45%
	Vladimir Bashmakov	Russian Party of Freedom and Justice	6,280	3.34%
Total			188,085	100%
Source:				[11]

Notes

1. No.147 in 1993-1995, No.148 in 1995-2007