Taymyr constituency

The Taymyr constituency (No.219) was a Russian legislative constituency in the Taymyr Autonomous Okrug in 1993–2007. It encompassed the entire territory of Taymyr Autonomous Okrug. The seat was last occupied by United Russia deputy Viktor Sitnov, former Chairman of the Duma of the Taymyr Autonomous Okrug and Nornickel executive, who won the open-seat race in the 2003 election.

Taymyr single-member constituency
Constituency of the Russian State Duma
Constituency boundaries from 1993 to 2007
Deputy	None
Federal subject	Taymyr Autonomous Okrug
Districts	Diksonsky, Dudinka, Khatangsky, Ust-Yeniseysky
Voters	29,597 (2003)[1]

The constituency was dissolved in 2007 when State Duma adopted full proportional representation for the next two electoral cycles. Earlier in 2007 Taymyr Autonomous Okrug and neighbouring Evenk Autonomous Okrug were merged with Krasnoyarsk Krai. Currently the territory of the former Taymyr constituency is part of the Yeniseysk constituency.

Boundaries

1993–2007: Diksonsky District, Dudinka, Khatangsky District, Ust-Yeniseysky District^[2][3][4]
The constituency had been covering the entirety of Taymyr Autonomous Okrug since its initial creation in 1993.

Members elected

Election		Member	Party
	1993	Aleksandr Vasilyev	Independent
	1995	Nikolay Piskun	Independent
	1999		Our Home – Russia
	2003	Viktor Sitnov	United Russia

Election results

1993

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

Candidate		Party	Votes	%
	Aleksandr Vasilyev	Independent	4,586	26.38%
	Valentina Novikeyeva	Independent	–	23.74%
	Aleksandr Chernyavsky	Independent	–	–
Total			17,378	100%
Source:				[5]

1995

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

Candidate		Party	Votes	%
	Nikolay Piskun	Independent	4,553	26.22%
	Yelena Panina	Zemsky Sobor	4,422	25.47%
	Viktor Nasedkin	Our Home – Russia	2,631	15.15%
	Irina Levenets	Liberal Democratic Party	1,177	6.78%
	Sergey Kirgizov	Independent	868	5.00%
	Igor Priymak	Independent	748	4.31%
	Valery Marushchak	Stanislav Govorukhin Bloc	517	2.98%
	Yelena Medvedkova	Democratic Choice of Russia – United Democrats	350	2.02%
	against all		1,801	10.37%
Total			17,362	100%
Source:				[6]

1999

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

Candidate		Party	Votes	%
	Nikolay Piskun (incumbent)	Our Home – Russia	3,804	23.25%
	Viktor Nasedkin	Independent	3,134	19.15%
	Pyotr Kucherenko	Independent	1,886	11.53%
	Adnan Muzykayev	Independent	1,117	6.83%
	Gennady Subbotkin	Liberal Democratic Party	1,102	6.74%
	Vladimir Grishin	Congress of Russian Communities-Yury Boldyrev Movement	1,029	6.29%
	Anatoly Filatov	Independent	1,007	6.15%
	Vladimir Shtol	Spiritual Heritage	117	0.72%
	against all		2,792	17.06%
Total			16,362	100%
Source:				[7]

2003

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

Candidate		Party	Votes	%
	Viktor Sitnov	United Russia	9,162	59.60%
	Vadim Vaulin	Independent	1,093	7.11%
	Oleg Pantela	Independent	812	5.28%
	Nikolay Lovelius	United Russian Party Rus'	406	2.64%
	Sergey Simutin	Independent	374	2.43%
	Sergey Lykov	Liberal Democratic Party	258	1.68%
	against all		3,053	19.86%
Total			15,381	100%
Source:				[8]