Tomsk constituency

The Tomsk constituency (No.181^[a]) is a Russian legislative constituency in Tomsk Oblast. During 1993-1995 the constituency covered urban Tomsk but Tomsk Oblast lost its second constituency prior to the 1995 election, so in 1995-2007 Tomsk constituency served as a single constituency in the region covering the whole oblast. Tomsk Oblast regained its second constituency in 2016 and in its current configuration Tomsk constituency includes parts of Tomsk, ZATO Seversk and eastern Tomsk Oblast.

Tomsk single-member constituency
Constituency of the Russian State Duma
Deputy	Aleksey Didenko Liberal Democratic Party
Federal subject	Tomsk Oblast
Districts	Asinovsky, Pervomaysky, Seversk, Teguldetsky, Tomsk (Leninsky, Oktyabrsky), Tomsky (Itatskoye, Malinovskoye, Naumovskoye), Verkhneketsky, Zyryansky
Other territory	France, Lithuania, United Kingdom[1]
Voters	383,006 (2021)[2]

Members elected

Election		Member	Party
	1993	Vladimir Bauer	Choice of Russia
	1995	Stepan Sulakshin	Independent
	1999	Yegor Ligachyov	Independent
	2003	Vladimir Zhidkikh[b]	United Russia
2007		Proportional representation - no election by constituency
2011
	2016	Aleksey Didenko	Liberal Democratic Party
	2021

Election results

1993

Summary of the 12 December 1993 Russian legislative election in the Tomsk Urban constituency

Candidate		Party	Votes	%
	Vladimir Bauer	Choice of Russia	35,737	24.32%
	Sergey Ilyin	Independent	20,004	13.61%
	Andrey Vedernikov	Independent	19,665	13.38%
	Boris Yachmenev	Independent	18,661	12.70%
	Irina Vakhrusheva	Independent	16,292	11.09%
	Vladimir Tirsky	Independent	4,582	3.12%
	against all		32,009	21.78%
Total			146,950	100%
Source:				[3]

1995

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

Candidate		Party	Votes	%
	Stepan Sulakshin (incumbent)[c]	Independent	100,202	21.47%
	Aleksandr Pomorov	Communist Party	74,320	15.92%
	Sergey Zhvachkin	Independent	68,420	14.66%
	Yury Galvas	Congress of Russian Communities	41,526	8.90%
	Vladimir Bauer (incumbent)[d]	Ivan Rybkin Bloc	36,156	7.75%
	Boris Shaydullin	Yabloko	19,471	4.17%
	Lyubov Babich	My Fatherland	16,017	3.43%
	Andrey Vedernikov	Independent	15,972	3.42%
	Valery Lukashov	Liberal Democratic Party	14,575	3.12%
	Viktor Kovalevsky	Independent	14,161	3.03%
	Aleksey Troshin	Trade Unions and Industrialists – Union of Labour	8,539	1.83%
	Aleksandr Karakulov	Communists and Working Russia - for the Soviet Union	7,167	1.54%
	Viktor Arkashev	Independent	4,846	1.04%
	Viktor Pastukhov	Independent	2,480	0.53%
	Nikolay Tishkov	Independent	1,756	0.38%
	against all		26,517	5.68%
Total			466,787	100%
Source:				[4]

1999

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

Candidate		Party	Votes	%
	Yegor Ligachyov	Independent	95,226	22.18%
	Gennady Khandorin	Independent	94,339	21.97%
	Stepan Sulakshin (incumbent)	Independent	80,089	18.66%
	Oleg Pletnev	Yabloko	63,014	14.68%
	Marina Senkovskaya	Women of Russia	29,801	6.94%
	Nelli Krechetova	Union of Right Forces	22,317	5.20%
	Yevgeny Kostyuchenko	Independent	2,649	0.62%
	Aleksandr Tolkachev	Independent	1,565	0.36%
	against all		34,530	8.04%
Total			429,304	100%
Source:				[5]

2003

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

Candidate		Party	Votes	%
	Vladimir Zhidkikh	United Russia	218,822	52.50%
	Yegor Ligachyov (incumbent)	Communist Party	97,180	23.31%
	Aleksey Biryukov	Liberal Democratic Party	18,742	4.50%
	Tatyana Kostyukova	Party of Russia's Rebirth-Russian Party of Life	17,092	4.10%
	Yevgeny Krotov	Great Russia–Eurasian Union	7,139	1.71%
	Boris Markelov	Independent	3,446	0.83%
	Anatoly Koshelev	United Russian Party Rus'	3,186	0.76%
	against all		47,219	11.33%
Total			417,155	100%
Source:				[6]

2016

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

Candidate		Party	Votes	%
	Aleksey Didenko	Liberal Democratic Party	45,583	34.10%
	Aleksandr Rostovtsev	A Just Russia	23,058	17.25%
	Aleksey Fyodorov	Communist Party	20,469	15.31%
	Andrey Volkov	Communists of Russia	9,789	7.32%
	Vasily Yeryomin	Yabloko	8,528	6.38%
	Sergey Zhabin	The Greens	6,043	4.52%
	Yegor Belyanko	Party of Growth	5,680	4.25%
	Yevgeny Krotov	Patriots of Russia	3,822	2.86%
Total			133,658	100%
Source:				[7]

2021

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

Candidate		Party	Votes	%
	Aleksey Didenko (incumbent)	Liberal Democratic Party	35,156	22.33%
	Ilya Leontyev	United Russia	34,486	21.91%
	Vasily Shipilov	Communist Party	28,396	18.04%
	Aleksandr Rostovtsev	A Just Russia — For Truth	16,994	10.80%
	Aleksandr Tsin-De-Shan	New People	12,436	7.90%
	Viktor Grinev	Party of Pensioners	7,852	4.99%
	Yelena Ulyanova	Party of Growth	5,780	3.67%
	Vasily Yeryomin	Yabloko	4,733	3.01%
	Yevgeny Krotov	Rodina	3,717	2.36%
Total			157,409	100%
Source:				[8]

Notes

1. Tomsk Urban constituency No.173 in 1993-1995, No.174 in 1995-2007
2. appointed to the Federation Council in May 2007
3. incumbent in the Tomsk Rural constituency
4. incumbent in the Tomsk Urban constituency