Tula constituency

The Tula constituency (No.183^[a]) is a Russian legislative constituency in Tula Oblast. The constituency covers southern half of Tula and southern Tula Oblast, including the towns Shchyokino, Bogoroditsk, Kireyevsk and Yefremov.

Tula single-member constituency
Constituency of the Russian State Duma
Constituency boundaries since 2016
Deputy	Viktor Dzyuba United Russia
Federal subject	Tula Oblast
Districts	Arsenyevsky, Belyovsky, Bogoroditsky, Chernsky, Dubensky, Kamensky, Kireyevsky, Kurkinsky, Odoyevsky, Plavsky, Shchyokinsky, Slavny, Suvorovsky, Tula (Privokzalny, Sovetsky, Tsentralny), Tyoplo-Ogaryovsky, Volovsky, Yefremov
Voters	565,823 (2021)[1]

The constituency has been represented since 2016 by United Russia deputy Viktor Dzyuba, Member of Tula City Duma and industrial businessman.

Boundaries

1993–1995: Leninsky District, Tula^[2]
The constituency covered the entirety of the oblast capital Tula and the suburban Leninsky District.

1995–2007: Tula^[3][4]
After the 1995 redistricting the constituency retained only Tula, losing Leninsky District to Shchyokino constituency. This seat also subsequently became completely surrounded by the Shchyokino constituency.

2016–present: Arsenyevsky District, Belyovsky District, Bogoroditsky District, Chernsky District, Dubensky District, Kamensky District, Kireyevsky District, Kurkinsky District, Odoyevsky District, Plavsky District, Shchyokinsky District, Slavny, Suvorovsky District, Tula (Privokzalny, Sovetsky, Tsentralny), Tyoplo-Ogaryovsky District, Volovsky District, Yefremov^[5][6]
The constituency was re-created for the 2016 election and retained only southern half of Tula, losing the northern half to Novomoskovsk constituency. This seat instead gained almost all of the dissolved Shchyokino constituency in southern Tula Oblast as well as rural Dubensky District from Novomoskovsk constituency.

Members elected

Election		Member	Party
	1993	Eduard Pashchenko	Choice of Russia
	1995	Aleksandr Lebed[b]	Congress of Russian Communities
	1997	Aleksandr Korzhakov	Independent
	1999
	2003		United Russia
2007		Proportional representation - no election by constituency
2011
	2016	Viktor Dzyuba	United Russia
	2021

Election results

1993

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

Candidate		Party	Votes	%
	Eduard Pashchenko	Choice of Russia	56,451	20.07%
	Nadezhda Shaydenko	Independent	–	17.42%
	Igor Baldakov	Independent	–	–
	Ivan Khudyakov	Independent	–	–
	Vladislav Sukhoruchenkov	Future of Russia–New Names	–	–
Total			281,270	100%
Source:				[7]

1995

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

Candidate		Party	Votes	%
	Aleksandr Lebed	Congress of Russian Communities	129,874	43.48%
	Nikolay Tyaglivy	Our Home – Russia	39,099	13.09%
	Eduard Pashchenko (incumbent)	Democratic Choice of Russia – United Democrats	29,206	9.78%
	Aleksandr Shikalov	Communists and Working Russia - for the Soviet Union	18,913	6.33%
	Aleksandr Shemyakin	Liberal Democratic Party	16,788	5.62%
	Nikolay Novikov	Independent	12,902	4.32%
	Viktor Levshin	Independent	6,452	2.16%
	Igor Baldakov	Forward, Russia!	5,692	1.91%
	Nikolay Golub	Agrarian Party	5,225	1.75%
	Leonid Chevkin	Ivan Rybkin Bloc	3,438	1.15%
	Anatoly Krylov	My Fatherland	1,650	0.55%
	against all		20,996	7.03%
Total			298,702	100%
Source:				[8]

1997

Summary of the 9 February 1997 by-election in the Tula constituency

Candidate		Party	Votes	%
	Aleksandr Korzhakov	Independent	–	26.32%
	Eduard Pashchenko	Independent	–	16.98%
	Anatoly Karpov	Independent	–	15.81%
	Nikolay Novikov	Independent	–	12.18%
Total			–	100%
Source:				[9]

1999

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

Candidate		Party	Votes	%
	Aleksandr Korzhakov (incumbent)	Independent	51,285	19.61%
	Viktor Rozhkov	Independent	46,629	17.83%
	Eduard Pashchenko	Union of Right Forces	31,764	12.15%
	Vladislav Sukhoruchenkov	Russian All-People's Union	28,281	10.82%
	Sergey Nikolsky	Yabloko	22,340	8.54%
	Tamara Yurishcheva	Congress of Russian Communities-Yury Boldyrev Movement	11,606	4.44%
	Pavel Veselov	Peace, Labour, May	6,141	2.35%
	Igor Salomasov	Independent	5,350	2.05%
	Aleksey Pokatayev	Stalin Bloc – For the USSR	4,288	1.64%
	Mikhail Filshin	Spiritual Heritage	3,944	1.51%
	Igor Baldakov	Russian Socialist Party	2,713	1.04%
	Yelena Mavrodi	Independent	1,909	0.73%
	Sergey Derbenev	Independent	1,115	0.43%
	against all		38,808	14.84%
Total			261,464	100%
Source:				[10]

2003

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

Candidate		Party	Votes	%
	Aleksandr Korzhakov (incumbent)	United Russia	57,554	25.71%
	Vladislav Sukhoruchenkov	Rodina	46,226	20.65%
	Viktor Rozhkov	Independent	44,978	20.09%
	Aleksey Berezin	Independent	11,414	5.10%
	Mikhail Kharitonov	Yabloko	11,258	5.03%
	Igor Artasov	Liberal Democratic Party	5,491	2.45%
	Aleksey Pokatayev	Independent	3,845	1.72%
	Anatoly Kalinin	United Russian Party Rus'	2,427	1.08%
	Andrey Tyunyayev	Social Democratic Party	702	0.31%
	against all		36,290	16.21%
Total			224,238	100%
Source:				[11]

2016

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

Candidate		Party	Votes	%
	Viktor Dzyuba	United Russia	167,708	60.91%
	Tatyana Kosareva	Communist Party	30,860	11.21%
	Ilya Kindeyev	Liberal Democratic Party	20,563	7.47%
	Anatoly Kuznetsov	A Just Russia	14,610	5.31%
	Oleg Sakharov	Communists of Russia	6,777	2.46%
	Vladimir Dorokhov	Yabloko	6,495	2.35%
	Vladimir Godunov	Rodina	5,219	1.90%
	Yelizaveta Batishcheva	Party of Growth	5,160	1.87%
	Yelena Safonova	The Greens	5,037	1.83%
	German Konev	People's Freedom Party	3,483	1.26%
Total			275,353	100%
Source:				[12]

2021

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

Candidate		Party	Votes	%
	Viktor Dzyuba (incumbent)	United Russia	170,345	55.23%
	Tatyana Kosareva	Communist Party	38,163	12.37%
	Vladimir Alekseyev	New People	19,051	6.18%
	Dmitry Shishkin	A Just Russia — For Truth	17,667	5.73%
	Vladimir Rostovtsev	Party of Pensioners	13,712	4.45%
	Ilya Kindeyev	Liberal Democratic Party	10,950	3.55%
	Yury Moiseyev	Communists of Russia	10,610	3.44%
	Olga Podolskaya	Yabloko	8,555	2.77%
	Vladimir Ivashkevich	Rodina	4,930	1.60%
	Aleksey Salnikov	The Greens	4,499	1.46%
Total			308,452	100%
Source:				[13]

Notes

1. No.176 in 1993-2007
2. appointed Secretary of the Security Council of Russia in June 1996