Tver constituency

The Tver constituency (No.179^[a]) is a Russian legislative constituency in Tver Oblast. The constituency covers part of Tver on the right bank of the Volga river and eastern Tver Oblast, including the towns Bezhetsk, Kimry, Konakovo and Udomlya.

Tver single-member constituency
Constituency of the Russian State Duma
Constituency boundaries since 2016
Deputy	Yulia Saranova United Russia
Federal subject	Tver Oblast
Districts	Bezhetsky, Kalininsky (Burashevskoe, Emmausskoe, Kablukovskoe, Krasnogorskoe, Nikulinskoe, Orsha, Shcherbininskoe, Slavnovskoe, Sukhoverkovo, Turginovskoe, Verkhnevolzhskoe), Kalyazinsky, Kashinsky, Kesovogorsky, Kimrsky, Kimry, Konakovsky, Krasnokholmsky, Lesnoy, Maksatikhinsky, Molokovsky, Rameshkovsky, Sandovsky, Sonkovsky, Tver (Moskovsky, Proletarsky, Tsentralny), Udomelsky, Vesyegonsky
Voters	510,482 (2021)[1]

The constituency has been represented since 2021 by United Russia deputy Yulia Saranova, a non-profit executive, who won the open seat, succeeding two-term United Russia incumbent Svetlana Maksimova after the latter unsuccessfully sought re-election only through party-list representation.

Boundaries

1993–2007: Andreapolsky District, Belsky District, Kalininsky District, Kuvshinovsky District, Nelidovsky District, Oleninsky District, Rzhev, Rzhevsky District, Selizharovsky District, Staritsky District, Toropetsky District, Tver, Zapadnodvinsky District, Zharkovsky District, Zubtsovsky District^[2][3][4]
The constituency covered the entirety of the oblast capital Tver, its suburbs as well as rural western Tver Oblast, including the town Rzhev.

2016–present: Bezhetsky District, Kalininsky District (Burashevskoye, Emmausskoye, Kablukovskoye, Krasnogorskoye, Nikulinskoye, Orsha, Shcherbininskyoe, Slavnovskoye, Sukhoverkovo, Turginovskoye, Verkhnevolzhskoye), Kalyazinsky District, Kashinsky District, Kesovogorsky District, Kimrsky District, Kimry, Konakovsky District, Krasnokholmsky District, Lesnoy District, Maksatikhinsky District, Molokovsky District, Rameshkovsky District, Sandovsky District, Sonkovsky District, Tver (Moskovsky, Proletarsky, Tsentralny), Udomelsky District, Vesyegonsky District^[5][6]
The constituency was re-created for the 2016 election and retained only southern Tver and its suburbs, losing the rest of its former territory to new Zavolzhsky constituency. This seat instead gained eastern Tver Oblast from the dissolved Bezhetsk constituency.

Members elected

Election		Member	Party
	1993	Tatyana Astrakhankina	Communist Party
	1995
	1999
	2003	Vladimir Vasilyev	United Russia
2007		Proportional representation - no election by constituency
2011
	2016	Svetlana Maksimova	United Russia
	2021	Yulia Saranova	United Russia

Election results

1993

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

Candidate		Party	Votes	%
	Tatyana Astrakhankina	Communist Party	84,558	22.23%
	Viktor Belov	Choice of Russia	–	18.60%
	Vladimir Borisov	Agrarian Party	–	–
	Aleksandr Bulychev	Russian Democratic Reform Movement	–	–
	Eduard Savenko (Limonov)	Independent	–	–
	Aleksandr Titov	Civic Union	–	–
	Yury Tyulin	Dignity and Charity	–	–
	Andrey Yarysh	Independent	–	–
	Yevgeny Yevseyev	Democratic Party	–	–
Total			380,432	100%
Source:				[7]

1995

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

Candidate		Party	Votes	%
	Tatyana Astrakhankina (incumbent)	Communist Party	136,825	30.75%
	Valery Rastorguyev	Congress of Russian Communities	62,240	13.99%
	Vladimir Shkolnikov	Independent	54,878	12.33%
	Sergey Medennikov	Independent	36,951	8.31%
	Aleksandr Kharchenko	Our Home – Russia	35,148	7.90%
	Vasily Krylov	Agrarian Party	21,071	4.74%
	Nikolay Kuznetsov	Communists and Working Russia - for the Soviet Union	18,238	4.10%
	Valery Nekhayev	For the Motherland!	9,997	2.25%
	Mecheslav Sekerzhitsky	Independent	8,062	1.81%
	Yury Boshnyak	Independent	4,862	1.09%
	against all		44,988	10.11%
Total			444,908	100%
Source:				[8]

1999

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

Candidate		Party	Votes	%
	Tatyana Astrakhankina (incumbent)	Communist Party	92,428	22.97%
	Aleksandr Kharchenko	Unity	41,061	10.20%
	Sergey Yushenkov	Union of Right Forces	39,788	9.89%
	Aleksandr Tyagunov	Our Home – Russia	30,381	7.55%
	Yury Parkhayev	Independent	24,794	6.16%
	Nikolay Kuznetsov	Communists and Workers of Russia - for the Soviet Union	19,248	4.78%
	Natalya Alyabysheva	Independent	17,931	4.46%
	Konstantin Klyushkin	Yabloko	16,050	3.99%
	Anatoly Danchenko	Independent	8,757	2.18%
	Sergey Kondrashev	Independent	7,749	1.93%
	Valery Rumyantsev	Independent	7,676	1.91%
	Konstantin Kharchenko	Independent	5,654	1.40%
	Gennady Dmitriyev	Social-Democrats	5,573	1.38%
	Yevgeny Shamakin	Independent	4,899	1.22%
	Vyacheslav Shmelev	Independent	4,596	1.14%
	Valery Minevich	Congress of Russian Communities-Yury Boldyrev Movement	4,104	1.02%
	Tatyana Pushay	Spiritual Heritage	3,855	0.96%
	Sergey Petrenko	Independent	1,954	0.49%
	against all		56,892	14.14%
Total			402,466	100%
Source:				[9]

2003

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

Candidate		Party	Votes	%
	Vladimir Vasilyev	United Russia	113,273	31.39%
	Tatyana Astrakhankina (incumbent)	Communist Party	68,139	18.88%
	Maksim Larin	Independent	56,411	15.63%
	Aleksandr Kharchenko	Independent	31,341	8.68%
	Tatyana Agafonova	Agrarian Party	12,501	3.46%
	Vladimir Orekhov	Union of Right Forces	9,504	2.63%
	Vladimir Komissarov	Independent	8,767	2.43%
	Natalya Alyabysheva	People's Party	5,564	1.54%
	Konstantin Klyushkin	Yabloko	4,632	1.28%
	Aleksandr Patsyk	Liberal Democratic Party	2,706	0.75%
	Boris Rybka	Social Democratic Party	2,393	0.66%
	Leonid Musin	Party of Russia's Rebirth-Russian Party of Life	2,142	0.59%
	Aleksandr Bulychev	Genuine Patriots of Russia	2,031	0.56%
	Aleksandr Palev	Great Russia – Eurasian Union	2,018	0.56%
	Viktor Volkov	United Russian Party Rus'	667	0.18%
	against all		29,847	8.27%
Total			361,346	100%
Source:				[10]

2016

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

Candidate		Party	Votes	%
	Svetlana Maksimova	United Russia	361,346	53.03%
	Aleksey Chepa	A Just Russia	38,080	18.14%
	Anton Morozov	Liberal Democratic Party	28,965	13.79%
	Lyudmila Vorobyova	Communist Party	26,304	12.53%
	Vadim Deshevkin	Rodina	14,168	6.75%
	Ilya Kleymyonov	Communists of Russia	10,381	4.94%
	Igor Alekseyev	Yabloko	9,509	4.53%
Total			209,953	100%
Source:				[11]

2021

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

Candidate		Party	Votes	%
	Yulia Saranova	United Russia	62,870	30.91%
	Oleg Lebedev	Communist Party	35,685	17.54%
	Aleksey Chepa	A Just Russia — For Truth	27,376	13.46%
	Ilya Kleymyonov	Communists of Russia	16,125	7.93%
	Aleksandr Borisov	New People	14,434	7.10%
	Dmitry Karpov	Liberal Democratic Party	13,819	6.89%
	Marina Belova	Yabloko	9,408	4.62%
	Aleksandr Antonov	Party of Growth	7,786	3.83%
	Oleg Melnikov	Russian Party of Freedom and Justice	3,982	1.96%
Total			203,421	100%
Source:				[12]

Notes

1. No.172 in 1993-1995, No.173 in 1995-2007