Vyazma constituency

The Vyazma constituency (No.168^[a]) was a Russian legislative constituency in Smolensk Oblast in 1993–2007. It was based in rural central and eastern Smolensk Oblast. The seat was last occupied by United Russia deputy Viktor Derenkovsky, a businessman, who won the open-seat race in the 2003 election.

Vyazma single-member constituency
Constituency of the Russian State Duma
Constituency boundaries from 1995 to 2007
Deputy	None
Federal subject	Smolensk Oblast
Districts	Desnogorsk, Dorogobuzhsky, Dukhovshchinsky, Gagarinsky, Glinkovsky, Kholm-Zhirkovsky, Novoduginsky, Roslavlsky, Safonovsky, Sychyovsky, Tyomkinsky, Ugransky, Vyazemsky, Yartsevsky, Yelninsky, Yershichsky
Voters	413,730 (2003)[1]

The constituency was dissolved in 2007 when State Duma adopted full proportional representation for the next two electoral cycles. Vyazma constituency was not re-established for the 2016 election, currently its former territory is split between Smolensk constituency (northern part) and Roslavl constituency (southern part).

Boundaries

1993–1995: Desnogorsk, Dorogobuzhsky District, Dukhovshchinsky District, Gagarin, Gagarinsky District, Glinkovsky District, Kholm-Zhirkovsky District, Novoduginsky District, Roslavl, Roslavlsky District, Safonovo, Safonovsky District, Sychyovsky District, Tyomkinsky District, Ugransky District, Vyazemsky District, Vyazma, Yartsevo, Yartsevsky District, Yelninsky District^[2]
The constituency covered rural eastern and central Smolensk Oblast, including the towns of Desnogorsk, Gagarin, Roslavl, Safonovo, Vyazma and Yartsevo.

1995–2007: Desnogorsk, Dorogobuzhsky District, Dukhovshchinsky District, Gagarin, Gagarinsky District, Glinkovsky District, Kholm-Zhirkovsky District, Novoduginsky District, Roslavl, Roslavlsky District, Safonovo, Safonovsky District, Sychyovsky District, Tyomkinsky District, Ugransky District, Vyazemsky District, Vyazma, Yartsevo, Yartsevsky District, Yelninsky District, Yershichsky District^[3][4]
After 1995 redistricting the constituency retained all of its former territory and gained rural Yershichsky District at the southern tip of Smolensk Oblast from Smolensk constituency.

Members elected

Election		Member	Party
	1993	Vyacheslav Balalayev	Agrarian Party
	1995	Dmitry Abramenkov	Communist Party
	1999
	2003	Viktor Derenkovsky	United Russia

Election results

1993

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

Candidate		Party	Votes	%
	Vyacheslav Balalayev	Agrarian Party	100,503	38.19%
	Sergey Semkin	Civic Union	–	12.70%
	Vladimir Vladimirov	Democratic Party	–	–
	Vladimir Yermolenko	Kedr	–	–
	Vladimir Zharikhin	Future of Russia–New Names	–	–
Total			263,154	100%
Source:				[5]

1995

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

Candidate		Party	Votes	%
	Dmitry Abramenkov	Communist Party	76,038	26.04%
	Aleksandr Kozyrev	Liberal Democratic Party	48,902	16.75%
	Vyacheslav Balalayev (incumbent)	Agrarian Party	45,134	15.46%
	Vladimir Novikov	Democratic Choice of Russia – United Democrats	15,997	5.48%
	Sergey Stepanov	Union of Communists	11,496	3.94%
	Inna Demidova	Independent	10,682	3.66%
	Anatoly Sokol	Congress of Russian Communities	9,711	3.33%
	Valery Latyshev	National Republican Party	9,596	3.29%
	Aleksandr Grinkevich	Ivan Rybkin Bloc	8,081	2.77%
	Natalya Argonova	Forward, Russia!	7,725	2.65%
	Andrey Serdyukov	Independent	5,958	2.04%
	Aleksandr Zhidkov	Independent	5,025	1.72%
	Ivan Popkov	Christian-Democratic Union - Christians of Russia	4,500	1.54%
	Vladimir Koloskov	Independent	2,885	0.99%
	against all		25,173	8.62%
Total			291,953	100%
Source:				[6]

1999

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

Candidate		Party	Votes	%
	Dmitry Abramenkov (incumbent)	Communist Party	59,728	24.11%
	Viktor Derenkovsky	Independent	53,278	21.50%
	Vladimir Kishenin	Independent	30,842	12.45%
	Leonid Kravchenko	Independent	18,953	7.65%
	Mikhail Khvostantsev	Union of Right Forces	15,844	6.39%
	Nikolay Pavlov	Russian All-People's Union	15,469	6.24%
	Aleksey Ryabchenko	Liberal Democratic Party	6,100	2.46%
	Andrey Antipov	Independent	6,046	2.44%
	Vladimir Komarov	Independent	4,050	1.63%
	Viktor Goryainov	Spiritual Heritage	2,223	0.90%
	Boris Khaytovich	Independent	1,787	0.72%
	Aleksandr Stepanov	Independent	1,354	0.55%
	against all		28,692	11.58%
Total			247,759	100%
Source:				[7]

2003

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

Candidate		Party	Votes	%
	Viktor Derenkovsky	United Russia	78,453	36.92%
	Vladimir Kishenin	Russian Pensioners' Party-Party of Social Justice	43,260	20.36%
	Vladimir Beryozov	Communist Party	30,017	14.13%
	Viktor Akimov	People's Party	7,879	3.71%
	Viktor Dedkov	Yabloko	7,646	3.60%
	Aleksey Ryabchenko	Liberal Democratic Party	7,141	3.36%
	Sergey Stepanov	Independent	3,719	1.75%
	Oleg Kosmachev	United Russian Party Rus'	2,614	1.23%
	against all		28,082	13.22%
Total			212,491	100%
Source:				[8]

Notes

1. No.167 in 1993-1995