Yakutsk constituency

The Yakutsk Constituency (No.24^[a]) is a Russian legislative constituency in the Sakha Republic (Yakutia). The constituency is the only one in Sakha Republic, and occupies the whole of its territory. Yakutsk Constituency is the largest single-mandate territorial constituency in the world (roughly the size of India).

Yakutsk single-member constituency
Constituency of the Russian State Duma
Deputy	Petr Ammosov Communist Party
Federal subject	Sakha Republic (Yakutia)
Districts	Abyysky, Aldansky, Allaikhovsky, Amginsky, Anabarsky, Bulunsky, Churapchinsky, Eveno-Bytantaysky, Gorny, Khangalassky, Kobyaysky, Lensky, Megino-Kangalassky, Mirninsky, Momsky, Namsky, Neryungrinsky, Nizhnekolymsky, Nyurbinsky, Olenyoksky, Olyokminsky, Oymyakonsky, Srednekolymsky, Suntarsky, Tattinsky, Tomponsky, Ust-Aldansky, Ust-Maysky, Ust-Yansky, Verkhnekolymsky, Verkhnevilyuysky, Verkhoyansky, Vilyuysky, Yakutsk, Zhatay, Zhigansky[1]
Voters	644,805 (2021)[2]

Members elected

Election		Member	Party
	1993	Yegor Zhirkov	Independent
	1995	Zoya Kornilova	Power to the People!
	1999	Vitaly Basygysov	Independent
	2003
2007		Proportional representation - no election by constituency
2011
	2016	Fedot Tumusov	A Just Russia
	2021	Petr Ammosov	Communist Party

Election results

1993

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

Candidate		Party	Votes	%
	Yegor Zhirkov	Independent	149,443	36.50%
	Yury Pozdnyakov	Independent	-	12.35%
Total			409,461	100%
Source:				[3]

1995

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

Candidate		Party	Votes	%
	Zoya Kornilova	Power to the People!	110,567	28.38%
	Yegor Zhirkov (incumbent)	Independent	110,245	28.30%
	Valery Guminsky	Independent	37,128	9.53%
	Vyacheslav Filatov	Independent	33,452	8.59%
	Galina Vasilyeva	Women of Russia	24,579	6.31%
	Dmitry Tikhonov	Independent	11,564	2.97%
	Vasily Vinokurov	Independent	7,728	1.98%
	Pyotr Sarychev	Forward, Russia!	7,454	1.91%
	against all		39,409	10.12%
Total			389,552	100%
Source:				[4]

1999

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

Candidate		Party	Votes	%
	Vitaly Basygysov	Independent	95,869	26.00%
	Zoya Kornilova (incumbent)	Russian All-People's Union	87,393	23.70%
	Artur Alekseyev	Independent	85,655	23.23%
	Sergey Shkurenko	Independent	31,629	8.58%
	Aleksandr Kim-Kimen	Independent	27,430	7.44%
	Ulyana Vinokurova	Independent	5,964	1.62%
	Ivan Cherov	Independent	4,588	1.24%
	Andrey Krivoshapkin-Ayynga	Independent	2,859	0.78%
	against all		22,716	6.16%
Total			368,770	100%
Source:				[5]

2003

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

Candidate		Party	Votes	%
	Vitaly Basygysov (incumbent)	Independent	196,646	47.69%
	Fedot Tumusov	Rodina	56,202	13.63%
	Semyon Nazarov	Party of Russia's Rebirth-Russian Party of Life	45,154	10.95%
	Igor Treskov	Union of Right Forces	35,374	8.58%
	Alexander Gavrilyev	Communist Party	18,060	4.38%
	Ivan Shamayev	Great Russia–Eurasian Union	9,339	2.26%
	Viktor Shemchuk	United Russian Party Rus'	3,661	0.89%
	against all		41,686	10.11%
Total			412,340	100%
Source:				[6]

2016

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

Candidate		Party	Votes	%
	Fedot Tumusov	A Just Russia	112,019	37.52%
	Oleg Tarasov	Rodina	61,048	20.45%
	Petr Ammosov	Communist Party	46,177	15.47%
	Gavril Parakhin	Liberal Democratic Party	20,303	6.80%
	Aisen Tikhonov	Party of Growth	13,366	4.48%
	Aleksandr Lazarev	Communists of Russia	11,719	3.92%
	Aital Yefremov	The Greens	11,097	3.72%
	Andrey Zayakin	Yabloko	8,800	2.95%
Total			298,589	100%
Source:				[7]

2021

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

Candidate		Party	Votes	%
	Petr Ammosov	Communist Party	69,215	21.61%
	Pyotr Cherkashin	United Russia	64,275	20.07%
	Fedot Tumusov (incumbent)	A Just Russia — For Truth	62,597	19.55%
	Vasily Nikolayev	New People	49,703	15.52%
	Yegor Zhirkov	The Greens	20,067	6.27%
	Anatoly Nogovitsyn	Yabloko	18,322	5.72%
	Gavril Parakhin	Liberal Democratic Party	12,446	3.89%
	Anatoly Kyrdzhagasov	Civic Platform	8,611	2.69%
	Aleksey Laptev	Rodina	5,259	1.64%
Total			320,227	100%
Source:				[8]

Notes

1. No.21 in 1993-1995 and 2003-2007, No.20 in 1995-2003

Sources

• 24. Якутский одномандатный избирательный округ