Yelets constituency

The Yelets constituency (No.102^[a]) was a Russian legislative constituency in Lipetsk Oblast in 1993–2007. It covered most of Lipetsk Oblast, except Lipetsk and its suburbs. The seat was last occupied by United Russia deputy Nikolay Bortsov, a wealthy agribusinessman, who won the open-seat election in the 2003 election.

Yelets single-member constituency
Constituency of the Russian State Duma
Constituency boundaries from 1993 to 2007
Deputy	None
Federal subject	Lipetsk Oblast
Districts	Chaplyginsky, Dankovsky, Dobrinsky, Dobrovsky, Dolgorukovsky, Izmalkovsky, Khlevensky, Krasninsky, Lebedyansky, Lev-Tolstovsky, Stanovlyansky, Terbunsky, Usmansky, Volovsky, Yelets, Yeletsky, Zadonsky
Voters	449,680 (2003)[1]

The constituency was dissolved in 2007 when State Duma adopted full proportional representation for the next two electoral cycles. Yelets constituency was not re-established for the 2016 election, currently its territory is split with northern part (including Yelets) put into Lipetsk constituency, while southern part — into new Levoberezhny constituency

Boundaries

1993–2007: Chaplyginsky District, Dankov, Dankovsky District, Dobrinsky District, Dobrovsky District, Dolgorukovsky District, Izmalkovsky District, Khlevensky District, Krasninsky District, Lebedyansky District, Lev-Tolstovsky District, Stanovlyansky District, Terbunsky District, Usmansky District, Volovsky District, Yelets, Yeletsky District, Zadonsky District^[2][3][4]
The constituency covered most of Lipetsk Oblast outside Lipetsk and its suburbs and included the towns of Dankov and Yelets.

Members elected

Election		Member	Party
	1993	Viktor Repkin	Independent
	1995	Vladimir Toporkov[b]	Communist Party
	1999
	2003	Nikolay Bortsov	United Russia

Election results

1993

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

Candidate		Party	Votes	%
	Viktor Repkin	Independent	52,080	17.65%
	Maria Sorokina	Independent	–	16.60%
	Valery Butko	Independent	–	–
	Valentin Dmitrevsky	Civic Union	–	–
	Yury Fabrichnykh	Choice of Russia	–	–
	Oleg Grishkevich	Communist Party	–	–
	Pavel Guchek	Party of Russian Unity and Accord	–	–
	Dmitry Pitertsev	Independent	–	–
	Boris Shestakov	Independent	–	–
	Vadim Sidorovich	Future of Russia–New Names	–	–
	Aleksandr Sutormin	Independent	–	–
	Vladimir Zausaylov	Independent	–	–
Total			295,075	100%
Source:				[5]

1995

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

Candidate		Party	Votes	%
	Vladimir Toporkov	Communist Party	113,991	36.74%
	Viktor Repkin (incumbent)	Agrarian Party	39,309	12.67%
	Galina Ivannikova	Our Home – Russia	36,465	11.75%
	Boris Shestakov	Independent	27,933	9.00%
	Viktor Gorlov	Derzhava	24,650	7.94%
	Pyotr Gorlov	Ivan Rybkin Bloc	14,764	4.76%
	Pavel Yevgrafov	Forward, Russia!	10,554	3.40%
	Abdulkhamid Mazhayev	For the Motherland!	4,882	1.57%
	against all		31,897	10.28%
Total			310,299	100%
Source:				[6]

1999

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

Candidate		Party	Votes	%
	Vladimir Toporkov (incumbent)	Communist Party	94,923	34.04%
	Dmitry Dvugroshev	Independent	51,121	18.33%
	Leonid Kovalyov	Andrey Nikolayev and Svyatoslav Fyodorov Bloc	18,609	6.67%
	Maria Sorokina	Independent	18,119	6.50%
	Aleksandr Yeletskikh	Union of Right Forces	17,483	6.27%
	Aleksandr Orishev	Liberal Democratic Party	9,198	3.30%
	Anatoly Yakovlev	Independent	8,496	3.05%
	Boris Uvarov	Russian All-People's Union	7,177	2.57%
	Nikolay Malygin	Independent	5,895	2.11%
	Aleksandr Chernyshov	Our Home – Russia	3,577	1.28%
	Ruslan Krupoderov	Spiritual Heritage	3,199	1.15%
	against all		34,623	12.42%
Total			278,826	100%
Source:				[7]

2003

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

Candidate		Party	Votes	%
	Nikolay Bortsov	United Russia	106,136	42.34%
	Andrey Boldin	Agrarian Party	48,515	19.35%
	Nikolay Razvorotnev	Communist Party	33,605	13.40%
	Aleksandr Yeletskikh	Union of Right Forces	9,672	3.86%
	Valery Dunayev	Liberal Democratic Party	7,919	3.16%
	Yury Golik	Independent	6,721	2.68%
	Sergey Tyurenkov	Independent	1,652	0.66%
	against all		28,275	11.28%
Total			250,800	100%
Source:				[8]

Notes

1. No.101 in 1995-2003
2. died in June 2003