Karelia constituency

The Karelia constituency (No.17^[a]) is a Russian legislative constituency in the Republic of Karelia. The constituency encompasses the entire territory of Karelia.

The constituency has been represented since 1999 (except for 2007–2016) by United Russia deputy Valentina Pivnenko, a six-term State Duma member and former union leader.

Boundaries

1993–2007, 2016–present: Belomorsky District, Kalevalsky District, Kemsky District, Kondopozhsky District, Kostomuksha, Lakhdenpokhsky District, Loukhsky District, Medvezhyegorsky District, Muyezersky District, Olonetsky District, Petrozavodsk, Pitkyarantsky District, Prionezhsky District, Pudozhsky District, Pryazhinsky District, Segezhsky District, Sortavala, Suoyarvsky District^{[2][3][4][5][6]}
The constituency has been covering the entirety of the Karelia since its initial creation in 1993.

Members elected

Election results

1993

Declared candidates

• Anatoly Anikeyev (Independent), former People's Deputy of Russia (1990–1993), former First Deputy Minister of Internal Affairs of the Russian SFSR (1990–1991), militsiya lieutenant general
• Ivan Chukhin (Choice of Russia), former People's Deputy of Russia (1990–1993), militsiya podpolkovnik
• Alfred Sieppi (YaBL), physics lecturer

Results

|- ! colspan=2 style="background-color:#E9E9E9;text-align:left;vertical-align:top;" |Candidate ! style="background-color:#E9E9E9;text-align:left;vertical-align:top;" |Party ! style="background-color:#E9E9E9;text-align:right;" |Votes ! style="background-color:#E9E9E9;text-align:right;" |% |- |style="background-color: " | |align=left|Ivan Chukhin |align=left|Choice of Russia |112,803 |36.98% |- |style="background-color:"| |align=left|Anatoly Anikeyev |align=left|Independent |– |21.20% |- |style="background-color:"| |align=left|Alfred Sieppi |align=left|Yavlinsky–Boldyrev–Lukin |– |– |- | colspan="5" style="background-color:#E9E9E9;"| |- style="font-weight:bold" | colspan="3" style="text-align:left;" | Total | 305,015 | 100% |- | colspan="5" style="background-color:#E9E9E9;"| |- style="font-weight:bold" | colspan="4" |Source: |^[7] |}

1995

Declared candidates

• Anatoly Artemyev (Independent), Minister of Health of Karelia
• Ivan Chukhin (DVR–OD), incumbent Member of State Duma (1994–present)
• Natalya Kotsyuba (NDR), Director of the Federal Department on Insolvency Regional Office (1995–present)
• Nikolay Levin (For the Motherland!), legal counsel
• Mikhail Maksimov (LDPR), coordinator of the party regional office, mechanic
• Sergey Romanenko (Independent), unemployed
• Aleksandr Titov (Independent), Member of Legislative Assembly of the Republic of Karelia (1994–present), former Chairman of the Olonetsky District Executive Committee (1989–1990)
• Boris Tyukov (CPRF), Member of Legislative Assembly of the Republic of Karelia (1994–present)
• Larisa Zlobina (Independent), Member of Legislative Assembly of the Republic of Karelia (1994–present), journalist

Results

|- ! colspan=2 style="background-color:#E9E9E9;text-align:left;vertical-align:top;" |Candidate ! style="background-color:#E9E9E9;text-align:left;vertical-align:top;" |Party ! style="background-color:#E9E9E9;text-align:right;" |Votes ! style="background-color:#E9E9E9;text-align:right;" |% |- |style="background-color:"| |align=left|Larisa Zlobina |align=left|Independent |101,894 |28.12% |- |style="background-color:"| |align=left|Natalya Kotsyuba |align=left|Our Home – Russia |64,462 |17.79% |- |style="background-color:"| |align=left|Boris Tyukov |align=left|Communist Party |48,173 |13.29% |- |style="background-color:"| |align=left|Ivan Chukhin (incumbent) |align=left|Democratic Choice of Russia – United Democrats |34,992 |9.66% |- |style="background-color:"| |align=left|Mikhail Maksimov |align=left|Liberal Democratic Party |23,321 |6.44% |- |style="background-color:"| |align=left|Anatoly Artemyev |align=left|Independent |21,749 |6.00% |- |style="background-color:#C28314"| |align=left|Nikolay Levin |align=left|For the Motherland! |13,644 |3.76% |- |style="background-color:"| |align=left|Aleksandr Titov |align=left|Independent |7,095 |1.96% |- |style="background-color:"| |align=left|Sergey Romanenko |align=left|Independent |2,875 |0.79% |- |style="background-color:#000000"| |colspan=2 |against all |36,970 |10.20% |- | colspan="5" style="background-color:#E9E9E9;"| |- style="font-weight:bold" | colspan="3" style="text-align:left;" | Total | 362,391 | 100% |- | colspan="5" style="background-color:#E9E9E9;"| |- style="font-weight:bold" | colspan="4" |Source: |^[8] |}

1999

Declared candidates

• Aleksandr Chazhengin (Yabloko), Member of Legislative Assembly of the Republic of Karelia (1994–present), 1998 head candidate
• Mikhail Maksimov (LDPR), Member of Legislative Assembly of the Republic of Karelia (1998–present), 1995 candidate for this seat
• Mikhail Mrykhin (KRO-Boldyrev), Member of Legislative Assembly of the Republic of Karelia (1994–present)
• Artur Myaki (SPS), Member of Legislative Assembly of the Republic of Karelia (1998–present)
• Valentina Pivnenko (Independent), Chairwoman of the Legislative Assembly of the Republic of Karelia House of Representatives (1994–present)
• Boris Tyukov (CPRF), former Member of Legislative Assembly of the Republic of Karelia (1994–1998), 1995 candidate for this seat
• Larisa Zlobina (RSP), incumbent Member of State Duma (1996–present), 1998 head candidate

Withdrawn candidates

• Lyudmila Kryshtaleva (Nikolayev–Fyodorov Bloc)

Failed to qualify

• Boris Payevshchikov (Independent)

Did not file

• Boris Anushin (Independent), electrician
• Vladimir Lapshin (Independent)
• Yury Linnik (Independent), writer, cosmist
• Aleksandr Starikov (Independent)

Results

|- ! colspan=2 style="background-color:#E9E9E9;text-align:left;vertical-align:top;" |Candidate ! style="background-color:#E9E9E9;text-align:left;vertical-align:top;" |Party ! style="background-color:#E9E9E9;text-align:right;" |Votes ! style="background-color:#E9E9E9;text-align:right;" |% |- |style="background-color:"| |align=left|Valentina Pivnenko |align=left|Independent |106,371 |30.46% |- |style="background-color:"| |align=left|Aleksandr Chazhengin |align=left|Yabloko |47,045 |13.47% |- |style="background-color:"| |align=left|Artur Myaki |align=left|Union of Right Forces |45,818 |13.12% |- |style="background-color:"| |align=left|Boris Tyukov |align=left|Communist Party |42,489 |12.17% |- |style="background-color:"| |align=left|Larisa Zlobina (incumbent) |align=left|Russian Socialist Party |27,767 |7.95% |- |style="background-color:"| |align=left|Mikhail Maksimov |align=left|Liberal Democratic Party |21,580 |6.18% |- |style="background-color:"| |align=left|Mikhail Mrykhin |align=left|Congress of Russian Communities-Yury Boldyrev Movement |6,661 |1.91% |- |style="background-color:#000000"| |colspan=2 |against all |44,582 |12.77% |- | colspan="5" style="background-color:#E9E9E9;"| |- style="font-weight:bold" | colspan="3" style="text-align:left;" | Total | 349,224 | 100% |- | colspan="5" style="background-color:#E9E9E9;"| |- style="font-weight:bold" | colspan="4" |Source: |^[9] |}

2003

Declared candidates

• Aleksey Belyaninov (Independent), Member of Petrozavodsk City Council, nonprofit director
• Vladimir Liminchuk (PVR-RPZh), chairman of the regional consumers union
• Artur Myaki (SPS), Member of State Duma (2000–present), 1999 candidate for this seat, 2002 head candidate
• Irina Petelyayeva (Yabloko), Member of Legislative Assembly of the Republic of Karelia (1998–present), newspaper publisher
• Valentina Pivnenko (United Russia), incumbent Member of State Duma (2000–present), Chairwoman of the Duma Committee on Problems of the North and the Far East (2000–present)
• Viktor Potiyevsky (ORP Rus'), writer, journalist
• Vladimir Shilik (VR–ES), Member of Petrozavodsk City Council, auto businessman
• Boris Tyukov (CPRF), former Member of Legislative Assembly of the Republic of Karelia (1994–1998), 1995 and 1999 candidate for this seat, 2002 head candidate

Failed to qualify

• Andrey Stepanov (LDPR), aide to State Duma member

Did not file

• Viktor Alekseyenko (RPT), Member of Segezha City Council, locksmith
• Boris Anushin (KPE), power engineer, 1999 candidate for this seat
• Aleksandr Gelakhov (RPP-PSS), palace of culture commercial director
• Yury Samokhin (PME), pensioner
• Sergey Yaskunov (ROPP), Member of Legislative Assembly of the Republic of Karelia (1998–present)

Results

|- ! colspan=2 style="background-color:#E9E9E9;text-align:left;vertical-align:top;" |Candidate ! style="background-color:#E9E9E9;text-align:left;vertical-align:top;" |Party ! style="background-color:#E9E9E9;text-align:right;" |Votes ! style="background-color:#E9E9E9;text-align:right;" |% |- |style="background-color:"| |align=left|Valentina Pivnenko (incumbent) |align=left|United Russia |150,521 |50.44% |- |style="background-color:"| |align=left|Irina Petelyayeva |align=left|Yabloko |52,198 |17.49% |- |style="background-color:"| |align=left|Artur Myaki |align=left|Union of Right Forces |30,589 |10.25% |- |style="background-color:"| |align=left|Boris Tyukov |align=left|Communist Party |17,911 |6.00% |- |style="background-color:"| |align=left|Aleksey Belyaninov |align=left|Independent |8,399 |2.81% |- |style="background-color:#164C8C"| |align=left|Viktor Potiyevsky |align=left|United Russian Party Rus' |2,312 |0.77% |- |style="background-color:#7C73CC"| |align=left|Vladimir Shilik |align=left|Great Russia – Eurasian Union |1,972 |0.66% |- |style="background-color:#00A1FF"| |align=left|Vladimir Liminchuk |align=left|Party of Russia's Rebirth-Russian Party of Life |1,947 |0.65% |- |style="background-color:#000000"| |colspan=2 |against all |28,723 |9.62% |- | colspan="5" style="background-color:#E9E9E9;"| |- style="font-weight:bold" | colspan="3" style="text-align:left;" | Total | 298,683 | 100% |- | colspan="5" style="background-color:#E9E9E9;"| |- style="font-weight:bold" | colspan="4" |Source: |^[10] |}

2016

Declared candidates

• Mikhail Bynkov (The Greens), nonprofit executive
• Yelena Gnyotova (Party of Growth), Commissioner for Entrepreneurs' Rights in Karelia (2013–present)
• Boris Kashin (CPRF), Member of State Duma (2007–present)
• Natalia Kiselene (Yabloko), agriculture executive
• Aleksey Malevanny (GP), former Member of Petrozavodsk City Council (2004–2011), businessman
• Irina Petelyayeva (A Just Russia), Member of State Duma (2016–present), 2003 Yabloko candidate for this seat
• Valentina Pivnenko (United Russia), Member of State Duma (2000–present)
• Igor Prokhorov (Patriots of Russia), former Minister of Internal Affairs of Karelia (1990–1994), Russian Police major general
• Nikolay Tarakanov (Rodina), former Member of Petrozavodsk City Council (2004–2007), businessman
• Timur Zornyakov (LDPR), Member of Legislative Assembly of the Republic of Karelia (2011–present), retired FSB podpolkovnik

Withdrawn candidates

• Vladimir Kertsev (CPCR), perennial candidate

Did not file

• Vladimir Lapshin (Independent), pensioner, 1999 candidate for this seat

Declined

• Grigory Fandeyev (United Russia), former Member of Legislative Assembly of the Republic of Karelia (2006–2011)^[11] (lost the primary)
• Yevgenia Medvedeva (United Russia), Member of Legislative Assembly of the Republic of Karelia (2011–present), 2006 Olympic Champion cross-country skier^[11] (lost the primary, ran on the party list)
• Elissan Shandalovich (United Russia), Member of Legislative Assembly of the Republic of Karelia (2011–present), chief doctor of the republican hospital^[11] (lost the primary, ran on the party list)
• Larisa Zhdanova (United Russia), Member of Legislative Assembly of the Republic of Karelia (2006–present)^[11] (lost the primary)

Results

|- ! colspan=2 style="background-color:#E9E9E9;text-align:left;vertical-align:top;" |Candidate ! style="background-color:#E9E9E9;text-align:left;vertical-align:top;" |Party ! style="background-color:#E9E9E9;text-align:right;" |Votes ! style="background-color:#E9E9E9;text-align:right;" |% |- |style="background-color:"| |align=left|Valentina Pivnenko |align=left|United Russia |77,653 |36.56% |- |style="background-color:"| |align=left|Irina Petelyayeva |align=left|A Just Russia |37,118 |17.48% |- |style="background-color:"| |align=left|Boris Kashin |align=left|Communist Party |24,369 |11.47% |- |style="background-color:"| |align=left|Timur Zornyakov |align=left|Liberal Democratic Party |21,776 |10.25% |- |style="background-color:"| |align=left|Natalia Kiselene |align=left|Yabloko |18,983 |8.94% |- |style="background-color:"| |align=left|Nikolay Tarakanov |align=left|Rodina |5,009 |2.36% |- |style="background-color:"| |align=left|Yelena Gnyotova |align=left|Party of Growth |4,996 |2.35% |- |style="background-color: "| |align=left|Igor Prokhorov |align=left|Patriots of Russia |4,572 |2.15% |- |style="background:"| |align=left|Mikhail Bynkov |align=left|The Greens |3,883 |1.83% |- |style="background:"| |align=left|Aleksey Malevanny |align=left|Civic Platform |2,338 |1.10% |- | colspan="5" style="background-color:#E9E9E9;"| |- style="font-weight:bold" | colspan="3" style="text-align:left;" | Total | 212,376 | 100% |- | colspan="5" style="background-color:#E9E9E9;"| |- style="font-weight:bold" | colspan="4" |Source: |^[12] |}

2021

Declared candidates

• Denis Bazankov (RPSS), television executive, journalist
• Aleksandr Chazhengin (RPPSS), former First Deputy Head of the Republic of Karelia (2012–2013), 1998 head candidate, 1999 Yabloko candidate for this seat
• Ivan Kadayas (Rodina), tour guide
• Vladimir Kvanin (New People), businessman
• Aleksandr Pakkuyev (LDPR), Member of Matrosy Council (2018–present), aide to State Duma member Igor Lebedev
• Valentina Pivnenko (United Russia), incumbent Member of State Duma (2000–present)
• Anna Pozdnyakova (Party of Growth), former Member of Legislative Assembly of the Republic of Karelia (2011–2016), mining executive
• Emilia Slabunova (Yabloko), Member of Legislative Assembly of the Republic of Karelia (2011–present), former chairwoman of the Yabloko party (2015–2019)
• Viktor Stepanov (SR–ZP), Member of Legislative Assembly of the Republic of Karelia (2006–present), former Head of the Republic of Karelia (1994–1998)
• Yevgeny Ulyanov (CPRF), Member of Legislative Assembly of the Republic of Karelia (2016–present), 2017 head candidate

Declined

• Anna Lopatkina (United Russia), Member of Legislative Assembly of the Republic of Karelia (2016–present)^[13] (lost the primary, ran on the party list)
• Elissan Shandalovich (United Russia), Chairman of the Legislative Assembly of the Republic of Karelia (2016–present), Member of the Legislative Assembly (2011–present)^[13] (lost the primary)

Results

|- ! colspan=2 style="background-color:#E9E9E9;text-align:left;vertical-align:top;" |Candidate ! style="background-color:#E9E9E9;text-align:left;vertical-align:top;" |Party ! style="background-color:#E9E9E9;text-align:right;" |Votes ! style="background-color:#E9E9E9;text-align:right;" |% |- |style="background-color: " | |align=left|Valentina Pivnenko (incumbent) |align=left|United Russia |55,677 |27.69% |- |style="background-color: " | |align=left|Emilia Slabunova |align=left|Yabloko |29,751 |14.79% |- |style="background-color: " | |align=left|Yevgeny Ulyanov |align=left|Communist Party |26,368 |13.11% |- |style="background-color: " | |align=left|Viktor Stepanov |align=left|A Just Russia — For Truth |25,858 |12.86% |- |style="background-color: " | |align=left|Aleksandr Chazhengin |align=left|Party of Pensioners |12,947 |6.44% |- |style="background-color: " | |align=left|Aleksandr Pakkuyev |align=left|Liberal Democratic Party |10,555 |5.25% |- |style="background-color: "| |align=left|Vladimir Kvanin |align=left|New People |10,122 |5.03% |- |style="background-color:"| |align=left|Anna Pozdnyakova |align=left|Party of Growth |8,956 |4.45% |- |style="background-color: "| |align=left|Denis Bazankov |align=left|Russian Party of Freedom and Justice |7,951 |3.95% |- |style="background-color: "| |align=left|Ivan Kadayas |align=left|Rodina |2,105 |1.05% |- | colspan="5" style="background-color:#E9E9E9;"| |- style="font-weight:bold" | colspan="3" style="text-align:left;" | Total | 201,105 | 100% |- | colspan="5" style="background-color:#E9E9E9;"| |- style="font-weight:bold" | colspan="4" |Source: |^[14] |}

2026

Potential candidates

• Andrey Monastyrshin (CPRF), Member of Legislative Assembly of the Republic of Karelia (2021–present)^[15]
• Valentina Pivnenko (United Russia), incumbent Member of State Duma (2000–present)^[16]

Notes

1. ^ No.16 in 1995-2003

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