Yelets constituency
Russian legislative constituency
Yelets single-member constituency 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)
The Yelets constituency (No.102) 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.
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
The constituency covered most of Lipetsk Oblast outside Lipetsk and its suburbs and included the towns of Dankov and Yelets .
Election results
1993
Declared candidates
Nikolay Butko (Independent ), chief of the South Eastern Railway Yelets division
Valentin Dmitriyevsky (Civic Union ), Deputy Head of the Gostekhnadzor Lipetsk Office, chairman of the People's Party "Free Russia" regional office, 1993 gubernatorial candidate
Oleg Grishkevich (CPRF ), former Member of Yelets City Council of People's Deputies (1990–1993), middle school principal
Dmitry Pitertsev (Independent ), chief of staff to the Presidential Envoy to Lipetsk Oblast
Viktor Repkin (Independent ), Head of the Lipetsk Oblast Department of Agriculture (1992–present)
Boris Shestakov (Independent ), chief doctor of the Yelets city children's dentist polyclinic
Vadim Sidorovich (BR–NI ), Chairman of the Yelets City Fund of Youth
Maria Sorokina (Independent ), former People's Deputy of Russia (1990–1993)
Aleksandr Sutormin (Independent ), journalist (previously ran as CPRF candidate)
Vladimir Zausaylov (Independent ), entrepreneur, ethnographer
Results
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
48,938
16.58%
Boris Shestakov
Independent
23,671
8.02%
Oleg Grishkevich
Communist Party
20,731
7.03%
Vladimir Zausaylov
Independent
20,208
6.85%
Dmitry Pitertsev
Independent
19,431
6.59%
Aleksandr Sutormin
Independent
17,693
6.00%
Nikolay Butko
Independent
11,863
4.02%
Valentin Dmitriyevsky
Civic Union
9,793
3.32%
Vadim Sidorovich
Future of Russia–New Names
5,919
2.01%
against all
42,057
14.25%
Total
295,075
100%
Source:
1995
Declared candidates
Pyotr Gorlov (BIR ), former Head of the Lipetsk Oblast Department of Agriculture (1994–1995)
Viktor Gorlov (Derzhava ), former Second Secretary of the CPSU Yelets City Committee (1969–1979)
Galina Ivannikova (NDR ), kolkhoz chairwoman
Abdulkhamid Mazhayev (For the Motherland! ), businessman
Viktor Repkin (APR ), incumbent Member of State Duma (1994–present)
Boris Shestakov (Independent ), chief doctor of the Yelets city children's dentist polyclinic, 1993 candidate for this seat
Vladimir Toporkov (CPRF ), former People's Deputy of Russia (1990–1993), former First Secretary of the CPSU Lipetsk Oblast Committee (1991)
Pavel Yevgrafov (Forward, Russia! ), Member of Yelets City Council of Deputies, chairman of the party city office
Results
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:
1999
Declared candidates
Aleksandr Chernyshov (NDR ), chief doctor of the municipal medical institution
Dmitry Dvugroshev (Independent ), regional consumers union chairman
Leonid Kovalyov (Nikolayev –Fyodorov Bloc), former Deputy Chief of the General Staff (1994–1995), retired Russian Army colonel general
Ruslan Krupoderov (DN ), director of the Modern University for the Humanities Yelets branch
Nikolay Malygin (Independent ), Moscow youth wresting federation president
Aleksandr Orishev (LDPR ), aide to State Duma member
Maria Sorokina (Independent ), former People's Deputy of Russia (1990–1993), 1993 candidate for this seat
Vladimir Toporkov (CPRF ), incumbent Member of State Duma (1996–present)
Boris Uvarov (ROS ), special investigator of the Prosecutor's Office of Russia
Anatoly Yakovlev (Independent ), businessman
Aleksandr Yeletskikh (SPS ), journalist
Results
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:
2003
Withdrawn candidates
Natalya Borodavkina (ORP Rus' ), educator
Notes
↑ No.101 in 1995-2003
↑ died in June 2003