Sverdlovsk constituency

The Sverdlovsk constituency (No.168) is a Russian legislative constituency in Sverdlovsk Oblast. Until 2007 the constituency covered western half of Yekaterinburg, however, after 2015 redistricting the constituency was expanded to Yekaterinburg satellite cities of Verkhnyaya Pyshma and Sredneuralsk.

Sverdlovsk single-member constituency
Constituency of the Russian State Duma
Deputy	Andrey Alshevskikh United Russia
Federal subject	Sverdlovsk Oblast
Districts	Sredneuralsk, Verkhnyaya Pyshma, Yekaterinburg (Leninsky, Verkh-Isetsky, Zheleznodorozhny)
Voters	535,162 (2021)

Members elected

Election		Member	Party
	1993	Larisa Mishustina	Choice of Russia
	1995	Yevgeny Zyablitsev	Independent
	1999	A by-election was scheduled after Against all line received the most votes
	2000	Yevgeny Zyablitsev	Independent
	2003	A by-election was scheduled after Against all line received the most votes
	2004	Yevgeny Zyablitsev	Independent
2007		Proportional representation - no election by constituency
2011
	2016	Andrey Alshevskikh	United Russia
	2021

Election results

1993

Summary of the 12 December 1993 Russian legislative election in the Verkh-Isetsky constituency

Candidate		Party	Votes	%
	Larisa Mishustina	Choice of Russia	67,066	26.73%
	Oleg Dolganov	Independent	-	18.52%
Total			250,904	100%
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1995

Summary of the 17 December 1995 Russian legislative election in the Verkh-Isetsky constituency

Candidate		Party	Votes	%
	Yevgeny Zyablitsev	Independent	83,131	29.91%
	Larisa Mishustina (incumbent)	Democratic Choice of Russia – United Democrats	58,020	20.88%
	Aleksandr Tatarkin	My Fatherland	21,124	7.60%
	Oleg Dolganov	Democratic Alternative	16,204	5.83%
	Viktor Chepulyanis	Congress of Russian Communities	13,512	4.86%
	Natalya Ponomareva	Independent	9,195	3.31%
	Aleksey Kutsev	Liberal Democratic Party	7,911	2.85%
	Aleksandr Mironov	Independent	5,801	2.09%
	Gennady Kazakov	Independent	5,024	1.81%
	Boris Guseletov	Social Democrats	4,771	1.72%
	Aleksandr Sazonov	Independent	2,551	0.92%
	against all		44,539	16.03%
Total			277,914	100%
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1999

A by-election was scheduled after Against all line received the most votes.

Summary of the 19 December 1999 Russian legislative election in the Verkh-Isetsky constituency

Candidate		Party	Votes	%
	Larisa Mishustina	Yabloko	59,702	20.33%
	Igor Kovpak	Independent	59,697	20.33%
	Vyacheslav Teplyakov	Communist Party	22,090	7.52%
	Yury Samarin	Independent	16,500	5.62%
	Yury Alekseyev	Independent	13,075	4.45%
	Vladislav Kavtrev	Independent	11,463	3.90%
	Vladimir Zelenkov	Independent	7,646	2.60%
	Aleksandr Kobelev	Andrey Nikolayev and Svyatoslav Fyodorov Bloc	6,928	2.36%
	Sergey Rybakov	Spiritual Heritage	5,354	1.82%
	Vladimir Dmitriyev	Russian All-People's Union	3,589	1.22%
	Valery Zimin	Russian Socialist Party	2,466	0.84%
	Vladimir Sokovnin	Independent	1,829	0.62%
	against all		69,297	23.60%
Total			293,640	100%
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2000

Summary of the 26 March 2000 by-election in the Verkh-Isetsky constituency

Candidate		Party	Votes	%
	Yevgeny Zyablitsev	Independent	108,690	32.24%
	Igor Kovpak	Independent	77,618	23.02%
	Anatoly Churkin	Independent	29,720	8.82%
	Pavel Fedulev	Independent	17,844	5.29%
	Vladimir Dmitriyev	Independent	11,257	3.34%
	against all		79,510	23.58%
Total			293,315	100%
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2003

A by-election was scheduled after Against all line received the most votes.

Summary of the 7 December 2003 Russian legislative election in the Verkh-Isetsky constituency

Candidate		Party	Votes	%
	Yevgeny Zyablitsev (incumbent)	People’s Party	63,308	21.58%
	Nikolay Timofeyev	Independent	49,519	16.88%
	Aleksandr Bogachev	Independent	36,692	12.51%
	Maria Dronova	Yabloko	18,484	6.30%
	Eduard Khudyakov	Independent	14,933	5.09%
	Aleksey Zyablitsev	Independent	9,568	3.26%
	Aleksey Starikov	Independent	7,737	2.64%
	Vladimir Taskayev	Liberal Democratic Party	6,427	2.19%
	Sergey Kolosovsky	United Russian Party Rus'	3,434	1.17%
	Oleg Shumovsky	Independent	2,066	0.70%
	Yury Chukharev	Independent	1,898	0.65%
	Andrey Chuprov	Independent	1,165	0.40%
	Anatoly Neuymin	Independent	782	0.27%
	against all		67,541	23.03%
Total			293,558	100%
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2004

Summary of the 14 March 2004 by-election in the Verkh-Isetsky constituency

Candidate		Party	Votes	%
	Yevgeny Zyablitsev	Independent	96,118	32.10%
	Vasily Shandybin	Communist Party	26,339	8.79%
	Nikolay Timofeyev	Independent	24,778	8.27%
	Konstantin Tsybko	Independent	16,864	5.63%
	Yury Kuznetsov	Independent	15,491	5.17%
	Oleg Lazarev	Independent	9,410	3.14%
	Vladimir Taskayev	Liberal Democratic Party	8,091	2.70%
	Aleksey Zyablitsev	Independent	8,077	2.69%
	Natalya Rosseykina	Russian Communist Workers Party-Russian Party of Communists	6,731	2.24%
	Nikolay Volkov	Independent	5,026	1.67%
	Andrey Timofeyev	Independent	1,913	0.63%
	against all		70,686	23.61%
Total			299,384	100%
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2016

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

Candidate		Party	Votes	%
	Andrey Alshevskikh	United Russia	76,390	38.67%
	Valery Chereshnev	A Just Russia	36,863	18.66%
	Rimma Skomorokhova	Communist Party	20,948	10.61%
	Denis Sizov	Liberal Democratic Party	18,104	9.17%
	Vladimir Shabanov	Rodina	9,208	4.66%
	Feliks Rivkin	People's Freedom Party	8,861	4.49%
	Denis Gayev	The Greens	8,340	4.22%
	Sergey Zaytsev	Communists of Russia	6,023	3.05%
Total			197,528	100%
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2021

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

Candidate		Party	Votes	%
	Andrey Alshevskikh (incumbent)	United Russia	73,869	32.94%
	Vladislav Postnikov	Yabloko	29,053	12.96%
	Oksana Ivanova	A Just Russia — For Truth	28,689	12.79%
	Rimma Skomorokhova	Communist Party	25,210	11.24%
	Nikolay Nikolayev	New People	22,207	9.90%
	Dmitry Zenov	Communists of Russia	11,038	4.92%
	Sergey Prokofyev	Liberal Democratic Party	9,429	4.20%
	Vladimir Avdiysky	Party of Pensioners	9,067	4.04%
	Sergey Yusupov	Rodina	3,651	1.63%
Total			224,246	100%
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