title: Karelia constituency
text: # Karelia constituency
  
  The Karelia Constituency (No.17) is a Russian legislative constituency in the Republic of Karelia. The constituency is the only one in Karelia, and occupies the whole of its territory.
  
  ## Members elected
  
  | Election | Election | Member | Party |
  | - | - | - | - |
  | | 1993 | Ivan Chukhin | Choice of Russia |
  | | 1995 | Larisa Zlobina | Independent |
  | | 1999 | Valentina Pivnenko | Independent |
  | | 2003 | Valentina Pivnenko | United Russia |
  | 2007 | 2007 | Proportional representation - no election by constituency | Proportional representation - no election by constituency |
  | Proportional representation - no election by constituency ||
  | | 2016 | Valentina Pivnenko | United Russia |
  | | 2021 | Valentina Pivnenko | United Russia |
  
  ## Election results
  
  ### 1993
  
  Summary of the 12 December 1993 Russian legislative election in the Karelia constituency :
  
  | Candidate | Candidate | Party | Votes | % |
  | - | - | - | - | - |
  | | Ivan Chukhin | Choice of Russia | 112,803 | 36.98% |
  | | Anatoly Anikeyev | Independent | - | 21.20% |
  | Total | Total | Total | 305,015 | 100% |
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  ### 1995
  
  Summary of the 17 December 1995 Russian legislative election in the Karelia constituency :
  
  | Candidate | Candidate | Party | Votes | % |
  | - | - | - | - | - |
  | | Larisa Zlobina | Independent | 101,894 | 28.12% |
  | | Natalya Kotsyuba | Our Home – Russia | 64,462 | 17.79% |
  | | Boris Tyukov | Communist Party | 48,173 | 13.29% |
  | | Ivan Chukhin (incumbent) | Democratic Choice of Russia – United Democrats | 34,992 | 9.66% |
  | | Mikhail Maksimov | Liberal Democratic Party | 23,321 | 6.44% |
  | | Anatoly Artemyev | Independent | 21,749 | 6.00% |
  | | Nikolay Levin | For the Motherland! | 13,644 | 3.76% |
  | | Aleksandr Titov | Independent | 7,095 | 1.96% |
  | | Sergey Romanenko | Independent | 2,875 | 0.79% |
  | | against all | against all | 36,970 | 10.20% |
  | Total | Total | Total | 362,391 | 100% |
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  ### 1999
  
  Summary of the 19 December 1999 Russian legislative election in the Karelia constituency :
  
  | Candidate | Candidate | Party | Votes | % |
  | - | - | - | - | - |
  | | Valentina Pivnenko | Independent | 106,371 | 30.46% |
  | | Aleksandr Chazhengin | Yabloko | 47,045 | 13.47% |
  | | Artur Myaki | Union of Right Forces | 45,818 | 13.12% |
  | | Boris Tyukov | Communist Party | 42,489 | 12.17% |
  | | Larisa Zlobina (incumbent) | Russian Socialist Party | 27,767 | 7.95% |
  | | Mikhail Maksimov | Liberal Democratic Party | 21,580 | 6.18% |
  | | Mikhail Mrykhin | Congress of Russian Communities-Yury Boldyrev Movement | 6,661 | 1.91% |
  | | against all | against all | 44,582 | 12.77% |
  | Total | Total | Total | 349,224 | 100% |
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  ### 2003
  
  Summary of the 7 December 2003 Russian legislative election in the Karelia constituency :
  
  | Candidate | Candidate | Party | Votes | % |
  | - | - | - | - | - |
  | | Valentina Pivnenko (incumbent) | United Russia | 150,521 | 50.44% |
  | | Irina Petelyayeva | Yabloko | 52,198 | 17.49% |
  | | Artur Myaki | Union of Right Forces | 30,589 | 10.25% |
  | | Boris Tyukov | Communist Party | 17,911 | 6.00% |
  | | Aleksey Belyaninov | Independent | 8,399 | 2.81% |
  | | Viktor Potiyevsky | United Russian Party Rus' | 2,312 | 0.77% |
  | | Vladimir Shilik | Great Russia–Eurasian Union | 1,972 | 0.66% |
  | | Vladimir Liminchuk | Party of Russia's Rebirth-Russian Party of Life | 1,947 | 0.65% |
  | | against all | against all | 28,723 | 9.62% |
  | Total | Total | Total | 298,683 | 100% |
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  ### 2016
  
  Summary of the 18 September 2016 Russian legislative election in the Karelia constituency :
  
  | Candidate | Candidate | Party | Votes | % |
  | - | - | - | - | - |
  | | Valentina Pivnenko | United Russia | 77,653 | 36.56% |
  | | Irina Petelyayeva | A Just Russia | 37,118 | 17.48% |
  | | Boris Kashin | Communist Party | 24,369 | 11.47% |
  | | Timur Zornyakov | Liberal Democratic Party | 21,776 | 10.25% |
  | | Natalia Kiselene | Yabloko | 18,983 | 8.94% |
  | | Nikolay Tarakanov | Rodina | 5,009 | 2.36% |
  | | Yelena Gnyotova | Party of Growth | 4,996 | 2.35% |
  | | Igor Prokhorov | Patriots of Russia | 4,572 | 2.15% |
  | | Mikhail Bynkov | The Greens | 3,883 | 1.83% |
  | | Aleksey Malevanny | Civic Platform | 2,338 | 1.10% |
  | Total | Total | Total | 212,376 | 100% |
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  ### 2021
  
  Summary of the 17-19 September 2021 Russian legislative election in the Karelia constituency :
  
  | Candidate | Candidate | Party | Votes | % |
  | - | - | - | - | - |
  | | Valentina Pivnenko (incumbent) | United Russia | 55,677 | 27.69% |
  | | Emilia Slabunova | Yabloko | 29,751 | 14.79% |
  | | Yevgeny Ulyanov | Communist Party | 26,368 | 13.11% |
  | | Viktor Stepanov | A Just Russia — For Truth | 25,858 | 12.86% |
  | | Aleksandr Chazhengin | Party of Pensioners | 12,947 | 6.44% |
  | | Aleksandr Pakkuyev | Liberal Democratic Party | 10,555 | 5.25% |
  | | Vladimir Kvanin | New People | 10,122 | 5.03% |
  | | Anna Pozdnyakova | Party of Growth | 8,956 | 4.45% |
  | | Denis Bazankov | Russian Party of Freedom and Justice | 7,951 | 3.95% |
  | | Ivan Kadayas | Rodina | 2,105 | 1.05% |
  | Total | Total | Total | 201,105 | 100% |
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