title: Vologda constituency
text: # Vologda constituency
  
  The Vologda constituency (No.85) is a Russian legislative constituency in Vologda Oblast. The constituency covers central and eastern Vologda Oblast, including its capital — Vologda.
  
  ## Members elected
  
  | Election | Election | Member | Party |
  | - | - | - | - |
  | | 1993 | Tamara Leta | Agrarian Party |
  | | 1995 | Vladimir Lopatin | Independent |
  | | 1999 | Valentin Chayka | Independent |
  | | 2003 | Valentin Chayka | People's Party |
  | 2007 | 2007 | Proportional representation - no election by constituency | Proportional representation - no election by constituency |
  | Proportional representation - no election by constituency ||
  | | 2016 | Yevgeny Shulepov | United Russia |
  | | 2021 | Valentina Artamonova | United Russia |
  
  ## Election results
  
  ### 1993
  
  Summary of the 12 December 1993 Russian legislative election in the Vologda constituency :
  
  | Candidate | Candidate | Party | Votes | % |
  | - | - | - | - | - |
  | | Tamara Leta | Agrarian Party | 76,989 | 25.08% |
  | | Sergey Churkin | Liberal Democratic Party | - | 13.40% |
  | Total | Total | Total | 306,927 | 100% |
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  ### 1995
  
  Summary of the 17 December 1995 Russian legislative election in the Vologda constituency :
  
  | Candidate | Candidate | Party | Votes | % |
  | - | - | - | - | - |
  | | Vladimir Lopatin | Independent | 63,452 | 18.77% |
  | | Mikhail Surov | Party of Tax Cuts' Supporters | 41,441 | 12.26% |
  | | Tamara Leta (incumbent) | Agrarian Party | 39,211 | 11.60% |
  | | Nikolay Vodomerov | Communists and Working Russia - for the Soviet Union | 34,646 | 10.25% |
  | | Sergey Churkin | Liberal Democratic Party | 28,386 | 8.40% |
  | | Leonid Shonurov | Independent | 22,786 | 6.74% |
  | | Yury Sivkov | Our Home – Russia | 18,778 | 5.56% |
  | | Vladimir Smirnov | Democratic Choice of Russia – United Democrats | 16,321 | 4.83% |
  | | Lyudmila Kotesova | Independent | 16,315 | 4.83% |
  | | Aleksandr Lukichev | Social Democrats | 7,720 | 2.28% |
  | | Nikolay Klyuyev | Independent | 6,635 | 1.96% |
  | | Konstantin Shishin | Frontier Generation | 3,437 | 1.02% |
  | | Mikhail Gusev | Duma-96 | 2,063 | 0.61% |
  | | Vladimir Rachek | Independent | 1,772 | 0.52% |
  | | against all | against all | 28,337 | 8.38% |
  | Total | Total | Total | 338,010 | 100% |
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  ### 1999
  
  Summary of the 19 December 1999 Russian legislative election in the Vologda constituency :
  
  | Candidate | Candidate | Party | Votes | % |
  | - | - | - | - | - |
  | | Valentin Chayka | Independent | 98,796 | 30.10% |
  | | Aleksandr Leshukov | Fatherland – All Russia | 72,547 | 22.10% |
  | | Lyudmila Kotesova | Union of Right Forces | 32,595 | 9.93% |
  | | Vladimir Shepel | Yabloko | 19,452 | 5.93% |
  | | Viktor Akulov | Liberal Democratic Party | 10,873 | 3.31% |
  | | Nina Belyayeva | Andrey Nikolayev and Svyatoslav Fyodorov Bloc | 10,548 | 3.21% |
  | | Vyacheslav Goglev | Congress of Russian Communities-Yury Boldyrev Movement | 5,355 | 1.63% |
  | | Vladimir Kirillov | Independent | 4,673 | 1.42% |
  | | Aleksandr Voronin | Russian Socialist Party | 4,239 | 1.29% |
  | | Viktor Nikulshin | Independent | 3,232 | 0.98% |
  | | Bronislav Omelichev | Spiritual Heritage | 2,593 | 0.79% |
  | | against all | against all | 53,031 | 16.16% |
  | Total | Total | Total | 328,205 | 100% |
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  ### 2003
  
  Summary of the 7 December 2003 Russian legislative election in the Vologda constituency :
  
  | Candidate | Candidate | Party | Votes | % |
  | - | - | - | - | - |
  | | Valentin Chayka (incumbent) | People's Party | 152,437 | 50.52% |
  | | Mikhail Surov | Independent | 50,738 | 16.82% |
  | | Vladimir Bulanov | Agrarian Party | 38,197 | 12.66% |
  | | Viktor Anufriyev | Party of Russia's Rebirth-Russian Party of Life | 12,053 | 3.99% |
  | | Viktor Nefedov | United Russian Party Rus' | 2,470 | 0.82% |
  | | against all | against all | 40,431 | 13.40% |
  | Total | Total | Total | 301,995 | 100% |
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  ### 2016
  
  Summary of the 18 September 2016 Russian legislative election in the Vologda constituency :
  
  | Candidate | Candidate | Party | Votes | % |
  | - | - | - | - | - |
  | | Yevgeny Shulepov | United Russia | 66,358 | 32.33% |
  | | Anton Grimov | Liberal Democratic Party | 33,941 | 16.54% |
  | | Aleksandr Teltevskoy | A Just Russia | 28,872 | 14.07% |
  | | Mikhail Selin | Communist Party | 25,970 | 12.65% |
  | | Yevgeny Domozhirov | People's Freedom Party | 11,812 | 5.76% |
  | | Kirill Panko | Communists of Russia | 10,421 | 5.08% |
  | | Olga Milyukova | The Greens | 7,770 | 3.79% |
  | | Aleksey Nekrasov | Yabloko | 6,724 | 3.28% |
  | | Aleksey Mikhaylov | Party of Growth | 4,960 | 2.42% |
  | Total | Total | Total | 205,239 | 100% |
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  ### 2021
  
  Summary of the 17-19 September 2021 Russian legislative election in the Vologda constituency :
  
  | Candidate | Candidate | Party | Votes | % |
  | - | - | - | - | - |
  | | Valentina Artamonova | United Russia | 77,903 | 34.81% |
  | | Oleg Yershov | Communist Party | 50,271 | 22.46% |
  | | Viktor Leukhin | A Just Russia — For Truth | 23,091 | 10.32% |
  | | Anton Grimov | Liberal Democratic Party | 21,414 | 9.57% |
  | | Aleksandr Bolotov | Party of Pensioners | 17,325 | 7.74% |
  | | Andrey Pautov | New People | 13,063 | 5.84% |
  | | Olga Domozhirova | Yabloko | 7,946 | 3.55% |
  | | Ilya Anferyev | Rodina | 4,462 | 1.99% |
  | Total | Total | Total | 223,825 | 100% |
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