Eastern constituency (Saint Petersburg)

Eastern single-member constituency
Constituency of the Russian State Duma

Deputy	Mikhail Romanov United Russia
Federal subject	Saint Petersburg
Districts	Nevsky, Tsentralny (Ligovka-Yamskaya, Smolninskoye)
Other territory	Germany (Bonn-3)
Voters	454,251 (2021)

The Eastern constituency (No.211) is a Russian legislative constituency in Saint Petersburg. The constituency was initially created in 1995 from parts of North East and South East constituencies and was based in eastern Saint Petersburg. The constituency was significantly altered in 2016 as nearly all of former Eastern constituency was placed into reestablished North Eastern constituency, while new Eastern constituency is based in Nevsky District, which has been taken from Southern constituency.

Members elected

Election		Member	Party
	1995	Yury Nesterov	Yabloko
	1999	Irina Khakamada	Union of Right Forces
	2003	A by-election was scheduled after Against all line received the most votes
	2004	Aleksandr Morozov	Independent
2007		Proportional representation - no election by constituency
2011		Proportional representation - no election by constituency
	2016	Igor Divinsky	United Russia
	2021	Mikhail Romanov	United Russia

1995

Summary of the 17 December 1995 Russian legislative election in the Eastern constituency
Candidate		Party	Votes	%
	Yury Nesterov	Yabloko	52,043	17.27%
	Konstantin Serov	Independent	25,753	8.55%
	Pyotr Glushchenko	Communist Party	23,969	7.96%
	Vladimir Serdyukov	Stanislav Govorukhin Bloc	23,904	7.93%
	Dmitry Rozhdestvensky	Independent	19,244	6.39%
	Yury Belyayev	Independent	15,879	5.27%
	Sergey Vakulov	Communists and Working Russia - for the Soviet Union	13,421	4.45%
	Sergey Vymenets	Independent	13,009	4.32%
	Vladimir Luchkevich	Independent	12,103	4.02%
	Mikhail Pirogov	Congress of Russian Communities	11,798	3.92%
	Valery Andreyev	Forward, Russia!	8,260	2.74%
	Anatoly Pshenichnikov	Party of Workers' Self-Government	7,415	2.46%
	Mikhail Ivanov	Liberal Democratic Party	6,873	2.28%
	Aleksandr Trafimov	Agrarian Party	5,272	1.75%
	Aleksey Chernetsov	Independent	4,586	1.52%
	Nikolay Golubev	Independent	3,935	1.31%
	Vitaly Rystov	Independent	3,464	1.15%
	Shukhrat Sayfullayev	Independent	2,829	0.94%
	Aleksey Motorin	Independent	2,345	0.78%
	Aleksey Zelenkov	Independent	2,071	0.69%
	against all		34,928	11.59%

Total			301,302	100%

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1999

Summary of the 19 December 1999 Russian legislative election in the Eastern constituency
Candidate		Party	Votes	%
	Irina Khakamada	Union of Right Forces	64,132	23.49%
	Aleksandr Morozov	Party of Pensioners	46,109	16.89%
	Stepan Shabanov	Communist Party	33,073	12.11%
	Yury Nesterov (incumbent)	Yabloko	25,692	9.41%
	Vladimir Serdyukov	Independent	17,041	6.24%
	Igor Vysotsky	Independent	10,338	3.79%
	Yevgeny Kozlov	Independent	7,843	2.87%
	Lyudmila Smirnova	Liberal Democratic Party	7,596	2.78%
	Sergey Kovalev	Russian Socialist Party	5,713	2.09%
	Valentin Kovalevsky	Independent	4,909	1.80%
	Ilya Konstantinov	Spiritual Heritage	2,604	0.95%
	Oleg Yerokhov	Independent	1,325	0.49%
	against all		42,826	15.69%

Total			273,000	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 Eastern constituency
Candidate		Party	Votes	%
	Irina Rodnina	United Russia	42,568	21.84%
	Grigory Tomchin	Union of Right Forces	32,946	16.90%
	Yury Gatchin	Communist Party	16,945	8.69%
	Andrey Ananov	Independent	16,077	8.25%
	Valentin Nikolsky	Independent	13,985	7.17%
	Aleksandr Koltsov	Liberal Democratic Party	7,615	3.95%
	Nadezhda Shumeyko	Great Russia – Eurasian Union	6,123	3.14%
	Nikolay Bondarik	Independent	4,391	2.25%
	Aleksandr Yegorov	People's Party	4,010	2.06%
	against all		46,646	23.93%

Total			195,176	100%

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2004

Summary of the 14 March 2004 by-election in the Eastern constituency
Candidate		Party	Votes	%
	Aleksandr Morozov	Independent	58,380	23.56%
	Anna Markova	Independent	45,244	18.26%
	Sergey Andreyev	Independent	36,297	14.65%
	Grigory Tomchin	Independent	27,039	10.91%
	Yury Gatchin	Communist Party	6,001	2.42%
	Inna Safronova	Independent	4,532	1.82%
	Andrey Yelchaninov	Independent	3,756	1.51%
	Gennady Turetsky	Russian Communist Workers Party-Russian Party of Communists	3,537	1.42%
	Sergey Tikhomirov	Liberal Democratic Party	3,485	1.40%
	Oleg Prosypkin	Rodina	2,926	1.18%
	Elvira Sharova	Independent	1,525	0.61%
	against all		50,584	20.41%

Total			247,724	100%

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2016

Summary of the 18 September 2016 Russian legislative election in the Eastern constituency
Candidate		Party	Votes	%
	Igor Divinsky	United Russia	47,703	35.67%
	Vladislav Bakulin	Party of Growth	15,274	11.42%
	Viktor Lozhechko	A Just Russia	11,931	8.92%
	Mikhail Stupakov	Yabloko	11,921	8.91%
	Sergey Kozhanchi	Liberal Democratic Party	11,639	8.70%
	Olga Khodunova	Communist Party	11,210	8.38%
	Irina Melnikova	People's Freedom Party	7,112	5.32%
	Yury Savin	Communists of Russia	4,900	3.66%
	Andrey Ivanov	Rodina	4,752	3.55%
	Konstantin Lavrinyuk	Patriots of Russia	1,380	1.03%
	Mikhail Koyfman	Civic Platform	964	0.72%

Total			133,736	100%

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2021

Summary of the 17-19 September 2021 Russian legislative election in the Eastern constituency
Candidate		Party	Votes	%
	Mikhail Romanov	United Russia	63,856	37.61%
	Olga Khodunova	Communist Party	31,637	18.63%
	Viktor Lozhechko	A Just Russia — For Truth	16,746	9.86%
	Ksenia Goryacheva	New People	11,063	6.52%
	Vladislav Bakulin	Party of Growth	10,727	6.32%
	Maksim Gogolin	Party of Pensioners	6,981	4.11%
	Maksim Stetsura	Liberal Democratic Party	6,279	3.70%
	Nikita Sorokin	Yabloko	6,128	3.61%
	Asya Borzova	The Greens	4,841	2.85%
	Nina Abrosova	Rodina	3,203	1.89%
	Ilona Khanina	Civic Platform	1,323	0.78%

Total			169,795	100%

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Notes

No.207 in 1995-2007

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