# Central constituency (Moscow)

The Central Constituency (No.208) is a Russian legislative constituency in Moscow. The constituency includes Central Moscow and Lefortovo District of the South-Eastern Moscow.

## Members elected

| Election | Election | Member | Party |
| | 1993 | Artyom Tarasov | Independent |
| | 1995 | Nikolay Gonchar | Independent |
| | 1999 | Nikolay Gonchar | Independent |
| | 2003 | Nikolay Gonchar | Independent |
| 2007 | 2007 | Proportional representation - no election by constituency | Proportional representation - no election by constituency |
| Proportional representation - no election by constituency ||
| | 2016 | Nikolay Gonchar | United Russia |
| | 2021 | Oleg Leonov | Independent |

## Election results
### 1993

Summary of the 12 December 1993 Russian legislative election in the Central constituency :
| Candidate | Candidate | Party | Votes | % |
| | Artyom Tarasov | Independent | 37,966 | 14.12% |
| | Fyodor Shelov-Kovedyaev | Independent | - | 13.76% |
| Total | Total | Total | 268,877 | 100% |
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### 1995

Summary of the 17 December 1995 Russian legislative election in the Central constituency :
| Candidate | Candidate | Party | Votes | % |
| | Nikolay Gonchar | Independent | 74,175 | 25.85% |
| | Fyodor Shelov-Kovedyaev | Democratic Choice of Russia – United Democrats | 33,631 | 11.72% |
| | Mikhail Motorin | Yabloko | 27,551 | 9.60% |
| | Aleksey Podberezkin | Communist Party | 26,811 | 9.34% |
| | Aleksandr Krasnov | Stanislav Govorukhin Bloc | 16,482 | 5.74% |
| | Sergey Goncharov | Congress of Russian Communities | 16,051 | 5.59% |
| | Andrey Nuykin | Independent | 10,813 | 3.77% |
| | Tatyana Krylova | Independent | 9,080 | 3.16% |
| | Galina Khovanskaya | Independent | 7,925 | 2.76% |
| | Valery Belousov | Independent | 6,490 | 2.26% |
| | Boris Uvarov | Power to the People! | 5,967 | 2.08% |
| | Andrey Shestakov | Independent | 5,030 | 1.75% |
| | Andrey Strygin | Liberal Democratic Party | 3,816 | 1.33% |
| | Nikolay Chigarentsev | Independent | 3,357 | 1.17% |
| | Sergey Chernyakhovsky | Communists and Working Russia - for the Soviet Union | 3,349 | 1.17% |
| | Yevgeny Shvedov | Independent | 2,285 | 0.80% |
| | Sergey Drogush | Independent | 1,174 | 0.41% |
| | Igor Brumel' | Independent | 1,044 | 0.36% |
| | against all | against all | 26,975 | 9.40% |
| Total | Total | Total | 286,917 | 100% |
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### 1999

Summary of the 19 December 1999 Russian legislative election in the Central constituency :
| Candidate | Candidate | Party | Votes | % |
| | Nikolay Gonchar (incumbent) | Independent | 88,456 | 32.24% |
| | Aleksandr Minkin | Independent | 65,644 | 23.92% |
| | Alla Gerber | Union of Right Forces | 31,048 | 11.32% |
| | Aleksey Rogozhin | Independent | 14,662 | 5.34% |
| | Aleksey Podberezkin | Spiritual Heritage | 12,601 | 4.59% |
| | Sergey Ruzavin | Independent | 11,055 | 4.03% |
| | Gennady Bulgakov | Liberal Democratic Party | 4,175 | 1.52% |
| | Valery Bobkov | Independent | 3,399 | 1.24% |
| | Sergey Shevchenko | Independent | 3,095 | 1.13% |
| | Grigory Loza | Russian Socialist Party | 2,783 | 1.01% |
| | against all | against all | 32,151 | 11.72% |
| Total | Total | Total | 274,390 | 100% |
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### 2003

Summary of the 7 December 2003 Russian legislative election in the Central constituency :
| Candidate | Candidate | Party | Votes | % |
| | Nikolay Gonchar (incumbent) | Independent | 97,066 | 36.57% |
| | Aleksandr Pleshakov | Independent | 34,860 | 13.13% |
| | Olga Andronova | Rodina | 28,780 | 10.84% |
| | Yelena Karpukhina | Communist Party | 26,471 | 9.97% |
| | Aleksandr Russky | Independent | 5,837 | 2.20% |
| | Boris Pashintsev | Independent | 4,789 | 1.80% |
| | Igor Vashurkin | Great Russia–Eurasian Union | 3,848 | 1.45% |
| | Aleksandr Kuznetsov | United Russian Party Rus' | 3,848 | 1.45% |
| | against all | against all | 56,489 | 21.28% |
| Total | Total | Total | 266,649 | 100% |
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### 2016

Summary of the 18 September 2016 Russian legislative election in the Central constituency :
| Candidate | Candidate | Party | Votes | % |
| | Nikolay Gonchar | United Russia | 57,110 | 34.25% |
| | Pavel Tarasov | Communist Party | 21,442 | 12.86% |
| | Andrey Zubov | People's Freedom Party | 18,789 | 11.27% |
| | Maria Baronova | Independent | 13,197 | 7.92% |
| | Mikhail Degtyarev | Liberal Democratic Party | 12,573 | 7.54% |
| | Kristina Simonyan | A Just Russia | 8,095 | 4.86% |
| | Ksenia Sokolova | Party of Growth | 6,912 | 4.15% |
| | Maria Katasonova | Rodina | 6,569 | 3.94% |
| | Dmitry Zakharov | Communists of Russia | 4,956 | 2.97% |
| | Anton Umnikov | The Greens | 4,125 | 2.47% |
| | Andrey Rudenko | Civic Platform | 3,160 | 1.90% |
| | Oleg Eston | Patriots of Russia | 2,744 | 1.65% |
| | Aleksey Mikhaylov | Civilian Power | 2,338 | 1.40% |
| Total | Total | Total | 166,733 | 100% |
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### 2021

Summary of the 17-19 September 2021 Russian legislative election in the Central constituency :
| Candidate | Candidate | Party | Votes | % |
| | Oleg Leonov | Independent | 57,505 | 26.28% |
| | Sergey Mitrokhin | Yabloko | 47,815 | 21.85% |
| | Nina Ostanina | Communist Party | 22,146 | 10.12% |
| | Maksim Shevchenko | Russian Party of Freedom and Justice | 13,961 | 6.38% |
| | Andrey Shirokov | Party of Pensioners | 13,935 | 6.37% |
| | Tatyana Vinnitskaya | New People | 13,787 | 6.30% |
| | Magomet Yandiev | A Just Russia — For Truth | 12,979 | 5.93% |
| | Dmitry Koshlakov-Krestovsky | Liberal Democratic Party | 11,533 | 5.28% |
| | Dmitry Zakharov | Communists of Russia | 7,411 | 3.39% |
| | Ketevan Kharaidze | Green Alternative | 5,745 | 2.63% |
| | Yakov Yakubovich | Party of Growth | 4,219 | 1.93% |
| | Anatoly Yushin | Civic Platform | 2,307 | 1.05% |
| Total | Total | Total | 218,839 | 100% |
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