# Samara constituency

Samara constituency (No. 158) is a Russian legislative constituency in Samara Oblast. In its current configuration the constituency covers parts of Samara, Novokuybyshevsk and south-eastern Samara Oblast.
The constituency has been vacant since December 5, 2024, following the resignation of five-term United Russia deputy, former investigative journalist and Chairman of the Duma Committee on Information Policy, Information Technologies and Communications, who was appointed acting Governor of Kursk Oblast.

## Boundaries

1993–2007: Samara (Kuybyshevsky, Leninsky, Oktyabrsky, Samarsky, Sovetsky, Zheleznodorozhny) The constituency was based in urban Samara and covered southern and central Samara.
2016–present: Alexeyevsky District, Bolsheglushitsky District, Bolshechernigovsky District, most of Volzhsky District (except its north-eastern part), Neftegorsky District, Novokuybyshevsk, parts of Samara (Kuybyshevsky, Leninsky, Oktyabrsky, Samarsky, Zheleznodorozhny) The constituency was re-created for the 2016 election and in its new configuration it took southern half of Samara, industrial city of Novokuybyshevsk to the south-west, from the eliminated Novokuybyshevsk constituency and rural areas in the south-eastern corner of Samara Oblast, from former Syzran constituency.

## Members

By-election are shown in italics.
| Election | Election | Member | Party |
| | 1993 | Lyubov Rozhkova | Communist Party |
| | 1995 | Vladimir Tarachyov | Our Home – Russia |
| | 1995 | Aleksandr Belousov | Independent |
| | 2003 | Aleksandr Belousov | People's Party |
| 2007 | 2007 | Proportional representation - no election by constituency | Proportional representation - no election by constituency |
| Proportional representation - no election by constituency ||
| | 2016 | Nadezhda Kolesnikova | United Russia |
| | 2018 | Alexander Khinshtein | United Russia |
| | 2021 | Alexander Khinshtein | United Russia |
| | 2025 | TBD | TBD |

## Election results
### 1993

Summary of the 12 December 1993 Russian legislative election in the Samara constituency :
| Candidate | Candidate | Party | Votes | % |
| | Lyubov Rozhkova | Communist Party | 50,787 | 21.56% |
| | Vladimir Belousov | Russian Democratic Reform Movement | – | – |
| | Yevgeny Kladishchev | Independent | – | – |
| | Valery Ovchinnikov | Yavlinsky–Boldyrev–Lukin | – | – |
| | Yevgeny Pavlov | Independent | – | – |
| | Maria Voronina | Independent | – | – |
| | Andrey Yeremin | Independent | – | – |
| | Yury Yerugin | Future of Russia–New Names | – | – |
| | Yury Yudin | Independent | – | – |
| | Sergey Yurin | Democratic Party | – | – |
| Total | Total | Total | 235,578 | 100% |
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### 1995

Summary of the 17 December 1995 Russian legislative election in the Samara constituency :
| Candidate | Candidate | Party | Votes | % |
| | Vladimir Tarachyov | Our Home – Russia | 36,801 | 12.73% |
| | Lyubov Rozhkova (incumbent) | Independent | 33,879 | 11.72% |
| | Yury Sakharnov | Trade Unions and Industrialists – Union of Labour | 32,087 | 11.10% |
| | Natalya Morozova | Union of Communists | 28,135 | 9.74% |
| | Vladimir Zakharchenko | Independent | 25,308 | 8.76% |
| | Vladimir Shorin | Independent | 21,969 | 7.60% |
| | Valery Semyonychev | Bloc of Independents | 12,019 | 4.16% |
| | Mark Feygin | Democratic Choice of Russia – United Democrats | 11,818 | 4.09% |
| | Andrey Kireev | Liberal Democratic Party | 11,228 | 3.89% |
| | Yevgeny Lartsev | Stanislav Govorukhin Bloc | 9,825 | 3.40% |
| | Yevgeny Kladishchev | Independent | 8,234 | 2.85% |
| | Sergey Trakhirov | Ivan Rybkin Bloc | 7,322 | 2.53% |
| | Aleksey Leushkin | Stable Russia | 7,059 | 2.44% |
| | Oleg Tikhonov | Pamfilova–Gurov–Lysenko | 6,451 | 2.23% |
| | Vladislav Marshansky | Independent | 1,969 | 0.68% |
| | against all | against all | 26,422 | 9.14% |
| Total | Total | Total | 288,989 | 100% |
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### 1999

Summary of the 19 December 1999 Russian legislative election in the Samara constituency :
| Candidate | Candidate | Party | Votes | % |
| | Aleksandr Belousov | Independent | 95,214 | 34.89% |
| | Nikolay Musatkin | Communist Party | 57,049 | 20.90% |
| | Vladimir Tarachyov (incumbent) | Unity | 32,942 | 12.07% |
| | Vyacheslav Sonin | Independent | 25,245 | 9.25% |
| | Nikolay Gavrilov | Yabloko | 12,987 | 4.76% |
| | Vladimir Zakharchenko | Independent | 11,617 | 4.26% |
| | Leonid Tikhun | Andrey Nikolayev and Svyatoslav Fyodorov Bloc | 4,071 | 1.49% |
| | Aleksandr Shvarev | Party of Pensioners | 3,119 | 1.14% |
| | Yury Yudin | Russian Ecological Party "Kedr" | 2,774 | 1.02% |
| | Lyubov Rozhkova | Russian Party | 2,709 | 0.99% |
| | against all | against all | 21,979 | 8.05% |
| Total | Total | Total | 272,927 | 100% |
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### 2003

Summary of the 7 December 2003 Russian legislative election in the Samara constituency :
| Candidate | Candidate | Party | Votes | % |
| | Aleksandr Belousov (incumbent) | People's Party | 67,844 | 32.37% |
| | Sergey Orlov | Communist Party | 28,520 | 13.61% |
| | Irina Skupova | Yabloko | 21,983 | 10.49% |
| | Mikhail Matveyev | Independent | 14,078 | 6.72% |
| | Vladimir Sherstnev | Rodina | 12,899 | 6.15% |
| | Vladislav Loskutov | Independent | 9,136 | 4.36% |
| | Pyotr Yershov | Liberal Democratic Party | 9,041 | 4.31% |
| | Aleksandr Martynov | Party of Russia's Rebirth-Russian Party of Life | 3,883 | 1.85% |
| | Anatoly Morozenko | Independent | 1,437 | 0.69% |
| | Yevgeny Yezhov | Independent | 1,353 | 0.65% |
| | Nikolay Prokhodtsev | United Russian Party Rus' | 1,160 | 0.55% |
| | Nikolay Pereyaslov | Great Russia–Eurasian Union | 991 | 0.47% |
| | against all | against all | 34,277 | 16.35% |
| Total | Total | Total | 210,237 | 100% |
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### 2016

Summary of the 18 September 2016 Russian legislative election in the Samara constituency :
| Candidate | Candidate | Party | Votes | % |
| | Nadezhda Kolesnikova | United Russia | 109,435 | 45.03% |
| | Mikhail Matveyev | Communist Party | 49,984 | 20.57% |
| | Oksana Lantsova | Liberal Democratic Party | 24,104 | 9.92% |
| | Vadim Baykov | Communists of Russia | 11,781 | 4.85% |
| | Pyotr Zolotarev | A Just Russia | 11,432 | 4.70% |
| | Sergey Sovetkin | Yabloko | 6,126 | 2.52% |
| | Yekaterina Gerasimova | People's Freedom Party | 5,843 | 2.40% |
| | Pyotr Vasilyev | Party of Growth | 4,488 | 1.85% |
| | Vladimir Dovbysh | The Greens | 4,096 | 1.68% |
| | Oleg Sabantsev | Patriots of Russia | 2,642 | 1.09% |
| | Aleksey Ofitserov | Civic Platform | 2,610 | 1.07% |
| Total | Total | Total | 243,031 | 100% |
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### 2018

Summary of the 9 September 2018 by-election in the Samara constituency :
| Candidate | Candidate | Party | Votes | % |
| | Aleksandr Khinshtein | United Russia | 117,726 | 56.98% |
| | Mikhail Abdalkin | Communist Party | 29,868 | 14.46% |
| | Vadim Baykov | Communists of Russia | 15,288 | 7.40% |
| | Roman Sinelnikov | Liberal Democratic Party | 13,318 | 6.45% |
| | Aleksandr Gusev | A Just Russia | 12,478 | 6.04% |
| | Igor Yermolenko | Yabloko | 6,758 | 3.27% |
| Total | Total | Total | 206,602 | 100% |
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### 2021

Summary of the 17-19 September 2021 Russian legislative election in the Samara constituency :
| Candidate | Candidate | Party | Votes | % |
| | Aleksandr Khinshtein (incumbent) | United Russia | 115,721 | 51.12% |
| | Mikhail Abdalkin | Communist Party | 47,695 | 21.07% |
| | Aleksey Mitrofanov | A Just Russia — For Truth | 12,989 | 5.74% |
| | Maria Bolshakova | Communists of Russia | 11,338 | 5.01% |
| | Aleksey Neudakhin | New People | 10,894 | 4.81% |
| | Andrey Sedogin | Liberal Democratic Party | 9,646 | 4.26% |
| | Yevgeny Lartsev | Party of Freedom and Justice | 5,713 | 2.52% |
| | Aleksandr Shatilov | Yabloko | 4,277 | 1.89% |
| Total | Total | Total | 226,365 | 100% |
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