# Kanash constituency

The Kanash constituency (No.37) is a Russian legislative constituency in the Chuvashia. Until 2007 the constituency covered upstate Chuvashia to the south of Cheboksary, however, since 2016 the constituency occupies eastern Chuvashia, including Novocheboksarsk and parts of Cheboksary.

## Members elected

| Election | Election | Member | Party |
| | 1993 | Valentin Agafonov | Independent |
| | 1995 | Valentin Agafonov | Independent |
| | 1999 | Valentin Shurchanov | Communist Party |
| | 2003 | Pavel Semyonov | United Russia |
| 2007 | 2007 | Proportional representation - no election by constituency | Proportional representation - no election by constituency |
| Proportional representation - no election by constituency ||
| | 2016 | Anatoly Aksakov | A Just Russia — For Truth |
| | 2021 | Anatoly Aksakov | A Just Russia — For Truth |

## Election results
### 1993

Summary of the 12 December 1993 Russian legislative election in the Kanash constituency :
| Candidate | Candidate | Party | Votes | % |
| | Valentin Agafonov | Independent | 130,041 | 41.01% |
| | Vyacheslav Tikhonov | Independent | - | 10.30% |
| | Mikhail Yukhma | Independent | - | - |
| Total | Total | Total | 317,085 | 100% |
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### 1995

Summary of the 17 December 1995 Russian legislative election in the Kanash constituency :
| Candidate | Candidate | Party | Votes | % |
| | Valentin Agafonov (incumbent) | Independent | 122,179 | 40.19% |
| | Lev Kurakov | Independent | 96,554 | 31.76% |
| | Gennady Kuzmin | Liberal Democratic Party | 17,933 | 5.90% |
| | Lyudmila Rulkova | Our Home – Russia | 15,911 | 5.23% |
| | Svetlana Lyapidovskaya | Common Cause | 12,529 | 4.12% |
| | Vladimir Barsukov | Congress of Russian Communities | 5,518 | 1.82% |
| | against all | against all | 19,491 | 6.41% |
| Total | Total | Total | 303,977 | 100% |
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### 1999

Summary of the 19 December 1999 Russian legislative election in the Kanash constituency :
| Candidate | Candidate | Party | Votes | % |
| | Valentin Shurchanov | Communist Party | 114,738 | 40.26% |
| | Pyotr Ivantayev | Independent | 101,366 | 35.57% |
| | Vladimir Mayorov | Independent | 19,839 | 6.96% |
| | Vladimir Mukin | Yabloko | 10,314 | 3.62% |
| | Valentin Agafonov (incumbent) | Independent | 7,406 | 2.60% |
| | Anatoly Zhuromsky | For Civil Dignity | 7,096 | 2.49% |
| | against all | against all | 13,246 | 4.65% |
| Total | Total | Total | 285,008 | 100% |
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### 2003

Summary of the 7 December 2003 Russian legislative election in the Kanash constituency :
| Candidate | Candidate | Party | Votes | % |
| | Pavel Semyonov | United Russia | 200,810 | 70.55% |
| | Valentin Shurchanov (incumbent) | Communist Party | 56,681 | 19.91% |
| | Vladimir Izhederov | Independent | 3,026 | 1.06% |
| | Nikolay Vladimirov | Yabloko | 2,831 | 0.99% |
| | Konstantin Ilyin | Great Russia – Eurasian Union | 1,917 | 0.67% |
| | Robert Churkin | United Russian Party Rus' | 1,533 | 0.54% |
| | against all | against all | 9,649 | 3.39% |
| Total | Total | Total | 284,682 | 100% |
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### 2016

Summary of the 18 September 2016 Russian legislative election in the Kanash constituency :
| Candidate | Candidate | Party | Votes | % |
| | Anatoly Aksakov | A Just Russia | 84,920 | 29.99% |
| | Aleksandr Kapitonov | Party of Growth | 60,580 | 21.39% |
| | Grigory Danilov | Communist Party | 38,603 | 13.63% |
| | Konstantin Stepanov | Liberal Democratic Party | 24,527 | 8.66% |
| | Vladimir Mikhaylov | Rodina | 12,049 | 4.26% |
| | Valery Pavlov | Patriots of Russia | 11,095 | 3.92% |
| | Dmitry Semenov | People's Freedom Party | 9,974 | 3.52% |
| | Anton Trefilov | Communists of Russia | 9,672 | 3.42% |
| | Dmitry Sorokin | Civic Platform | 5,634 | 1.99% |
| | Anton Saprykin | Yabloko | 4,099 | 1.45% |
| Total | Total | Total | 283,161 | 100% |
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### 2021

Summary of the 17-19 September 2021 Russian legislative election in the Kanash constituency :
| Candidate | Candidate | Party | Votes | % |
| | Anatoly Aksakov (incumbent) | A Just Russia — For Truth | 111,123 | 41.64% |
| | Aleksandr Andreyev | Communist Party | 53,390 | 20.01% |
| | Leonid Pronin | United Russia | 37,571 | 14.08% |
| | Elza Kuzmina | New People | 17,241 | 6.46% |
| | Nikolay Stepanov | Party of Pensioners | 16,216 | 6.08% |
| | Vyacheslav Solovyev | Liberal Democratic Party | 10,569 | 3.69% |
| | Aleksandr Vorobyev | The Greens | 5,415 | 2.03% |
| | Eduard Romanov | Rodina | 3,527 | 1.32% |
| Total | Total | Total | 266,855 | 100% |
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