# Central constituency (Saint Petersburg)

The Central constituency (No.216) is a Russian legislative constituency in Saint Petersburg. It covers Central Saint Petersburg since 2016. In 1995-2007 Central Saint Petersburg was split between now disestablished Admiralteysky constituency (centred on the Admiralteysky District) and Central constituency (centred on the Tsentranly District with the latter also taking some districts to the east.

## Members elected

| Election | Election | Member | Party |
| | 1993 | Aleksandr Nevzorov | Independent |
| | 1995 | Pyotr Shelishch | Independent |
| | 1999 | Pyotr Shelishch | Independent |
| | 2003 | Pyotr Shelishch | Independent |
| 2007 | 2007 | Proportional representation - no election by constituency | Proportional representation - no election by constituency |
| Proportional representation - no election by constituency ||
| | 2016 | Vladimir Bortko | Communist Party |
| | 2021 | Sergey Solovyov | United Russia |

## Election results
### 1993

Summary of the 12 December 1993 Russian legislative election in the Central constituency :
| Candidate | Candidate | Party | Votes | % |
| | Aleksandr Nevzorov | Independent | 65,619 | 27.01% |
| | Yury Vdovin | Independent | - | 25.60% |
| | Yury Nesterov | Yavlinsky—Boldyrev—Lukin | - | - |
| | Gennady Shuklin | Russian Democratic Reform Movement | - | - |
| | Yury Shutov | Independent | - | - |
| Total | Total | Total | 242,954 | 100% |
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### 1995

Summary of the 17 December 1995 Russian legislative election in the Central constituency :
| Candidate | Candidate | Party | Votes | % |
| | Pyotr Shelishch | Independent | 57,389 | 20.99% |
| | Arkady Kramarev | Pamfilova–Gurov–Lysenko | 39,625 | 14.49% |
| | Nikita Ananov | Independent | 30,759 | 11.25% |
| | Aleksey Vorontsov | Independent | 21,545 | 7.88% |
| | Yury Shutov | Independent | 20,764 | 7.59% |
| | Yevgeny Kozlov | Communists and Working Russia - for the Soviet Union | 16,000 | 5.85% |
| | Nikolay Arzhannikov | Transformation of the Fatherland | 14,134 | 5.17% |
| | Mikhail Kiselyov | Independent | 8,556 | 3.13% |
| | Anatoly Yemets | Congress of Russian Communities | 8,155 | 2.98% |
| | Valery Sokolov | Independent | 6,501 | 2.38% |
| | Leonid Rogozin | Independent | 1,683 | 0.62% |
| | Andrey Sabor | Independent | 1,605 | 0.59% |
| | against all | against all | 39,992 | 14.63% |
| Total | Total | Total | 273,443 | 100% |
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### 1999

Summary of the 19 December 1999 Russian legislative election in the Central constituency :
| Candidate | Candidate | Party | Votes | % |
| | Pyotr Shelishch (incumbent) | Independent | 40,420 | 18.30% |
| | Anatoly Sobchak | Independent | 36,355 | 16.46% |
| | Andrey Ananov | Fatherland – All Russia | 34,315 | 15.54% |
| | Yelena Drapeko | Communist Party | 26,331 | 11.92% |
| | Vyacheslav Shevchenko | Independent | 14,684 | 6.65% |
| | Yury Shutov | Independent | 14,507 | 6.57% |
| | Lyudmila Yermolayeva | Liberal Democratic Party | 8,915 | 4.04% |
| | Faig Askerov | Independent | 3,199 | 1.45% |
| | Mikhail Korobkov | Social-Democrats | 1,330 | 0.60% |
| | against all | against all | 38,368 | 17.37% |
| Total | Total | Total | 220,863 | 100% |
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### 2003

Summary of the 7 December 2003 Russian legislative election in the Central constituency :
| Candidate | Candidate | Party | Votes | % |
| | Pyotr Shelishch (incumbent) | Independent | 53,708 | 29.66% |
| | Nikita Ananov | Independent | 25,035 | 13.82% |
| | Yury Shutov | Independent | 14,024 | 7.74% |
| | Ivan Sabilo | Communist Party | 12,061 | 6.66% |
| | Valery Papshev | Independent | 10,893 | 6.01% |
| | Andrey Sharonov | Independent | 9,999 | 5.52% |
| | Aleksey Maksimov | Independent | 9,483 | 5.24% |
| | Nikolay Nazha | Development of Enterprise | 6,894 | 3.81% |
| | Sergey Tikhomirov | Liberal Democratic Party | 6,306 | 3.48% |
| | against all | against all | 30,459 | 16.82% |
| Total | Total | Total | 181,414 | 100% |
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### 2016

Summary of the 18 September 2016 Russian legislative election in the Central constituency :
| Candidate | Candidate | Party | Votes | % |
| | Vladimir Bortko | Communist Party | 34,167 | 23.88% |
| | Maksim Reznik | Party of Growth | 24,062 | 16.82% |
| | Boris Paykin | Liberal Democratic Party | 23,011 | 16.08% |
| | Nikolay Rybakov | Yabloko | 18,974 | 13.26% |
| | Sergey Popov | A Just Russia | 14,473 | 10.11% |
| | Arkady Chaplygin | People's Freedom Party | 4,842 | 3.38% |
| | Aleksandr Startsev | The Greens | 4,832 | 3.38% |
| | Pavel Spivachevsky | Rodina | 4,701 | 3.29% |
| | Galina Kirichenko | Civic Platform | 3,473 | 2.43% |
| | Vitaly Glavatsky | Communists of Russia | 3,183 | 2.22% |
| Total | Total | Total | 143,097 | 100% |
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### 2021

Summary of the 17-19 September 2021 Russian legislative election in the Central constituency :
| Candidate | Candidate | Party | Votes | % |
| | Sergey Solovyov | United Russia | 55,272 | 34.03% |
| | Boris Vishnevsky | Yabloko | 37,438 | 23.05% |
| | Mikhail Bogdanov | A Just Russia — For Truth | 11,450 | 7.05% |
| | Gennady Denisov | Communist Party | 11,153 | 6.87% |
| | Aleksey Kovalyov | Party of Growth | 11,087 | 6.83% |
| | Darya Sadovskaya | New People | 8,909 | 5.49% |
| | Yekaterina Lebedeva | Liberal Democratic Party | 5,761 | 3.55% |
| | Gennady Detkov | Party of Pensioners | 4,834 | 2.98% |
| | Boris Vishnevsky | The Greens | 3,352 | 2.06% |
| | Gennady Makoyev | Communists of Russia | 2,713 | 1.67% |
| | Andrey Ivanov | Rodina | 2,230 | 1.37% |
| | Aleksey Terekhov | Green Alternative | 1,371 | 0.84% |
| | Sergey Ivanov | Civic Platform | 884 | 0.54% |
| Total | Total | Total | 162,401 | 100% |
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