# Balakovo constituency

The Balakovo Constituency (No.164) is a Russian legislative constituency in the Saratov Oblast. The constituency comprises the western part of Saratov Oblast, stretching from the Kazakh border to the city of Saratov.

## Members elected

| Election | Election | Member | Party |
| | 1993 | Aleksandr Sergeenkov | Independent |
| | 1995 | Aleksandr Maksakov | Communist Party |
| | 1998 | Nikolay Sukhoy | Agrarian Party |
| | 1999 | Nikolay Sukhoy | Fatherland – All Russia |
| | 2003 | Vyacheslav Volodin | United Russia |
| 2007 | 2007 | Proportional representation - no election by constituency | Proportional representation - no election by constituency |
| Proportional representation - no election by constituency ||
| | 2016 | Nikolay Pankov | United Russia |
| | 2021 | Nikolay Pankov | United Russia |

## Election results
### 1993

Summary of the 12 December 1993 Russian legislative election in the Balakovo constituency :
| Candidate | Candidate | Party | Votes | % |
| | Aleksandr Sergeenkov | Independent | 56,285 | 18.09% |
| | Aleksey Ulyankin | Independent | - | 18.04% |
| Total | Total | Total | 311,219 | 100% |
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### 1995

Summary of the 17 December 1995 Russian legislative election in the Balakovo constituency :
| Candidate | Candidate | Party | Votes | % |
| | Aleksandr Maksakov | Communist Party | 97,030 | 25.79% |
| | Dmitry Matveev | Liberal Democratic Party | 80,869 | 21.49% |
| | Viktor Anpilov | Communists and Working Russia - for the Soviet Union | 38,864 | 10.33% |
| | Aleksandr Tsaryov | Agrarian Party | 32,182 | 8.55% |
| | Igor Nikiforov | Our Home – Russia | 19,178 | 5.10% |
| | Igor Yevtushevsky | Forward, Russia! | 18,311 | 4.87% |
| | Aleksandr Sergeenkov (incumbent) | Independent | 16,707 | 4.44% |
| | Vladimir Solovyov | Independent | 12,658 | 3.36% |
| | Pyotr Novikov | Independent | 10,934 | 2.91% |
| | Aleksandr Kiselyov | Social Democrats | 10,282 | 2.73% |
| | Yuri Sulantyev | Independent | 5,701 | 1.52% |
| | against all | against all | 28,746 | 7.64% |
| Total | Total | Total | 376,232 | 100% |
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### 1998

Summary of the 29 March 1998 Russian by-election in the Balakovo single-member constituency :
| Candidate | Candidate | Party | Votes | % |
| | Nikolay Sukhoy | Agrarian Party | 171,696 | 70.48% |
| Total | Total | Total | 243,610 | 100% |
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### 1999

Summary of the 19 December 1999 Russian legislative election in the Balakovo constituency :
| Candidate | Candidate | Party | Votes | % |
| | Nikolay Sukhoy (incumbent) | Fatherland – All Russia | 144,352 | 38.99% |
| | Gennady Gamayunov | Communist Party | 78,061 | 21.09% |
| | Anatoly Kalashnikov | Stalin Bloc – For the USSR | 31,141 | 8.41% |
| | Galina Startseva | Yabloko | 24,663 | 6.66% |
| | Sergey Semyonov | Independent | 22,347 | 6.04% |
| | Lyudmila Paderina | Communists and Workers of Russia - for the Soviet Union | 16,068 | 4.34% |
| | against all | against all | 47,586 | 12.85% |
| Total | Total | Total | 370,193 | 100% |
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### 2003

Summary of the 7 December 2003 Russian legislative election in the Balakovo constituency :
| Candidate | Candidate | Party | Votes | % |
| | Vyacheslav Volodin | United Russia | 283,613 | 81.75% |
| | Olga Alimova | Communist Party | 32,692 | 9.42% |
| | Aleksandr Tagunov | Liberal Democratic Party | 4,228 | 1.22% |
| | Vladimir Smirnov | Union of Right Forces | 4,013 | 1.16% |
| | Ivan Bolshakov | Yabloko | 2,575 | 0.74% |
| | Yuri Graf | Independent | 1,015 | 0.29% |
| | Natalya Karaman | Development of Enterprise | 862 | 0.25% |
| | Vyacheslav Smirnov | United Russian Party Rus' | 683 | 0.20% |
| | Yevgeny Chirkov | Independent | 483 | 0.14% |
| | against all | against all | 13,401 | 3.86% |
| Total | Total | Total | 347,112 | 100% |
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### 2016

Summary of the 18 September 2016 Russian legislative election in the Balakovo constituency :
| Candidate | Candidate | Party | Votes | % |
| | Nikolay Pankov | United Russia | 187,489 | 65.79% |
| | Sergey Ashikhmin | Liberal Democratic Party | 24,488 | 8.59% |
| | Olga Lubkova | Communist Party | 22,446 | 7.88% |
| | Mikhail Dementyev | A Just Russia | 11,870 | 4.17% |
| | Aleksandr German | Communists of Russia | 9,318 | 3.27% |
| | Vladimir Deryabin | Party of Growth | 6,020 | 2.11% |
| | Aleksandr Yermishin | Yabloko | 4,292 | 1.51% |
| | Roman Maltsev | People's Freedom Party | 3,755 | 1.32% |
| | Natalia Frolova | Civilian Power | 3,018 | 1.06% |
| | Gleb Terekhin | Rodina | 2,491 | 0.87% |
| | Alisa Trishchanovich | The Greens | 2,052 | 0.72% |
| | Maksim Smirnov | Civic Platform | 1,559 | 0.55% |
| Total | Total | Total | 284,987 | 100% |
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### 2021

Summary of the 17-19 September 2021 Russian legislative election in the Balakovo constituency :
| Candidate | Candidate | Party | Votes | % |
| | Nikolay Pankov (incumbent) | United Russia | 182,223 | 63.07% |
| | Vladimir Yesipov | Communist Party | 38,794 | 13.43% |
| | Svetlana Berezina | A Just Russia — For Truth | 18,094 | 6.26% |
| | Aleksandra Gryakova | Communists of Russia | 14,404 | 4.99% |
| | Andrey Zobnin | New People | 10,115 | 3.50% |
| | Natalya Karaman | Yabloko | 7,140 | 2.47% |
| | Maksim Ramikh | Liberal Democratic Party | 6,772 | 2.34% |
| | Aleksandr Urmanbaev | Rodina | 2,783 | 0.96% |
| Total | Total | Total | 288,933 | 100% |
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