# Bezhetsk constituency

The Bezhetsk Constituency (No.172) was a Russian legislative constituency in the Tver Oblast in 1993-2007. The constituency covered upstate Northern and Eastern Tver Oblast. Since 2016 most of the constituency was placed into Tver constituency.

## Members elected

| Election | Member | Party |
| 1993 | Vladimir Bayunov | Independent |
| 1995 | Vladimir Bayunov | Communist Party |
| 1999 | Vyacheslav Zorkin | Communist Party |
| 2003 | Aleksandr Tyagunov | United Russia |

## Election results
### 1993

Summary of the 12 December 1993 Russian legislative election in the Bezhetsk constituency :
| Candidate | Candidate | Party | Votes | % |
| | Vladimir Bayunov | Independent | 94,200 | 24.31% |
| | Margarita Zheleznova | Party of Russian Unity and Accord | - | 24.10% |
| Total | Total | Total | 387,496 | 100% |
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### 1995

Summary of the 17 December 1995 Russian legislative election in the Bezhetsk constituency :
| Candidate | Candidate | Party | Votes | % |
| | Vladimir Bayunov (incumbent) | Communist Party | 132,554 | 30.30% |
| | Vladimir Lebedev | Our Home – Russia | 58,058 | 13.27% |
| | Tatyana Kalinina | Agrarian Party | 54,176 | 12.38% |
| | Vladimir Polevanov | For the Motherland! | 35,160 | 8.04% |
| | Vladimir Baranov | Forward, Russia! | 31,270 | 7.15% |
| | Roman Blokhin | Independent | 19,297 | 4.41% |
| | Andrey Dementyev | Ivan Rybkin Bloc | 18,125 | 4.14% |
| | Mikhail Vtulkin | Independent | 13,701 | 3.13% |
| | Mark Khasainov | Independent | 9,667 | 2.21% |
| | against all | against all | 52,855 | 12.08% |
| Total | Total | Total | 437,532 | 100% |
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### 1999

Summary of the 19 December 1999 Russian legislative election in the Bezhetsk constituency :
| Candidate | Candidate | Party | Votes | % |
| | Vyacheslav Zorkin | Communist Party | 100,854 | 26.14% |
| | Sergey Bystrov | Independent | 54,922 | 14.23% |
| | Nikolay Rumyantsev | Union of Right Forces | 35,553 | 9.21% |
| | Vladimir Kostyuchenko | Independent | 32,258 | 8.36% |
| | Vladimir Zorin | Our Home – Russia | 26,445 | 6.85% |
| | Yury Zimin | Liberal Democratic Party | 26,103 | 6.76% |
| | Vyacheslav Vorontsov | Congress of Russian Communities-Yury Boldyrev Movement | 13,609 | 3.53% |
| | Sergey Osadchy | Independent | 11,192 | 2.90% |
| | Dmitry Shebalin | Independent | 7,133 | 1.85% |
| | Valery Nikitin | Spiritual Heritage | 6,368 | 1.65% |
| | against all | against all | 57,348 | 14.86% |
| Total | Total | Total | 385,879 | 100% |
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### 2003

Summary of the 7 December 2003 Russian legislative election in the Bezhetsk constituency :
| Candidate | Candidate | Party | Votes | % |
| | Aleksandr Tyagunov | United Russia | 66,106 | 19.93% |
| | Vladimir Bayunov | Independent | 54,634 | 16.47% |
| | Vyacheslav Zorkin (incumbent) | Communist Party | 36,090 | 10.88% |
| | Boris Fomin | Industrial Party (Prompartiya) | 18,192 | 5.49% |
| | Aleksandr Anokhin | Liberal Democratic Party | 16,181 | 4.88% |
| | Aleksandr Tsalko | Independent | 12,436 | 3.75% |
| | Leonid Ostrenkov | Agrarian Party | 10,307 | 3.11% |
| | Mikhail Markelov | Rodina | 9,880 | 2.98% |
| | Nadezhda Goncharova | Independent | 9,751 | 2.94% |
| | Nikolay Rumyantsev | Union of Right Forces | 8,449 | 2.55% |
| | Galina Mefed | Yabloko | 7,862 | 2.37% |
| | Sergey Selivanov | Great Russia–Eurasian Union | 4,285 | 1.29% |
| | Kirill Monastyrsky | United Russian Party Rus' | 3,234 | 0.98% |
| | against all | against all | 62,637 | 18.89% |
| Total | Total | Total | 331,876 | 100% |
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