# Mari El constituency

The Mari El constituency (No.22) is a Russian legislative constituency covering the entirety of Mari El.

## Members elected

| Election | Election | Member | Party |
| | 1993 | Anatoly Popov | Party of Russian Unity and Accord |
| | 1995 | Nikolay Polyakov | Agrarian Party |
| | 1999 | Ivan Kazankov | Independent |
| | 2003 | Valery Komissarov | United Russia |
| 2007 | 2007 | Proportional representation - no election by constituency | Proportional representation - no election by constituency |
| Proportional representation - no election by constituency ||
| | 2016 | Sergey Kazankov | Communist Party |
| | 2021 | Sergey Kazankov | Communist Party |

## Election results
### 1993

Summary of the 12 December 1993 Russian legislative election in the Mari El constituency :
| Candidate | Candidate | Party | Votes | % |
| | Anatoly Popov | Party of Russian Unity and Accord | 85,593 | 27.78% |
| | Lyudmila Ivanova | Independent | - | 19.50% |
| Total | Total | Total | 308,079 | 100% |
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### 1995

Summary of the 17 December 1995 Russian legislative election in the Mari El constituency :
| Candidate | Candidate | Party | Votes | % |
| | Nikolay Polyakov | Agrarian Party | 96,831 | 26.35% |
| | Leonid Markelov | Liberal Democratic Party | 69,927 | 19.03% |
| | Anatoly Popov (incumbent) | Ivan Rybkin Bloc | 43,808 | 11.92% |
| | Gennady Grigoryev | Environmental Party of Russia "Kedr" | 39,348 | 10.71% |
| | Aleksandr Kazimov | Pamfilova–Gurov–Lysenko | 25,323 | 6.89% |
| | Gennady Oshchepkov | Independent | 24,663 | 6.71% |
| | Valery Loskutov | My Fatherland | 21,867 | 5.95% |
| | against all | against all | 37,904 | 10.32% |
| Total | Total | Total | 367,464 | 100% |
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### 1999

Summary of the 19 December 1999 Russian legislative election in the Mari El constituency :
| Candidate | Candidate | Party | Votes | % |
| | Ivan Kazankov | Independent | 136,358 | 37.75% |
| | Leonid Markelov | Independent | 91,893 | 25.44% |
| | Viktor Bogdan | Independent | 25,285 | 7.00% |
| | Viktor Vasilyev | Independent | 23,845 | 6.60% |
| | Vyacheslav Paydoverov | Independent | 22,690 | 6.28% |
| | Vasily Grigoryev | For Civil Dignity | 12,365 | 3.42% |
| | Nikolay Polyakov (incumbent) | Independent | 7,066 | 1.96% |
| | Vladimir Mikheev | Independent | 3,048 | 0.84% |
| | Vitaly Lezhanin | Andrey Nikolayev and Svyatoslav Fyodorov Bloc | 2,645 | 0.73% |
| | Aleksey Popov | Socialist Party of Russia | 1,992 | 0.55% |
| | Leonid Loskutov | Independent | 1,864 | 0.52% |
| | Vladimir Maskimov | Independent | 1,420 | 0.39% |
| | Vitaly Trubitsin | Independent | 1,412 | 0.39% |
| | Gennady Khrolenko | Independent | 1,069 | 0.30% |
| | against all | against all | 20,853 | 5.77% |
| Total | Total | Total | 361,242 | 100% |
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### 2003

Summary of the 7 December 2003 Russian legislative election in the Mari El constituency :
| Candidate | Candidate | Party | Votes | % |
| | Valery Komissarov | United Russia | 141,583 | 44.17% |
| | Ivan Kazankov (incumbent) | Communist Party | 61,013 | 19.03% |
| | Igor Kudryavtsev | Agrarian Party | 22,829 | 7.12% |
| | Vyacheslav Kislitsyn | Independent | 19,024 | 5.94% |
| | Yevgeny Bochkarev | Democratic Party | 13,940 | 4.35% |
| | Nikolay Svistunov | Independent | 11,458 | 3.57% |
| | Rezeda Gilmanova | United Russian Party Rus' | 4,187 | 1.31% |
| | Vladimir Karpochev | Independent | 3,053 | 0.95% |
| | Namik Muradov | Great Russia–Eurasian Union | 1,174 | 0.37% |
| | against all | against all | 36,920 | 11.52% |
| Total | Total | Total | 320,637 | 100% |
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### 2016

Summary of the 18 September 2016 Russian legislative election in the Mari El constituency :
| Candidate | Candidate | Party | Votes | % |
| | Sergey Kazankov | Communist Party | 133,447 | 46.23% |
| | Larisa Yakovleva | United Russia | 107,112 | 37.11% |
| | Oleg Kazakov | Independent | 12,145 | 4.21% |
| | Albert Fedorov | Liberal Democratic Party | 10,162 | 3.52% |
| | Natalia Glushchenko | A Just Russia | 9,284 | 3.22% |
| | Roman Zolotukhin | Rodina | 2,673 | 0.93% |
| | Yekaterina Ulanova | Yabloko | 2,603 | 0.90% |
| | Yury Zonov | The Greens | 2,061 | 0.71% |
| | Denis Shparber | Communists of Russia | 1,740 | 0.60% |
| | Andrey Smyshlyaev | Civic Platform | 1,533 | 0.53% |
| Total | Total | Total | 288,630 | 100% |
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### 2021

Summary of the 17-19 September 2021 Russian legislative election in the Mari El constituency :
| Candidate | Candidate | Party | Votes | % |
| | Sergey Kazankov (incumbent) | Communist Party | 122,851 | 50.36% |
| | Vladimir Kozhanov | Independent | 41,961 | 17.20% |
| | Natalia Glushchenko | A Just Russia — For Truth | 18,463 | 7.57% |
| | Ivan Kazankov | Communists of Russia | 16,740 | 6.86% |
| | Aleksey Sherstobitov | Liberal Democratic Party | 8,502 | 3.49% |
| | Valentina Zlobina | Party of Pensioners | 8,165 | 3.35% |
| | Ilya Kulalaev | New People | 7,838 | 3.21% |
| | Andrey Smyshlyaev | Rodina | 4,966 | 2.04% |
| | Sergey Gartvik | Civic Platform | 2,336 | 0.96% |
| | Vladimir Rovensky | Party of Growth | 1,498 | 0.61% |
| Total | Total | Total | 243,922 | 100% |
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