The Buryatia Constituency (No.9) is a Russian legislative constituency in the Republic of Buryatia. The constituency encompasses the entire territory of Buryatia.
The constituency has been represented since 2021 by United Russia deputy Vyacheslav Damdintsurunov, former Minister of Sports and Youth Policy of Buryatia, who won the open seat, succeeding one-term United Russia incumbent Aldar Damdinov.
Boundaries 1993–2007, 2016–present: Barguzinsky District, Bauntovsky District, Bichursky District, Dzhidinsky District, Ivolginsky District, Kabansky District, Khorinsky District, Kizhinginsky District, Kurumkansky District, Kyakhtinsky District, Muysky District, Mukhorshibirsky District, Okinsky District, Pribaykalsky District, Selenginsky District, Severo-Baykalsky District, Severobaykalsk, Tarbagataysky District, Tunkinsky District, Ulan-Ude, Yeravninsky District, Zaigrayevsky District, Zakamensky District The constituency has been covering the entirety of the Republic of Buryatia since its initial creation in 1993.
Members elected ElectionMemberParty1993Nikolay KondakovIndependent1995Svetlana NaychukovaIndependent1999Bato SemenovFatherland – All Russia2003Vasily KuznetsovUnited Russia2007Proportional representation - no election by constituency20112016Aldar DamdinovUnited Russia2021Vyacheslav DamdintsurunovUnited Russia
Election results 1993 Declared candidates Kapiton Budayev (Independent), Deputy Prosecutor of Buryatia (1987–present) Yevgeny Kislov (YaBL), geologist, ecological activist Nikolay Kondakov (Independent), Member of Supreme Council of Buryatia (1990–present), construction executive Raisa Pshenichnikova (Choice of Russia), prorector of East Siberian State Institute of Culture Mikhail Semyonov (Independent), Deputy Premier of Buryatia (1988–present), former Member of Supreme Soviet of the Soviet Union (1985–1989)
Results
! colspan=2 style="background-color:#E9E9E9;text-align:left;vertical-align:top;" |Candidate ! style="background-color:#E9E9E9;text-align:left;vertical-align:top;" |Party ! style="background-color:#E9E9E9;text-align:right;" |Votes ! style="background-color:#E9E9E9;text-align:right;" |% |- |style="background-color:"| |align=left|Nikolay Kondakov |align=left|Independent | |20.79% |- |style="background-color:"| |align=left|Raisa Pshenichnikova |align=left|Choice of Russia | |19.20% |- |style="background-color:"| |align=left|Mikhail Semyonov |align=left|Independent | |14.24% |- |style="background-color:"| |align=left|Kapiton Budayev |align=left|Independent | |12.35% |- |style="background-color:"| |align=left|Yevgeny Kislov |align=left|Yavlinsky–Boldyrev–Lukin | |12.06% |- |style="background-color:#000000"| |colspan=2 |against all | |12.91% |- | colspan="5" style="background-color:#E9E9E9;"| |- style="font-weight:bold" | colspan="3" style="text-align:left;" | Total | | 100% |- | colspan="5" style="background-color:#E9E9E9;"| |- style="font-weight:bold" | colspan="4" |Source: |Результаты выборов по одномандатному избирательному округу, 1993
1995 Declared candidates Vladimir Belousov (NDR), Member of People's Khural of the Republic of Buryatia (1994–present), Mayor of Zagorsk, Ulan-Ude Nimazhap Ilyukhinov (Independent), Buddhist society leader Nikolay Kondakov (CPRF), incumbent Member of State Duma (1994–present) Vladimir Markov (Independent), Member of People's Khural of the Republic of Buryatia (1994–present) Svetlana Naychukova (Independent), Member of People's Khural of the Republic of Buryatia (1994–present), poultry farm director Vladimir Prokopyev (Independent), postgraduate student Tsyrzhima Sergeyeva (Independent), State Committee of Russia on Higher Education staffer Arnold Tulokhonov (Independent), director of the Baikal Institute of Natural Resources (1991–present) Bayar Tumurov (PLP), corporate executive
Results
! colspan=2 style="background-color:#E9E9E9;text-align:left;vertical-align:top;" |Candidate ! style="background-color:#E9E9E9;text-align:left;vertical-align:top;" |Party ! style="background-color:#E9E9E9;text-align:right;" |Votes ! style="background-color:#E9E9E9;text-align:right;" |% |- |style="background-color:"| |align=left|Svetlana Naychukova |align=left|Independent | |21.76% |- |style="background-color:"| |align=left|Nikolay Kondakov (incumbent) |align=left|Communist Party | |18.60% |- |style="background-color:"| |align=left|Vladimir Belousov |align=left|Our Home – Russia | |13.19% |- |style="background-color:"| |align=left|Nimazhap Ilyukhinov |align=left|Independent | |8.28% |- |style="background-color:"| |align=left|Arnold Tulokhonov |align=left|Independent | |7.59% |- |style="background-color:"| |align=left|Vladimir Markov |align=left|Independent | |5.10% |- |style="background-color:"| |align=left|Tsyrzhima Sergeyeva |align=left|Independent | |4.59% |- |style="background-color:"| |align=left|Vladimir Prokopyev |align=left|Independent | |2.78% |- |style="background-color:"| |align=left|Bayar Tumurov |align=left|Beer Lovers Party | |1.76% |- |style="background-color:#000000"| |colspan=2 |against all | |13.52% |- | colspan="5" style="background-color:#E9E9E9;"| |- style="font-weight:bold" | colspan="3" style="text-align:left;" | Total | | 100% |- | colspan="5" style="background-color:#E9E9E9;"| |- style="font-weight:bold" | colspan="4" |Source: |Результаты выборов по одномандатному избирательному округу, 1995
1999 Declared candidates Sergey Budazhapov (CPRF), Member of State Duma (1996–present) Viktor Izmaylov (Independent), Deputy Chairman of the People's Khural of the Republic of Buryatia (1998–present) Oleg Khomutov (Independent), former Member of Supreme Council of Buryatia (1990–1994) Vladimir Markov (DN), former Member of People's Khural of the Republic of Buryatia (1994–1998), environmental prosecutor, 1995 candidate for this seat Svetlana Naychukova (Independent), incumbent Member of State Duma (1996–present) Yevgeny Paltsev (Independent), First Deputy Chairman of the Buryatia State Committee on State Property Management Igor Pronkinov (Independent), chairman of the Our Home – Russia regional executive committee, former chairman of the Buryat-Mongolian People's Party Bato Semenov (OVR), Member of People's Khural of the Republic of Buryatia (1994–1996, 1998–present) Tsyrzhima Sergeyeva (Independent), pharmaceutical consultant, 1995 candidate for this seat Svetlana Zangeyeva (Independent), industrial consultant
Failed to qualify Andrey Gromov (LDPR), nonprofit executive Konstantin Mitupov (Yabloko), Buryat State University department of Russian history dean
Did not file Valery Bartukov (Independent) Nikolay Krasikov (Independent) Aleksey Mamontov (ROS), attorney Oleg Pakulov (Lavanda Vishnevskaya) (Independent), drag queen
Results
! colspan=2 style="background-color:#E9E9E9;text-align:left;vertical-align:top;" |Candidate ! style="background-color:#E9E9E9;text-align:left;vertical-align:top;" |Party ! style="background-color:#E9E9E9;text-align:right;" |Votes ! style="background-color:#E9E9E9;text-align:right;" |% |- |style="background-color:"| |align=left|Bato Semenov |align=left|Fatherland – All Russia | |34.99% |- |style="background-color:"| |align=left|Viktor Izmaylov |align=left|Independent | |20.03% |- |style="background-color:"| |align=left|Sergey Budazhapov |align=left|Communist Party | |13.87% |- |style="background-color:"| |align=left|Svetlana Naychukova (incumbent) |align=left|Independent | |5.61% |- |style="background-color:"| |align=left|Vladimir Markov |align=left|Spiritual Heritage | |5.34% |- |style="background-color:"| |align=left|Yevgeny Paltsev |align=left|Independent | |3.41% |- |style="background-color:"| |align=left|Svetlana Zangeyeva |align=left|Independent | |1.57% |- |style="background-color:"| |align=left|Oleg Khomutov |align=left|Independent | |1.52% |- |style="background-color:"| |align=left|Igor Pronkinov |align=left|Independent | |1.44% |- |style="background-color:"| |align=left|Tsyrzhima Sergeyeva |align=left|Independent | |1.36% |- |style="background-color:#000000"| |colspan=2 |against all | |8.34% |- | colspan="5" style="background-color:#E9E9E9;"| |- style="font-weight:bold" | colspan="3" style="text-align:left;" | Total | | 100% |- | colspan="5" style="background-color:#E9E9E9;"| |- style="font-weight:bold" | colspan="4" |Source:
2003 Declared candidates Innokenty Beloborodov (PVR-RPZh), retired Internal Troops lieutenant general Aleksandr Budayev (Independent), former Pandito Khambo Lama (1993–1995) Aleksandr Kardash (LDPR), former Member of People's Khural of the Republic of Buryatia (1994–2002) Nikolay Kondakov (Independent), former Member of State Duma (1994–1995) Vasily Kuznetsov (United Russia), Member of State Duma (2000–present) Bair Tsyrenov (Independent), aide to Senator Vladimir Agalov Andrey Yakunin (Independent), forestry executive
Failed to qualify Bato Semenov (Independent), incumbent Member of State Duma (2000–present), 2002 presidential candidate Yury Skuratov (CPRF), former Prosecutor General of Russia (1995–2000), 2000 presidential candidate Aleksandr Turchaninov-Rodin (DPR), retired theatre actor
Results
! colspan=2 style="background-color:#E9E9E9;text-align:left;vertical-align:top;" |Candidate ! style="background-color:#E9E9E9;text-align:left;vertical-align:top;" |Party ! style="background-color:#E9E9E9;text-align:right;" |Votes ! style="background-color:#E9E9E9;text-align:right;" |% |- |style="background-color:"| |align=left|Vasily Kuznetsov |align=left|United Russia | |30.26% |- |style="background-color:#00A1FF"| |align=left|Innokenty Beloborodov |align=left|Party of Russia's Rebirth-Russian Party of Life | |29.92% |- |style="background-color:"| |align=left|Aleksandr Budayev |align=left|Independent | |10.90% |- |style="background-color:"| |align=left|Nikolay Kondakov |align=left|Independent | |6.89% |- |style="background-color:"| |align=left|Bair Tsyrenov |align=left|Independent | |5.16% |- |style="background-color:"| |align=left|Aleksandr Kardash |align=left|Liberal Democratic Party | |3.35% |- |style="background-color:"| |align=left|Andrey Yakunin |align=left|Independent | |1.05% |- |style="background-color:#000000"| |colspan=2 |against all | |9.32% |- | colspan="5" style="background-color:#E9E9E9;"| |- style="font-weight:bold" | colspan="3" style="text-align:left;" | Total | | 100% |- | colspan="5" style="background-color:#E9E9E9;"| |- style="font-weight:bold" | colspan="4" |Source:
2016 Declared candidates Oksana Bukholtseva (A Just Russia), Member of People's Khural of the Republic of Buryatia (2013–present), middle school principal Aldar Damdinov (United Russia), Minister of Education and Science of Buryatia (2008–present) Sergey Dorosh (LDPR), businessman Mikhail Slipenchuk (Party of Growth), Member of State Duma (2011–present) Bayar Tsydenov (GP), Member of People's Khural of the Republic of Buryatia (2013–present), Buddhist lama Bair Tsyrenov (CPRF), Member of People's Khural of the Republic of Buryatia (2013–present), aide to State Duma member Dmitry Novikov
Withdrawn candidates Mikhail Kosarev (CPCR), homemaker
Failed to qualify Dmitry Kolmakov (Union of Labor), republican federation of unions chairman
Declined Bair Baldanov (United Russia), Head of Okinsky District (2011–present) (lost the primary) Nikolai Buduyev (United Russia), Member of Ulan-Ude City Council of Deputies (2014–present), journalist (lost the primary, ran on the party list) Bair Dorzhiyev (United Russia), Member of People's Khural of the Republic of Buryatia (2007–present), marketing executive (lost the primary, ran on the party list) Irinchey Matkhanov (A Just Russia), Member of State Duma (2013–present) Yury Tarmayev (CPRF), Member of State Duma (2015–present) (lost the selection) Anna Skosyrskaya (United Russia), former Member of People's Khural of the Republic of Buryatia (2007–2013), community activist (lost the primary)