The Bezhetsk constituency (No.172) was a Russian legislative constituency in Tver Oblast in 1993-2007. It covered northern and eastern parts of Tver Oblast. The seat was last occupied by United Russia deputy Aleksandr Tyagunov, a former Deputy Governor of Tver Oblast, who defeated incumbent first-term Communist State Duma member and journalist Vyacheslav Zorkin in the 2003 election.
The constituency was dissolved in 2007 when State Duma adopted full proportional representation for the next two electoral cycles. Bezhetsk constituency was not re-established for the 2016 election, currently most of former Bezhetsk constituency is part of Tver constituency.
Boundaries 1993–2007: Bezhetsk, Bezhetsky District, Bologovsky District, Bologoye, Firovsky District, Kalyazinsky District, Kashin, Kashinsky District, Kesovogorsky District, Kimrsky District, Kimry, Konakovo, Konakovsky District, Krasnokholmsky District, Lesnoy District, Likhoslavlsky District, Maksatikhinsky District, Molokovsky District, Ostashkov, Ostashkovsky District, Ozyorny, Penovsky District, Rameshkovsky District, Sandovsky District, Solnechny, Sonkovsky District, Spirovsky District, Torzhok, Torzhoksky District, Udomelsky District, Udomlya, Vesyegonsky, Vyshnevolotsky, Vyshny Volochyok The constituency covered northern and eastern Tver Oblast, including the towns of Bezhetsk, Bologoye, Kashin, Kimry, Konakovo, Ostashkov, Torzhok and Udomlya.
Members elected ElectionMemberParty1993Vladimir BayunovIndependent1995Communist Party1999Vyacheslav ZorkinCommunist Party2003Aleksandr TyagunovUnited Russia
Election results 1993 Declared candidates Vladimir Bayunov (Independent), former First Secretary of the CPSU Bezhetsk City Committee (1990–1991), agriculture businessman Aleksandr Ivanov (Civic Union), forest ranger Nikolay Mokreyev (APR), kolkhoz chairman Vladimir Platov (Independent), Mayor of Bezhetsk and Bezhetsky District (1992–present) Margarita Zheleznova (PRES), art historian
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|Vladimir Bayunov |align=left|Independent | |24.31% |- |style="background:"| |align=left|Margarita Zheleznova |align=left|Party of Russian Unity and Accord | |24.11% |- |style="background-color:"| |align=left|Vladimir Platov |align=left|Independent | |14.74% |- |style="background-color:"| |align=left|Nikolay Mokeyev |align=left|Agrarian Party | |9.53% |- |style="background: ;"| |align=left|Aleksandr Ivanov |align=left|Civic Union | |6.37% |- |style="background-color:#000000"| |colspan=2 |against all | |13.72% |- | 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 Baranov (Forward, Russia!), entrepreneur Vladimir Bayunov (CPRF), incumbent Member of State Duma (1994–present) Roman Blokhin (Independent), businessman Andrey Dementyev (BIR), poet, journalist Tatyana Kalinina (APR), agriculture executive Mark Khasainov (Independent), Member of Vyshny Volochyok Council (1994–present), businessman Vladimir Lebedev (NDR), electric bulb plant director Vladimir Polevanov (For the Motherland!), former Deputy Prime Minister of Russia (1994–1995) Mikhail Vtulkin (Independent), businessman
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|Vladimir Bayunov (incumbent) |align=left|Communist Party | |30.30% |- |style="background-color:"| |align=left|Vladimir Lebedev |align=left|Our Home – Russia | |13.27% |- |style="background-color:"| |align=left|Tatyana Kalinina |align=left|Agrarian Party | |12.38% |- |style="background-color:#C28314"| |align=left|Vladimir Polevanov |align=left|For the Motherland! | |8.04% |- |style="background-color:"| |align=left|Vladimir Baranov |align=left|Forward, Russia! | |7.15% |- |style="background-color:"| |align=left|Roman Blokhin |align=left|Independent | |4.41% |- |style="background-color:"| |align=left|Andrey Dementyev |align=left|Ivan Rybkin Bloc | |4.14% |- |style="background-color:"| |align=left|Mikhail Vtulkin |align=left|Independent | |3.13% |- |style="background-color:"| |align=left|Mark Khasainov |align=left|Independent | |2.21% |- |style="background-color:#000000"| |colspan=2 |against all | |12.08% |- | 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 Bystrov (Independent), Deputy Governor of Tver Oblast (1999–present) Vladimir Kostyuchenko (Independent), veterans rights activist Valery Nikitin (DN), retired Air Force major general Sergey Osadchy (Independent), Member of Moscow City Duma (1993–present) Nikolay Rumyantsev (SPS), chairman of the New Force party regional office Dmitry Shebalin (Independent), management consultant Vyacheslav Vorontsov (KRO-Boldyrev), Deputy Head of the Ministry of Internal Affairs General Directorate of Personnel (1998–present) Yury Zimin (LDPR), businessman Vladimir Zorin (NDR), Member of State Duma (1996–present), Chairman of the Duma Committee on Nationalities (1996–present) Vyacheslav Zorkin (CPRF), Member of Legislative Assembly of Tver Oblast (1997–present), journalist
Withdrawn candidates Vladimir Danilov (Unity), Member of Legislative Assembly of Tver Oblast (1994–present) Mark Khasainov (Independent), Mayor of Vyshny Volochyok (1996–present), 1995 candidate for this seat
Failed to qualify Nadezhda Goncharova (Independent), lawyer
Did not file Pyotr Shubin (Independent), paramedic Konstantin Yakovidi (Independent), farmer Ivan Zaikin (KtR–zSS), former Member of Legislative Assembly of Tver Oblast (1994–1997)
Declined Vladimir Bayunov (CPRF), incumbent Member of State Duma (1994–present) (running for governor)
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|Vyacheslav Zorkin |align=left|Communist Party | |26.14% |- |style="background-color:"| |align=left|Sergey Bystrov |align=left|Independent | |14.23% |- |style="background-color:#1042A5"| |align=left|Nikolay Rumyantsev |align=left|Union of Right Forces | |9.21% |- |style="background-color:"| |align=left|Vladimir Kostyuchenko |align=left|Independent | |8.36% |- |style="background-color:"| |align=left|Vladimir Zorin |align=left|Our Home – Russia | |6.85% |- |style="background-color:"| |align=left|Yury Zimin |align=left|Liberal Democratic Party | |6.76% |- |style="background-color:#FCCA19"| |align=left|Vyacheslav Vorontsov |align=left|Congress of Russian Communities-Yury Boldyrev Movement | |3.53% |- |style="background-color:"| |align=left|Sergey Osadchy |align=left|Independent | |2.90% |- |style="background-color:"| |align=left|Dmitry Shebalin |align=left|Independent | |1.85% |- |style="background-color:#084284"| |align=left|Valery Nikitin |align=left|Spiritual Heritage | |1.65% |- |style="background-color:#000000"| |colspan=2 |against all | |14.86% |- | 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 Aleksandr Anokhin (LDPR), hydrogeology executive Vladimir Bayunov (Independent), chief of staff to CPRF faction in the State Duma (2000–present), former Member of State Duma (1994–1999), 1999 gubernatorial candidate Boris Fomin (ROPP), businessman Nadezhda Goncharova (Independent), news executive, 1999 candidate for this seat Mikhail Markelov (Rodina), journalist Galina Mefed (Yabloko), individual entrepreneur Kirill Monastyrsky (), waiter Leonid Ostrenkov (APR), former People's Deputy of Russia (1990–1993) Nikolay Rumyantsev (SPS), nonprofit executive, 1999 candidate for this seat Sergey Selyvanov (VR–ES), former Head of Administration of Rameshkovsky District (1996–2000) Aleksandr Tsalko (Independent), former People's Deputy of the Soviet Union (1989–1991) Aleksandr Tyagunov (United Russia), Deputy Governor of Tver Oblast (2000–present), former Member of State Duma (1996–1999) Vyacheslav Zorkin (CPRF), incumbent Member of State Duma (2000–present)
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|Aleksandr Tyagunov |align=left|United Russia | |19.93% |- |style="background-color:"| |align=left|Vladimir Bayunov |align=left|Independent | |16.47% |- |style="background-color:"| |align=left|Vyacheslav Zorkin (incumbent) |align=left|Communist Party | |10.88% |- |style="background-color:"| |align=left|Boris Fomin |align=left|Russian United Industrial Party | |5.49% |- |style="background-color:"| |align=left|Aleksandr Anokhin |align=left|Liberal Democratic Party | |4.88% |- |style="background-color:"| |align=left|Aleksandr Tsalko |align=left|Independent | |3.75% |- |style="background-color:"| |align=left|Leonid Ostrenkov |align=left|Agrarian Party | |3.11% |- |style="background-color:"| |align=left|Mikhail Markelov |align=left|Rodina | |2.98% |- |style="background-color:"| |align=left|Nadezhda Goncharova |align=left|Independent | |2.94% |- |style="background-color:"| |align=left|Nikolay Rumyantsev |align=left|Union of Right Forces | |2.55% |- |style="background:"| |align=left|Galina Mefed |align=left|Yabloko | |2.37% |- |style="background:#7C73CC"| |align=left|Sergey Selivanov |align=left|Great Russia – Eurasian Union | |1.29% |- |style="background-color:#164C8C"| |align=left|Kirill Monastyrsky |align=left|United Russian Party Rus' | |0.98% |- |style="background-color:#000000"| |colspan=2 |against all | |18.89% |- | 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:
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