The Karachay-Cherkessia constituency (No.16) is a Russian legislative constituency in Karachay-Cherkessia. The constituency encompasses the entire territory of Karachay-Cherkessia.
The constituency has been represented since 2023 by United Russia deputy Soltan Uzdenov, a businessman, who succeeded his father Dzhasharbek Uzdenov after his death in April 2023.
Boundaries 1993–2007, 2016–present: Abazinsky District, Adyge-Khablsky District, Cherkessk, Karachayevsk, Karachayevsky District, Khabezsky District, Malokarachayevsky District, Nogaysky District, Prikubansky District, Urupsky District, Ust-Dzhegutinsky District, Zelenchuksky District The constituency has been covering the entirety of the Karachay-Cherkessia since its initial creation in 1993.
Members elected ElectionMemberParty1993Azret AkbayevIndependent1995Mikhail YakushCommunist Party1999Boris BerezovskyIndependent2000Magomet TekeyevIndependent2003Nadezhda MaksimovaUnited Russia2007Proportional representation - no election by constituency20112016Rasul BotashevUnited Russia2021Dzhasharbek UzdenovUnited Russia2023Soltan UzdenovUnited Russia
Election results 1993 Declared candidates Azret Akbayev (Independent), chairman of the republican culture fund Valery Baskayev (BR–NI), Chairman of the Karachayevsk City Committee on Youth Boris Ebzeyev (Independent), Judge of the Constitutional Court of Russia (1991–present) Umar Khubiyev (Independent), businessman (previously ran as BR–NI candidate) Aleksandr Kobanov (Independent), insurance businessman Aleksandr Malykhin (Choice of Russia), economist
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|Azret Akbayev |align=left|Independent | |39.09% |- |style="background-color:"| |align=left|Aleksandr Kobanov |align=left|Independent |– |27.30% |- |style="background-color:#B4C1C7"| |align=left|Valery Baskayev |align=left|Future of Russia–New Names |– |– |- |style="background-color:"| |align=left|Boris Ebzeyev |align=left|Independent |– |– |- |style="background-color:"| |align=left|Umar Khubiyev |align=left|Independent |– |– |- |style="background-color:"| |align=left|Vladimir Malykhin |align=left|Choice of Russia |– |– |- | 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 Mussa Abaikhanov (Independent), painter Zaur Adzhiyev (FDD), Deputy Head of the State Committee on Antimonopoly Policy Regional Office Azret Akbayev (BIR), incumbent Member of State Duma (1994–present) Nazir Alakayev (Independent), lecturer Ismail Aliyev (Independent), former Member of Supreme Council of Karachay-Cherkessia (1990–1995), electrical engineering associate professor Khasan Bayramukov (APR), Member of People's Assembly of the Karachay-Cherkess Republic (1995–present), sovkhoz director Magomet Bytdayev (Independent), pensioner Alik Chotchayev (PGL), businessman Vladimir Davydov (LDPR), coordinator of the party regional office Emma Kardanova (Derzhava), chairwoman of the party regional office Asiyat Khabicheva (DVR–OD), businesswoman Anatoly Khaldzhiyev (Independent), chief doctor of the Karachay-Cherkess republican hospital Pilyal Khasanov (Independent), businessman Akhmed Kitov (NDR), Karachay-Cherkess State Technological Institute department of management and marketing head, retired Soviet Army colonel Aleksandr Kobanov (PPR–ST), insurance businessman, 1993 candidate for this seat Aiguf Kubanov (Independent), chairman of the regional lawyers' union Pyotr Plesheshnikov (Independent), Mayor of Ust-Dzheguta Vladimir Strigin (Independent), Member of Federation Council (1994–present), Chairman of the Zelenchuksky District Court (1988–present) Dalkhat Sultanov (Independent), agriculture executive Abubakir Tambiyev (Independent), businessman Alik Tekeyev (Independent), unemployed Alimurat Tekeyev (Independent), chief state sanitary doctor of Karachayevsky District Rashid Teunayev (), attorney Mikhail Yakush (CPRF), Member of People's Assembly of the Karachay-Cherkess Republic (1995–present) Nikolay Zalepukhin (Bloc of Independents), bankruptcy specialist (previously ran as BIR candidate)
Withdrawn candidates Vladimir Dekkushev (Duma-96), businessman Bilyal Kubekov (Independent), journalist
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|Mikhail Yakush |align=left|Communist Party | |31.54% |- |style="background-color:"| |align=left|Akhmed Kitov |align=left|Our Home – Russia | |14.11% |- |style="background-color:"| |align=left|Vladimir Strigin |align=left|Independent | |8.68% |- |style="background-color:"| |align=left|Emma Kardanova |align=left|Derzhava | |7.75% |- |style="background-color:"| |align=left|Ismail Aliyev |align=left|Independent | |5.16% |- |style="background-color:"| |align=left|Abubakir Tambiyev |align=left|Independent | |3.82% |- |style="background-color:"| |align=left|Vladimir Davydov |align=left|Liberal Democratic Party | |3.47% |- |style="background-color:"| |align=left|Aleksandr Kobanov |align=left|Trade Unions and Industrialists – Union of Labour | |3.09% |- |style="background-color:"| |align=left|Pyotr Pleshennikov |align=left|Independent | |2.85% |- |style="background-color:"| |align=left|Khasan Bayramukov |align=left|Agrarian Party | |2.66% |- |style="background-color:"| |align=left|Anatoly Khaldzhiyev |align=left|Independent | |2.05% |- |style="background-color:#265BAB"| |align=left|Rashid Teunayev |align=left|Russian Lawyers' Association | |1.68% |- |style="background-color:"| |align=left|Azret Akbayev (incumbent) |align=left|Ivan Rybkin Bloc | |1.39% |- |style="background-color:#F5821F"| |align=left|Nikolay Zalepukhin |align=left|Bloc of Independents | |1.19% |- |style="background-color:"| |align=left|Alimurat Tekeyev |align=left|Independent | |1.07% |- |style="background-color:#FE4801"| |align=left|Alik Chotchayev |align=left|Pamfilova–Gurov–Lysenko | |0.68% |- |style="background-color:"| |align=left|Dalkhat Sultanov |align=left|Independent | |0.62% |- |style="background-color:"| |align=left|Aiguf Kubanov |align=left|Independent | |0.59% |- |style="background-color:"| |align=left|Asiyat Khabicheva |align=left|Democratic Choice of Russia – United Democrats | |0.59% |- |style="background-color:"| |align=left|Nazir Alakayev |align=left|Independent | |0.42% |- |style="background-color:"| |align=left|Mussa Abaikhanov |align=left|Independent | |0.37% |- |style="background-color:"| |align=left|Pilyal Khasanov |align=left|Independent | |0.34% |- |style="background-color:"| |align=left|Magomet Bytdayev |align=left|Independent | |0.26% |- |style="background-color:#000000"| |colspan=2 |against all | |3.13% |- | 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 Boris Berezovsky (Independent), former Deputy Secretary of the Security Council of Russia (1996–1997), billionaire businessman Magomed Borlakov (RPP), economist Vladimir Davydov (LDPR), aide to State Duma member, 1995 candidate for this seat Leonid Kaplin (DN), prorector of South Russian State University of Economics and Service Emma Kardanova (OVR), chairwoman of the Fatherland party regional office, 1995 Derzhava candidate for this seat Ruslan Kochkarov (Independent), Judge of the Cherkessk City Court (1992–present) Yury Krivobokov (NDR), prorector of Karachay-Cherkess State Technological Institute Vladimir Malykhin (Yabloko), Member of Cherkessk City Duma, economist, 1993 Choice of Russia candidate for this seat Muratkhan Mikhailovich (CPRF), electrical engineer Baylyk Shidakov (Independent), condensers plant director Ansar Tebuyev (Independent), First Deputy Minister of Internal Affairs of Karachay-Cherkessia (1996–present), militsiya colonel
Withdrawn candidates Viktor Savelyev (RSP), Member of People's Assembly of the Karachay-Cherkess Republic (1995–present), businessman
Did not file Ismail Khachirov (Independent), former People's Deputy of the Soviet Union (1989–1991)
Declined Mikhail Yakush (CPRF), incumbent Member of State Duma (1996–present), 1999 head candidate
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|Boris Berezovsky |align=left|Independent | |40.95% |- |style="background-color:"| |align=left|Muratkhan Mikhailovich |align=left|Communist Party | |23.97% |- |style="background-color:"| |align=left|Ruslan Kochkarov |align=left|Independent | |6.40% |- |style="background-color:#C21022"| |align=left|Magomed Borlakov |align=left|Party of Pensioners | |5.38% |- |style="background-color:"| |align=left|Emma Kardanova |align=left|Fatherland – All Russia | |4.70% |- |style="background-color:"| |align=left|Yury Krivobokov |align=left|Our Home – Russia | |3.94% |- |style="background-color:"| |align=left|Vladimir Malykhin |align=left|Yabloko | |3.40% |- |style="background-color:"| |align=left|Vladimir Davydov |align=left|Liberal Democratic Party | |2.47% |- |style="background-color:"| |align=left|Ansar Tebuyev |align=left|Independent | |0.93% |- |style="background-color:"| |align=left|Leonid Kaplin |align=left|Spiritual Heritage | |0.92% |- |style="background-color:"| |align=left|Bailyk Shidakov |align=left|Independent | |0.47% |- |style="background-color:#000000"| |colspan=2 |against all | |4.25% |- | 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:
2000
Declared candidates Emma Kardanova (Independent), chairwoman of the Fatherland party regional office, 1995 and 1999 candidate for this seat Baydymat Kicherukova (Independent), poet, Karachay-Balkar translator Muratkhan Mikhailovich (CPRF), electrical engineer, 1999 candidate for this seat Vasily Neshchadimov (Independent), former Premier of Karachay-Cherkessia (1999–2000) Vladimir Panov (Independent), journalist Vladimir Poluboyarenko (Independent), entrepreneur, former prosecutor Magomet Tekeyev (Independent), journalist
Withdrawn candidates Azret-Ali Dzhukayev (Independent), prosecutor Ansar Tebuyev (Independent), First Deputy Minister of Internal Affairs of Karachay-Cherkessia (1996–present), militsiya colonel, 1999 candidate for this seat
Failed to qualify Ismail Khachirov (Independent), former People's Deputy of the Soviet Union (1989–1991), 1999 candidate for this seat
Did not file Boris Batchayev (Independent), law firm director Viktor Skorikov (Independent)
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