The Altai constituency (No.2) is a Russian legislative constituency in the Altai Republic. The constituency encompasses the entire territory of Gorny Altai.
The constituency has been represented since 2021 by United Russia deputy Roman Ptitsyn, former Head of Mayminsky District, who narrowly won the open seat against Communist Maria Demina, defeating one-term United Russia incumbent Rodion Bukachakov in the primary.
Boundaries 1993–2007, 2016–present: Chemalsky District, Choysky District, Gorno-Altaysk, Kosh-Agachsky District, Mayminsky District, Ongudaysky District, Shebalinsky District, Turochaksky District, Ulagansky District, Ust-Kansky District, Ust-Koksinsky District The constituency has been covering the entirety of the Altai Republic since its initial creation in 1993.
Members elected ElectionMemberParty1993Mikhail GnezdilovIndependent1995Semyon ZubakinDemocratic Choice of Russia – United Democrats1998Mikhail LapshinIndependent1999Fatherland – All Russia2002Sergey PekpeyevIndependent2003Agrarian Party2007Proportional representation - no election by constituency20112016Rodion BukachakovUnited Russia2021Roman PtitsynUnited Russia
Election results 1993 Declared candidates Mikhail Gnezdilov (Independent), First Deputy Premier the Altai Republic (1991–present) Sergey Pekpeyev (PRES), Member of Supreme Council of the Altai Republic (1992–present), bank president (previously ran as Civic Union candidate) Vyacheslav Piunov (DPR), law firm director Faina Yakshimayeva (Independent), Deputy Head of the Altai Republic Department of Justice
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 Gnezdilov |align=left|Independent | |23.02% |- |style="background-color:"| |align=left|Faina Yakshimayeva |align=left|Independent |– |19.24% |- |style="background-color:"| |align=left|Sergey Pekpeyev |align=left|Party of Russian Unity and Accord |– |– |- |style="background-color:"| |align=left|Vyacheslav Piunov |align=left|Democratic Party |– |– |- | 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:
1995 Declared candidates Yevgeny Butov (KRO), Russian nationalist activist Nikolay Chekonov (CPRF), veterans' club chairman Mikhail Gnezdilov (Independent), incumbent Member of State Duma (1994–present), (previously ran as BIR, NDR and APR candidate) Vitaly Gurov (Forward, Russia!), economic zone director Vladimir Kydyyev (Independent), journalist Natalya Kyrova (Independent), law firm director Valery Sat (Independent), entrepreneur Vladilen Volkov (Independent), First Deputy Chairman of the State Assembly of the Altai Republic (1994–present) Faina Yakshimayeva (Independent), Judge of the Altai Republic Appellate Court (1995–present), 1993 candidate for this seat Semyon Zubakin (DVR–OD), Chief Financial Auditor of the Altai Republic (1994–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|Semyon Zubakin |align=left|Democratic Choice of Russia – United Democrats | |21.71% |- |style="background-color:"| |align=left|Vladimir Kydyyev |align=left|Independent | |17.29% |- |style="background-color:"| |align=left|Mikhail Gnezdilov (incumbent) |align=left|Independent | |12.33% |- |style="background-color:"| |align=left|Nikolay Chekonov |align=left|Communist Party | |11.60% |- |style="background-color:"| |align=left|Natalya Kyrova |align=left|Independent | |10.08% |- |style="background-color:"| |align=left|Vladilen Volkov |align=left|Independent | |6.87% |- |style="background-color:"| |align=left|Faina Yakshimayeva |align=left|Independent | |5.12% |- |style="background-color:"| |align=left|Vitaly Gurov |align=left|Forward, Russia! | |1.75% |- |style="background-color:#2C299A"| |align=left|Yevgeny Butov |align=left|Congress of Russian Communities | |1.24% |- |style="background-color:"| |align=left|Valery Sat |align=left|Independent | |1.23% |- |style="background-color:"| |align=left|Stanislav Kedik |align=left|Independent | |0.46% |- |style="background-color:#000000"| |colspan=2 |against all | |8.05% |- | 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:
1998 Declared candidates Igor Chernov (Independent), Russian Army officer, 1997 head candidate Nina Dumnova (Independent), entrepreneur Mikhail Lapshin (Independent), former Member of State Duma (1994–1995), chairman of the Agrarian Party of Russia (1993–present) Yevgeny Myachin (Independent) Andrey Vavilov (Independent), former First Deputy Minister of Finance of Russia (1992–1997)
Withdrawn candidates Yury Antaradonov (Independent), First Deputy Head of the Altai Republic – Chairman of the Committee on State Property Management (1998–present), 1997 head candidate Aleksey Kuchigashev (Independent), journalist Grigory Kudryashov (Independent), journalist Vladimir Kydyyev (Independent), journalist, 1995 candidate for this seat Grigory Piltin (Independent), Member of State Assembly of the Altai Republic (1997–present) Pyotr Seleznev (Independent), corporate executive Gennady Sumin (Independent), Member of State Assembly of the Altai Republic (1996–present)
Did not file Grigory Chekurashev (Independent), former Minister of Economy of the Altai Republic (1997–1998)
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 Lapshin |align=left|Independent | |42.28% |- |style="background-color:"| |align=left|Andrey Vavilov |align=left|Independent | |40.71% |- |style="background-color:"| |align=left|Igor Chernov |align=left|Independent | |2.43% |- |style="background-color:"| |align=left|Nina Dumnova |align=left|Independent | |1.29% |- |style="background-color:"| |align=left|Yevgeny Myachin |align=left|Independent | |1.12% |- |style="background-color:#000000"| |colspan=2 |against all | |6.82% |- | 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:
1999 Declared candidates Yury Antaradonov (RSP), First Deputy Premier of the Altai Republic (1998–present), 1997 head candidate, 1998 candidate for this seat Yury Chernichenko (SPS), former Member of Federation Council from Moscow (1994–1996), chairman of the Peasant Party of Russia (1990–present) Mikhail Lapshin (OVR), incumbent Member of State Duma (1994–1995, 1998–present), chairman of the Agrarian Party of Russia (1993–present) Vladimir Petrov (NDR), former Premier of the Altai Republic (1990–1997), former People's Deputy of Russia (1990–1993), 1997 head candidate Viktor Romashkin (CPRF), Member of State Duma (1996–present), 1997 head candidate Dalel Sakharyanov (DN), director of the Modern University for the Humanities, Gorno-Altaysk branch Vladimir Slesarev (Unity), businessman Nadezhda Sukhoterina (Independent), middle school teacher Anatoly Yevdokimov (LDPR), coordinator of the party regional office
Withdrawn candidates Aleksandr Guryanov (Nikolayev–Fyodorov Bloc), Member of State Assembly of the Altai Republic (1997–present)
Did not file Aleksandr Gavrikov (Independent), former Military Commissioner of the Altai Republic (1988–1998) Viktor Martakov (Independent), construction 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|Mikhail Lapshin (incumbent) |align=left|Fatherland – All Russia | |32.11% |- |style="background-color:"| |align=left|Yury Antaradonov |align=left|Russian Socialist Party | |26.97% |- |style="background-color:"| |align=left|Viktor Romashkin |align=left|Communist Party | |14.98% |- |style="background-color:"| |align=left|Vladimir Slesarev |align=left|Unity | |7.02% |- |style="background-color:"| |align=left|Vladimir Petrov |align=left|Our Home – Russia | |6.34% |- |style="background-color:"| |align=left|Nadezhda Sukhoterina |align=left|Independent | |1.61% |- |style="background-color:"| |align=left|Anatoly Yevdokimov |align=left|Liberal Democratic Party | |1.23% |- |style="background-color:"| |align=left|Yury Chernichenko |align=left|Union of Right Forces | |1.13% |- |style="background-color:"| |align=left|Dalel Sakharyanov |align=left|Spiritual Heritage | |0.84% |- |style="background-color:#000000"| |colspan=2 |against all | |5.71% |- | 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:
2002 Declared candidates Vladimir Grishin (Independent), aide to State Duma member Sergey Kochetkov (Independent), unemployed Sergey Ognev (Independent), agriculture businessman Sergey Pekpeyev (Independent), First Deputy Minister of Economic Development of the Altai Republic (2002–present), 1993 candidate for this seat Leonid Shchuchinov (Independent), Member of State Assembly of the Altai Republic (1997–present), Deputy Chief Sanitary Doctor of the Altai Republic Aleksandr Shegay (Independent), Ministry of Economic Development and Trade of Russia official
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|Sergey Pekpeyev |align=left|Independent | |48.57% |- |style="background-color:"| |align=left|Sergey Ognev |align=left|Independent | |19.19% |- |style="background-color:"| |align=left|Vladimir Grishin |align=left|Independent | |11.28% |- |style="background-color:"| |align=left|Leonid Shchuchinov |align=left|Independent | |8.91% |- |style="background-color:"| |align=left|Aleksandr Shegay |align=left|Independent | |1.56% |- |style="background-color:"| |align=left|Sergey Kochetkov |align=left|Independent | |1.25% |- |style="background-color:#000000"| |colspan=2 |against all | |6.26% |- | 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 Viktor Bezruchenkov (SPS), Deputy Chairman of the State Assembly of the Altai Republic (2002–present) Nikolay Chekonov (CPRF), former Member of State Assembly of the Altai Republic (1997–2001), 1995 candidate for this seat Nina Dumnova (Yabloko), aide to State Duma member, 1998 candidate for this seat, 2001 head candidate