The Central constituency (No.11) is a Russian legislative constituency in Dagestan. The constituency covers southern Dagestan, stretching alongside Caspian Sea from Makhachkala to the border with Azerbaijan and covering areas populated by Kumyks, Lezgins and Dargins. The present day Northern constituency was created in 2015 from most parts of former Derbent constituency and small territory of former Makhachkala constituency.

The constituency has been represented since 2021 by United Russia deputy Murad Gadzhiev, three-term State Duma member and cognac manufacturer, who won the open seat, defeating one-term United Russia incumbent Abdulgamid Emirgamzayev in the primary.

Boundaries 2003–2007 Derbent constituency: Agulsky District, Akhtynsky District, Akushinsky District, Dagestanskiye Ogni, Dakhadayevsky District, Derbent, Derbentsky District, Dokuzparinsky District, Izerbash, Karabudakhkentsky District, Kayakentsky District, Kaytagsky District, Khivsky District, Kulinsky District, Kurakhsky District, Laksky District, Magaramkentsky District, Rutulsky District, Sergokalinsky District, Suleyman-Stalsky District, Tabasaransky District The constituency was created during the 2003 redistricting as Dagestan gained a third State Duma seat. The constituency was based in southern Dagestan, covering Caspian Sea coast to the south of Kaspiysk, including Dagestanskiye Ogni, Derbent and Izerbash, as well as Dargin- and Lezgin-heavy mountainous south-western Dagestan.

2016–2026: Dagestanskiye Ogni, Derbent, Derbentsky District, Izberbash, Karabudakhkentsky District, Kaspiysk, Kayakentsky District, Kaytagsky District, Khivsky District, Magaramkentsky District, Makhachkala (Leninsky), Sergokalinsky District, Suleyman-Stalsky District, Tabasaransky District The constituency was re-created for the 2016 election and received a new name "Central constituency". This seat retained almost its Caspian Sea coast, losing south-western Dagestan to Southern constituency. The constituency was pushed to the north, gaining Leninsky district of Makhachkala and Kaspiysk from the former Makhachkala constituency.

Since 2026 Derbent constituency: Agulsky District, Akhtynsky District, Akushinsky District, Dagestanskiye Ogni, Dakhadayevsky District, Derbent, Derbentsky District, Dokuzparinsky District, Izberbash, Karabudakhkentsky District, Kayakentsky District, Kaytagsky District, Khivsky District, Kulinsky District, Kurakhsky District, Laksky District, Magaramkentsky District, Rutulsky District, Sergokalinsky District, Suleyman-Stalsky District, Tabasaransky District The 2025 redistricting entirely re-created the 2003–2007 version of the constituency, including the old name of "Derbent constituency".

Members elected ElectionMemberParty2003Asanbuba NyudyurbegovIndependent2007Proportional representation - no election by constituency20112016Abdulgamid EmirgamzayevUnited Russia2021Murad GadzhievUnited Russia

Election results 2003

Declared candidates Abdulmedzhid Bagomayev (PVR-RPZh), ecological education centre director Abdulkerim Magomedov (Independent), engineer Kamaldin Mursalov (Independent), businessman Asanbuba Nyudyurbegov (Independent), fishing businessman Magomed Omarov (Independent), Deputy Minister of Internal Affairs of Dagestan (1996–present), militsiya major general

Withdrawn candidates Tofik Ashurbekov (United Russia), prosecutor Murad Gadzhiyev (Independent), Chairman of the Derbent City Assembly (1994–present), cognac plant director Ali Khazbulatov (Independent), Deputy Head of Derbentsky District (1996–present) Gusen Kurbanov (), attorney Magomedgusen Nasrutdinov (Independent), Member of People's Assembly of the Republic of Dagestan (2003–present), gas businessman

Failed to qualify Mugudin Kakhrimanov (Independent), retired Soviet Army major general Safar Khanadanov (Independent), militsiya officer Magomed Magomedov (Independent), state veterinary inspector Osman Osmanov (Independent), housing inspector Vyacheslav Zdanovsky (), taxi station director

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|Asanbuba Nyudyurbegov |align=left|Independent | |62.96% |- |style="background-color:"| |align=left|Magomed Omarov |align=left|Independent | |31.59% |- |style="background-color:"| |align=left|Abdulkerim Magomedov |align=left|Independent | |1.80% |- |style="background-color:"| |align=left|Kamaldin Mursalov |align=left|Independent | |0.85% |- |style="background-color:#00A1FF"| |align=left|Abdulmedzhid Bagomayev |align=left|Party of Russia's Rebirth-Russian Party of Life | |0.67% |- |style="background-color:#000000"| |colspan=2 |against all | |1.15% |- | 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 Abdulgamid Emirgamzayev (United Russia), businessman Islam Klichkhanov (Yabloko), construction engineer Makhmud Makhmudov (CPRF), Member of People's Assembly of the Republic of Dagestan (1995–1999, 2011–present), former Member of State Duma (2003–2007) Murat Payzulayev (A Just Russia), Member of People's Assembly of the Republic of Dagestan (2011–present) Timur Saidov (CPCR), homemaker Mazhi Sultanov (LDPR), Member of Arakul Assembly of Deputies (2015–present) Islamudtin Vagabov (The Greens), pensioner

Withdrawn candidates Magomedrasul Omarov (Rodina), former Member of People's Assembly of the Republic of Dagestan (2007–2011), construction businessman

Failed to qualify Magomed Orudzhev (Independent), former prosecutor of Makhachkala Sovetsky City District (2001–2013), convicted felon Tazhidin Radzhabov (Independent), pensioner

Did not file Mamed Abasov (Independent), Member of State Duma (2013–present), United Russia primary candidate Mustafa Aigunov (Independent), unemployed Ruslan Gereyev (Independent), unemployed Magomedali Imanov (), gas executive Magomed Utsiyev (Independent), pensioner

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|Abdulgamid Emirgamzayev |align=left|United Russia | |88.86% |- |style="background-color:"| |align=left|Makhmud Makhmudov |align=left|Communist Party | |5.25% |- |style="background-color:"| |align=left|Murat Payzulayev |align=left|A Just Russia | |1.67% |- |style="background-color:"| |align=left|Islamutdin Vagabov |align=left|The Greens | |1.63% |- |style="background-color:"| |align=left|Timur Saidov |align=left|Communists of Russia | |0.87% |- |style="background-color:"| |align=left|Mazhi Sultanov |align=left|Liberal Democratic Party | |0.75% |- |style="background-color:"| |align=left|Islam Klichkhanov |align=left|Yabloko | |0.48% |- | 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:

2021 Declared candidates Khadzhimurat Abakarov (Yabloko), lawyer Kamil Davdiyev (SR–ZP), Deputy Chairman of the People's Assembly of the Republic of Dagestan (2016–present), Member of the People's Assembly (2007–present) Leyla Dzhalilova (RPPSS), media specialist Daniyal Gadzhiyev (LDPR), journalist Murad Gadzhiyev (United Russia), Member of State Duma (2011–present), 2003 candidate for this seat Rinat Karimov (Rodina), singer, musician Makhmud Makhmudov (CPRF), Deputy Chairman of the People's Assembly of the Republic of Dagestan (2016–present), Member of the People's Assembly (1995–1999, 2011–present), former Member of State Duma (2003–2007), 2016 candidate for this seat Sirazhdin Ramazanov (The Greens), former chairman of the Social Democratic Party of Russia (2013–2019) Magomed Shaykhgasanov (New People), corporate executive

Declined Abdulgamid Emirgamzayev (United Russia), incumbent Member of State Duma (2016–present) (lost the primary)

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|Murad Gadzhiyev |align=left|United Russia | |80.20% |- |style="background-color:"| |align=left|Makhmud Makhmudov |align=left|Communist Party | |5.87% |- |style="background-color:"| |align=left|Kamil Davdiyev |align=left|A Just Russia — For Truth | |4.50% |- |style="background-color:"| |align=left|Daniyal Gadzhiyev |align=left|Liberal Democratic Party | |2.77% |- |style="background-color: "| |align=left|Leyla Dzhalilova |align=left|Party of Pensioners | |1.54% |- |style="background-color:"| |align=left|Rinat Karimov |align=left|Rodina | |1.39% |- |style="background-color:"| |align=left|Khadzhimurat Abakarov |align=left|Yabloko | |1.21% |- |style="background-color: " | |align=left|Magomed Shaykhgasanov |align=left|New People | |1.21% |- |style="background-color:"| |align=left|Sirazhdin Ramazanov |align=left|The Greens | |0.66% |- | 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:

2026 Declared candidates Khizri Abakarov (United Russia), Member of State Duma (2021–present) Marat Aliyarov (A Just Russia), Member of People's Assembly of the Republic of Dagestan (2016–2021, 2022–present), construction executive Albert Esedov (Yabloko), former Member of Ikra Assembly of Deputies (2020–2025), engineer Shakhnavaz Guseinov (LDPR), construction businessman (CPRF), Member of People's Assembly of the Republic of Dagestan (1995–1999, 2011–present), former Member of State Duma (2003–2007), 2016 and 2021 candidate for this seat Zebiyula Sefibekov (New People), gas distribution station chief

Declined Robert Aliyev (United Russia), former Member of People's Assembly of the Republic of Dagestan (2003–2007) (lost the primary) Murad Gadzhiyev (United Russia), incumbent Member of State Duma (2011–present) (lost the primary) Khabibulla Magomedov (United Russia), Member of People's Assembly of the Republic of Dagestan (2021–present), energy construction executive (lost the primary)

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|Khizri Abakarov |align=left|United Russia

|style="background-color:"| |align=left|Marat Aliyarov |align=left|A Just Russia

|style="background-color:"| |align=left|Albert Esedov |align=left|Yabloko

|style="background-color:"| |align=left|Shakhnavaz Guseinov |align=left|Liberal Democratic Party

|style="background-color:"| |align=left| |align=left|Communist Party

|style="background-color:"| |align=left|Zebiyula Sefibekov |align=left|New People

| 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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