The Mordovia constituency (No. 23) is a Russian legislative constituency in Mordovia. The constituency encompasses the entire territory of Mordovia.
The constituency has been represented since 2021 by United Russia deputy Yulia Ogloblina, a youth activist, who won the open seat, succeeding two-term United Russia incumbent Vitaly Yefimov as he successfully ran for a party list seat.
Boundaries 1993–2007, 2016–present: Ardatovsky District, Atyuryevsky District, Atyashevsky District, Bolshebereznikovsky District, Bolsheignatovsky District, Chamzinsky District, Dubyonsky District, Ichalkovsky District, Insarsky District, Kadoshkinsky District, Kochkurovsky District, Kovylkino, Kovylkinsky District, Krasnoslobodsky District, Lyambirsky District, Romodanovsky District, Ruzayevka, Ruzayevsky District, Saransk, Staroshaygovsky District, Temnikovsky District, Tengushevsky District, Torbeyevsky District, Yelnikovsky District, Zubovo-Polyansky District The constituency has been covering the entirety of Mordovia since its initial creation in 1993.
Members elected ElectionMemberParty1993Vladimir KartashovCommunist Party1995Nikolay MedvedevIndependent1999Viktor GrishinFatherland – All Russia2003United Russia2007Proportional representation - no election by constituency20112016Vitaly YefimovUnited Russia2021Yulia OgloblinaUnited Russia
Election results 1993 Declared candidates Anatoly Bolyayev (Independent), Head of Chamzinsky District Vladimir Kartashov (CPRF), electric bulb factory serviceman Boris Kevbrin (Independent), director of the Moscow University of Cooperation, Saransk branch Ivan Kelin (Independent), journalist Sergey Serebryakov (YaBL), Council of Ministers of Mordovia staffer Nikolay Sharashkin (Independent), journalist
Withdrawn candidates Viktor Skoptsov (APR), Deputy Premier of Mordovia – Minister of Agriculture (1993–present), former First Secretary of the CPSU Mordovian Republican Committee (1990–1991)
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 Kartashov |align=left|Communist Party | |22.06% |- |style="background-color:"| |align=left|Ivan Kelin |align=left|Independent | |20.50% |- |style="background-color:"| |align=left|Boris Kevbrin |align=left|Independent | |15.63% |- |style="background-color:"| |align=left|Anatoly Bolyayev |align=left|Independent | |9.23% |- |style="background-color:"| |align=left|Sergey Serebryakov |align=left|Yavlinsky–Boldyrev–Lukin | |8.24% |- |style="background-color:"| |align=left|Aleksandr Sharashkin |align=left|Independent | |4.67% |- |style="background-color:#000000"| |colspan=2 |against all | |11.92% |- | 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 Anatoly Bolyayev (Independent), Head of Chamzinsky District, 1993 candidate for this seat Nikolay Dugushkin (APR), agriculture scientist Vasily Guslyannikov (DR-SP), former President of Mordovia (1991–1993) Lyudmila Ivanova (Independent), Member of Federation Council (1994–present) Vladimir Ivliyev (For the Motherland!), chairman of the People's Patriotic Party of Mordovia Vladimir Kartashov (V–N!), incumbent Member of State Duma (1994–present) Ivan Kelin (KRO), former journalist, 1993 candidate for this seat Stanislav Kholopov (Independent), journalist Antonina Krasnova (PPR–ST), union leader Aleksey Ladoshkin (PGL), Saransk administration staffer Yury Mashkov (Independent) Nikolay Medvedev (Independent), Deputy Minister of Russia for the Commonwealth of Independent States (1994–present), former People's Deputy of Russia (1990–1993), 1991 presidential candidate Yury Sotov (), transportation 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|Nikolay Medvedev |align=left|Independent | |31.77% |- |style="background-color:"| |align=left|Lyudmila Ivanova |align=left|Independent | |23.58% |- |style="background-color:#C28314"| |align=left|Vladimir Ivliyev |align=left|For the Motherland! | |6.77% |- |style="background-color:"| |align=left|Vasily Guslyannikov |align=left|Democratic Russia and Free Trade Unions | |6.44% |- |style="background-color:"| |align=left|Nikolay Dugushkin |align=left|Agrarian Party | |4.60% |- |style="background-color:"| |align=left|Yury Mashkov |align=left|Independent | |3.45% |- |style="background-color:"| |align=left|Vladimir Kartashov (incumbent) |align=left|Power to the People! | |3.29% |- |style="background-color:#2C299A"| |align=left|Ivan Kelin |align=left|Congress of Russian Communities | |3.09% |- |style="background-color:"| |align=left|Anatoly Bolyayev |align=left|Independent | |2.00% |- |style="background-color:"| |align=left|Stanislav Kholopov |align=left|Independent | |1.93% |- |style="background-color:"| |align=left|Antonina Krasnova |align=left|Trade Unions and Industrialists – Union of Labour | |1.34% |- |style="background-color:#FE4801"| |align=left|Aleksey Ladoshkin |align=left|Pamfilova–Gurov–Lysenko | |1.01% |- |style="background-color:"| |align=left|Yury Sotov |align=left|Russian Party of Automobile Owners | |0.91% |- |style="background-color:#000000"| |colspan=2 |against all | |7.06% |- | 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: |Выборы депутатов Государственной Думы. 1995. Электоральная статистика. – М.: Весь Мир, 1996. – 268 с.
1999 Declared candidates Nikolay Biryukov (ROS), Head of the Migration Service of Mordovia (1996–present), former Chairman of the Supreme Council of Mordovia (1990–1995), 1991 presidential candidate Viktor Grishin (OVR), Deputy Premier of Mordovia – Minister of Economy (1996–present) Yevgeny Kosterin (CPRF), Member of State Duma (1994–present) Nikolay Makushkin (DN), businessman Nikolay Medvedev (Yabloko), incumbent Member of State Duma (1996–present) Aleksandr Novikov (Nikolayev–Fyodorov Bloc), retired FSB major general
Failed to qualify Yevgeny Voinov (Independent) Oleg Zabrodin (Independent), auto repair shop owner Aleksandr Zhirinovsky (LDPR), party official, brother of State Duma member Vladimir Zhirinovsky
Did not file Vladimir Anoshin (Independent) Ravil Diveyev (RPP), businessman Vasily Guslyannikov (SPS), former President of Mordovia (1991–1993), 1995 DR-ST candidate for this seat Vladimir Myshkin (Independent) Viktor Samoylov (KTR–zSS), train driver Vladimir Shanin (Independent) Ivan Yelayev (Independent), lawyer
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|Viktor Grishin |align=left|Fatherland – All Russia | |43.66% |- |style="background-color:"| |align=left|Yevgeny Kosterin |align=left|Communist Party | |20.73% |- |style="background-color:"| |align=left|Nikolay Medvedev (incumbent) |align=left|Yabloko | |13.93% |- |style="background-color:#FF4400"| |align=left|Aleksandr Novikov |align=left|Andrey Nikolayev and Svyatoslav Fyodorov Bloc | |3.66% |- |style="background-color:"| |align=left|Nikolay Biryukov |align=left|Russian All-People's Union | |3.46% |- |style="background-color:"| |align=left|Nikolay Makushkin |align=left|Spiritual Heritage | |2.34% |- |style="background-color:#000000"| |colspan=2 |against all | |9.59% |- | 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, 1999
2003 Declared candidates Oleg Aleshkin (LDPR), State Duma staffer Mikhail Davydkin (Independent), banker Viktor Grishin (United Russia), incumbent Member of State Duma (2000–present), Chairman of the Duma Committee on the Federation and Regional Policy (2002–present) Sergey Kalashnikov (), businessman Yevgeny Kosterin (CPRF), Member of State Duma (1994–present), 1999 candidate for this seat Viktor Nechayev (PVR-RPZh), Deputy Premier of Mordovia (2003–present) Aleksandr Polushkin (SPS), Member of State Assembly of the Republic of Mordovia (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|Viktor Grishin (incumbent) |align=left|United Russia | |77.51% |- |style="background-color:"| |align=left|Yevgeny Kosterin |align=left|Communist Party | |8.02% |- |style="background-color:"| |align=left|Aleksandr Polushkin |align=left|Union of Right Forces | |2.63% |- |style="background-color:"| |align=left|Oleg Aleshkin |align=left|Liberal Democratic Party | |2.21% |- |style="background-color:#00A1FF"| |align=left|Viktor Nechayev |align=left|Party of Russia's Rebirth-Russian Party of Life | |1.02% |- |style="background-color:#164C8C"| |align=left|Sergey Kalashnikov |align=left|United Russian Party Rus' | |0.71% |- |style="background-color:"| |align=left|Mikhail Davydkin |align=left|Independent | |0.69% |- |style="background-color:#000000"| |colspan=2 |against all | |5.59% |- | 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, 2003
2016 Declared candidates Timur Geraslkin (A Just Russia), Member of Spasskoye Council of Deputies (2014–present), associate professor Vladimir Gridin (Yabloko), chairman of the party regional office Yulia Ivanova (Party of Growth), Member of State Assembly of the Republic of Mordovia (2011–present), businesswoman Larisa Konnova (Patriots of Russia), chairwoman of the party regional office Dmitry Kuzyakin (CPRF), former Member of Shchukino District Council of Deputies (2004–2008), medical businessman Sergey Sorokin (Rodina), Deputy Chairman of the State Assembly of the Republic of Mordovia (2011–present), Member of the State Assembly (1995–present) Yevgeny Tyurin (LDPR), aide to State Duma member Sergey Marinin, perennial candidate Vitaly Yefimov (United Russia), Member of State Duma (2011–present) Armen Yeranosyan (CPCR), perennial candidate
Failed to qualify Ivan Yelayev (Independent), law firm director, 1999 candidate for this seat
Declined Natalia Andryushechkina (United Russia), Member of State Assembly of the Republic of Mordovia (2011–present), student union leader (lost the primary) Pyotr Avtayev (United Russia), former Deputy Premier of Mordovia (1993–2001), gas executive (lost the primary)