The Kamensk-Shakhtinsky constituency (No.144) was a Russian legislative constituency in Rostov Oblast in 1993–2007. It covered parts of Eastern Donbass and northern Rostov Oblast. The seat was last occupied by United Russia faction member Vadim Varshavsky, a billionaire businessman in coal mining and metallurgy, who won a by-election in 2004.
The constituency was dissolved in 2007 when State Duma adopted full proportional representation for the next two electoral cycles. Kamensk-Shakhtinsky constituency was not re-established for the 2016 election, currently all of former Kamensk-Shakhtinsky constituency is part of Belaya Kalitva constituency.
Boundaries 1993–1995: Belaya Kalitva, Belokalitvinsky District, Bokovsky District, Chertkovsky District, Donetsk, Kamensk-Shakhtinsky, Kamensky District, Kasharsky District, Millerovo, Millerovsky District, Milyutinsky District, Morozovsky District, Oblivsky District, Sholokhovsky District, Sovetsky District, Tarasovsky District, Tatsinsky District, Verkhnedonskoy District The constituency covered parts of Eastern Donbass and mostly rural northern Rostov Oblast.
1993–2007: Bokovsky District, Chertkovsky District, Donetsk, Kamensk-Shakhtinsky, Kamensky District, Kasharsky District, Millerovo, Millerovsky District, Milyutinsky District, Morozovsky District, Oblivsky District, Sholokhovsky District, Sovetsky District, Tarasovsky District, Tatsinsky District, Verkhnedonskoy District After 1995 redistricting the constituency lost Belaya Kalitva and Belokalitvinsky District to the newly-created Belaya Kalitva constituency. The rest of the Kamensk-Shakhtinsky constituency retained intact.
Members elected ElectionMemberParty1993Boris DanchenkoIndependent1995Agrarian Party1999Communist Party2003Vladimir LitvinovUnited Russia2005Vadim VarshavskyIndependent
Election results 1993 Declared candidates Mikhail Bardakov (DPR), youth club lecturer Viktor Burkhovetsky (Independent), coal mine director Georgy Chernov (Independent), Deputy Chief of Property Management for the Rostov-on-Don Administration Boris Danchenko (Independent), Deputy Head of Administration of Kasharsky District – Head of the Department of Agriculture (1991–present) Sergey Ryndin (Independent), Chairman of the Rostov Oblast Property Fund
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 Danchenko |align=left|Independent | |35.54% |- |style="background-color:"| |align=left|Viktor Burkhovetsky |align=left|Independent | |17.07% |- |style="background-color:"| |align=left|Mikhail Bardakov |align=left|Democratic Party | |13.50% |- |style="background-color:"| |align=left|Georgy Chernov |align=left|Independent | |8.80% |- |style="background-color:"| |align=left|Sergey Ryndin |align=left|Independent | |6.67% |- |style="background-color:#000000"| |colspan=2 |against all
| 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 Boris Danchenko (APR), incumbent Member of State Duma (1994–present) Vladimir Gavrilov ((), businessman Aleksandr Kasyanov (LDPR), coordinator of the party regional office Lyudmila Mazurok (KRO), Member of Legislative Assembly of Rostov Oblast (1994–present) Irina Pasechnikova (PGL), journalist German Petrov (Independent), Head of the North Caucasus Military District Headquarters Department Ivan Yevdokimov (Independent), Member of Legislative Assembly of Rostov Oblast (1994–present), agriculture businessman Vitaly Yermolenko (Independent), former Minister of Russia – Director of the Federal Centre for Land and Agro-Industrial Reform (1992–1993)
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 Danchenko (incumbent) |align=left|Agrarian Party | |24.75% |- |style="background-color:"| |align=left|Vitaly Yermolenko |align=left|Independent | |17.85% |- |style="background-color:#2C299A"| |align=left|Lyudmila Mazurok |align=left|Congress of Russian Communities | |16.10% |- |style="background-color:"| |align=left|Ivan Yevdokimov |align=left|Independent | |8.75% |- |style="background-color:#FE4801"| |align=left|Irina Pasechnikova |align=left|Pamfilova–Gurov–Lysenko | |6.74% |- |style="background-color:#2998D5"| |align=left|Vladimir Gavrilov |align=left|Russian All-People's Movement | |6.39% |- |style="background-color:"| |align=left|Aleksandr Kasyanov |align=left|Liberal Democratic Party | |5.53% |- |style="background-color:"| |align=left|German Petrov |align=left|Independent | |3.62% |- |style="background-color:#000000"| |colspan=2 |against all | |7.71% |- | 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:
1999 Declared candidates Nikolay Astapov (Nikolayev–Fyodorov Bloc), brick factory director Boris Danchenko (CPRF), incumbent Member of State Duma (1994–present) Yevgeny Fayustov (LDPR), kolkhoz chairman Igor Koryagin (Independent), industrial association executive Sergey Mrykhin (Independent), deputy director of the North Caucasus Academy of Public Administration Rostov Law Institute Irina Pasechnikova (SPS), journalist, 1995 PGL candidate for this seat Yevgeny Stupak (Independent), Deputy Chief of the North Caucasus Railway Valery Titarenko (Independent), disabled rights nonprofit chairman Vladimir Vasilevsky (DN), militsiya officer Aleksandr Zelenkov (Independent), coal processing plant foreman
Did not file Nikolay Kolesnikov (Independent), agriculture businessman Vasily Krasulin (RSP), agriculture businessman Vitaly Linnik (NDR), Member of State Duma (1996–present) Aleksey Martynov (Independent) Valery Nadezhdin (Independent) Gennady Pigunov (For Civil Dignity), businessman Viktor Rudometov (Stalin Bloc), coal miner Mikhail Sholokhov (Independent), chief consultant to the National Sholokhov Museum-Reserve Anatoly Skorotenko (Independent) Nikolay Tsygankov (Independent) Vyacheslav Vasilenko (Independent), First Deputy Minister of Agriculture of Rostov Oblast (1996–present) Yevgeny Yevchenko (KRO-Boldyrev)
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 Danchenko (incumbent) |align=left|Communist Party | |25.03% |- |style="background-color:"| |align=left|Yevgeny Stupak |align=left|Independent | |17.13% |- |style="background-color:"| |align=left|Igor Koryagin |align=left|Independent | |15.29% |- |style="background-color:"| |align=left|Irina Pasechnikova |align=left|Union of Right Forces | |9.47% |- |style="background-color:"| |align=left|Yevgeny Fayustov |align=left|Liberal Democratic Party | |8.06% |- |style="background-color:#FF4400"| |align=left|Nikolay Astapov |align=left|Andrey Nikolayev and Svyatoslav Fyodorov Bloc | |4.32% |- |style="background-color:"| |align=left|Aleksandr Zelenkov |align=left|Independent | |4.21% |- |style="background-color:"| |align=left|Sergey Mrykhin |align=left|Independent | |2.82% |- |style="background-color:"| |align=left|Vladimir Vasilevsky |align=left|Spiritual Heritage | |2.17% |- |style="background-color:"| |align=left|Valery Titarenko |align=left|Independent | |1.61% |- |style="background-color:#000000"| |colspan=2 |against all | |8.30% |- | 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 Boris Danchenko (CPRF), incumbent Member of State Duma (1994–present) Sergey Khoroshilov (Independent), nonprofit chairman Vladimir Litvinov (United Russia), Member of State Duma (2000–present) Aleksey Martynov ((), phytosanitary certification specialist, 1999 candidate for this seat Sergey Shatsky (Independent), ecological centre director
Withdrawn candidates Vladislav Govorovsky (Independent), senior bailiff
Did not file Vladimir Kishko (RPP-PSS), pensioner Valery Ponkratov (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|Vladimir Litvinov |align=left|United Russia | |53.93% |- |style="background-color:"| |align=left|Boris Danchenko (incumbent) |align=left|Communist Party | |16.56% |- |style="background-color:"| |align=left|Sergey Khoroshilov |align=left|Independent | |12.18% |- |style="background-color:"| |align=left|Sergey Shatsky |align=left|Independent | |3.36% |- |style="background-color:#164C8C"| |align=left|Aleksey Martynov |align=left|United Russian Party Rus' | |2.00% |- |style="background-color:#000000"| |colspan=2 |against all | |10.35% |- | 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:
2005 Declared candidates Viktor Kolomeytsev (Independent), former Member of State Duma (2000–2003) Artyom Mekhtibekov (Independent), undergraduate student Oleg Mikheyev (Independent), construction businessman Vadim Varshavsky (Independent), billionaire businessman
Withdrawn candidates Nikolay Kolesnikov (Independent), Member of Donetsk City Duma, agriculture businessman, 1999 candidate for this seat
Did not file Vladimir Grishin (Independent), aide to State Duma member Arkady Pavlinov (Independent), community activist Vladimir Shlyakhtin (Independent), insurance executive Aleksandr Zhukov (Independent), senior repairman
Declined Boris Danchenko (CPRF), former Member of State Duma (1994–2003)
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|Vadim Varshavsky |align=left|Independent | |46.79% |- |style="background-color:"| |align=left|Oleg Mikheyev |align=left|Independent | |26.86% |- |style="background-color:"| |align=left|Viktor Kolomeytsev |align=left|Independent | |12.89% |- |style="background-color:"| |align=left|Artyom Mekhtibekov |align=left|Independent | |1.92% |- |style="background-color:#000000"| |colspan=2 |against all | |8.63% |- | 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 дополнительных выборов по одномандатному избирательному округу, 2005
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