1997 Moscow City Duma election
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14 December 1997
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All 35 seats in the Moscow City Duma 18 seats needed for a majority | |||||||||||||||||||||||
| Turnout | 31.1%[1]  21.44pp[2] | ||||||||||||||||||||||
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This lists parties that won seats. See the complete results below.
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The 1997 Moscow City Duma election was held December 14 of that year to the Moscow City Duma, the city's unicameral parliament (city council). The inaugural election for municipal councils in Moscow's raions was held on the same day.
Participating in the election were 28 associations and four electoral blocs.[1]
Background
In 1995, the deputies refused to schedule new elections and instead extended their term for a further two years. This provoked a two-year court case that ended in the summer of 1997 with a ruling that the Duma had acted illegally in extending its powers.
Campaign
The "Nikolai Gonchar" bloc was the only bloc that adopted a platform critical of the way Mayor Yury Luzhkov ran the city. Among posters were "In this city, there should be a separation of powers, but the present Moscow City Duma is nothing but a pie with no filling".[4] The bloc, which was set up by the "Our City" movement, the Moscow Association of Councils of Territorial and Social Self-Government, and the Moscow branch of the Democratic Party of Russia, included 33 candidates. The "My Moscow" bloc (CPRF, APR, ROS, Spiritual Heritage and People's Alliance)[1] campaign stressed that "Muscovites support the Mayor's actions" and focused on solving the city's ecological and transportation problems.
Some days before the voting the city hall-owned newspaper Tverskaya 13 published a list of 35 candidates that were endorsed by the mayor. They won in all but 9 districts. The "Luzhkov list" had a partial overlap with a joint "democratic majority" list backed by NDR, DVR and Yabloko parties.[1]
A total of 357 candidates ran in the election, of them 225 unaffiliated,[5] 28 members of the outgoing City Duma and 59 women.[6]
Results
| District | Winner | Luzhkov | Democrat | |
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| 1st | Sergey Goncharov (inc.) | No | No | |
| 2nd | Mikhail Moskvin-Tarkhanov (inc.) | Yes | Yes | |
| 3rd | Nikolay Moskovchenko (inc.) | No | No | |
| 4th | Igor Antonov | No | No | |
| 5th | Sergey Osadchy (inc.) | Yes | No | |
| 6th | Irina Rukina (inc.) | Yes | Yes | |
| 7th | Galina Khovanskaya (inc.) | Yes | Yes | |
| 8th | Vladimir Vasilyev | Yes | No | |
| 9th | Yury Sharandin | Yes | No | |
| 10th | Ivan Novitsky (inc.) | Yes | Yes | |
| 11th | Aleksandr Krutov (inc.) | Yes | Yes | |
| 12th | Valentina Prisyazhnyuk (inc.) | Yes | No | |
| 13th | Vitaly Kovalevsky (inc.) | No | Yes | |
| 14th | Irina Osokina | No | Yes | |
| 15th | Oleg Muzyrya | Yes | No | |
| 16th | Sergey Loktionov | Yes | No | |
| 17th | Lyudmila Stebenkova (inc.) | Yes | Yes | |
| 18th | Gennady Lobok | Yes | No | |
| 19th | Igor Lisinenko | Yes | No | |
| 20th | Andrey Voykov | Yes | No | |
| 21st | Stepan Orlov | Yes | Yes | |
| 22nd | Yevgeny Balashov (inc.) | Yes | Yes | |
| 23rd | Viktor Dvurechenskikh | Yes | No | |
| 24th | Oleg Bocharov (inc.) | Yes | No | |
| 25th | Dmitry Katayev (inc.) | No | Yes | |
| 26th | Mikhail Vyshegorodtsev | Yes | No | |
| 27th | Andrey Shirokov | Yes | No | |
| 28th | Vladimir Plotnikov (inc.) | Yes | Yes | |
| 29th | Vladimir Platonov (inc.) | Yes | Yes | |
| 30th | Alevtina Nikitina | Yes | Yes | |
| 31st | Yury Zagrebnoy | No | No | |
| 32nd | Yevgeny Bunimovich | No | Yes | |
| 33rd | Vladimir Katushenok (inc.) | Yes | Yes | |
| 34th | Konstantin Solovyov | No | No | |
| 35th | Zinaida Dragunkina | Yes | No |
References
- ^ a b c d Аркадий Любарев (2010). "Выборы в Московскую городскую думу: хроника деградации выборов" (PDF). Российское электоральное обозрение (in Russian) (1): 72–83.
- ^ "Ход голосования (%) в г.Москве в 1991 - 1996 гг. (сравнительные данные)" [Voting process (%) in Moscow in 1991-1996 (comparative data)]. mos.ru (in Russian). Archived from the original on 2 February 1999.
- ^ a b "Выборы в Московскую городскую Думу второго созыва 14 декабря 1997". politika.su (in Russian). Retrieved 28 February 2026.
- ^ Russkii telegraf, October 7, 1997
- ^ "Сведения о зарегистрированных кандидатах в депутаты Московской городской думы, выдвинутых от избирательных объединений (блоков), избирателями, а также путем самовыдвижения" [Information on registered candidates for the Moscow City Duma, nominated by electoral associations (blocs), voters, and by self-nomination]. mos.ru (in Russian). Archived from the original on 28 January 1999.
- ^ "Сведения о зарегистрированных кандидатах в депутаты Московской городской думы" [Information on registered candidates for the Moscow City Duma]. mos.ru (in Russian). Archived from the original on 28 January 1999.
- ^ "Московская городская Дума II созыва (1997-2001 гг.)". Moscow City Duma (in Russian). Retrieved 28 February 2026.
