Astrakhan electoral district (Russian Constituent Assembly election, 1917)

Astrakhan
Former Civilian constituency
for the All-Russian Constituent Assembly
Former constituency
Created1917
Abolished1918
Number of members5
Number of Uyezd Electoral Commissions5
Number of Urban Electoral Commissions1
Number of Parishes49
Sources:[1][2]

The Astrakhan electoral district (Russian: Астраханский избирательный округ) was a constituency created for the 1917 Russian Constituent Assembly election. The electoral district covered parts of the Astrakhan Governorate, excluding the areas of the Bukey Horde and the Kalmyk Steppe.[3]

Results

Astrakhan
Party Vote %
List 6 - Socialist-Revolutionaries 100,482 51.77
List 4 - Bolsheviks 36,023 18.56
List 2 - Muslim Group 25,023 12.89
List 3 - Cossack Group 16,400 8.45
List 1 - Kadets 13,017 6.71
List 5 - Mensheviks 2,256 1.16
List 7 - Popular Socialist Group of Tsarevsky Uezd 906 0.47
Total: 194,107

[4][5]

Deputies Elected
Usmanov Muslim
Tereshchenko SR
Trusov Bolshevik
Figner SR
Nezhintsev SR

[6]

The account of U.S. historian Oliver Henry Radkey (used for the table above) is incomplete, with some votes missing.[4] In Astrakhan town, the Bolsheviks got 9,556 votes (27.5%), the Kadets 8,981 votes (25.8%), the Muslim list 6,376 votes (18.3%), the SRs 4,310 votes (12.4%), the Cossack list 3,900 votes (11.2%), the Mensheviks 1,486 votes (4.3%) and the Popular Socialists 191 votes (0.5%).[5] The Bolsheviks won 53.4% of the votes in the Astrakhan garrison.[5]

References

  1. ^ И. С. Малчевский (1930). Всероссийское учредительное собрание. Гос изд-во. pp. 140–142.
  2. ^ Б. Ф Додонов; Е. Д Гринько; О. В.. Лавинская (2004). Журналы заседаний Временного правительства: Сентябрь-октябрь 1917 года. РОССПЭН. pp. 206–208.
  3. ^ Татьяна Евгеньевна Новицкая (1991). Учредительное собрание: Россия 1918 : стенограмма и другие документы. Недра. p. 13.
  4. ^ a b Oliver Henry Radkey (1989). Russia goes to the polls: the election to the all-Russian Constituent Assembly, 1917. Cornell University Press. pp. 148–160. ISBN 978-0-8014-2360-4.
  5. ^ a b c Л. М Спирин (1987). Россия 1917 год: из истории борьбы политических партий. Мысль. pp. 273–328.
  6. ^ Лев Григорьевич Протасов (2008). Люди Учредительного собрания: портрет в интерьере эпохи. РОССПЭН. ISBN 978-5-8243-0972-0.
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