Irkutsk electoral district (Russian Constituent Assembly election, 1917)

The Irkutsk electoral district (Russian: Иркутский избирательный округ) was a constituency created for the 1917 Russian Constituent Assembly election. The electoral district covered the Irkutsk Governorate.[3] The constituency was assigned 5 seats in the Constituent Assembly.[4]

Irkutsk
Former Civilian constituency
for the All-Russian Constituent Assembly
Former constituency
Created1917
Abolished1918
Number of members5
Number of Uyezd Electoral Commissions7
Number of Urban Electoral Commissions1
Number of Parishes116
Sources:[1][2]

Results edit

In Irkutsk town the SR list got 8,664 votes (33.9%), the Bolsheviks 7,815 votes (31.6%), Kadets 5,537 votes (21.7%), Mensheviks 1,610 votes (6.3%), Autonomists and Popular Socialist list 1,068 votes (4.2%), Orthodox list 807 votes (3.2%) and the Buryat list 28 votes (0.1%). The Irkutsk garrison constituted a major share of the urban electorate, in the garrison the SRs got 6,064 votes (31.5%), the Bolsheviks 5,906 votes (30.7%), the Kadets 4,740 votes (24.6%), Mensheviks 1,097 votes (5.7%), the Autonomists/Popular Socialists 901 votes (4.7%), the Orthodox list 520 votes (2.7%) and the Buryat list 23 votes (0.1%).[5]

Irkutsk
Party Vote % Seats
List 1 - Socialist-Revolutionaries and Peasants Union 113,378 54.47 3
List 5 - Buryat National Committee, SRs 39,248 18.85 1
List 7 - Bolsheviks and
Menshevik-Internationalists
31,587 15.17 1
List 4 - Kadets 8,834 4.24
List 3 - Siberian Autonomist and Popular Socialists 6,925 3.33
List 2 - Mensheviks 5,534 2.66
List 6 - Orthodox parishes 2,653 1.27
Total: 208,159 5

[6][5]

Deputies Elected
Korshunov SR
Krol SR
Timofeev SR
Vampiloon Buryat
Gavrilov Bolshevik

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References edit

  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. ^ Б. Ф Додонов; Е. Д Гринько; О. В.. Лавинская (2004). Журналы заседаний Временного правительства: Сентябрь-октябрь 1917 года. РОССПЭН. p. 207.
  5. ^ a b Л. М Спирин (1987). Россия 1917 год: из истории борьбы политических партий. Мысль. pp. 273–328.
  6. ^ 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.
  7. ^ Лев Григорьевич Протасов (2008). Люди Учредительного собрания: портрет в интерьере эпохи. РОССПЭН. ISBN 978-5-8243-0972-0.