Kursk electoral district (Russian Constituent Assembly election, 1917)

The Kursk electoral district (Russian: Курский избирательный округ) was a constituency created for the 1917 Russian Constituent Assembly election. The electoral district covered the Kursk Governorate.[3]

Kursk
Former Civilian constituency
for the All-Russian Constituent Assembly
Former constituency
Created1917
Abolished1918
Number of members13
Number of Uyezd Electoral Commissions15
Number of Urban Electoral Commissions1
Number of Parishes198
Sources:[1][2]

Kursk was an agrarian, Black Earth province with no industries. The Bolshevik vote was largely attributed to soldiers returning home from the front.[4] In Kursk town the Kadets got 10,043 votes (45.1%), the Bolsheviks 5,793 votes (26%), SRs 3,876 votes (17.4%), Popular Socialists 1,599 votes (7.2%), Mensheviks 688 votes (3.1%) and Landowners 257 votes (1.2%).[5] 4,143 out of the 5,793 Bolshevik votes came from the town garrison, where the Bolsheviks obtained 58.2%. The second largest party in the Kursk garrison were the SRs (2,169 votes, 30.5%).[5]

Results edit

Kursk
Party Vote % Seats
List 1 - Socialist-Revolutionaries 868,743 82.08 12
List 4 - Bolsheviks 119,127 11.26 1
List 2 - Kadets 47,199 4.46
List 5 - Union of Landowners 8,656 0.82
List 3 - Popular Socialists 8,594 0.81
List 6 - Mensheviks 6,037 0.57
Total: 1,058,356 13

[6][5]

Deputies Elected
Baryshnikov SR
Belosov SR
Doroshev SR
Kholodov SR
Kutepov SR
Merkulov SR
Neruchev SR
Pakhomov SR
Piyanich SR
Romanenko SR
Rusanov SR
Vlasov SR
Ozemblovsky Bolshevik

[7]

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. ^ Oliver Henry Radkey (1989). Russia goes to the polls: the election to the all-Russian Constituent Assembly, 1917. Cornell University Press. p. 28. 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. ^ 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.