The Samara electoral district (Russian: Самарский избирательный округ) was a constituency created for the 1917 Russian Constituent Assembly election.
| Samara | |
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| Former Civilian constituency for the All-Russian Constituent Assembly | |
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| Former constituency | |
| Created | 1917 |
| Abolished | 1918 |
| Number of members | 17 |
| Number of Uyezd Electoral Commissions | 7 |
| Number of Urban Electoral Commissions | 1 |
| Number of Parishes | 318 |
| Sources: | [1][2] |
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The electoral district covered the Samara Governorate.[3] Electoral turnout reportedly stood at 54.86%.[4] Out of 95 different candidate lists submitted, 79 turned down by the electoral authorities (out of which approx 42 due to late submission).[5] The constituency had large German and Tatar minorities.[6] The German socialist list (list no. 1) had four candidates, Walter Müller from Petrograd, Robert Haffner from Samara, Arthur Feidel from Katharinenstadt and Philipp Leisle from Warenburg.[7]
In Samara city the Bolsheviks polled 42% of the vote, the SRs 27% and Kadets 14%.[8] In Stepnoye Volost, consisting of seven German settlements, 2,213 votes (53.53%) were cast for the German non-socialist list against 1,894 votes (45.82%) for the German socialist list. The remaining votes were split between 6 votes for the SR list, 5 votes for the Bashkir Federalist list, 4 votes for the Bolsheviks, 4 votes for the Unity list, 3 votes for the Ukrainian list, 2 votes for the Popular Socialists, 2 votes for the Old Believer list and 1 single vote for the Menshevik list. There were 29 invalid votes. All in all, out of the 7,747 eligible voters 56.58% participated in the vote in the volost, with results raging from over 95% for the German socialists in Brabander and 92% for the German non-socialists in Lauwe.[9]
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- ^ И. С. Малчевский (1930). Всероссийское учредительное собрание. Гос изд-во. pp. 140–142.
- ^ Б. Ф Додонов; Е. Д Гринько; О. В.. Лавинская (2004). Журналы заседаний Временного правительства: Сентябрь-октябрь 1917 года. РОССПЭН. pp. 206–208.
- ^ Татьяна Евгеньевна Новицкая (1991). Учредительное собрание: Россия 1918 : стенограмма и другие документы. Недра. p. 13.
- ^ Oliver Henry Radkey (1989). Russia goes to the polls: the election to the all-Russian Constituent Assembly, 1917. Cornell University Press. p. 98. ISBN 978-0-8014-2360-4.
- ^ Oliver Henry Radkey (1989). Russia goes to the polls: the election to the all-Russian Constituent Assembly, 1917. Cornell University Press. pp. 104–105. ISBN 978-0-8014-2360-4.
- ^ Oliver Henry Radkey (1989). Russia goes to the polls: the election to the all-Russian Constituent Assembly, 1917. Cornell University Press. p. 106. ISBN 978-0-8014-2360-4.
- ^ Victor Herdt. Zwischen Revolution und Autonomie: Dokumente zur Geschichte der Wolgadeutschen aus den Jahren 1917 und 1918. Verlag Wissenschaft und Politik, 2000. p. 359
- ^ Scott Baldwin Smith (2011). Captives of Revolution: The Socialist Revolutionaries and the Bolshevik Dictatorship, 1918–1923. University of Pittsburgh Pre. pp. 10, 98. ISBN 978-0-8229-7779-7.
- ^ Das Ergebenis der Wahlen, in Der Kolonist, November 24, 1917. p. 2
- ^ 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.
- ^ Л. М Спирин (1987). Россия 1917 год: из истории борьбы политических партий. Мысль. pp. 273–328.
- ^ Лев Григорьевич Протасов (2008). Люди Учредительного собрания: портрет в интерьере эпохи. РОССПЭН. ISBN 978-5-8243-0972-0.