Semirechie electoral district (Russian Constituent Assembly election, 1917)

The Semirechie electoral district (Russian: Семиреченский избирательный округ) was a constituency created for the 1917 Russian Constituent Assembly election. The electoral district covered the Semirechie Oblast.[3] The electoral battle in Semirechie stood between a general soviet list (SRs and Mensheviks) and the Kirgiz-Cossack alliance. The Bolshevik list had been banned.[4]

Semirechie
Former Civilian constituency
for the All-Russian Constituent Assembly
Former constituency
Created1917
Abolished1918
Number of members6
Number of Uyezd Electoral Commissions6
Number of Urban Electoral Commissions1
Number of Parishes180
Sources:[1][2]

The Taranchin Committee had been formed in February 1917, as a faction of the General Muslim Committee. In the summer of 1917, it was joined by the Dungan (Hui) community, becoming the Taranchi-Dungan Committee.[5]

Results edit

Semirechie
Party Vote %
List 3 - Bloc of the Kirghiz Party Alash and other Muslims

(Alash-Semirechie Cossack Host)

219,832 52.85
List 2 - Bloc of Socialists of Verny Town, Soviet of Peasants Deputies,
Soviet of Soldiers and Workers Deputies, Kirghiz Socialist Party "Fukhara"
(Socialist-Revolutionaries, Mensheviks)
167,793 40.34
List 1 - Tarachin Population of Dzharkent Uezd
(Uighur-Dungan alliance)
28,368 6.82
Total: 415,993

[4]

Deputies Elected
Shebalin Socialist Bloc
Tynyshpaev Socialist Bloc
Amanzholov Alash-Cossack alliance
Jainakov Alash-Cossack alliance
Saurambaev Alash-Cossack alliance
Shendrikov Alash-Cossack alliance

[6]

References edit

  1. ^ И. С. Малчевский (1930). Всероссийское учредительное собрание. Гос изд-во. pp. 140–142.
  2. ^ Dodonov, B. F.; Grinʹko, E. D.; Lavinskai︠a︡, O. V. (2001). Журналы заседаний Временного правительства. РОССПЭН. pp. 206–208. ISBN 978-5-8243-0203-5.
  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. ^ Brophy, David (2005). "Taranchis, Kashgaris, and the 'Uyghur Question' in Soviet Central Asia". Inner Asia. 7 (2): 163–84. doi:10.1163/146481705793646892. JSTOR 23615693.
  6. ^ Лев Григорьевич Протасов (2008). Люди Учредительного собрания: портрет в интерьере эпохи. РОССПЭН. ISBN 978-5-8243-0972-0.