Voronezh electoral district (Russian Constituent Assembly election, 1917)

The Voronezh electoral district (Russian: Воронежский избирательный округ) was a constituency created for the 1917 Russian Constituent Assembly election. The electoral district covered the Voronezh Governorate.[3] 8 out of 16 candidate lists submitted were disqualified from contesting.[4]

Voronezh
Former Civilian constituency
for the All-Russian Constituent Assembly
Former constituency
Created1917
Abolished1918
Number of members15
Number of Uyezd Electoral Commissions12
Number of Urban Electoral Commissions1
Number of Parishes224
Sources:[1][2]

Results edit

Voronezh
Party Vote %
List 3 - Socialist-Revolutionaries 875,300 79.72
List 2 - Bolsheviks 151,517 13.80
List 1 - Kadets 36,488 3.32
List 5 - Left SRs-Ukrainian SRs-
Polish Socialist Party alliance
11,871 1.08
List 4 - Mensheviks 8,658 0.79
List 8 - Union of Landowners 7,231 0.66
List 6 - Popular Socialists 6,116 0.56
List 7 - Mazury Society of Novokhopersky Uezd 796 0.07
Total: 1,097,977

[5][6]

Deputies Elected
Kardashov Bolshevik
Nevsky Bolshevik
Antipin SR
Bliznyuk SR
Burevoy-Soplyakov SR
Gladkikh SR
Khrenovsky SR
Kogan-Bernstein SR
Mamkin SR
Nikitin SR
Oganovsky SR
Perveeva SR
Postnikov SR
Smirnov SR
Zinin SR

[7][8]

In Voronezh town the Kadets emerged victorious, obtaining 12,380 votes (58.1%), the SRs 2,611 votes (12.2%), the Bolsheviks 2,536 votes (11.9%), the Mensheviks 1,531 (7.2%), the Popular Socialists 1,289 votes (6.1%), the Union of Landowners 596 votes (2.8%), the Ukrainian SR-SR leftist-PPS list 360 votes (1.7%) and the Mazury list 9 votes. In the Voronezh garrison, the Bolsheviks dominated the polls. They obtained 1,991 votes (56.3%), the SRs 847 votes (23.9%), the Kadets 393 votes (11.1%), the Ukrainian SRs and allies 195 votes (5.5%), the Mensheviks 51 votes (1.4%), the Popular Socialists 33 votes (0.9%), the Union of Landowners 30 votes (0.8%) and the Mazury Society 2 votes (0.1%).

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. pp. 104–105. ISBN 978-0-8014-2360-4.
  5. ^ 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.
  6. ^ Л. М Спирин (1987). Россия 1917 год: из истории борьбы политических партий. Мысль. pp. 273–328.
  7. ^ Лев Григорьевич Протасов (2008). Люди Учредительного собрания: портрет в интерьере эпохи. РОССПЭН. ISBN 978-5-8243-0972-0.
  8. ^ Первеева Мария Дмитриевна Hrono