An election to the Astrakhan City Duma (municipal council) was held in June 1917, in the period between the February Revolution and the October Revolution.[1] There were some 80,000 eligible voters, out of whom about half (approximately 41,500) participated.[2]
The election was won by the socialist list, which obtained 68% of the cast votes and a total of 72 seats.[3] The list was dominated by the Party of Socialist Revolutionaries (SR), but also included candidates from the Social Democrats (S-D) and the Astrakhan Soviet of Workers and Soldiers Deputies.[3] As workers and artisans only made up about 20% of the adult population of the city, the socialist list would have been supported by non-working class sectors.[2] Also, workers with non-Russian ethnic groups would have votes for their respective national lists rather than the Russian socialist list.[2] The top candidates of the socialist list were Oleg Mikhailov (SR), Dionisiy Chernobaev (SR) and Fedor Kruglikov (S-D/Menshevik).[3] Other notable candidates on the socialist list included Konstantin Bakradze (SR, no. 7), Shabalina (SR, no. 8), Sarabyanov (S-D, no. 9), Abdusheli (S-D), Rafes (S-D, no 18), Aleksandr Trusov (S-D/Bolshevik), Astvatsaturova (S-D, no 30), Tereshchenko (S-D, no. 32), Higer (S-D/Bolshevik, no. 60), Nepryakhina (S-D, no. 61) and Parfyonova-Perfilieva (SR, no. 94).[3] After the election the Menshevik Kruglikov became the chairman of the City Duma.[3]
The Muslim list (list number 5) obtained 14% of the vote and 15 seats.[3] The Muslim list included some leftist elements.[3] Two women were elected as members of the City Duma from the Muslim list - G. G. Nasybullina and S.D.M. Karimova.[1]
The Kadets suffered a crushing defeat in the election, being relegated to third place with 13% of the vote and 14 mandates.[3] The remainder of the seats were divided between smaller parties. The Trudovik list won two seats.[3] General and socialist-oriented Jewish lists won two seats each.[3] A non-partisan list obtained two seats.[3] The Cossack list obtained just 206 votes but managed to win a single seat in the City Duma.[3]
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- ^ a b Имашева Марина Маратовна. ЖЕНЩИНА-МУСУЛЬМАНКА И ОБЩЕСТВЕННОЕ ДВИЖЕНИЕ В АСТРАХАНИ В НАЧАЛЕ ХХ ВЕКА
- ^ a b c отечественной истории, Volume 5. Изд-во РАГС, 1999. p. 31-32
- ^ a b c d e f g h i j k l Олег Шеин (15 May 2022). Астраханский край в годы революции и гражданской войны (1917–1919) (in Russian). Litres. ISBN 9785041403232.