Taurida electoral district (Russian Constituent Assembly election, 1917)

The Taurida electoral district (Russian: Таврический избирательный округ) was a constituency created for the 1917 Russian Constituent Assembly election.

Taurida
Former Civilian constituency
for the All-Russian Constituent Assembly
Former constituency
Created1917
Abolished1918
Number of members9
Number of Uyezd Electoral Commissions8
Number of Urban Electoral Commissions3
Number of Parishes102
Sources:[1][2]

The electoral district covered the Taurida Governorate.[3] One peasant list had been denied registration.[4]

Taurida had a 54.74% voter turnout.[5][6] The account of U.S. historian Oliver Henry Radkey, the source for the results table below, is missing the votes from Berdiansk uezd with some 3,400 electors and Vodiansk volost of Melitopol uezd.[7] All in all there were 753 precincts in the Taurida electoral district.[7]

Results edit

Taurida
Party Vote %
List 5 - Socialist-Revolutionaries 300,100 52.22
List 9 - Muslims 68,581 11.93
List 3 - Ukrainian Socialist-Revolutionaries 61,541 10.71
List 1 - Kadets 38,794 6.75
List 3 - Bolsheviks 31,612 5.50
List 10 - Germans 27,681 4.82
List 6 - Mensheviks 15,176 2.64
List 11 - Jewish Nationalists 13,986 2.43
List 12 - Landowner 7,715 1.34
List 2 - Popular Socialists 4,643 0.81
List 7 - Unity 2,273 0.40
List 8 - Poalei Zion 1,745 0.30
Molokan 885 0.15
Total: 574,732

[8][9]

Deputies Elected
Bogdanov Kadet
Saltan Ukrainian SR
Alyasov SR
Bakuta SR
Bondar SR
Nikonov SR
Popov SR
Tolstov SR
Zak SR
Seidamet Provisional Crimean
Muslim Executive Committee

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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. p. 98. ISBN 978-0-8014-2360-4.
  6. ^ Сборник Русского исторического общества. Русская панорама. 2006. p. 236. ISBN 978-5-93165-074-6.
  7. ^ a b Oliver Henry Radkey (1989). Russia goes to the polls: the election to the all-Russian Constituent Assembly, 1917. Cornell University Press. pp. 161–163. ISBN 978-0-8014-2360-4.
  8. ^ 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.
  9. ^ Л. М Спирин (1987). Россия 1917 год: из истории борьбы политических партий. Мысль. pp. 273–328.
  10. ^ Лев Григорьевич Протасов (2008). Люди Учредительного собрания: портрет в интерьере эпохи. РОССПЭН. ISBN 978-5-8243-0972-0.