Don Cossack Region electoral district (Russian Constituent Assembly election, 1917)

The Don Cossack Region electoral district (Russian: Избирательный округ области войска Донского) was a constituency created for the 1917 Russian Constituent Assembly election.

Don Cossack Region
Former Civilian Constituency for the All-Russian Constituent Assembly
Former constituency
Created	1917
Abolished	1918
Number of members	19
Number of Uyezd Electoral Commissions	9
Number of Urban Electoral Commissions	3
Number of Parishes	283
Sources:	[1][2]

The electoral district covered the Don Host Oblast.[3] Originally assigned 17 seats, by decree of the Provisional Government the number of deputies of the Don Cossack Region district was increased to 19.[4] The Provisional Government had provided a degree of autonomy to the Don region, recognizing the authority of the Cossacks over the land. In June 1917 General Alexey Kaledin was elected as ataman. The Kadets had sought to form a joint Kadet-Cossack list in the district, and a number of Kadet national leaders had visited the area ahead of the election. The effort failed, over differences of opinion on land ownership of non-Cossacks.[5]

In Rostov-on-Don the Bolsheviks obtained 25,529 votes, Cossacks 14,248 votes and the Kadets 13,637 votes.[6] In Nakhichevan-on-Don the Bolsheviks obtained 9,172 votes, Kadets 3,426 votes and Cossacks 2,556 votes.[6] In Taganrog the Bolsheviks obtained 9,395 votes (41.7%), the SRs 4,383 votes (19.4%), the Cossacks 2,990 votes (13.3%), the Kadets 2,925 votes (13%), Mensheviks 2,436 votes (10.8%), the Popular Socialists 217 votes (0.9%), the Bloc of Socialists 126 votes (0.6%), the Landowners 49 votes (0.2%) and the Old Believers 17 votes (0.1%).[7]

Results

Don Cossack Region Party Vote % Seats List 4 - Cossack 636,966 45.28 9 List 2 - Socialist-Revolutionaries 478,901 34.05 7 List 5 - Bolsheviks 205,497 14.61 3 List 6 - Kadets 43,345 3.08 List 8 - Mensheviks 17,504 1.24 List 3 - Old Believer 8,183 0.58 List 1 - Bloc of Socialists (right-wing socialists, incl. Unity) 5,718 0.41 List 9 - Landowners 5,457 0.39 List 7 - Popular Socialists-Cooperative alliance 5,049 0.36 Total: 1,406,620 19 [8][7]

Deputies Elected Babin SR Kolesnikov SR Kurilov SR Mamonov SR Nikolaev SR Nikolsky SR Shvetsov SR Ageyev Cossack Arakantsev Cossack Bogaevsky Cossack Kaledin Cossack Kharlamov Cossack Melnikov Cossack Popov Cossack Ulanov Cossack Voronkov Cossack Lozovsky Bolshevik Syrtsov Bolshevik Vasilchenko Bolshevik [9]

References

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. И. С. Малчевский (1930). Всероссийское учредительное собрание. Гос изд-во. p. 142.
5. Geoffrey Swain (26 November 2013). The Origins of the Russian Civil War. Routledge. pp. 46, 85. ISBN 978-1-317-89912-9.
6. Leonard Mikhaĭlovich Gavrilov; Institut istorii (Akademii︠a︡ nauk SSSR) (1962). Borʹba za ustanovlenie i uprochenie sovetskoĭ vlasti: khronika sobytiĭ, 26 okti︠a︡bri︠a︡ 1917 g.-10 i︠a︡nvari︠a︡ 1918 g. Izd-vo Akademii nauk SSSR. p. 244.
7. Л. М Спирин (1987). Россия 1917 год: из истории борьбы политических партий. Мысль. pp. 273–328.
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. Лев Григорьевич Протасов (2008). Люди Учредительного собрания: портрет в интерьере эпохи. РОССПЭН. ISBN 978-5-8243-0972-0.