Estonia electoral district (Russian Constituent Assembly election, 1917)

The Estonia electoral district (Russian: Эстляндский избирательный округ) was a constituency created for the 1917 Russian Constituent Assembly election. The electoral district covered the Autonomous Governorate of Estonia.[3]

Estonia
Former Civilian Constituency
for the All-Russian Constituent Assembly
Former constituency
Created1917
Abolished1918
Number of members8
Number of Uyezd Electoral Commissions9
Number of Urban Electoral Commissions2
Number of Parishes349
Sources:[1][2]

Voter turnout stood at 56.6% in the Estonia electoral district.[4]

Notably, the Bolsheviks benefited from popular discontent with the failure of the Provisional Government to follow through on its promises of self-determination for Estonia.[5] The Bolsheviks and Estonian Labour Party had their strongest support in Reval and northern Estonia.[5] Bolsheviks obtained 22,003 votes (47.6%) in Reval, the Estonian Labour Party obtained 13,855 votes (29.9%), the Estonian Democratic Party 4,735 votes (10.2%), Estonian Social Democrats 2,689 votes (5.8%), Radical Democrats 1,136 votes (2.4%), Russian SRs 1,135 votes (2.4%) and Estonian SRs 787 votes (1.7%).[4][5]

The Democratic Bloc obtained 53.4% of the votes in Tartu, and did also get a good number of votes in southern Estonia.[5]

Soldiers stationed at garrisons in Estonia didn't vote in the Estonian district, but in the Baltic Fleet constituency.[4]

Results
Estonia
Party Vote % Seats
List 2 - Bolsheviks 119,863 39.98 4
List 7 - Estonian Democratic Bloc
(Estonian Democratic Party and Estonian Land Union)[6]		 68,085 22.71 2
List 3 - Estonian Labour Party 64,704 21.58 2
List 1 - Estonian SRs 17,726 5.91
List 6 - Estonian Radical Democratic Party 17,022 5.68
List 4 - Estonian SDs 9,244 3.08
List 5 - Socialist-Revolutionaries 3,200 1.07
Total: 299,844 8

[7]
Deputies Elected
Anvelt Bolshevik
Pöögelmann Bolshevik
Rabchinsky Bolshevik
Vakmann Bolshevik
Seljamaa Estonian Labour
Vilms Estonian Labour
Poska Estonian Democratic
Tõnisson Estonian Democratic

[8]

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. Л. М Спирин (1987). Россия 1917 год: из истории борьбы политических партий. Мысль. pp. 273–328.
  5. Toivo U. Raun (1 February 2002). Estonia and the Estonians: Second Edition, Updated. Hoover Press. p. 103. ISBN 978-0-8179-2853-7.
  6. Postimees, nr. 249, 1 November 1917
  7. 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.
  8. Лев Григорьевич Протасов (2008). Люди Учредительного собрания: портрет в интерьере эпохи. РОССПЭН. ISBN 978-5-8243-0972-0.
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