Penza electoral district (Russian Constituent Assembly election, 1917)

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

Penza
Former Civilian Constituency for the All-Russian Constituent Assembly
Former constituency
Created	1917
Abolished	1918
Number of members	9
Number of Uyezd Electoral Commissions	10
Number of Urban Electoral Commissions	1
Number of Parishes	231
Sources:	[1][2]

The electoral district covered the Penza Governorate.[3] 5 out of 11 submitted candidate lists were disqualified (and some additional lists submitted their lists too late to register).[4] In Penza town there were 49,741 eligible voters, out of whom 17,583 voted (35%).[5]

Results

Penza Party Vote % List 4 - Socialist-Revolutionaries 517,226 81.29 List 5 - Bolsheviks- Menshevik-Internationalists 54,731 8.60 List 3 - National Bloc (Ukrainians, Muslims, Poles and Lithuanians) 29,821 4.69 List 1 - Kadets 25,407 3.99 List 2 - Mensheviks-Bund 4,726 0.74 List 6 - Popular Socialists 4,336 0.68 Total: 636,247 [6][7]

Deputies Elected Avksentiev SR Boldov SR Fedorovich SR Gots SR Konogov SR Kostin SR Leutnov SR Prokhorov SR Tsyngovatov SR [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. 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. 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.
7. Л. М Спирин (1987). Россия 1917 год: из истории борьбы политических партий. Мысль. pp. 273–328.
8. Лев Григорьевич Протасов (2008). Люди Учредительного собрания: портрет в интерьере эпохи. РОССПЭН. ISBN 978-5-8243-0972-0.