Smolensk electoral district (Russian Constituent Assembly election, 1917)

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

Smolensk
Former Civilian Constituency
for the All-Russian Constituent Assembly
Former constituency
Created1917
Abolished1918
Number of members10
Number of Uyezd Electoral Commissions12
Number of Urban Electoral Commissions1
Number of Parishes239
Sources:[1][2]

The electoral district covered the Smolensk Governorate.[3] 2 volost-level lists were barred from participating in the election.[4] List no. 3, endorsed by Smolensk Provincial Council of SR Party and the Smolensk Provincial Congress of Peasants Deputies, was headed by E.K. Breshko-Breshkovskaia and Andrei Argunov.[5] The Socialist-Revolutionary and Menshevik lists formed an electoral bloc. Likewise Lists 2 and 4 formed an electoral bloc.[6]

The Bolsheviks won some 75% of the vote in the rural Sychevka uezd, obtaining 23,984 out of 32,007 votes cast in the uezd.[7] In the 911 villages in the uezd, there were only 120 Bolshevik party members.[7]

Results
Smolensk
Party Vote % Seats
List 7 - Bolsheviks 361,062 54.85 6
List 3 - Socialist-Revolutionaries and
Soviet of Peasants Deputies		 250,134 38.00 4
List 1 - Kadets 29,274 4.45
List 6 - Mensheviks 7,901 1.20
List 8 - [Orthodox] Parish Non-Party Group 5,300 0.81
List 4 - Popular Socialists 2,210 0.34
List 5 - Nationalist Bloc 1,708 0.26
List 2 - Group Allied with Socialist Parties 645 0.10
Total: 658,234 10

[4][6]
Deputies Elected
Argunov SR
Egorov SR
Kutuzov SR
Podvitsky SR
Bobiński Bolshevik
Ivanov Bolshevik
Leszczyński Bolshevik
Lunacharsky Bolshevik
Pokrovsky Bolshevik
Remizov Bolshevik

[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. Michael C. Hickey (2011). Competing Voices from the Russian Revolution. ABC-CLIO. pp. 401–402. ISBN 978-0-313-38523-0.
  6. Л. М Спирин (1987). Россия 1917 год: из истории борьбы политических партий. Мысль. pp. 273–328.
  7. Donald J. Raleigh (1 September 2001). Provincial Landscapes: Local Dimensions of Soviet Power, 1917-1953. University of Pittsburgh Press. pp. 36, 54. ISBN 978-0-8229-7061-3.
  8. Лев Григорьевич Протасов (2008). Люди Учредительного собрания: портрет в интерьере эпохи. РОССПЭН. ISBN 978-5-8243-0972-0.
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