Stavropol electoral district (Russian Constituent Assembly election, 1917)

The Stavropol electoral district (Russian: Ставропольский избирательный округ) was a constituency created for the 1917 Russian Constituent Assembly election. The electoral district covered the Stavropol Governorate, as well as the Karanogai precinct (which was part of the Terek Oblast).[3]

Stavropol
Former Civilian Constituency
for the All-Russian Constituent Assembly
Former constituency
Created1917
Abolished1918
Number of members6
Number of Uyezd Electoral Commissions8
Number of Urban Electoral Commissions1
Number of Parishes158
Sources:[1][2]

The Stavropol District Electoral Commission for the Constituent Assembly was set-up August 12, 1917, with V. M. Krasnov, prosecutor of the Stavropol District Court, as its head.[4] 319 voting centres, each covering about 2,000 voters, were set up across the electoral district.[4] 46 candidates on 7 lists contested the election.[4]

The SR and Peasant Soviet list was headed by F. M. Onipko, who was popular in the district.[4] Joseph Stalin stood as a candidate on the Bolshevik list.[5]

Voting lasted for three days, November 12–14. The two first days, the polling stations were opened between 9 a.m. and 9 p.m., whilst on November 14 the polling stations closed at 2 p.m.[4] 88% of the eligible voters cast their ballots.[4] In Stavropol town the Bolsheviks won 47.6% of the vote.[6] Likewise, in Pyatigorsk the Bolsheviks won some 8,000 votes, half of the votes from the town.[7]

Results
Stavropol
Party Vote % Seats
List 1 - Socialist-Revolutionaries and Soviet of Peasants Deputies 291,395 88.69 6
List 2 - Bolsheviks 17,430 5.31
List 5 - Kadets 10,938 3.33
List 3 - Farmers 3,205 0.98
List 4 - [Orthodox] Clergy and Worshippers 3,078 0.94
List 7 - Mensheviks 1,836 0.56
List 6 - Popular Socialists-
and Cooperativists		 670 0.20
Total: 328,552 6

[8][6]
Deputies Elected
Bocharnikov SR
Dementiev SR
Emelyanov SR
Garnitsky SR
Gutorov SR
Onipko SR

[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. kvkz.ru. История: 1917 год на Ставрополье
  5. Joseph Stalin (1953). 1917, March-October. Foreign Languages Publishing House. p. 449.
  6. Л. М Спирин (1987). Россия 1917 год: из истории борьбы политических партий. Мысль. pp. 273–328.
  7. Alex Marshall (13 September 2010). The Caucasus Under Soviet Rule. Routledge. p. 105. ISBN 978-1-136-93824-5.
  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.
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