Tambov electoral district (Russian Constituent Assembly election, 1917)

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

Tambov
Former Civilian Constituency for the All-Russian Constituent Assembly
Former constituency
Created	1917
Abolished	1918
Number of members	16
Number of Uyezd Electoral Commissions	12
Number of Urban Electoral Commissions	1
Number of Parishes	337
Sources:	[1][2]

The electoral district covered the Tambov Governorate.[3] 73% electoral participation was reported, as the SRs had a good mobilization capacity among the peasantry.[4] In the Spassko-Kashminskaia canton, Morshansk uezd the SR local government banned the Bolshevik election campaign, alleging that the Bolsheviks were German spies.[5]

Results

Tambov Party Vote % List 1 - Socialist-Revolutionaries and Governorate Soviet of Peasants Deputies 835,556 71.22 List 7 - Bolsheviks 240,652 20.51 List 5 - Kadets 47,548 4.05 List 3 - Mensheviks 22,425 1.91 List 2 - Union of Landowners 12,493 1.06 List 4 - Popular Socialists and Congress of Cooperative Organizations 7,408 0.63 List 8 - Party of the Muslim Socialist-Democratic Bloc 6,222 0.53 List 6 - Uezd Peasants List 887 0.08 Total: 1,173,191 [6][7]

Deputies Elected Batmanov SR Bobynin SR Chernov SR Chernyshov SR Ilyin SR Kiselev SR Kondratenkov SR Merkulov SR Nabatov SR Nemtinov SR Odintsov SR Ryabov SR Sletova-Chernova SR Volsky SR Moiseev Bolshevik Olminsky Bolshevik Schlichter 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. p. 97. 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. 45. 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.