Tomsk electoral district (Russian Constituent Assembly election, 1917)

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

Tomsk
Former Civilian Constituency
for the All-Russian Constituent Assembly
Former constituency
Created1917
Abolished1918
Number of members9
Number of Uyezd Electoral Commissions5
Number of Urban Electoral Commissions2
Number of Parishes154
Sources:[1][2]

Candidates

3 out of 9 submitted candidate lists were rejected by the electoral authorities, including a moderate Turkic list.[4][5] The Popular Socialist and Cooperative lists had an electoral pact.[6]

Results

The SR list won a landslide victory, drawing the support from the rural areas. In the Novonikolayevsk uyezd the SRs obtained 95.3% of the votes cast, followed by Kainsk uyezd (91%), Kuznetsk uyezd (90.8%), Mariinsk uyezd (88.6%), Tomsk uyezd (73.6%) and Togur uyezd (64.6%).[7] The Bolsheviks fared better in industrial centers; obtaining some 36% of the vote at the Kemerovo mine and chemical plant, some 32% of the votes were cast at the Anzhersky mines and 25.8% of the votes at the Sudzhensk mines (both in present-day Anzhero-Sudzhensk).[8]

Tomsk
Party Vote %
List 2 - Socialist-Revolutionaries 541,153 85.16
List 3 - Bolsheviks 51,456 8.10
List 1 - Kadets 18,618 2.93
List 4 - Popular Socialists 15,802 2.49
List 5 - Mensheviks 5,769 0.91
List 6 - Cooperative Organizations of Tomsk Governorate 2,686 0.42
Total: 635,484

[5][6]
Deputies Elected
Smirnov Bolshevik
Grigoriev SR
Lindberg SR
Markov SR
Markov SR
Mikhailov SR
Omelkov SR
Semenov SR
Shisharin SR
Sukhomlin SR

[9]

Tomsk town

The election results in Tomsk town illustrated deep social cleavages, as the Kadets, SRs and Bolsheviks each won a major chunk of the votes cast.[10]

Map of Tomsk town in 1911, with the five sectors (участок) mapped.
Results of the 1917 Constituent Assembly election in Tomsk town, by sector
Sector List 1 -
Kadets		 List 2 -
SRs		 List 3 -
Bolsheviks		 List 4 -
Pop. Socialists		 List 5 -
Mensheviks		 List 6 -
Cooperative		 Total
I 2,251 35.48 1,325 20.89 1,062 16.74 1,336 21.06 337 5.31 33 0.52 6,344
II 1,034 30.59 715 21.15 858 25.38 627 18.55 140 4.14 6 0.18 3,380
III 910 24.42 790 21.20 1,211 32.50 634 17.02 168 4.51 13 0.35 3,726
IV 768 22.48 997 29.19 917 26.84 549 16.07 176 5.15 9 0.26 3,416
V 966 28.51 611 18.03 611 18.03 998 29.46 187 5.52 15 0.44 3,388
Total 5,929 29.27 4,438 21.91 4,659 23.00 4,144 20.46 1,008 4.98 76 0.38 20,254

[11]

Garrison

12,046 votes were cast at the Tomsk garrison. The Bolshevik list won 69% of the votes there, with 8,316 votes. The SR list got 2,683 votes (22.27%), the Kadet list 385 votes (3.20%), Popular Socialist 278 votes (2.31%), 73 votes (0.61%) for the Menshevik list and 10 votes (0.08%) for the Cooperative list.[12]

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. pp. 148–160. ISBN 978-0-8014-2360-4.
  6. Л. М Спирин (1987). Россия 1917 год: из истории борьбы политических партий. Мысль. pp. 273–328.
  7. В. А. Дробченко. АНТИБОЛЬШЕВИСТСКОЕ СОПРОТИВЛЕНИЕ В ТОМСКОЙ ГУБЕРНИИ В ОКТЯБРЕ 1917 – МАЕ 1918 г.. УДК 947.084. (571.16)
  8. В. А. Дробченко. [ОБЩЕСТВЕННО-ПОЛИТИЧЕСКАЯ ЖИЗНЬ ТОМСКОЙ ГУБЕРНИИ (МАРТ 1917 – НОЯБРЬ 1918 гг.)])
  9. Лев Григорьевич Протасов (2008). Люди Учредительного собрания: портрет в интерьере эпохи. РОССПЭН. ISBN 978-5-8243-0972-0.
  10. В.А. Дробченко. МЕЖПАРТИЙНЫЕ И СОЦИАЛЬНО-КЛАССОВЫЕ ОТНОШЕНИЯ В ТОМСКОЙ ГУБЕРНИИ В МАРТЕ 1917 – МАЕ 1918 г.. УДК 947.084. (571.16)
  11. Сибирская Жизнь. Результаты выборов в Учредительное собрание. 21 Nov, 1917
  12. По Сибири, in Известия Совета Рабочих и Солдатских Депутатов г. Никольск-Уссуршскаго, November 28, 1917, p. 3
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