Transbaikal electoral district (Russian Constituent Assembly election, 1917)

The Transbaikal electoral district (Russian: Забайкальский избирательный округ) was a constituency created for the 1917 Russian Constituent Assembly election. The electoral district covered the Transbaikal Oblast.[3] 6 out of the 15 submitted lists in Transbaikal were rejected by the electoral authorities.[4]

Transbaikal
Former Civilian Constituency for the All-Russian Constituent Assembly
Former constituency
Created	1917
Abolished	1918
Number of members	7
Number of Uyezd Electoral Commissions	8
Number of Urban Electoral Commissions	1
Number of Parishes	141
Sources:	[1][2]

In Transbaikal the local Bolshevik party organization had steered away from the party centre, and cooperated with the local Mensheviks and Socialist-Revolutionaries. In May 1917 the three parties had a joint list for the local government election. As of July 1917 Bolsheviks and Mensheviks were still holding joint meetings in Chita.[5] The city was ruled by a People's Soviet, gathering SRs (both right and left-wing factions), Mensheviks and Bolsheviks.[6] Only in the immediate run-up to the October Revolution was an All-Siberian Executive Bureau of the Bolshevik Party formed and the Siberian Bolsheviks began to conform with the party line.[5]

Results

Advert for the Buryat list in a local newspaper

Advert for the Cossack list in a local newspaper

Advert for the Kadet list in a local newspaper

Advert for one of the Popular Socialist lists in a local newspaper

Advert for the other Popular Socialist list in a local newspaper

Transbaikal Party Vote % List 4 - Socialist-Revolutionaries 49,363 50.26 List 2 - Buryat National Committee 17,083 17.39 List 5 - Transbaikal Cossacks 12,854 13.09 List 1 - Bolsheviks- Menshevik-Internationalists 8,560 8.71 List 6 - Kadets 4,111 4.19 Popular Socialists List 7 - Popular Socialists and Citizens of Barguzin Uezd List 8 - Transbaikal Division of the Popular Socialists 2,682 2.73 List 3 - Mensheviks 2,154 2.19 List 9 - Union of Transbaikal Old Believers 1,418 1.44 Total: 98,225 [7][8][9]

Deputies Elected Bogdanov Buryat National Committee Dobromyslov SR Flegontov SR Kruglikov SR Pumpyanskiy SR Simakov SR Taskin Transbaikal Cossacks [10]

Rupen (1964) lists largely similar results as Radkey, but with different totals for the Union of Transbaikal Old Believers (176 votes) and instead of the Popular Socialists he mentions a "Barguzin Branch, RSDRP" with 1,248 votes. He refers to the Mensheviks as "Chita Branch, RSDRP [Mensheviks]".[11]

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. N. Pereiratitle=White Siberia: The Politics of Civil War (1996). White Siberia: The Politics of Civil War. McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP. p. 42. ISBN 978-0-7735-1349-5.
6. Jamie Bisher (16 January 2006). White Terror: Cossack Warlords of the Trans-Siberian. Routledge. p. 41. ISBN 978-1-135-76596-5.
7. 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.
8. Б. В Базаров (2008). Бурятские национальные демократы и общественно-политическая мысль монгольских народов в первой трети ХХ века. IMBT. p. 107. ISBN 978-5-7925-0270-3.
9. スラヴ研究. 北海道大学スラブ研究室. 1994. p. 190.
10. Лев Григорьевич Протасов (2008). Люди Учредительного собрания: портрет в интерьере эпохи. РОССПЭН. ISBN 978-5-8243-0972-0.
11. Robert Arthur Rupen (1964). Uralic and Altaic series. Indiana University. p. 131.