Turgai electoral district (Russian Constituent Assembly election, 1917)

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

Turgai
Former Civilian Constituency for the All-Russian Constituent Assembly
Former constituency
Created	1917
Abolished	1918
Number of members	5
Number of Uyezd Electoral Commissions	4
Number of Urban Electoral Commissions	1
Number of Parishes	114
Sources:	[1][2]

Turgai electoral district - with the boundaries of the 4 uezds shown.

According to U.S. historian Oliver Henry Radkey a vote was held in one uezd, but that the result was not known.[4] Nevertheless, Soviet sources indicate voting took place across the district. Soviet historian L. M. Spirin (whose data is used for the results table below) lists 281,782 votes cast for three different candidate lists.[5] Notably, Radkey rejects these results as unreliable.[4]

The Alash Party list overwhelmingly won the election in the Turgai constituency. In Aktyubinsk and Turgai uezds voting was held November 12–14, 1917.[6] In Aktyubinsk town 1,299 out of some 10,000 eligible voters cast their ballots, with 130 votes (1%) going to the Alash Party. In the Aktyubinsk uezd, 28,022 votes were cast for Alash. In Turgai uezd 54,976 out of some 68,000 eligible voters cast their votes for Alash. In Irgiz uezd 55,349 votes were cast for Alash. In Chelkar 313 votes were cast for Alash. In Kustanay uezd 72,745 votes were cast for Alash.[6]

Results

Turgai

Party	Vote	%
List 1 - Kirghiz Alash Party	211,274	74.98
List 2 - Socialist-Revolutionaries and Congress of Peasants, Soldiers and Workers Deputies	63,750	22.62
List 3 - Mensheviks	6,758	2.40
Total:	281,782

[5]

Deputies Elected

Baitursynov	Alash
Berimzhanov	Alash
Doshchanov	Alash
Temirov	Alash
Pakhomov	SR

[7]

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. 148–160. ISBN 978-0-8014-2360-4.
5. Л. М Спирин (1987). Россия 1917 год: из истории борьбы политических партий. Мысль. pp. 273–328.
6. Н. Н. Алеврас (1995). Россия и Восток: Россия между Европой и Азией. Национальный вопрос и политические движения. Челябинский гос. унив. p. 158.
7. Лев Григорьевич Протасов (2008). Люди Учредительного собрания: портрет в интерьере эпохи. РОССПЭН. ISBN 978-5-8243-0972-0.