Yenisei electoral district (Russian Constituent Assembly election, 1917)

The Yenisei electoral district (Russian: Енисейский избирательный округ) was a constituency created for the 1917 Russian Constituent Assembly election. The electoral district covered the Yenisei Governorate.[3] Moreover, the Russian citizens living in the Uryankhay Kray formed part of the constituency.[3]

Yenisei
Former Civilian Constituency for the All-Russian Constituent Assembly
Former constituency
Created	1917
Abolished	1918
Number of members	6
Number of Uyezd Electoral Commissions	7
Number of Urban Electoral Commissions	1
Number of Parishes	103
Sources:	[1][2]

One submitted peasants' candidate list was rejected by the electoral authorities.[4] The SRs and Menshevik lists formed an electoral bloc, whilst the Bolsheviks and the leftist dissident SR list formed a second electoral bloc.[5]

The election took place in state of chaos in the Yenisei district, as soldiers were demobilized and garrisons disbanded. The Bolsheviks claimed the area as the centre of their organization in Siberia, with the party dominating soviets in Krasnoyarsk, Achinsk and Kansk, but lacked influence outside these towns.[6]

Results

According to U.S. historian Oliver Henry Radkey, whose account is used in the table below, the results from Krasnoyarsk city and 5 out of 6 uezds appeared complete, with thinly populated Turukhansk uezd missing.[7]

Yenisei Party Vote % Seats List 3 - Socialist-Revolutionaries 229,723 64.48 4 List 2 - Bolsheviks 95,307 26.75 2 List 1 - Kadets 12,017 3.37 List 6 - Popular Socialists 8,703 2.44 List 4 - Mensheviks 4,531 1.27 List 5 - Internationalists (leftist SRs) 3,668 1.03 List 7 - Siberian Autonomist 2,299 0.65 Total: 356,248 6 [8][5]

Deputies Elected Okulov Bolshevik Rogov Bolshevik Eideman SR Fomin SR Gurov SR Kolosov SR [9]

In Krasnoyarsk town the Bolsheviks won the election, obtaining 12,170 votes (58.2%), followed by the SRs with 4,935 votes (23.6%), Kadets 2,649 votes (12.7%), Mensheviks 491 votes (2.3%), Popular Socialists 256 votes (1.2%), leftist SRs 217 votes (1%) and autonomists 214 votes (1%).[5] In the Krasnoyarsk garrison the Bolshevik victory was even more pronounced, with 4,164 votes (77.5%), followed by the SRs with 817 votes (15.2%), Kadets 166 votes (3.1%), left SRs 111 votes (2.1%), Mensheviks 71 votes (1.3%), Popular Socialists 38 votes (0.7%) and 7 votes for the autonomists (0.1%).[5]

In Achinsk uyezd the Bolshevik list obtained 50.6% of the votes, in Yenisei uyezd 38.6%, in Krasnoyarsk uyezd 28.8%, in Kansk uyezd 18.8% and in Minusinsk uyezd 11.4%.[10]

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. Л. М Спирин (1987). Россия 1917 год: из истории борьбы политических партий. Мысль. pp. 273–328.
6. Paul Dotsenko (1983). The struggle for a democracy in Siberia : 1917 - 1920 ; eyewitness account of a contemporary. Hoover Press. pp. 12–13. ISBN 978-0-8179-7773-3.
7. Oliver Henry Radkey (1989). Russia goes to the polls: the election to the all-Russian Constituent Assembly, 1917. Cornell University Press. pp. 161–163. ISBN 978-0-8014-2360-4.
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.
10. Leonard Mikhaĭlovich Gavrilov; Institut istorii (Akademii︠a︡ nauk SSSR) (1962). Borʹba za ustanovlenie i uprochenie sovetskoĭ vlasti: khronika sobytiĭ, 26 okti︠a︡bri︠a︡ 1917 g.-10 i︠a︡nvari︠a︡ 1918 g. Izd-vo Akademii nauk SSSR. p. 218.