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Western Front electoral district (Russian Constituent Assembly election, 1917)

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Constituency of the Russian Republic

The Western Front electoral district (Russian: округе Западного фронта) was a constituency created for the 1917 Russian Constituent Assembly election. The electoral district covered the Western Front of the Russian Army.

Results

Western Front
Party Vote %
List 9 - Bolsheviks 653,430 66.95
List 12 - Socialist-Revolutionaries and
the Soviet of Peasants Deputies of the Armies of the Western Front
180,582 18.50
List 1 - Ukrainian SRs and
Ukrainian Social Democratic Labour Party
85,062 8.72
List 2 - Muslim Socialists 16,846 1.73
List 3 - Kadets 16,750 1.72
List 5 - Mensheviks-Bund 5,622 0.58
List 4 - Belorussian Socialist Party (Gromada) and
the Congress of Belorussian Soldiers of the Western Front
4,380 0.45
List 6 - Russian Democratic Party 3,055 0.31
List 10 - Bloc of Popular Socialists, Unity
and right-wing SRs (based around the Volya Naroda newspaper)
2,840 0.29
List 7 ?
List 8 ?
List 11 ?
Unaccounted 7,433 0.76
Total: 976,000

Deputies Elected
Bazyak Ukrainian Bloc
Lebedinets Ukrainian Bloc
Morgenstiern SR
Nikolayev SR
Zetel-Zusman SR
Anuchin Bolshevik
Apeter Bolshevik
Fedenev Bolshevik
Ksenofontov Bolshevik
Kukonkov Bolshevik
Lysyakov Bolshevik
Miasnikian Bolshevik
Rogozinsky Bolshevik
Grzelszczak Bolshevik
Tikhmenev Bolshevik
Vasiliev Bolshevik
Yakovlev Bolshevik

The result for Muslim Socialists stems from a newspaper report in Russkiye Vedomosti, which had data from 472 out of 602 voting centres.

References

  1. Олег Иванович Чистяков (1994). Российское законодательство X-XX веков: Законодательство эпохи буржуазно-демократических ревоюций. Юридическая лит-ра. pp. 176–177.
  2. 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.
  3. Л. М Спирин (1987). Россия 1917 год: из истории борьбы политических партий. Мысль. pp. 273–328.
  4. Лев Григорьевич Протасов (2008). Люди Учредительного собрания: портрет в интерьере эпохи. РОССПЭН. ISBN 978-5-8243-0972-0.
  5. Oliver Henry Radkey (1989). Russia goes to the polls: the election to the all-Russian Constituent Assembly, 1917. Cornell University Press. p. 164. ISBN 978-0-8014-2360-4.
Electoral Districts of the 1917 Russian Constituent Assembly election
Northern/Northwestern
Baltic/White Russian
Central Industrial
Central Black Earth
Volga
Kama-Ural
Ukraine
Southern-Black Sea/Southeastern
Caucasus
Turkestan
Siberia
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