Altai electoral district (Russian Constituent Assembly election, 1917)

Altai
Former Civilian constituency
for the All-Russian Constituent Assembly
Former constituency
Created1917
Abolished1918
Number of members13
Number of Uyezd Electoral Commissions6
Number of Urban Electoral Commissions1
Number of Parishes257
Sources:[1][2]

Altai electoral district (Russian: Алтайский избирательный округ) was a constituency created for the 1917 Russian Constituent Assembly election. The electoral district covered the Altai Governorate.[3] List 1, the Old Believers of Altai, was headed by the 28-year old Samuel Fomichev.[4]

Results

Altai
Party Vote % Seats
List 2 - Socialist-Revolutionaries 621,377 87.03 13
List 7 - Bolsheviks-
Menshevik-Internationalists 		45,268 6.34
List 1 - Old Believers 17,292 2.42
List 5 - Kadets 12,108 1.70
List 6 - Russian Germans 8,048 1.13
List 3 - Popular Socialists 6,068 0.85
List 4 - Mensheviks 3,785 0.53
Total: 713,946 13

[5][6]

Deputies Elected
Devisorov SR
Krivorotov SR
Levin SR
Lomshakov SR
Lyubimov SR
Ramazanov SR
Rogovsky SR
Rudnev SR
Sotnin SR
Shaposhnikov SR
Shnyrev SR
Kosorotov SR
Shatilov SR

[7]

In Barnaul city, the Bolsheviks obtained 3,530 votes (44.2%), followed by the SR with 2,228 votes (27.9%), 1,424 votes for the Kadets (17.8%), 396 votes for the Mensheviks (4.9%), 235 votes for the Old Believers (2.9%), 170 votes for the Popular Socialists (2.1%) and 18 votes for the Russian German list (0.2%).[6] In the town garrison, the Bolsheviks obtained 312 votes (49.9%), the SRs 269 votes (43%), Kadets 25 votes (4%), Mensheviks 11 votes (1.9%), Popular Socialists 7 votes (1.1%) and a single vote for the Old Believer list.[6]

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. ^ Администрация Алтайского края. Управление архивного дела (1997). Документы по истории церквей и вероисповеданий в Алтайском крае: XVII-начало XX вв. Упр. архивного дела администрации Алтайского края. p. 220.
  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. ^ a b c Л. М Спирин (1987). Россия 1917 год: из истории борьбы политических партий. Мысль. pp. 273–328.
  7. ^ Лев Григорьевич Протасов (2008). Люди Учредительного собрания: портрет в интерьере эпохи. РОССПЭН. ISBN 978-5-8243-0972-0.