Moscow Metropolis electoral district (Russian Constituent Assembly election, 1917)

Moscow Metropolis electoral district
Advert for List 1
Leaflet of the Moscow Muslim National Council, calling for a vote for List 2
Advert for List 4
Advert for List 6
Advert for List 8
Advert of the Moscow Zionist Organization, calling for a vote for List 8
Advert for List 11
Adverts for List 12
Advert for List 12

The Moscow Metropolis electoral district (Russian: Московский столичный избирательный округ) was a constituency created for the 1917 Russian Constituent Assembly election. The electoral district covered the city of Moscow.[1] Voter turnout in the city was estimated at between 65.4% and 69.7%.[2]

The Menshevik list was headed by Pavel Axelrod.[3] The Democratic Socialist Bloc list was headed by Georgi Plekhanov.[4]

Results

Moscow City
Party Vote % Seats %
List 5 - Bolsheviks 366,148 47.88 6 54.55
List 1 - Kadets 263,859 34.50 4 36.36
List 3 - Socialist-Revolutionaries 62,260 8.14 1 9.09
List 8 - Democratic Socialist Bloc
(incl. Cooperative, Unity) 		35,305 4.62 0 0.00
List 4 - Mensheviks 19,690 2.57 0 0.00
List 9 - Labour Non-Party Group
(Rightists, ex-Octobrists) 		4,085 0.53 0 0.00
List 7 - Popular Socialists 2,508 0.33 0 0.00
List 2 - National-Socialist Bloc
(Ukrainian Socialist Bloc and Nationalist Bloc) 		2,346 0.31 0 0.00
List 12 - Commercial-Industrial Group 2,300 0.30 0 0.00
List 11 - All-Russian Peasants Union 2,279 0.30 0 0.00
List 6 - Commonwealth of Nations
(mainly Germans) 		2,076 0.27 0 0.00
List 10 - United Internationalists 1,907 0.25 0 0.00
Total: 764,763 11

[5][6]

Deputies Elected
Astrov Kadet
Kokoshkin Kadet
Maklakov Kadet
Novgorodtsev Kadet
Minor SR
Bukharin Bolshevik
Ignatov Bolshevik
Meshcheryakov Bolshevik
Skvortsov-Stepanov Bolshevik
Smidovich Bolshevik
Yaroslavsky Bolshevik

[7]

References

  1. ^ Татьяна Евгеньевна Новицкая (1991). Учредительное собрание: Россия 1918 : стенограмма и другие документы. Недра. p. 13.
  2. ^ Oliver Henry Radkey (1989). Russia goes to the polls: the election to the all-Russian Constituent Assembly, 1917. Cornell University Press. p. 98. ISBN 978-0-8014-2360-4.
  3. ^ Spisok Kandidatov, in Vpered, November 15 (O.S.), 1917. p. 3
  4. ^ Russkoe Slovo. выборы в учредительное собрание. No. 252, 17 (30) November 1917
  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. ^ 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.