Petrograd electoral district (Russian Constituent Assembly election, 1917)

Petrograd
Former Civilian constituency
for the All-Russian Constituent Assembly
Former constituency
Created1917
Abolished1918
Number of members8
Number of Uyezd Electoral Commissions8
Number of Urban Electoral Commissions2
Number of Parishes129
Sources:[1][2]
A sheet with samples of the ballots of different parties contesting the Petrograd electoral district. The sheet had been distributed by the electoral authorities prior to the vote, urging voters to cut out their preferred ballot and bring it to the polling station.[3] The ballots include the listing of names of candidates, with their respective addresses.
The Bolshevik List (No. 2) is headed by Lenin, followed by Lev Kamenev. The Menshevik List (No. 3) is headed by Mikhail Liber. The Estonian List (No. 4) ballot is bilingual, with the candidate listing appearing in both Russian and Estonian (the latter written in Fraktur script). The Finnish-Socialist List (No. 5) is headed by Juhana Peräläinen, head of the Finnish School in Petrograd.[4] The Cooperative List (No. 6) is headed by Alexander Chayanov. The Popular Socialist List (No. 8) is headed by Nikolai Tchaikovsky. Lists no. 1 (Kadets) and no. 10 (Socialist-Revolutionaries) are missing from the sheet.
Advert in the newspaper Golos Naroda for list of the Party of Socialist-Revolutionaries and the Petrograd Governorate Soviet of Peasants Deputies

The Petrograd electoral district (Russian: Петроградский избирательный округ) was a constituency created for the 1917 Russian Constituent Assembly election. The electoral district covered the Petrograd Governorate, except for the capital city itself.[5]

According to U.S. historian Oliver Henry Radkey the result available is incomplete, as data was missing for 7 minor lists.[6] Radkey's account totals 446,273 votes, including 451 unaccounted votes.[7] Soviet historian L. M. Spirin has the same account for the three major lists, but adds another 25,462 votes for the smaller lists.[8] Spirin's account is used for the results table below.

Estonian List

The Estonian List included ten candidates; four from the Estonian Labour Party and six from the Estonian Social Democratic Association.[9] The list was headed from Hans Piip of the Labour Party.[9]

Results

Petrograd
Party Vote % Seats %
List 2 - Bolsheviks 229,698 48.69 5 62.50
List 10 - Socialist-Revolutionaries 119,761 25.39 2 25.00
List 1 - Kadets 64,859 13.75 1 12.50
List 4 - Estonian List 15,963 3.38
List 5 - Finnish Socialists 14,807 3.14
List 8 - Popular Socialists 12,048 2.55
List 3 - Mensheviks 6,100 1.29
List 7 - Petrograd Governorate Union of Orthodox Parishes 5,661 1.20
List 9 - Petrograd organizations of the Ukrainian Soc.-Dem. Labour Party,
Ukrainian SRs and the United Jewish Socialist Labour Party (S.S. and E.S.) 		1,997 0.42
List 6 - Cooperative Group 841 0.18
Total: 471,735 8

[8][3][10]

Deputies Elected
Nabokov Kadet
Vysotsky SR
Zenzinov SR
Nimvitsky Bolshevik
Pozern Bolshevik
Raskolnikov Bolshevik
Shotman Bolshevik
Voskov Bolshevik

[11]

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. ^ a b MK.ru. Москвичи могут увидеть тех, кто устраивал знаменитую русскую революцию
  4. ^ Mikko-Olavi Seppälä; Riitta Seppälä (18 October 2013). Aale Tynni: Hymyily, kyynel, laulu. WSOY. p. 15. ISBN 978-951-0-40490-4.
  5. ^ Татьяна Евгеньевна Новицкая (1991). Учредительное собрание: Россия 1918 : стенограмма и другие документы. Недра. p. 13.
  6. ^ Oliver Henry Radkey (1989). Russia goes to the polls: the election to the all-Russian Constituent Assembly, 1917. Cornell University Press. p. 162. ISBN 978-0-8014-2360-4.
  7. ^ 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.
  8. ^ a b Л. М Спирин (1987). Россия 1917 год: из истории борьбы политических партий. Мысль. pp. 273–328.
  9. ^ a b Postimees, nr. 249, 1 November 1917
  10. ^ А.А. ТАНИН-ЛЬВОВ. ВЫБОРЫ ВО ВСЕМ МИРЕ ЭЛЕКТОРАЛЬНАЯ СВОБОДА ОБЩЕСТВЕННЫЙ ПРОГРЕСС ЭНЦИКЛОПЕДИЧЕСКИЙ СПРАВОЧНИК
  11. ^ Лев Григорьевич Протасов (2008). Люди Учредительного собрания: портрет в интерьере эпохи. РОССПЭН. ISBN 978-5-8243-0972-0.