Kostroma electoral district (Russian Constituent Assembly election, 1917)

Kostroma
Former Civilian constituency
for the All-Russian Constituent Assembly
Former constituency
Created1917
Abolished1918
Number of members8
Number of Uyezd Electoral Commissions12
Number of Urban Electoral Commissions1
Number of Parishes264
Sources:[1][2]

The Kostroma electoral district (Russian: Костромский избирательный округ) was a constituency created for the 1917 Russian Constituent Assembly election. The electoral district covered the Kostroma Governorate.[3]

Out 15 candidate lists submitted, 5 were rejected by the electoral authorities.[4]

In Kostroma town the Bolsheviks won the election, with 12,190 votes (43.6%), followed by the Kadets with 6,265 votes (22.4%), the Orthodox list 3,457 votes (12.4%), Mensheviks 3,147 votes (11.3%) and SRs 2,885 votes (10.3%).[5] The Bolshevik vote was largely drawn from the military, in the town barrack the Bolsheviks obtained 79.6% of the vote.[5]

In Chukhloma out of 1,214 eligible voters, 787 participated - the Kadet list got 488 votes, the Bolsheviks 114 votes, the clergy 75 votes, the Mensheviks 46 votes and the SRs 41 votes.[6]

Results

Kostroma
Party Vote % Seats
List 1 - Socialist-Revolutionaries and
Soviet of Peasants Deputies 		249,838 44.97 4
List 4 - Bolsheviks 226,905 40.84 4
List 2 - Kadets 41,448 7.46
List 3 - Mensheviks 19,488 3.51
List 5 - Orthodox Clergy and Laymen 17,901 3.22
Total: 555,580 8

[7][5]

Deputies Elected
Kondratiev SR
Kozlov SR
Lotoshnikov SR
Maltsev SR
Danilov Bolshevik
Larin-Lurie Bolshevik
Malyutin Bolshevik
Rostopchin Bolshevik

[8]

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. ISBN 978-5-8243-0554-8.
  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. ^ a b c Л. М Спирин (1987). Россия 1917 год: из истории борьбы политических партий. Мысль. pp. 273–328.
  6. ^ Ревельское слово : ежедневная общественно-политическая газета, 20 November 1917. p. 1
  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. ^ Лев Григорьевич Протасов (2008). Люди Учредительного собрания: портрет в интерьере эпохи. РОССПЭН. ISBN 978-5-8243-0972-0.