Penza electoral district (Russian Constituent Assembly election, 1917)

Penza
Former Civilian constituency
for the All-Russian Constituent Assembly
Former constituency
Created1917
Abolished1918
Number of members9
Number of Uyezd Electoral Commissions10
Number of Urban Electoral Commissions1
Number of Parishes231
Sources:[1][2]

The Penza electoral district (Russian: Пензенский избирательный округ) was a constituency created for the 1917 Russian Constituent Assembly election.

The electoral district covered the Penza Governorate.[3] 5 out of 11 submitted candidate lists were disqualified (and some additional lists submitted their lists too late to register).[4] In Penza town there were 49,741 eligible voters, out of whom 17,583 voted (35%).[5]

Results

Penza
Party Vote %
List 4 - Socialist-Revolutionaries 517,226 81.29
List 5 - Bolsheviks-
Menshevik-Internationalists 		54,731 8.60
List 3 - National Bloc (Ukrainians, Muslims, Poles and Lithuanians) 29,821 4.69
List 1 - Kadets 25,407 3.99
List 2 - Mensheviks-Bund 4,726 0.74
List 6 - Popular Socialists 4,336 0.68
Total: 636,247

[6][7]

Deputies Elected
Avksentiev SR
Boldov SR
Fedorovich SR
Gots SR
Konogov SR
Kostin SR
Leutnov SR
Prokhorov SR
Tsyngovatov SR

[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.
  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. ^ 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.
  6. ^ 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.
  7. ^ Л. М Спирин (1987). Россия 1917 год: из истории борьбы политических партий. Мысль. pp. 273–328.
  8. ^ Лев Григорьевич Протасов (2008). Люди Учредительного собрания: портрет в интерьере эпохи. РОССПЭН. ISBN 978-5-8243-0972-0.