Tomsk electoral district (Russian Constituent Assembly election, 1917)

Tomsk
Former Civilian constituency for the All-Russian Constituent Assembly
Former constituency
Created	1917
Abolished	1918
Number of members	9
Number of Uyezd Electoral Commissions	5
Number of Urban Electoral Commissions	2
Number of Parishes	154
Sources:	[1][2]

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

Candidates

3 out of 9 submitted candidate lists were rejected by the electoral authorities, including a moderate Turkic list.[4][5] The Popular Socialist and Cooperative lists had an electoral pact.[6]

Results

The SR list won a landslide victory, drawing the support from the rural areas. In the Novonikolayevsk uyezd the SRs obtained 95.3% of the votes cast, followed by Kainsk uyezd (91%), Kuznetsk uyezd (90.8%), Mariinsk uyezd (88.6%), Tomsk uyezd (73.6%) and Togur uyezd (64.6%).[7] The Bolsheviks fared better in industrial centers; obtaining some 36% of the vote at the Kemerovo mine and chemical plant, some 32% of the votes were cast at the Anzhersky mines and 25.8% of the votes at the Sudzhensk mines (both in present-day Anzhero-Sudzhensk).[8]

Tomsk Party Vote % List 2 - Socialist-Revolutionaries 541,153 85.16 List 3 - Bolsheviks 51,456 8.10 List 1 - Kadets 18,618 2.93 List 4 - Popular Socialists 15,802 2.49 List 5 - Mensheviks 5,769 0.91 List 6 - Cooperative Organizations of Tomsk Governorate 2,686 0.42 Total: 635,484 [5][6]

Deputies Elected Smirnov Bolshevik Grigoriev SR Lindberg SR Markov SR Markov SR Mikhailov SR Omelkov SR Semenov SR Shisharin SR Sukhomlin SR [9]

Tomsk town

The election results in Tomsk town illustrated deep social cleavages, as the Kadets, SRs and Bolsheviks each won a major chunk of the votes cast.[10]

Map of Tomsk town in 1911, with the five sectors (участок) mapped.

Results of the 1917 Constituent Assembly election in Tomsk town, by sector

Sector	List 1 - Kadets		List 2 - SRs		List 3 - Bolsheviks		List 4 - Pop. Socialists		List 5 - Mensheviks		List 6 - Cooperative		Total
I	2,251	35.48	1,325	20.89	1,062	16.74	1,336	21.06	337	5.31	33	0.52	6,344
II	1,034	30.59	715	21.15	858	25.38	627	18.55	140	4.14	6	0.18	3,380
III	910	24.42	790	21.20	1,211	32.50	634	17.02	168	4.51	13	0.35	3,726
IV	768	22.48	997	29.19	917	26.84	549	16.07	176	5.15	9	0.26	3,416
V	966	28.51	611	18.03	611	18.03	998	29.46	187	5.52	15	0.44	3,388
Total	5,929	29.27	4,438	21.91	4,659	23.00	4,144	20.46	1,008	4.98	76	0.38	20,254

[11]

Garrison

12,046 votes were cast at the Tomsk garrison. The Bolshevik list won 69% of the votes there, with 8,316 votes. The SR list got 2,683 votes (22.27%), the Kadet list 385 votes (3.20%), Popular Socialist 278 votes (2.31%), 73 votes (0.61%) for the Menshevik list and 10 votes (0.08%) for the Cooperative list.[12]

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. 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. В. А. Дробченко. АНТИБОЛЬШЕВИСТСКОЕ СОПРОТИВЛЕНИЕ В ТОМСКОЙ ГУБЕРНИИ В ОКТЯБРЕ 1917 – МАЕ 1918 г.. УДК 947.084. (571.16)
8. В. А. Дробченко. [ОБЩЕСТВЕННО-ПОЛИТИЧЕСКАЯ ЖИЗНЬ ТОМСКОЙ ГУБЕРНИИ (МАРТ 1917 – НОЯБРЬ 1918 гг.)])
9. Лев Григорьевич Протасов (2008). Люди Учредительного собрания: портрет в интерьере эпохи. РОССПЭН. ISBN 978-5-8243-0972-0.
10. В.А. Дробченко. МЕЖПАРТИЙНЫЕ И СОЦИАЛЬНО-КЛАССОВЫЕ ОТНОШЕНИЯ В ТОМСКОЙ ГУБЕРНИИ В МАРТЕ 1917 – МАЕ 1918 г.. УДК 947.084. (571.16)
11. Сибирская Жизнь. Результаты выборов в Учредительное собрание. 21 Nov, 1917
12. По Сибири, in Известия Совета Рабочих и Солдатских Депутатов г. Никольск-Уссуршскаго, November 28, 1917, p. 3