Transbaikal electoral district (Russian Constituent Assembly election, 1917)

Transbaikal
Former Civilian constituency
for the All-Russian Constituent Assembly
Former constituency
Created1917
Abolished1918
Number of members7
Number of Uyezd Electoral Commissions8
Number of Urban Electoral Commissions1
Number of Parishes141
Sources:[1][2]

The Transbaikal electoral district (Russian: Забайкальский избирательный округ) was a constituency created for the 1917 Russian Constituent Assembly election. The electoral district covered the Transbaikal Oblast.[3] 6 out of the 15 submitted lists in Transbaikal were rejected by the electoral authorities.[4]

In Transbaikal the local Bolshevik party organization had steered away from the party centre, and cooperated with the local Mensheviks and Socialist-Revolutionaries. In May 1917 the three parties had a joint list for the local government election. As of July 1917 Bolsheviks and Mensheviks were still holding joint meetings in Chita.[5] The city was ruled by a People's Soviet, gathering SRs (both right and left-wing factions), Mensheviks and Bolsheviks.[6] Only in the immediate run-up to the October Revolution was an All-Siberian Executive Bureau of the Bolshevik Party formed and the Siberian Bolsheviks began to conform with the party line.[5]

Results

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Transbaikal
Party Vote %
List 4 - Socialist-Revolutionaries 49,363 50.26
List 2 - Buryat National Committee 17,083 17.39
List 5 - Transbaikal Cossacks 12,854 13.09
List 1 - Bolsheviks-
Menshevik-Internationalists 		8,560 8.71
List 6 - Kadets 4,111 4.19
Popular Socialists
  • List 7 - Popular Socialists and Citizens of Barguzin Uezd
  • List 8 - Transbaikal Division of the Popular Socialists
 2,682 2.73
List 3 - Mensheviks 2,154 2.19
List 9 - Union of Transbaikal Old Believers 1,418 1.44
Total: 98,225

[7][8][9]

Deputies Elected
Bogdanov Buryat National Committee
Dobromyslov SR
Flegontov SR
Kruglikov SR
Pumpyanskiy SR
Simakov SR
Taskin Transbaikal Cossacks

[10]

Rupen (1964) lists largely similar results as Radkey, but with different totals for the Union of Transbaikal Old Believers (176 votes) and instead of the Popular Socialists he mentions a "Barguzin Branch, RSDRP" with 1,248 votes. He refers to the Mensheviks as "Chita Branch, RSDRP [Mensheviks]".[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. ^ 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 N. Pereiratitle=White Siberia: The Politics of Civil War (1996). White Siberia: The Politics of Civil War. McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP. p. 42. ISBN 978-0-7735-1349-5.
  6. ^ Jamie Bisher (16 January 2006). White Terror: Cossack Warlords of the Trans-Siberian. Routledge. p. 41. ISBN 978-1-135-76596-5.
  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. ^ Б. В Базаров (2008). Бурятские национальные демократы и общественно-политическая мысль монгольских народов в первой трети ХХ века. IMBT. p. 107. ISBN 978-5-7925-0270-3.
  9. ^ スラヴ研究. 北海道大学スラブ研究室. 1994. p. 190.
  10. ^ Лев Григорьевич Протасов (2008). Люди Учредительного собрания: портрет в интерьере эпохи. РОССПЭН. ISBN 978-5-8243-0972-0.
  11. ^ Robert Arthur Rupen (1964). Uralic and Altaic series. Indiana University. p. 131.