Western Front electoral district (Russian Constituent Assembly election, 1917)

The Western Front electoral district (Russian: округе Западного фронта) was a constituency created for the 1917 Russian Constituent Assembly election. The electoral district covered the Western Front of the Russian Army.[1]

Results

Western Front
Party Vote %
List 9 - Bolsheviks 653,430 66.95
List 12 - Socialist-Revolutionaries and
the Soviet of Peasants Deputies of the Armies of the Western Front 		180,582 18.50
List 1 - Ukrainian SRs and
Ukrainian Social Democratic Labour Party 		85,062 8.72
List 2 - Muslim Socialists 16,846 1.73
List 3 - Kadets 16,750 1.72
List 5 - Mensheviks-Bund 5,622 0.58
List 4 - Belorussian Socialist Party (Gromada) and
the Congress of Belorussian Soldiers of the Western Front 		4,380 0.45
List 6 - Russian Democratic Party 3,055 0.31
List 10 - Bloc of Popular Socialists, Unity
and right-wing SRs (based around the Volya Naroda newspaper) 		2,840 0.29
List 7 ?
List 8 ?
List 11 ?
Unaccounted 7,433 0.76
Total: 976,000

[2][3]

Deputies Elected
Bazyak Ukrainian Bloc
Lebedinets Ukrainian Bloc
Morgenstiern SR
Nikolayev SR
Zetel-Zusman SR
Anuchin Bolshevik
Apeter Bolshevik
Fedenev Bolshevik
Ksenofontov Bolshevik
Kukonkov Bolshevik
Lysyakov Bolshevik
Miasnikian Bolshevik
Rogozinsky Bolshevik
Grzelszczak Bolshevik
Tikhmenev Bolshevik
Vasiliev Bolshevik
Yakovlev Bolshevik

[4]

The result for Muslim Socialists stems from a newspaper report in Russkiye Vedomosti, which had data from 472 out of 602 voting centres.[5]

References

  1. ^ Олег Иванович Чистяков (1994). Российское законодательство X-XX веков: Законодательство эпохи буржуазно-демократических ревоюций. Юридическая лит-ра. pp. 176–177.
  2. ^ 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.
  3. ^ Л. М Спирин (1987). Россия 1917 год: из истории борьбы политических партий. Мысль. pp. 273–328.
  4. ^ Лев Григорьевич Протасов (2008). Люди Учредительного собрания: портрет в интерьере эпохи. РОССПЭН. ISBN 978-5-8243-0972-0.
  5. ^ Oliver Henry Radkey (1989). Russia goes to the polls: the election to the all-Russian Constituent Assembly, 1917. Cornell University Press. p. 164. ISBN 978-0-8014-2360-4.