Yakutsk electoral district (Russian Constituent Assembly election, 1917)
The Yakutsk electoral district (Russian: Якутский избирательный округ) was a constituency created for the 1917 Russian Constituent Assembly election. The electoral district covered the Yakutsk Oblast.[3] Four candidate lists were in the fray; List 1 - Yakutian Labour Union of Federalists, List 2 - Socialist-Revolutionaries, List 3 - Mensheviks and List 4 - Kadets.[4] The Mensheviks fielded M. T. Popov as their candidate, the Kadets D. A. Kochnev, G. V. Xenophonov stood as the federalist candidate and V. S. Pankratov was fielded by the Socialist-Revolutionaries.[5][6] As of May 1917 the Menshevik centre had sent M. T. Popov, from the Agitation and Literary Section of the Petrograd Soviet to Yakutsk.[7][8] Popov was a noted for his rhetorical skills.[8] Results
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