Irkutsk electoral district (Russian Constituent Assembly election, 1917) explained

Irkutsk
Type:Civilian
Abolished:1918
Year:1917
Parl Name:All-Russian Constituent Assembly
Elects Howmany:5
Blank1 Name:Number of Uyezd Electoral Commissions
Blank1 Info:7
Blank2 Name:Number of Urban Electoral Commissions
Blank2 Info:1
Blank3 Name:Number of Parishes
Blank3 Info:116
Blank4 Name:Sources:
Blank4 Info:[1] [2]

The Irkutsk electoral district (Russian: Иркутский избирательный округ) was a constituency created for the 1917 Russian Constituent Assembly election. The electoral district covered the Irkutsk Governorate.[3] The constituency was assigned 5 seats in the Constituent Assembly.[4]

Results

In Irkutsk town the SR list got 8,664 votes (33.9%), the Bolsheviks 7,815 votes (31.6%), Kadets 5,537 votes (21.7%), Mensheviks 1,610 votes (6.3%), Autonomists and Popular Socialist list 1,068 votes (4.2%), Orthodox list 807 votes (3.2%) and the Buryat list 28 votes (0.1%). The Irkutsk garrison constituted a major share of the urban electorate, in the garrison the SRs got 6,064 votes (31.5%), the Bolsheviks 5,906 votes (30.7%), the Kadets 4,740 votes (24.6%), Mensheviks 1,097 votes (5.7%), the Autonomists/Popular Socialists 901 votes (4.7%), the Orthodox list 520 votes (2.7%) and the Buryat list 23 votes (0.1%).

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Notes and References

  1. Book: И. С. Малчевский. Всероссийское учредительное собрание. 1930. Гос изд-во. 140–142.
  2. Book: Б. Ф Додонов. Е. Д Гринько. О. В.. Лавинская. Журналы заседаний Временного правительства: Сентябрь-октябрь 1917 года. 2004. РОССПЭН. 206–208.
  3. Book: Татьяна Евгеньевна Новицкая. Учредительное собрание: Россия 1918 : стенограмма и другие документы. 1991. Недра. 13.
  4. Book: Б. Ф Додонов. Е. Д Гринько. О. В.. Лавинская. Журналы заседаний Временного правительства: Сентябрь-октябрь 1917 года. 2004. РОССПЭН. 207.
  5. Book: Oliver Henry Radkey. Russia goes to the polls: the election to the all-Russian Constituent Assembly, 1917. 1989. Cornell University Press. 978-0-8014-2360-4. 148–160.
  6. Book: Л. М Спирин. Россия 1917 год: из истории борьбы политических партий. 1987. Мысль. 273–328.
  7. Book: Лев Григорьевич Протасов. Люди Учредительного собрания: портрет в интерьере эпохи. 2008. РОССПЭН. 978-5-8243-0972-0.