Samara electoral district (Russian Constituent Assembly election, 1917) explained
| Samara |
| Type: | Civilian |
| Parl Name: | All-Russian Constituent Assembly |
| Elects Howmany: | 17 |
| 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: | 318 |
| Blank4 Name: | Sources: |
| Blank4 Info: | [1] [2] |
| Abolished: | 1918 |
| Year: | 1917 |
The Samara electoral district (Russian: Самарский избирательный округ) was a constituency created for the 1917 Russian Constituent Assembly election.
The electoral district covered the Samara Governorate.[3] Electoral turnout reportedly stood at 54.86%.[4] Out of 95 different candidate lists submitted, 79 turned down by the electoral authorities (out of which approx 42 due to late submission).[5] The constituency had large German and Tatar minorities.[6] The German socialist list (list no. 1) had four candidates, Walter Müller from Petrograd, Robert Haffner from Samara, Arthur Feidel from Katharinenstadt and Philipp Leisle from Warenburg.[7]
In Samara city the Bolsheviks polled 42% of the vote, the SRs 27% and Kadets 14%.[8] In, consisting of seven German settlements, 2,213 votes (53.53%) were cast for the German non-socialist list against 1,894 votes (45.82%) for the German socialist list. The remaining votes were split between 6 votes for the SR list, 5 votes for the Bashkir Federalist list, 4 votes for the Bolsheviks, 4 votes for the Unity list, 3 votes for the Ukrainian list, 2 votes for the Popular Socialists, 2 votes for the Old Believer list and 1 single vote for the Menshevik list. There were 29 invalid votes. All in all, out of the 7,747 eligible voters 56.58% participated in the vote in the volost, with results raging from over 95% for the German socialists in and 92% for the German non-socialists in Lauwe.[9]
Results
Notes and References
- Book: И. С. Малчевский. Всероссийское учредительное собрание. 1930. Гос изд-во. 140–142.
- Book: Б. Ф Додонов. Е. Д Гринько. О. В.. Лавинская. Журналы заседаний Временного правительства: Сентябрь-октябрь 1917 года. 2004. РОССПЭН. 206–208.
- Book: Татьяна Евгеньевна Новицкая. Учредительное собрание: Россия 1918 : стенограмма и другие документы. 1991. Недра. 13.
- Book: Oliver Henry Radkey. Russia goes to the polls: the election to the all-Russian Constituent Assembly, 1917. registration. 1989. Cornell University Press. 978-0-8014-2360-4. 98.
- Book: Oliver Henry Radkey. Russia goes to the polls: the election to the all-Russian Constituent Assembly, 1917. registration. 1989. Cornell University Press. 978-0-8014-2360-4. 104–105.
- Book: Oliver Henry Radkey. Russia goes to the polls: the election to the all-Russian Constituent Assembly, 1917. registration. 1989. Cornell University Press. 978-0-8014-2360-4. 106.
- Victor Herdt. Zwischen Revolution und Autonomie: Dokumente zur Geschichte der Wolgadeutschen aus den Jahren 1917 und 1918. Verlag Wissenschaft und Politik, 2000. p. 359
- Book: Scott Baldwin Smith. Captives of Revolution: The Socialist Revolutionaries and the Bolshevik Dictatorship, 1918–1923. 2011. University of Pittsburgh Pre. 978-0-8229-7779-7. 10, 98.
- Das Ergebenis der Wahlen, in Der Kolonist, November 24, 1917. p. 2
- Book: Oliver Henry Radkey. Russia goes to the polls: the election to the all-Russian Constituent Assembly, 1917. registration. 1989. Cornell University Press. 978-0-8014-2360-4. 148–160.
- Book: Л. М Спирин. Россия 1917 год: из истории борьбы политических партий. 1987. Мысль. 273–328.
- Book: Лев Григорьевич Протасов. Люди Учредительного собрания: портрет в интерьере эпохи. 2008. РОССПЭН. 978-5-8243-0972-0.
