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

Vologda
Type:Civilian
Parl Name:All-Russian Constituent Assembly
Elects Howmany:7
Blank1 Name:Number of Uyezd Electoral Commissions
Blank1 Info:10
Blank2 Name:Number of Urban Electoral Commissions
Blank2 Info:1
Blank3 Name:Number of Parishes
Blank3 Info:263
Blank4 Name:Sources:
Blank4 Info:[1] [2]
Abolished:1918
Year:1917

The Vologda electoral district (Russian: Вологодский избирательный округ) was a constituency created for the 1917 Russian Constituent Assembly election. The electoral district covered the Vologda Governorate.[3] Out of the 10 uezds in Vologda electoral district, the account of U.S. historian Oliver Henry Radkey (see table below) has 1 uezds with a largely incomplete vote count and gaps in coverage in another 2 uezds.

In Vologda the Bolsheviks and Mensheviks had a common list.[4] Soviet sources indicated that Social Democratic list was dominated by the Bolsheviks.[5] In the Komi areas, the main competitors of the SRs were the Kadets and the Popular Socialists.[6]

Results

[7] [8] [9]

In Vologda town the Kadets got 5,973 votes (37.5%), the SRs 4,651 (29.2%), the Social Democrats 3,718 votes (23.3%), Unity 1,169 votes (7.3%) and the Popular Socialists 423 votes (2.7%). In the Vologda garrison, the SRs got 929 votes (47.4%), the Social Democrats 825 votes (42.1%), the Kadets 163 votes (8.3%), Unity 27 votes (1.4%) and the Popular Socialists 15 votes (0.8%).

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: 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. 163.
  5. 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. 118.
  6. Book: Михаил Владимирович Таскаев. Небольшевистские партии и Белая армия в Коми крае, 1917-1920 гг. 2000. Российская академия наук, Уральское отделение, Коми научный центр. 978-5-89606-060-4. 18.
  7. 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.
  8. Book: Л. М Спирин. Россия 1917 год: из истории борьбы политических партий. 1987. Мысль. 273–328.
  9. Book: Лев Григорьевич Протасов. Люди Учредительного собрания: портрет в интерьере эпохи. 2008. РОССПЭН. 978-5-8243-0972-0.