Tobolsk electoral district (Russian Constituent Assembly election, 1917)

The Tobolsk electoral district (Russian: Тобольский избирательный округ) was a constituency created for the 1917 Russian Constituent Assembly election.

Tobolsk
Former Civilian Constituency
for the All-Russian Constituent Assembly
Former constituency
Created1917
Abolished1918
Number of members10
Number of Uyezd Electoral Commissions10
Number of Urban Electoral Commissions1
Number of Parishes270
Sources:[1][2]

The electoral district covered the Tobolsk Governorate.[3] Tobolsk hosted one of only 2 undivided Social Democratic lists in the fray across the country.[4] Soviet sources indicated that the Social Democratic list was Menshevik-dominated.[5] In September 1917, the Bolshevik Party in Omsk sent a small soldiers and railway workers to campaign amongst the peasantry in Tobolsk Governorate ahead of the elections.[6]

Soviet sources reported voter turnout at a mere 33.5%.[7]

Results

Tobolsk
Party Vote %
List 5 - Socialist-Revolutionaries (Southern Group) 388,328 78.53
List 3 - Peasants Union-Popular Socialists alliance 50,780 10.27
List 4 - Muslims 25,830 5.22
List 1 - Kadets 13,793 2.79
List 2 - Menshevik-Bolshevik alliance 12,061 2.44
List 6 - Socialist-Revolutionaries (Northern Group), leftists 3,733 0.75
Total: 494,525

[8][9]

Deputies Elected
Sukhanov, A. S. Peasants Union-
Popular Socialists alliance
Barantsev SR
Evdokimov SR
Gul'tyaev SR
Ivanitsky-Vasilenko SR
Kotelnikov SR
Krasnousov SR
Mikhailov SR
Mukhin SR
Sukhanov, P. S. SR

[10]

References

  1. И. С. Малчевский (1930). Всероссийское учредительное собрание. Гос изд-во. pp. 140–142.
  2. Б. Ф Додонов; Е. Д Гринько; О. В.. Лавинская (2004). Журналы заседаний Временного правительства: Сентябрь-октябрь 1917 года. РОССПЭН. pp. 206–208.
  3. Татьяна Евгеньевна Новицкая (1991). Учредительное собрание: Россия 1918 : стенограмма и другие документы. Недра. p. 13.
  4. Oliver Henry Radkey (1989). Russia goes to the polls: the election to the all-Russian Constituent Assembly, 1917. Cornell University Press. p. xi. ISBN 978-0-8014-2360-4.
  5. Oliver Henry Radkey (1989). Russia goes to the polls: the election to the all-Russian Constituent Assembly, 1917. Cornell University Press. p. 118. ISBN 978-0-8014-2360-4.
  6. Революционное движение в Сибири и на Дальнем Востоке. Сб. статей. Вып. VII. Томск, 1974. p. 121
  7. Oliver Henry Radkey (1989). Russia goes to the polls: the election to the all-Russian Constituent Assembly, 1917. Cornell University Press. p. 98. ISBN 978-0-8014-2360-4.
  8. 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.
  9. Л. М Спирин (1987). Россия 1917 год: из истории борьбы политических партий. Мысль. pp. 273–328.
  10. Лев Григорьевич Протасов (2008). Люди Учредительного собрания: портрет в интерьере эпохи. РОССПЭН. ISBN 978-5-8243-0972-0.
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