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Samara
Former Civilian constituency
for the All-Russian Constituent Assembly
Former constituency
Created1917
Abolished1918
Number of members17
Number of Uyezd Electoral Commissions7
Number of Urban Electoral Commissions1
Number of Parishes318
Sources:[1][2]
Advert for the German socialist list in the newspaper Der Kolonist

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 Stepnoye Volost [ru], 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 Brabander [ru] and 92% for the German non-socialists in Lauwe.[9]

Results

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Samara
Party Vote % Seats
List 3 - Soviet of Peasants Deputies and Socialist-Revolutionaries 702,924 58.47 12
List 2 - Bolsheviks 179,533 14.93 3
List 13 - Muslim Shuro-Islamia 126,558 10.53 2
List 16 - Union of Russian Citizens of
German Nationality in the Central Volga Region 		47,705 3.97
List 6 - Kadets 44,466 3.70
List 1 - Union of Socialists of
the Volga German Region 		42,148 3.51
List 15 - Orthodox Followers 13,133 1.09
List 4 - Bashkir Federalists 12,397 1.03
List 8 - Chuvash National Congress of Socialist-Revolutionaries 9,036 0.75
List 7 - Old Believer Joint Committee 6,508 0.54
List 10 - Ukrainians 4,378 0.36
List 5 - Popular Socialists 4,364 0.36
List 6 - Mensheviks 4,166 0.35
List 12 - Non-Party Peasants-Farmers 3,030 0.25
List 11 - Unity 937 0.08
List 14 - Menshevik-Internationalists 936 0.08
Total: 1,202,219 17

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Deputies Elected
Mukhamediyarov Muslim Shuro
Tuktarov Muslim Shuro
Ermoshchenko Bolshevik
Kuybyshev Bolshevik
Maslennikov Bolshevik
Arkangelsky SR
Bashkirov SR
Belozerov SR
Brushvit SR
Chupakhin SR
Dedusenko SR
Elyashevich SR
Fortunatov SR
Klimushkin SR
Lazarev SR
Maslov SR
Bogoslovov SR

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References

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  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. 98. 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. pp. 104–105. ISBN 978-0-8014-2360-4.
  6. ^ Oliver Henry Radkey (1989). Russia goes to the polls: the election to the all-Russian Constituent Assembly, 1917. Cornell University Press. p. 106. ISBN 978-0-8014-2360-4.
  7. ^ Victor Herdt. Zwischen Revolution und Autonomie: Dokumente zur Geschichte der Wolgadeutschen aus den Jahren 1917 und 1918. Verlag Wissenschaft und Politik, 2000. p. 359
  8. ^ Scott Baldwin Smith (2011). Captives of Revolution: The Socialist Revolutionaries and the Bolshevik Dictatorship, 1918–1923. University of Pittsburgh Pre. pp. 10, 98. ISBN 978-0-8229-7779-7.
  9. ^ Das Ergebenis der Wahlen, in Der Kolonist, November 24, 1917. p. 2
  10. ^ 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.
  11. ^ Л. М Спирин (1987). Россия 1917 год: из истории борьбы политических партий. Мысль. pp. 273–328.
  12. ^ Лев Григорьевич Протасов (2008). Люди Учредительного собрания: портрет в интерьере эпохи. РОССПЭН. ISBN 978-5-8243-0972-0.
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