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Kazan
Former Civilian constituency
for the All-Russian Constituent Assembly
Former constituency
Created1917
Abolished1918
Number of members12
Number of Uyezd Electoral Commissions12
Number of Urban Electoral Commissions1
Number of Parishes182
Sources:[1][2]
The ballot of the Muslim Socialist list in Kazan

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

The electoral district covered the Kazan Governorate.[3] The constituency was assigned 12 seats in the Constituent Assembly.[4]

Notably, local SR party branch was dominated by leftist elements.[5]

A 66% turnout was reported.[6] The Chuvash people largely voted for the SRs.[5] The Tatar voters were split between leftist and rightist lists.[7] In Kazan city itself the Bolsheviks were the most voted party, with 21,118 votes (26.1%), followed by the Kadets with 20,044 votes (24.8%), the SRs with 15,356 votes (18.9%), Muslim Socialists 12,730 votes (15.7%), Orthodox list 3,215 votes (4%), Mensheviks 2,605 votes (3.2%), Muslim Assembly 2,304 votes (2.8%), right-wing SRs 1,681 votes (2.1%), Cooperative-Independent Socialists 802 votes (1%), Chuvash 696 votes (0.8%) and the Agricultural-Artisan-Commercial-Industrial list 508 votes (0.6%).[8] In the Kazan garrison the Bolsheviks got 10,706 votes (40.8%), SRs 9,177 votes (34.9%), Muslim Socialists 3,156 votes (12%), Kadets 1,686 votes (6.4%), Chuvash 577 votes (2.2%), Mensheviks 400 votes (1.5%), right-wing SRs 305 votes (1.2%), Cooperative-Independent Socialists 162 votes (0.6%), Agricultural-Artisan-Commercial Industrial list 51 votes (0.2%), Orthodox list 48 votes (0.1%) and the Muslim Assembly 40 votes (0.1%).[8]

Results

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Kazan
Party Vote %
List 11 - The Kazan Governorate Organization of the Socialist-Revolutionaries
and the Soviet of Peasants Deputies 		264,158 30.77
List 1 - The All Chuvash National Congress, the Chuvash Military Committees
and the Chuvash Organization of the Socialist Revolutionary Party 		226,496 26.38
List 10 - Muslim Socialist Committee 153,151 17.84
List 4 - Kazan Governorate Muslim Assembly 99,080 11.54
List 7 - Bolsheviks 51,936 6.05
List 2 - Kadets 31,728 3.70
List 6 - Orthodox Clergy and Laymen of the Kazan Governorate 12,322 1.44
List 9 - Right-wing Socialist-Revolutionaries 9,820 1.14
List 5 - Mensheviks 4,906 0.57
List 3 - Cooperatives and Independent Socialists 2,993 0.35
List 8 - Agricultural-Artisan-Commercial-Industrial group 2,001 0.23
Total: 858,591

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Deputies Elected
Alyunov Chuvash
Nikolaev Chuvash
Vasiliev Chuvash
Alkin Muslim Socialist
Waxitov Muslim Socialist
Kolegaev SR
Martyushin SR
Mayorov SR
Mokhov SR
Sukhanov SR
Khalfin Muslim Assembly
Salekhov Muslim Assembly

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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. ^ Б. Ф Додонов; Е. Д Гринько; О. В.. Лавинская (2004). Журналы заседаний Временного правительства: Сентябрь-октябрь 1917 года. РОССПЭН. p. 207.
  5. ^ a b Oliver Henry Radkey (1989). Russia goes to the polls: the election to the all-Russian Constituent Assembly, 1917. Cornell University Press. pp. 29, 148. 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. 98. ISBN 978-0-8014-2360-4.
  7. ^ Oliver Henry Radkey (1989). Russia goes to the polls: the election to the all-Russian Constituent Assembly, 1917. Cornell University Press. p. 30. ISBN 978-0-8014-2360-4.
  8. ^ a b c Л. М Спирин (1987). Россия 1917 год: из истории борьбы политических партий. Мысль. pp. 273–328.
  9. ^ 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.
  10. ^ Лев Григорьевич Протасов (2008). Люди Учредительного собрания: портрет в интерьере эпохи. РОССПЭН. ISBN 978-5-8243-0972-0.
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