Astrakhan electoral district (Russian Constituent Assembly election, 1917)

Astrakhan
Astrakhan
Former Civilian constituency; for the All-Russian Constituent Assembly
Former constituency
Created	1917
Abolished	1918
Number of members	5
Number of Uyezd Electoral Commissions	5
Number of Urban Electoral Commissions	1
Number of Parishes	49
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The Astrakhan electoral district (Russian: Астраханский избирательный округ) was a constituency created for the 1917 Russian Constituent Assembly election. The electoral district covered parts of the Astrakhan Governorate, excluding the areas of the Bukey Horde and the Kalmyk Steppe.^[3]

Results

**Astrakhan**
Party	Vote	%
List 6 - Socialist-Revolutionaries	100,482	51.77
List 4 - Bolsheviks	36,023	18.56
List 2 - Muslim Group	25,023	12.89
List 3 - Cossack Group	16,400	8.45
List 1 - Kadets	13,017	6.71
List 5 - Mensheviks	2,256	1.16
List 7 - Popular Socialist Group of Tsarevsky Uezd	906	0.47
Total:	194,107

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**Deputies Elected**
Usmanov	Muslim
Tereshchenko	SR
Trusov	Bolshevik
Figner	SR
Nezhintsev	SR

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The account of U.S. historian Oliver Henry Radkey (used for the table above) is incomplete, with some votes missing.^[4] In Astrakhan town, the Bolsheviks got 9,556 votes (27.5%), the Kadets 8,981 votes (25.8%), the Muslim list 6,376 votes (18.3%), the SRs 4,310 votes (12.4%), the Cossack list 3,900 votes (11.2%), the Mensheviks 1,486 votes (4.3%) and the Popular Socialists 191 votes (0.5%).^[5] The Bolsheviks won 53.4% of the votes in the Astrakhan garrison.^[5]

References

^ И. С. Малчевский (1930). Всероссийское учредительное собрание. Гос изд-во. pp. 140–142.
^ Б. Ф Додонов; Е. Д Гринько; О. В.. Лавинская (2004). Журналы заседаний Временного правительства: Сентябрь-октябрь 1917 года. РОССПЭН. pp. 206–208.
^ Татьяна Евгеньевна Новицкая (1991). Учредительное собрание: Россия 1918 : стенограмма и другие документы. Недра. p. 13.
^ Jump up to: ^a ^b 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.
^ Jump up to: ^a ^b ^c Л. М Спирин (1987). Россия 1917 год: из истории борьбы политических партий. Мысль. pp. 273–328.
^ Лев Григорьевич Протасов (2008). Люди Учредительного собрания: портрет в интерьере эпохи. РОССПЭН. ISBN 978-5-8243-0972-0.

[Малчевский1930-140-142-1] 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.

[Новицкая1991-3] Татьяна Евгеньевна Новицкая (1991). Учредительное собрание: Россия 1918 : стенограмма и другие документы. Недра. p. 13.

[Radkey1989-e-4] Jump up to: ^a ^b 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.

[Спирин1987-5] Jump up to: ^a ^b ^c Л. М Спирин (1987). Россия 1917 год: из истории борьбы политических партий. Мысль. pp. 273–328.

[Протасов2008-6] Лев Григорьевич Протасов (2008). Люди Учредительного собрания: портрет в интерьере эпохи. РОССПЭН. ISBN 978-5-8243-0972-0.

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v t e Electoral Districts of the 1917 Russian Constituent Assembly election
Northern/Northwestern	Arkhangelsk Olonets Vologda Petrograd Metropolis Petrograd Pskov Novgorod
Baltic/White Russian	Estonia Livonia Vitebsk Minsk Mogilev Smolensk
Central Industrial	Moscow Metropolis Moscow Tver Yaroslavl Kostroma Vladimir Kaluga Tula
Central Black Earth	Ryazan Oryol Kursk Voronezh Tambov Penza
Volga	Nizhni Novgorod Simbirsk Kazan Samara Saratov Astrakhan
Kama-Ural	Vyatka Perm Ufa Orenburg
Ukraine	Kiev Volynia Podolia Chernigov Poltava Kharkov Yekaterinoslav Kherson
Southern-Black Sea/Southeastern	Bessarabia Taurida Don Cossack Region Stavropol
Caucasus	Kuban-Black Sea Ter-Dagestan Pricaspian Transcaucasus
Turkestan	Horde Uralsk Turgai Transcaspian Samarkand Amu Darya Syr Darya Fergana Semirechie
Siberia	Tobolsk Steppes Tomsk Altai Yenisei Irkutsk Transbaikal Priamur Chinese Eastern Railroad Yakutsk Kamchatka
Military districts	Baltic Fleet Black Sea Fleet Northern Front Western Front South-Western Front Romanian Front Caucasian Front Russian forces in France and the Balkans