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Results of the 1917 Russian Constituent Assembly election

Results of the 1917 Russian Constituent Assembly election

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There are numerous, conflicting accounts on the outcome of the November–December 1917 election to the All-Russian Constituent Assembly. The Constituent Assembly election, which took place in the midst of the First World War and the October Revolution, was the largest exercise of universal suffrage in the history of mankind until that date. Spanning over decades, different historical research projects have been undertaken to try to map the puzzle of outcomes of the election from the various constituencies.

National results summary

The numbers in the table below represent accounts from the voting in 71 out of 81 electoral districts, although not all of those districts have complete voting tallies.

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Studies on the Constituent Assembly election outcome

Svyatitsky and Lenin

There are various different accounts of the election result, with varying numbers.[5] Many accounts on the election result originate from N. V. Svyatitsky's account, who was himself elected as an SR deputy to the Constituent Assembly.[5] His article was included in the one-year anniversary symposium of the Russian Revolution organized by the SR party (Moscow, Zemlya i Volya Publishers, 1918). Lenin (1919) describes Svyatitsky's account as extremely interesting. It presented results from 54 electoral districts, covering most of European Russia and Siberia. Notably is lacked details from the Olonets, Estonian, Kaluga, Bessarabian, Podolsk, Orenburg, Yakutsk, Don governorates, as well as Transcaucasus. All in all, Svyatitsky's account includes 36,257,960 votes. According to Lenin, the actual number from said 54 electoral districts was 36,262,560 votes. But Lenin reaffirms that between Svyatitisky's article and his account, the number of votes cast by party is largely identical.[6]

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Radkey and Spirin

Later studies often use Svyatitsky's 1918 account as their starting point for further elaboration.[5] L. M. Spirin (1987) uses local newspapers and Russian, Belarusian and Ukrainian archival holdings to supplement Svyatitsky, whereas U.S. historian Oliver Henry Radkey predominately uses local newspapers as sources.[5] According to Rabinovitch (2016), Spirin's account is the most complete.[5] According to Arato (2017), Radkey is the most serious historian on the 1917 election.[7]

Radkey uses a number of uses broad categories in presenting the result party-wise: SRs (sometimes distinguished between left/right), Bolsheviks, Mensheviks (sometimes divided between Menshevik-Internationalists and Right-wing pro-war Mensheviks), Other Socialists (with subcategories) Kadets, Special interests (including subcategories peasants, landowners, Cossacks, middle-class, others), Religious (Orthodox, Old Believers, others), Ukrainian (with subcategories), Turkic-Tatar (with subcategories), Other Nationalities (with subcategories).[8]

The main source for the results table is Radkey (1989), who is used as reference for district-wise results unless specified otherwise. List numbers and names are largely taken from the Soviet historian L. M. Spirin's work.[2] Notably, one list has been included that appears in Radkey but not in Spirin (the Molokan list in Taurida, with 885 votes).

Essentially, Radkey uses 5 classifications on the completeness of the district-level electoral result in his study:

Complete or presumably complete: Olonets   Petrograd Metropolis   Pskov   Novgorod   Estonia   Vitebsk   Minsk   Smolensk   Moscow Metropolis   Tver   Yaroslavl   Kostroma   Vladimir   Kaluga   Oryol   Kursk   Voronezh   Tambov   Penza   Nizhni Novgorod   Simbirsk   Kazan   Samara   Saratov   Perm   Ufa   Orenburg   Kiev   Chernigov   Poltava   Kharkov   Yekaterinoslav   Don Cossack Region   Stavropol   Uralsk   Semirechie   Tobolsk   Tomsk   Altai   Chinese Eastern Railroad   Baltic Fleet   Black Sea Fleet   Northern Front
Somewhat incomplete (missing up to 1 uezd): Moscow   Petrograd   Livonia   Ryazan   Astrakhan   Volynia   Taurida   Yenisei   Irkutsk   Priamur   Western Front   South-Western Front   Romanian Front
Substantially incomplete (missing results from more than 1 uezd): Arkhangelsk   Vologda   Tula   Vyatka   Podolia   Kherson  Transbaikal   Transcaucasus
Fragmentary (missing more than half of the results from the district), but still used in the results table: Mogilev   Ter-Dagestan (no deputies elected)   Bessarabia   Steppes (no deputies elected)   Kamchatka   Caucasian Front
No election or no result Fergana   Kuban-Black Sea   Turgai   Amu Darya   Syr Darya   Transcaspian   Samarkand   Pricaspian   Horde   Yakutsk   Russian forces in France and the Balkans

From Radkey's account, there are 294,530 "unaccounted" votes, i.e. votes that were registered in totals but without their list identity clarified.

Protasov

A more recent research effort is represented by Russian historian L. G. Protasov, whose 1997 account includes 48,401,962 votes from 75 electoral districts.[9][10] His estimate is that electoral participation was around 63-64%.[9] In comparison with other historians, Protasov uses the category "Other socialists" to include many of the national minority parties.[9] However, a 2004 account by Protasov puts the total number of accounted votes at 47,167,621.[11]

Protasov records 765 deputies elected from 73 electoral districts;[9] out of them 345 SRs, 47 Ukrainian SRs, 175 Bolsheviks, 17 Mensheviks, 7 Ukrainian Social Democrats, 14 Kadets, 2 Popular Socialists, another 32 Ukrainian socialists (possibly SRs or social democrats), 13 Muslim socialists, 10 Dashnaks, 68 from other national parties, 16 Cossacks, 10 Christians and one clergyman.[12]

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District-wise results

The voting figures presented in the tables below are from Radkey (1989),[1] unless stated otherwise. In various districts, Radkey was not able to present a full account of the vote. In many cases the sources available to Radkey did not include all the lists in a specific district, meaning that in the account as a whole smaller parties tend to get underrepresented in many of the district-wise accounts. In some districts Radkey uses different sources for different lists, creating partially incomplete listings.

The names of elected deputies originate from Protasov (2008).[13] Party identity has been simplified. SR lists often included labels such as 'Socialist-Revolutionaries and Congress of Peasants Deputies' or 'Earth and Will', for example, but are here just presented as SR.

Metropolitan cities

Petrograd City

Petrograd Metropolis electoral district

Petrograd city constituted an electoral district of its own, separate from the rest of the Petrograd Governorate.[14] Voter turnout in the capital was estimated at between 69.7% and 72%.[15]

For the Petrograd Metropolitan district, Radkey assigns 861 votes as "unaccounted" for minor lists. Spirin presents lists 5, 10 and 13 with a total vote of 862. In the results tally below, Spirin's data is used for these 3 lists.

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Deputies Elected
Kutler Kadet
Milyukov Kadet
Rodichev Kadet
Vinaver Kadet
Cherepanov Bolshevik
Evdokimov Bolshevik
Kalinin Bolshevik
Stalin Bolshevik
Unszlicht Bolshevik
Zinoviev Bolshevik
Kamkov SR
Shreider SR

Moscow City

Moscow Metropolis electoral district

The electoral district covered the city of Moscow, separate from Moscow Governorate.[14] Voter turnout in the city was estimated at between 65.4% and 69.7%.[15]

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Deputies Elected
Astrov Kadet
Kokoshkin Kadet
Maklakov Kadet
Novgorodtsev Kadet
Minor SR
Bukharin Bolshevik
Ignatov Bolshevik
Meshcheryakov Bolshevik
Skvortsov-Stepanov Bolshevik
Smidovich Bolshevik
Yaroslavsky Bolshevik

North

Arkhangelsk

The electoral district covered the Arkhangelsk Governorate.[14] Radkey's account is missing 4 uezds, representing some 25% of the electorate the Archangel electoral district.[17]

Notably, Archangel had a different electoral system than the rest of the country, as voters voted for individual candidates rather than party lists.[17] Notably, Arkhangelsk had a different electoral system than the rest of the country, as voters voted for individual candidates rather than party lists.[17] Five parties had fielded their candidates in the constituency; The Kadets fielded Aleksander Isupov and Viktor Bartenev, the Socialist-Revolutionaries (supported by the Peasants' Deputies Soviet) fielded Alexey Ivanov and Mikhail Kvyatkovsky, the Bolsheviks fielded Matvei Muranov and Georgy Oppokov and the Mensheviks fielded Anatoli Zhidkov and Vladimir Bustrem. Pavel Osipov was nominated by a group of citizens from Kurlev volost in Kholmogory uezd.[18]

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Deputies Elected
Ivanov SR
Kvyatkovskiy SR

Olonets

The electoral district covered the Olonets Governorate.[14] Olonets had special electoral system, electing 2 deputies and with each voter having 2 votes.[19][20]

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Deputies Elected
Matveev SR-Menshevik bloc
Shishkin SR-Menshevik bloc

Vologda

The electoral district covered the Vologda Governorate.[14] Out of the 10 uezds in Vologda electoral district, the account of Rakdey has 1 uezds with a largely incomplete vote count and gaps in coverage in another 2 uezds.[21]

In Vologda the Bolsheviks and Mensheviks had a common list.[21] Soviet sources indicated that Social Democratic list was dominated by the Bolsheviks.[22]

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Deputies Elected
Galkin SR
Koryakin SR
Maslov SR
Raschesaev SR
Sorokin SR
Yuretsky SR
Vetoshkin Bolshevik

North-Western

Petrograd

The electoral district covered the Petrograd Governorate, except for the capital city itself.[14] According to Radkey his account of the result available was incomplete, as data was missing for 7 minor lists.[23] Radkey's account totals 446,273 votes, including 451 unaccounted votes.[1] Soviet historian Spirin has the same account for the three major lists, but adds another 25,462 votes for the smaller lists.[2] Spirin's account is used for the results table below.

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Deputies Elected
Nabokov Kadet
Vysotsky SR
Zenzinov SR
Nimvitsky Bolshevik
Pozern Bolshevik
Raskolnikov Bolshevik
Shotman Bolshevik
Voskov Bolshevik

Pskov

The electoral district covered the Pskov Governorate.[14] There was a 60.3% voter turnout in the district.[24]

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Deputies Elected
Bekleshov SR
Olkhin SR
Pokrovsky SR
Safonov SR
Utkin SR
Joffe Bolshevik
Usharnov Bolshevik
Yurov (Okhotin) Bolshevik

Novgorod

The electoral district covered the Novgorod Governorate.[14] Whilst Novgorod was an agrarian province, the Bolsheviks obtained a good vote. This might have been due to the fact that many inhabitants were accustomed to perform seasonal work in nearby Petrograd.[25] 4 local peasants lists did not qualify to run in the election.[26]

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Deputies Elected
Gukovsky SR
Kobyakov SR
Leontiev SR
Sokolov SR
Ermakov Bolshevik
Pashin Bolshevik
Trotsky Bolshevik
Uritsky Bolshevik
Valentinov Bolshevik

Baltics

Estonia

The electoral district covered the Autonomous Governorate of Estonia.[14]

Voter turnout stood at 56.6% in the Estonia electoral district.[2] The Bolsheviks and Estonian Labour Party had their strongest support in Reval and northern Estonia. Bolsheviks obtained 47.6% of the votes cast in Reval. The Democratic Bloc obtained 53.4% in Tartu, and did also get a good number of votes in southern Estonia.[27] Notably, the Bolsheviks benefited from popular discontent with the failure of the Provisional Government to follow through on its promises of self-determination for Estonia.[27]

Soldiers stationed at garrisons in Estonia didn't vote in the Estonian district, but in the Baltic Fleet constituency.[2]

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Deputies Elected
Anvelt Bolshevik
Pöögelmann Bolshevik
Rabchinsky Bolshevik
Vakmann Bolshevik
Seljamaa Estonian Labour
Vilms Estonian Labour
Poska Estonian Democratic
Tõnisson Estonian Democratic

Livonia

The electoral district covered the Livonia Governorate, as well as the parts of the Courland Governorate not under German occupation.[14] However, at the time Riga was under German occupation so no vote took place there.[29]

In Radkey's account some 9,000 votes are missing from 9 uezds.[29]

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Deputies Elected
Goldmanis Lettish Peasant Union
Berzin SD of Latvian Territory
Peterson SD of Latvian Territory
Rozin SD of Latvian Territory

White Russia

Vitebsk

The electoral district covered the Vitebsk Governorate.[14]

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Deputies Elected
Boldysh SR
Bulota SR
Gizetti SR
Ceshejko-Sochacki Bolshevik
Dzerzhinsky Bolshevik
Kamenev Bolshevik
Pinson Bolshevik
Rivkin Bolshevik
Sarkisyants Bolshevik

Minsk

The electoral district consisted of the Minsk Governorate and the parts of the Vilna Governorate and the Kovno Governorate that were not under German occupation.[14][30] Notably, the soldiers based in the garrison in Minsk voted in the Western Front electoral district rather than the Minsk electoral district.[2] According to Radkey, his count of the result in Minsk is largely complete, only lacking 3 out of 25 volosts Mozyr uezd. These 3 volosts had 16,755 eligible voters.[29]

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Deputies Elected
Balay SR
Drizo SR
Gamzagurdi SR
Nesterov SR
Brutzkus Jewish National Electoral Committee
Alibekov Bolshevik
Freiman Bolshevik
Gromashevsky Bolshevik
Kozhuro Bolshevik
Krivoshein Bolshevik
Lander Bolshevik
Schlegel Bolshevik
Seleznev Bolshevik
Taganov Bolshevik

Mogilev

The electoral district covered the Mogilev Governorate.[14]

According to Radkey the vote count in Mogilev is largely incomplete. He claims to have the data for Gomel (with the votes for all 11 lists), Mogilev (with votes for the 7 most voted lists) and Orsha (with votes for the 6 most votes lists) towns as well as 80 precincts in Gomel uezd (but in these precincts, only the vote for SR and Bolshevik lists).[29] The account of Soviet historian L. M. Spirin, shown to the right in the table and which Radkey did not consider reliable, includes a much greater number of votes accounted for the Mogilev electoral district.

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Deputies Elected
Buslov SR
Khrisanenkov SR
Kovarsky SR
Maleev SR
Malyshitsky SR
Rappoport SR
Shishaev SR
Tsvetaev SR
Vasilevsky SR
Voronov SR
Zakrevsky SR
Zasorin SR
Kaganovich Bolshevik
Leplevsky Bolshevik
Friedman Jewish National Committee
Mazeh Jewish National Committee

Smolensk

The electoral district covered the Smolensk Governorate.[14] 2 volost-level lists were barred from participating in the election.[26] List no. 3, endorsed by Smolensk Provincial Council of SR Party and the Smolensk Provincial Congress of Peasants Deputies, was headed by E.K. Breshko-Breshkovskaia and Andrei Argunov.[32] The Socialist-Revolutionary and Menshevik lists formed an electoral bloc. Likewise Lists 2 and 4 formed an electoral bloc.[2]

The Bolsheviks won some 75% of the vote in the rural Sychevka uezd, obtaining 23,984 out of 32,007 votes cast in the uezd.[33]

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Deputies Elected
Argunov SR
Egorov SR
Kutuzov SR
Podvitsky SR
Bobiński Bolshevik
Ivanov Bolshevik
Leszczyński Bolshevik
Lunacharsky Bolshevik
Pokrovsky Bolshevik
Remizov Bolshevik

Central Industrial Region

Moscow

The electoral district covered the Moscow Governorate, except for the city of Moscow.[14] According to Radkey's account, only few votes are missing from the summary (one military voting box in Moscow uezd, the votes from a single volost in Bronnitsy uezd and the votes for smaller parties in Serpukhov uezd).[29]

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Deputies Elected
Dolgorukov Kadet
Bykov SR
Pavlov SR
Baryshnikov Bolshevik
Kokushkin Bolshevik
Nogin Bolshevik
Sapronov Bolshevik
Smirnov Bolshevik

Tver

The electoral district covered the Tver Governorate.[14] Radkey lists the Tver result as 'somewhat incomplete'.[34]

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Deputies Elected
Tikhomirov SR
Tolmachevsky SR
Volsky SR
Arosev Bolshevik
Bulatov Bolsheviks
Medov Bolshevik
Schmidt Bolshevik
Sokolnikov Bolshevik
Vagzhanov Bolshevik

Yaroslavl

The electoral district covered the Yaroslavl Governorate.[14]

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Deputies elected
Konovalov Kadet
Vishniak SR
Kollontai Bolshevik
Rykov Bolshevik
Bolshakov SR
Kilchevsky SR

Kostroma

The electoral district covered the Kostroma Governorate.[14]

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Deputies Elected
Kondratiev SR
Kozlov SR
Lotoshnikov SR
Maltsev SR
Danilov Bolshevik
Larin-Lurie Bolshevik
Malyutin Bolshevik
Rostopchin Bolshevik

Vladimir

The electoral district covered the Vladimir Governorate.[14] Vladimir was heavily industrialized, second only to Moscow itself. There were many textile mills in Ivanovo-Voznesensky, Out of 13 uezd, SR won in 2; Viazniki (east of industrial belt), an area with hemp and linen production where SRs scored 42,4%, and further east in Gorokhovets uezd, an area with no factories where SRs scored 57.4%.[25]

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Deputies Elected
Makeev SR
Sokolov SR
Spiridonova SR
Frunze Bolshevik
Kiselyov Bolshevik
Lomov-Oppokov Bolshevik
Lyubimov Bolshevik
Naumov Bolshevik
Zhidelev Bolshevik

Kaluga

The electoral district covered the Kaluga Governorate.[14]

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Deputies Elected
Borodachov SR
Eliseev SR
Parol SR
Ginzburg Bolshevik
Glebov-Avilov Bolshevik
Logachev Bolshevik
Stukov Bolshevik
Zakharov Bolshevik

Tula

The electoral district covered the Tula Governorate.[14] The votes from the city of Tula and 10 out 12 uezds are complete, according to Radkey. The votes from Yefremov uezd and one of the volosts of Odoyev uezd are not covered in Radkey's account.[29]

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Deputies Elected
Arvatov SR
Gurevich SR
Medvedev SR
Nearonov SR
Kaminsky Bolshevik
Kaul Bolshevik
Kolesnikov Bolshevik
Yakovleva Bolshevik

Central Black Earth Region

Ryazan

The electoral district covered the Ryazan Governorate.[14] Radkey's account is missing the vote from Egoriev uezd, 1 out of 12 uezds in the electoral district.[29]

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Deputies Elected
Barinov SR
Gendelman SR
Govorov SR
Pavlov SR
Sorokin SR
Sukharev SR
Gorshkov Bolshevik
Osinsky Bolshevik
Sereda Bolshevik
Voronkov Bolshevik

Oryol

The electoral district covered the Oryol Governorate.[14]

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Deputies Elected
Bukin SR
Goncharov SR
Khodotov SR
Maslov SR
Matveevskaya SR
Vladykin SR
Volnov SR
Volodin SR
Andreev Bolshevik
Fokin Bolshevik
Ivanov Bolshevik
Kuznetsov Bolshevik

Kursk

The electoral district covered the Kursk Governorate.[14] Kursk was an agrarian, Black Earth province with no industries. The Bolshevik vote was attributed to soldiers returning home from the front.[35]

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Deputies Elected
Baryshnikov SR
Belosov SR
Doroshev SR
Kholodov SR
Kutepov SR
Merkulov SR
Neruchev SR
Pakhomov SR
Piyanich SR
Romanenko SR
Rusanov SR
Vlasov SR
Ozemblovsky Bolshevik

Voronezh

The electoral district covered the Voronezh Governorate.[14]

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Deputies Elected
Kardashov Bolshevik
Nevsky Bolshevik
Antipin SR
Bliznyuk SR
Burevoy-Soplyakov SR
Gladkikh SR
Khrenovsky SR
Kogan-Bernstein SR
Mamkin SR
Nikitin SR
Oganovsky SR
Perveeva SR
Postnikov SR
Smirnov SR
Zinin SR

Tambov

The electoral district covered the Tambov Governorate.[14] 73% electoral participation was reported, as the SRs had a good mobilization capacity among the peasantry.[36] In the Spassko-Kashminskaia canton, Morshansk uezd the SR local government banned the Bolshevik election campaign, alleging that the Bolsheviks were German spies.[37]

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Deputies Elected
Batmanov SR
Bobynin SR
Chernov SR
Chernyshov SR
Ilyin SR
Kiselev SR
Kondratenkov SR
Merkulov SR
Nabatov SR
Nemtinov SR
Odintsov SR
Ryabov SR
Sletova-Chernova SR
Volsky SR
Moiseev Bolshevik
Olminsky Bolshevik
Schlichter Bolshevik

Penza

The electoral district covered the Penza Governorate.[14] In Penza town there were 49,741 eligible voters, out of whom 17,583 voted (35%).[15]

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Deputies Elected
Avksentiev SR
Boldov SR
Fedorovich SR
Gots SR
Konogov SR
Kostin SR
Leutnov SR
Prokhorov SR
Tsyngovatov SR

Volga

Nizhny Novgorod

The electoral district covered the Nizhny Novgorod Governorate.[14] Only in the Nizhny Novgorod constituency could the combined forces of clergy and far right make an electoral impact.[38] The Christian Union for Faith and Fatherland had a relative success.[39]

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Deputies Elected
Sergius Christian Unity
Fokeev SR
Kutuzov SR
Lukyanov SR
Rakov SR
Sumgin SR
Tyurikov SR
Danilov Bolshevik
Romanov Bolshevik

Simbirsk

The electoral district covered the Simbirsk Governorate.[14] Electoral participation was reported at around 58%.[15]

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Deputies Elected
Sverdlov Bolshevik
Almazov SR
Gavronsky SR
Moshkin SR
Petrov SR
Pochekuev SR
Titov SR
Vorobiev SR
Tsalikov Muslim Shuro

Kazan

The electoral district covered the Kazan Governorate.[14] 66% turnout was reported.[15] The Chuvash largely voted for the SRs, and the local SR party branch was dominated by leftist elements.[40] The Tatars voters were split between leftist and rightist lists.[41]

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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

Samara

The electoral district covered the Samara Governorate.[14] Electoral turnout was at 54.86%.[15] Out of 95 different lists submitted, 79 were turned down (out of which approximately 42 lists were denied due to late submission).[26]

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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

Saratov

The electoral district covered the Saratov Governorate.[14] Saratov had been one of the early strongholds of the SRs.[42] Kerensky was one of the SR candidates, but many voters scratched his name from the list (and thus made their votes invalid).[43] It was politically turbulent, also during the election.[43] In Saratov Bolshevik campaigners were frequently attacked by rich farmers.[37] Whilst the SR won in the largely agrarian district, the Bolsheviks had a strong showing, with strong support from soldiers and from the industrial city of Tsaritsyn.[44]

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Deputies Elected
Antonov Bolshevik
Milutin Bolshevik
Minin Bolshevik
Vasiliev Bolshevik
Bykhovsky SR
Chernavin SR
Chernenkov SR
Kerensky SR
Kotov SR
Minin SR
Panchurin SR
Rakitnikov SR
Ulyanov SR
Ustinov SR
Zatonsky SR

Astrakhan

The electoral district covered parts of the Astrakhan Governorate, excluding the areas of the Bukey Horde and the Kalmyk Steppe.[14] Radkey's account is incomplete, with some votes missing.[1]

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

Kama-Ural

Vyatka

The electoral district covered the Vyatka Governorate.[14] Radkey's account only includes full result for 3 lists (Bolsheviks, Mensheviks, Orthodox), albeit the number of votes for the Orthodox list has been rounded off. The real vote of the other nine lists, according to Radkey, would have been more than double that what is accounted for.[29]

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Deputies Elected
Pastukhov Bolshevik
Popov Bolshevik
Shvetsov Bolshevik
Sponde Bolshevik
Biryukov SR
Buzanov SR
Efremov SR
Evseev SR
Golovizin SR
Kropotov SR
Kuznetsov SR
Salamatov SR
Shulakov SR
Zbarsky SR
Tchaikovsky Popular Socialists-Cheremi National Union alliance
Vikhlyaev SR

Perm

The electoral district covered the Perm Governorate.[14]

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Deputies Elected
Alekseev SR
Bondarev SR
Gerstein SR
Kabakov SR
Kuznetsov SR
Sigov SR
Tarabukin SR
Varushkin SR
Zateeyshchikov SR
Zdobnov SR
Zisman SR
Krol Kadet
Sumarokov Kadet
Andronnikov Bolshevik
Beloborodov Bolshevik
Krestinsky Bolshevik
Sosnovsky Bolshevik
Tukhvatullin Bashkir-Tatar group

Ufa

The electoral district covered the Ufa Governorate.[14]

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Deputies Elected
Teregulov Muslim National Council
Kuvatov Bashkir Federalist
Validov Bashkir Federalist
Akhmerov Council of Peasants' Deputies
Ibragimov Council of Peasants' Deputies
Ilyasov Council of Peasants' Deputies
Mukhametdinov Council of Peasants' Deputies
Syuncheley Council of Peasants' Deputies
Brillantov SR
Filatov SR
Osintsev SR
Steinberg SR
Trutovsky SR

Orenburg

The electoral district covered the Orenburg Governorate.[14] According to Radkey, his account of the Bashkir Federalist vote is underestimated, believing that the real figure would land at around 100,000.[39]

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Deputies Elected
Dutov Cossack
Krivoschekov Cossack
Matushkin Cossack
Myakutin Cossack
Bogdanov Cossack
Polyakov SR
Sorokin SR
Chutskaya Bolshevik
Korostelev Bolshevik
Zwilling Bolshevik
Bikbov Bashkir Federalist
Fakhretdinov Bashkir Federalist
Manatov Bashkir Federalist

Ukraine

Kiev

The electoral district covered the Kiev Governorate.[14] Kiev was a historical Black Hundred stronghold, and monarchists got some 3% of the votes in the district.[45]

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Deputies Elected
Chechel Ukrainian Bloc
Darchuk Ukrainian Bloc
Donchenko Ukrainian Bloc
Dragomiretsky Ukrainian Bloc
Hrushevsky Ukrainian Bloc
Ilchenko Ukrainian Bloc
Khimerik Ukrainian Bloc
Khomutovsky Ukrainian Bloc
Kotik Ukrainian Bloc
Mandryka Ukrainian Bloc
Porsh Ukrainian Bloc
Prisyazhnyuk Ukrainian Bloc
Pyrkovka Ukrainian Bloc
Rohmanyuk Ukrainian Bloc
Sevryuk Ukrainian Bloc
Shvets Ukrainian Bloc
Stasyuk Ukrainian Bloc
Tkachenko Ukrainian Bloc
Vynnychenko Ukrainian Bloc
Fyalek Bolshevik
Syrkin Jewish National Bloc

Volhynia

The electoral district covered the Volhynian Governorate.[14] The western parts of the electoral district were under German or Austrian occupation.[29] Radkey expresses concern that the votes account from Volynia (exclusively brought from the 1918 study by Sviatitski) may have been largely incomplete, possibly an effect of the proximity to the battle lines.[29]

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Podolia

The electoral district covered the Podolian Governorate.[14] Podolia was close to the frontline.[46] Radkey cites that the Ukrainian Social Democratic Labour Party organ Robitchna Gazeta reported that elections were held in Podolia between Dec 3–7, and presented results from 9 out of 12 uezds, but Robitchna Gazeta's party tally greater than the vote cast in the 9 uezds, possibly pointing to results included from the remaining 3 uezds.[46]

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Antonovych Ukrainian Bloc
Blonski Ukrainian Bloc
Dudich Ukrainian Bloc
Dyachuk Ukrainian Bloc
Gerasimenko Ukrainian Bloc
Golovchuk Ukrainian Bloc
Grigoriev Ukrainian Bloc
Isaevich Ukrainian Bloc
Litvitsky Ukrainian Bloc
Liubynsky Ukrainian Bloc
Machushenko Ukrainian Bloc
Nikolaychuk Ukrainian Bloc
Shevchenko Ukrainian Bloc
Shimanovich Ukrainian Bloc
Tkach Ukrainian Bloc
Verkhola Ukrainian Bloc
Widybida-Rudenko Ukrainian Bloc
Bartoszewicz Polish List

Chernigov

The electoral district covered the Chernigov Governorate.[14] Chernigov was an agrarian province. The Bolshevik Party was absent in most uezds and weak in others. But returning soldiers, about a quarter of the electorate, boosted the Bolshevik vote.[47]

Spirin is the source for the results tally from Chernigov. There is a difference of just 16 votes in the total tallies of Spirin and Radkey, but Spirin is more precise on the identities of the candidate lists in the fray.

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Breshko-Breshkovskaya SR
Kostenetsky Ukrainian SR
Kovalevsky Ukrainian SR
Kovbasa Ukrainian SR
Kuzmenko Ukrainian SR
Lashkevich Ukrainian SR
Odinets Ukrainian SR
Sayenko Ukrainian SR
Shapoval Ukrainian SR
Shrag Ukrainian SR
Bosch Bolshevik
Motorra Bolshevik
Pyatakov Bolshevik
Ryndich Bolshevik

Poltava

The electoral district covered the Poltava Governorate.[14] Poltava was an agrarian province.[48] Voter turnout was reported at 74%.[15]

The Russian SRs (dominated by the left) ran a joint list with the Ukrainian SRs (also dominated by its leftist faction).[49] The Selianska Spilka ('Village Union'), the agrarian wing of the Ukrainian SRs, confronted the Farmers (Landowners) Party, excluding Landowners from local election commissions. The campaign against the Landowners Party occasionally took a violent shape.[48]

The lists of the Folkspartey and the Jewish National Electoral Committee formed an electoral bloc, likewise the Poalei Zion and the United Socialist Jewish Workers Party lists formed an electoral bloc. Three minor Ukrainian lists formed an electoral bloc: the Ukrainian Social Democrats and the Ukrainian Socialist-Federalists and the Ukrainian National Republican Group.[2]

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Kovalyov Ukrainian SR-SR alliance
Poloz Ukrainian SR-SR alliance
Terletsky Ukrainian SR-SR alliance
Galagan Ukrainian SR
Ivchenko Ukrainian SR
Kovalenko Ukrainian SR
Kovalevsky Ukrainian SR
Kulichenko Ukrainian SR
Petrenko Ukrainian SR
Polotsky Ukrainian SR
Semenyaga Ukrainian SR
Sten'ka Ukrainian SR
Stepanenko Ukrainian SR
Yanko Ukrainian SR

Kharkov

The electoral district covered the Kharkov Governorate.[14] The SR list in Kharkov was dominated by the left-wing, contesting jointly with the Ukrainian SRs. The rightwing pro-war SR faction had its own list, headed by E.K. Breshko-Breshkovskaia.[50] Whilst trailing far behind the SRs across the country-side, the Bolsheviks won the election in Kharkov city.[50]

Spirin is the source for the result from Kharkov. There is a difference of just 873 votes between Radkey and Spirin in the total tally for Kharkov electoral district, but Spirin is more precise on the identities of the lists in the fray.

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Muranov Bolshevik
Sergeyev Bolshevik
Alekseev SR
Dyakonov SR
Kachinsky-Oreshin SR
Karelin SR
Kravchenko SR
Mikhailichenko SR
Ovcharenko SR
Popov SR
Severov-Odoyevsky SR
Shkorbatov SR
Streltsov SR
Svyatitsky SR

Yekaterinoslav

The electoral district covered the Yekaterinoslav Governorate.[14] Yekaterinoslav was a large province; ethnically and economically diverse.[51] The Yekaterinoslav electoral district recorded the highest vote for a landowners list in the country. List 1 Landowners and Nonpartisan Progressives gathered 26,597 votes (2.2%), and was headed by Mikhail Rodzianko (an Octobrist leader, having served as the presiding officer in the 3rd and 4th Dumas, elected on the Stolypin franchise).[52]

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Gvozdikovsky SR
Popov SR
Rosenblum SR
Socheva SR
Bachinsky Ukrainian SR
Karpenko Ukrainian SR
Korzh Ukrainian SR
Mitsyuk Ukrainian SR
Radomsky Ukrainian SR
Romanenko Ukrainian SR
Rosin Ukrainian SR
Storubel Ukrainian SR
Stromenko Ukrainian SR
Surgae Ukrainian SR
Averin Bolshevik
Lutovinov Bolshevik
Petrovsky Bolshevik
Voroshilov Bolshevik

Kherson

The electoral district covered the Kherson Governorate.[14] According to Radkey, the Odessa city results appeared complete, the Odessa uezd possibly incomplete, the Kherson uezd having results from 195 out of 223 voting centers, no indication about whether 2 other uezds' results were complete or not. From the remaining 2 uezds the results were missing altogether.[29]

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Gruzenberg Jewish National Bloc
Tyomkin Jewish National Bloc
Meiendorf German
Asmolov SR
Bontzarevich SR
Eremenchuk SR
Feofilaktov SR
Gavrilyuk SR
Glevenko SR
Holubovych SR
Gordievsky SR
Lvovich SR
Richter SR
Trichevsky SR
Troichuk SR
Vekhtev SR
Yuritsin SR
Velikhov Kadet
Chekhivsky Ukrainian SD
Sklyar Bolshevik

South

Bessarabia

Radkey's account is substantially incomplete.[53] According to Radkey, only the results from Kishinev and 3 out of 8 uezds could be gathered by scholars.[54] The 5 uezds left out of the count were more populous.[29] Two other sets have been published: one by Moldovan historian Gheorghe Cojocaru, providing a detailed account of the civilian votes, covering almost two thirds of the ones cast in Bessarabia, and a reportedly complete set provided by Soviet author G. Ustinov.[55] 17 lists were in the fray in Bessarabia. The demographics of the district were divided between Romanians (48%), Ukrainians (20%) and Russians (8%). Among the elected deputies, SR deputies were Jewish or Russian, whilst the peasant soviet deputies were Romanian.[54]

As per Serge, some 600,000 people took part in the vote, with the Peasant soviet obtaining some 200,000 votes, SRs 200,000 votes, Jewish national list 60,000, Kadets 40,000 and the Moldavian National Party 14,000.[56]

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Cojocari Peasants Soviets
Erhan Peasants Soviets
Inculet Peasants Soviets
Katoros Peasants Soviets
Rudev Peasants Soviets
Aleksandrov SR
Imas SR
Slonim SR
Sukhovikh SR
Sukhovikh SR
Avilov Bolsheviks/Menshevik-Internationalists
Urusov Kadet

Taurida

The electoral district covered the Taurida Governorate.[14] Taurida had a 54.74% voter turnout.[15] Radkey's account is missing Berdiansk uezd with some 3,400 electors and Vodiansk volost of Melitopol uezd.[29] All in all there were 753 precincts in the Taurida electoral district.[29]

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Bogdanov Kadet
Saltan Ukrainian SR
Alyasov SR
Bakuta SR
Bondar SR
Nikonov SR
Popov SR
Tolstov SR
Zak SR
Seidamet Provisional Crimean
Muslim Executive Committee

South-East

Don Cossack Region

The electoral district covered the Don Host Oblast.[14]

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Babin SR
Kolesnikov SR
Kurilov SR
Mamonov SR
Nikolaev SR
Nikolsky SR
Shvetsov SR
Ageyev Cossack
Arakantsev Cossack
Bogaevsky Cossack
Kaledin Cossack
Kharlamov Cossack
Melnikov Cossack
Popov Cossack
Ulanov Cossack
Voronkov Cossack
Lozovsky Bolshevik
Syrtsov Bolshevik
Vasilchenko Bolshevik

Stavropol

The electoral district covered the Stavropol Governorate, as well as the Karanogai precinct (which was part of the Terek Oblast).[14] In Stavropol town the Bolsheviks won 47.6% of the vote.[2] Likewise, in Pyatigorsk the Bolsheviks won some 8,000 votes, half of the votes from the town.[57]

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Bocharnikov SR
Dementiev SR
Emelyanov SR
Garnitsky SR
Gutorov SR
Onipko SR

Kuban-Black Sea

The electoral district covered the Kuban Oblast and the Black Sea Governorate.[14] Kuban was fully engulfed by civil war by the time of the vote.[58] 16 seats had been allotted to the Kuban-Black Sea electoral district, but the election was only held in Ekaterinodar and some surrounding villages were the Kuban Territorial Council was in control.[59][58] Spirin gives the following result for Ekaterinodar;

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[2]

Caucasus

Ter-Dagestan

The electoral district covered the Terek Oblast (except the Karanogai precinct and the aimak of the Kalmyks) and the Dagestan Oblast.[14] Voting was delayed in Ter-Dagestan and was held between November 26 and December 5. In some areas the votes were counted but not reported, in other areas votes were left uncounted.[60] In Radkey's account a complete result was only available for Vladikavkaz city. He includes sporadic results of the major parties in some towns and garrisons. Radkey's account contains no results from rural areas.[29]

Bolsheviks obtained 44% of the vote in Vladikavkaz. This situation could be compared to that by March 1917 the Bolshevik Party had been so weak in the city that it had been decided to form a joint Bolshevik-Menshevik Party Committee in the city.[57]

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Pricaspian

The Pricaspian electoral district, which included areas of the Kalmyk steppe of the Astrakhan Governorate, was thinly populated.[59][61] One seat was assigned to the constituency.[59] A list was submitted, signed by 137 electors, with the 33-year old lawyer Sandzhi Bayanovich Bayanov as its candidate.[61] Due to late arrival of electoral material, the vote was postponed to November 26–28, 1917.[61] The vote was reportedly held on these dates, in some places with very low turnout. Bayanov received a majority of votes.[61]

Deputies Elected
Bayanov ?

Transcaucasus

The electoral district covered the Baku Governorate, the Elizavetpol Governorate, the Erivan Governorate, the Kutais Governorate, the Tiflis Governorate, the Batum Oblast, the Kars Oblast, the Sukhum Okrug and the Zakatal Okrug.[14]

The three largest parties in Transcaucasus were the Mensheviks, the Musavat Party and the Armenian Revolutionary Federation (Dashnaksiun).[62] Whilst the Mensheviks were the most voted party, here Menshevism had become intertwined with Georgian nationalism.[63] Soon after the election, the Georgian Mensheviks would become openly nationalistic.[64] Bolsheviks won the election Baku city (followed closely by Musavat and Dashnaksiun), Ittihad won the elections in the rural areas of Baku uezd, in the villages of the Absheron Peninsula. Musavat won most of the Azerbaijani vote in Baku guberniia, followed by Ittehad.[62] In Tiflis the Bolsheviks quadrupled their vote compared to the July 1917 city duma election.[65]

The numbers in the column to the left originate from Hovannisian (1967)[3] and Vestnik Evrazii (2004)[4] The source for Vestnik Evrazii for the results stems from the State Archive of the Russian Federation.[4]

These two references present a more complete account than that of Radkey. Radkey's account lists a total of 1,887,453 votes, including 215,121 unspecified 'residue' votes.[1] Radkey's effort to map the votes in Transcaucasus was frustrated by the insistence of Soviet sources to lump parties like Musavat and Dashnaksiun into a single bloc.[39]

Between Hovannisian and Vestnik Evrazii, the votes for the Mensheviks, Kadets, SRs and Bolsheviks are identical. Vestnik Evrazii presents the vote for the Popular Socialist list, which is not detailed in Hovannasian. Vestnik Evrazii groups the Dashnaks, the Muslim Socialist Bloc and Hummet together (825,672 votes) and 728,206 for Bourgeois parties (presumably including Musavat). In the case of Musavat, Hummet, Ittihad and Dashnaks, the figures from Hovannisian are used. Hovannisian does not present a total of votes, so the total from Vestnik Evrazii is utilized instead.

Comparing the account from Hovannisian with that of Swietochowski (2004)[66] the numbers for the Mensheviks, Musavat, the Muslim Socialist Bloc, SRs, Hummet and Ittihad are identical. The minor discrepancies between Hovannisian and Swietochowski are different vote for Bolshevik list (93,581 in Hovannisian and Vestnik Evrazii, 95,581 in Switeochowski), the Dashnaks got 40 votes more in Swietochowski's account and Swietochowski lists a total of 2,455,274 (plus 2,172 compared to Vestnik Evrazii).[66] Maḣmudov (2004)[67] and Balaev (1998)[68] carries the same numbers as Swietochowski.

The results in the column to the right is from the account of Soviet historian L. M. Spirin.[2] Spirin's total is missing about half a million votes compared to the other accounts.[2]

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Bekzadyan Menshevik
Chkheidze Menshevik
Chkhenkeli Menshevik
Djibladze Menshevik
Gegechkori Menshevik
Georgadze Menshevik
Lomtatidze Menshevik
Ramishvili, I. V. Menshevik
Ramishvili, N. V. Menshevik
Skobelev Menshevik
Smirnov Menshevik
Tsereteli Menshevik
Zhordania Menshevik
Zurabov Menshevik
Aghayev Musavat
Jafarov Musavat
Mamedbekov Musavat
Rasulzadeh Musavat
Sultanov Musavat
Topchubashov Musavat
Yusifbeyli Musavat
Akhundov Hummet
Gaidarov Muslim Socialist Bloc
Kantemirov Muslim Socialist Bloc
Safikurdski Muslim Socialist Bloc
Ganiev Ittihad
Atabekyan SR
Lunkevich SR
Ambartsumyan Dashnak
Gazazyan Dashnak
Hovhannisyan-Varandyan Dashnak
Ohanjanyan Dashnak
Shahatunyan Dashnak
Shahnazaryan-Araratyan Dashnak
Zavriev Dashnak
Ter-Ovanesyan (Kachaznuni) Dashnak
Tigranyan Dashnak
Zoryan-Rostom Dashnak
Shaumian Bolshevik

Siberia

Tobolsk

The electoral district covered the Tobolsk Governorate.[14] Tobolsk hosted one of only 2 undivided Social Democratic lists in the fray across the country.[69] Soviet sources indicated that the Social Democratic list was Menshevik-dominated.[22]

Soviet sources reported voter turnout at a mere 33.5%.[15]

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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

Steppes

The electoral district covered the Akmolinsk Oblast and the Semipalatinsk Oblast.[14] According to Wade (2004), it is unclear whether the election was carried through to completion in the electoral district.[58]

Radkey's account only includes votes from Omsk and surroundings;

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[29]

This account of the vote in Semipalatinsk uezd comes from the work of Spirin;

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[2]

Tomsk

The electoral district covered the Tomsk Governorate.[14] The SR list won a landslide victory, drawing the support from the rural areas. In the Novonikolayevsk uyezd the SRs obtained 95.3% of the votes cast, followed by Kainsk uyezd (91%), Kuznetsk uyezd (90.8%), Mariinsk uyezd (88.6%), Tomsk uyezd (73.6%) and Togur uyezd (64.6%).[70] The Bolsheviks fared better in industrial centers; obtaining some 36% of the vote at the Kemerovo mine and chemical plant, some 32% of the votes were cast at the Anzhersky mines and 25.8% of the votes at the Sudzhensk mines (both in present-day Anzhero-Sudzhensk).[71]

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Smirnov Bolshevik
Grigoriev SR
Lindberg SR
Markov SR
Markov SR
Mikhailov SR
Omelkov SR
Semenov SR
Shisharin SR
Sukhomlin SR

Altai

The electoral district covered the Altai Governorate.[14]

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Devisorov SR
Krivorotov SR
Levin SR
Lomshakov SR
Lyubimov SR
Ramazanov SR
Rogovsky SR
Rudnev SR
Sotnin SR
Shaposhnikov SR
Shnyrev SR
Kosorotov SR
Shatilov SR

Yenisei

The electoral district covered the Yenisei Governorate.[14] Moreover, the Russian citizens living in the Uryankhay Kray formed part of the constituency.[14]

The SRs and Menshevik lists formed an electoral bloc, whilst the Bolsheviks and the leftist dissident SR list formed a second electoral bloc.[2]

According to Radkey the results from Krasnoyarsk city and 5 out of 6 uezds appeared complete, with the thinly populated Turukhansk uezd missing.[29]

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Okulov Bolshevik
Rogov Bolshevik
Eideman SR
Fomin SR
Gurov SR
Kolosov SR

Irkutsk

The electoral district covered the Irkutsk Governorate.[14]

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Korshunov SR
Krol SR
Timofeev SR
Vampiloon Buryat
Gavrilov Bolshevik

Transbaikal

The electoral district covered the Transbaikal Oblast.[14]

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Bogdanov Buryat National Committee
Dobromyslov SR
Flegontov SR
Kruglikov SR
Pumpyanskiy SR
Simakov SR
Taskin Transbaikal Cossacks

Priamur

The Priamur electoral district consisted of the Amur Oblast, the Maritime Province and the Sakhalin Oblast.[14][54][72] The election was held on time in the constituency. From the Maritime Province the results were, according to Radkey, seemingly complete. In areas north of the Amur river some problems in voting occurred, with 312 polling stations reporting and 77 did not (another reference stated that no election had been held in some 50 polling stations).[73]

The SRs had suffered a four-way split in the constituency, with the branches in Amur and Maritime contesting separately. Ahead of the election the Maritime Province Peasants Soviets threw out the SR party representatives and fielded a separate list (in Amur, however, the peasants soviets stayed loyal to the SR party).[54] There was also a left SR list, distinctively urban.[54]

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Deputies Elected
Mandrikov Maritime Peasants Soviet
Petrov Maritime Peasants Soviet
Sorokin Maritime Peasants Soviet
Vykhristov Maritime Peasants Soviet
Kozhevnikov Amur and Ussuri Cossacks
Neibut Bolshevik
Alekseevsky Amur SR

Chinese Eastern Railroad

The Chinese Eastern Railroad electoral district was located outside the borders of Russia.[58] Four candidates were nominated for the Chinese Eastern Railroad seat; Lieutenant General Dmitri Horvath (the Chinese Eastern Railroad Zone administrator since 1902) ran as the Kadet candidate, representing the pre-revolutionary status quo. Nikolai Strelkov of the Railwaymens' Union contested as the Menshevik candidate, the Jewish businessman and Chair of the Chinese Eastern Railroad Executive Committee Faytel Volfovich was the SR candidate and the ensign and Harbin Soviet chairman Ryutin the Bolshevik candidate.[74][75][76][77]

The vote was held for the Chinese Eastern Railroad seat on November 29, 1917.[75] The voter turnout stood at around 60%.[74]

According to a contemporary account published in the organ of the Nikolsk-Ussuriysky Soviet (whose totals differ somewhat from the figures of Radkey), the vote in Harbin was won by Strelkov (4,874 votes, 31.74%), followed by Horvath (4,450 votes, 28.98%), Ryutin (4,412 votes, 28.73%) and Volfovich (1,620 votes, 10.55%).[78] In the 26 precincts of the western line, Ryutin was the most vote candidate (5,991 votes, 38.25%), followed by Strelkov (5,845 votes, 37.32%), Volfovich (2,519 votes, 16.08%) and Horvath (1,307 votes, 8.35%).[78] In the four precincts of the eastern line, Ryutin emerged as the winner with 1,461 votes (39.84%), followed by Strelkov (1,187 votes, 32.37%), Volfovich (831 votes, 22.66%) and Horvath (188 votes, 5.13%).[78]

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Deputies Elected
Strelkov Menshevik

Yakutsk

The electoral district covered the Yakutsk Oblast.[14] An election was held and deputies elected, but Radkey was unable to trace the any voting figures.[59]

Deputies Elected
Xenophonov Federal Labour Union
Pankratov SR

Kamchatka

The electoral district covered the Kamchatka Oblast.[14] The vote was held in the Kamchatka electoral on October 29, 1917, well ahead of the rest of the country, in order to allow its sole deputy to be able to catch the last steamship to Petrograd to attend the opening of the Constituent Assembly.[58] Radkey claims to only have been able to trace results from the town of Zavoyko, but the Zavoyko poll was disqualified as the vote had been held one day in advance.[29] 275 people had voted in Zavoyko, 258 of them for SR, 9 for Social Democrats and 8 for others.[1]

Deputies Elected
Lavrov SR

Turkestan

Horde

The Horde (or 'Orda') electoral district covered the areas of the Bukey Horde in the Transvolga.[58] Khanskaya Stavka was the administrative center of the electoral district.[58] According to Radkey, two lists had registered in the Horde electoral district. As per Radkey's account, there was no information on whether election had been held.[1] As per Wade (2004), members of the local revolutionary committee began arresting the District Election Commission officials as the vote tallying was ongoing.[58]

Deputies Elected
Kulmanov Alash
Tanachev Alash

[13]

Uralsk

The electoral district covered the Ural Oblast as well as the Mangyshlak uezd of the Transcaspian Oblast (except for areas inhabited by Turkmens).[14]

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Deputies Elected
Alibekov Ural Regional Kirghiz Committee
Dosmukhamedov, J. D. Ural Regional Kirghiz Committee
Dosmukhamedov, K. D. Ural Regional Kirghiz Committee
Ipmagambetov Ural Regional Kirghiz Committee
Karatlev Ural Regional Kirghiz Committee
Borodin Cossack

Turgai

The electoral district covered the Turgai Oblast.[14] According to Radkey the vote was held in one uezd, but that the result was not known.[1] Nevertheless, Soviet sources indicate voting took place across the district. Soviet historian L. M. Spirin (whose data is used for the results table below) lists 281,782 votes cast for three different candidate lists.[2] Notably, Radkey rejects these results as unreliable.[1]

Deputies Elected
Baitursynov Alash
Berimzhanov Alash
Doshchanov Alash
Temirov Alash
Pakhomov SR

Transcaspian

The electoral district covered the Transcaspian Oblast, except for most of the Mangyshlak uezd (only the volosts inhabited by Turkmens remained part of the Transcaspian electoral district).[14][20] The Transcaspian electoral district was assigned 2 seats in the Constituent Assembly.[59] According to Radkey, an election was held but results not known.[59] Per Wade (2004), it is certain that no election took place in the Transcaspian electoral district.[58]

Samarkand

The electoral district covered the Samarkand Oblast.[14] Samarkand was assigned 5 seats.[59] According to Radkey, an election was held but results were not known to him.[59]

Deputies Elected
Abdukhalilov Muslim organizations of
the Samarkand region
Behbudiy Muslim organizations of
the Samarkand region
Farhatov Muslim organizations of
the Samarkand region
Maksudi Muslim organizations of
the Samarkand region

Amu Darya

The electoral district covered the Amu Darya Division of the Syr-Darya Oblast.[14] According to Radkey, it is not known whether voting took place. One seat had been allotted to Amu Darya.[59] Per Wade (2004), it is certain that no election took place in Amu Darya.[58]

Syr Darya

The electoral district covered the Syr-Darya Oblast, except for the Amu Darya Division.[14] Voting in Syr Darya was postponed until mid-Dec 1917, then to January 19, 1918.[60] In the end no vote ever took place.[60][58] Nine seats had been allotted to Syr Darya.[59]

Fergana

The electoral district covered the Fergana Oblast.[14] An election was held and deputies elected, but Radkey was unable to trace the any voting figures.[59] Seemingly, per Soviet sources cited by Radkey, there were 5 deputies elected from Fergana, out of whom 1 SR.[79]

Deputies Elected
Khodzhaev Muinil Islam Society
Tyuryayev Muinil Islam Society
Akaev All-Fergana List of Muslim Organizations
Chaykin All-Fergana List of Muslim Organizations
Shokay All-Fergana List of Muslim Organizations
Mirza-Akhmedov All-Fergana List of Muslim Organizations
Shagiakhmetov All-Fergana List of Muslim Organizations
Shashahmedov All-Fergana List of Muslim Organizations
Urazaev All-Fergana List of Muslim Organizations
Yuldash-Kariev All-Fergana List of Muslim Organizations
Yurgul-Agayev All-Fergana List of Muslim Organizations

The results in the table below are based on data from Soviet historian L. M. Spirin.[2] U.S. historian Oliver Henry Radkey rejected these results as unreliable.[1]

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[2]

Semirechie

The electoral district covered the Semirechie Oblast.[14] The electoral battle in Semirechie stood between a general soviet list (SRs and Mensheviks) and the Kirgiz-Cossack alliance. The Bolshevik list had been banned.[1]

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Shebalin Socialist Bloc
Tynyshpaev Socialist Bloc
Amanzholov Alash-Cossack alliance
Jainakov Alash-Cossack alliance
Saurambaev Alash-Cossack alliance
Shendrikov Alash-Cossack alliance

Military districts

Baltic Fleet

The electoral district covered the military forces and employees and workers at bases under the command of the Baltic Fleet.[80] The Baltic Fleet was a revolutionary bastion.[45] Electoral participation stood at around 70%. 76% of sailors voted, but the sailors were outnumbered by workers and soldiers at the naval bases.[15] Baltic Fleet used a separate electoral system, where the voter could vote for two individual candidates rather than fixed party lists.[81][82]

The election campaign received plenty attention in the fleet newspapers.[82] The campaign of non-Bolshevik candidates was largely confined to Helsingfors.[82] The outcome of the vote indicated strong dissatisfaction with the performance of the Provisional Government, as the combined Bolshevik/Left SR vote stood at around 85% (the highest of all electoral constituencies nationwide).[82] Radkey claims Dybenko was the most voted Bolshevik candidate, placing Lenin second.[81] Dybenko was himself a sailor, and likewise in the case of the SRs sailor candidates Shisko and Maslov scored higher votes than non-sailor political leaders.[82]

Saul (1978) expresses strong concerns over the accuracy of the result presented by Radkey.[82] Saul (1978) reports the following result from the Helsingfors region of the Baltic Fleet electoral district (with results from 97 out of 100 electoral precincts); 22,670 votes for Dybenko, 22,237 votes for Lenin, 13,617 votes for Shishko, 12,906 votes for Proshian, 7,620 votes for Maslov, 7,351 votes for Tsion, 855 votes for Demchinsky and 838 votes for Rengarten.[82] According to Soviet sources the non-partisan group got one percent of the votes in Helsingfors.[82] In Kronstadt an 84% vote for the Bolsheviks was recorded.[82] On the battleships the Bolsheviks won some 70% of the vote, whilst the (left) SRs dominated the vote in the Åbo–Åland region (which had smaller ships).[82]

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Deputies Elected
Dybenko Bolshevik
Lenin Bolshevik

Black Sea Fleet

The electoral district covered the military forces and employees and workers at bases under the command of the Black Sea Fleet.[80]

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Deputies Elected
Bunakov-Fondaminsky SR

Northern Front

The constituency covered the Northern Front of the Russian Army. And apart from the Northern Front itself, the electoral district also included the Russian troops stationed in Finland (except those under the Baltic Fleet command) as well as the Lake Peipus Flotilla.[80] Voter turnout stood at 72.36482% per official records.[15]

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Ivanov SR
Kolerov SR
Likhach SR
Rabinovich SR
Utgof SR
Klochok Ukrainian-Muslim List
Antonov-Ovseyenko Bolshevik
Medvedev Bolshevik
Nakhimson Bolshevik
Podvoisky Bolshevik
Sedyakin Bolshevik
Sheiman Bolshevik
Sklyansky Bolshevik
Smilga Bolshevik
Stučka Bolshevik
Vasiliev Bolshevik

Western Front

The electoral district covered the Western Front of the Russian Army.[80] The result for Muslim Socialists stems from a newspaper report in Russkiye Vedomosti, which had data from 472 out of 602 voting centres.[83]

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Bazyak Ukrainian Bloc
Lebedinets Ukrainian Bloc
Morgenstiern SR
Nikolayev SR
Zetel-Zusman SR
Anuchin Bolshevik
Apeter Bolshevik
Fedenev Bolshevik
Ksenofontov Bolshevik
Kukonkov Bolshevik
Lysyakov Bolshevik
Miasnikian Bolshevik
Rogozinsky Bolshevik
Grzelszczak Bolshevik
Tikhmenev Bolshevik
Vasiliev Bolshevik
Yakovlev Bolshevik

South-Western Front

The electoral district covered the South-Western Front of the Russian Army.[80]

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Dansky SR
Detlaf [ru] SR
Dikansky SR
Filippovsky [ru] SR
Levenberg SR
Lishchev SR
Moiseenko [ru] SR
Nikotin SR
Sokoloff SR
Surgutchev [ru] SR
Troyanovsky Menshevik
Bereznyak [ru] Ukrainian SR
Dolgov Ukrainian SR
Kutsyak [ru] Ukrainian SR
Chudnovsky [ru] Bolshevik
Kokovikhin Bolshevik
Lashevich Bolshevik
Marchenkov Bolshevik
Pyatakov [ru] Bolshevik
Rozmirovich Bolshevik
Trubachev Bolshevik

Romanian Front

The electoral district covered the Romanian Front of the Russian Army.[80] Moreover, the constituency covered the Danube Flotilla.[80] To Radkey some 12,000-15,000 votes appeared to be missing from official records.[83]

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Grischenko Ukrainian Socialist Bloc
Petliura Ukrainian Socialist Bloc
Pisnachevsky Ukrainian Socialist Bloc
Ternichenko Ukrainian Socialist Bloc
Abramov SR
Alekseevsky SR
Andrianov SR
Bocharnikov SR
Bylinkin SR
Erofeev SR
Ilinskiy SR
Kotlin SR
Krakovetsky SR
Lordkipanidze SR
Markov SR
Shmelyov SR
Krylenko Bolshevik
Mostovenko Bolshevik
Ryazanov Bolshevik
Solers Bolshevik

Caucasian Front

The electoral district covered the Caucasian Front of the Russian Army.[80] Moreover, it included the Urmia-Van Flotilla.[80]

Spirin's account of the election result only gives a rough estimate, with 360,000 votes for the Socialist-Revolutionaries and 60,000 votes for the Bolsheviks.[2] The account of Radkey only includes votes from Erzerum fortress, with 16,824 votes.[84] However, the Ukrainian vote in Erzerum was missing in the source material available to Radkey.[83]

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Deputies Elected[13]
Berezov SR
Donskoy SR
Mikhailov SR
Pyzhev SR
Tumanov SR
Badaev Bolshevik

Russian forces in France and the Balkans

The Russian Expeditionary Force in France and the Salonika front formed an electoral district of its own, with some 50,000 eligible voters.[58] According to Wade (2004) it is unclear whether any election took place in the electoral district.[58]

Notes

  1. Includes lists such as the joint SR-Menshevik list in Olonets (although only the SR deputy is included in the seat tally), the general soviet list in Semirechie, the joint SR-Peasants Union list in Irkutsk, the joint SR-Ukrainian SR list in Poltava. The count does not include other joint SR-Ukrainian SR lists in Ukraine, except Poltava (where the SR-USR list confronted the main USR-sponsored list), nor does it include any of the dissident leftist or rightist SR lists.
  2. Substantially incomplete result – missing 4 uezds (about 25% of the total electorate of the district)
  3. Fragmentary result – includes only the city of Kishinev and 3 out of 8 uezds of the constituency
  4. Fragmentary result – Includes only the city of Ekaterinodar (source Spirin)
  5. Substantially incomplete result – complete vote tallies from 9 out of 12 uezds.
  6. Fragmentary result – Includes only Omsk and surroundings (source Radkey) and Semipalatinsk uezd (source Spirin)
  7. Fragmentary result – Includes only the city of Vladikavkaz, plus sporadic results of the major parties in some towns and garrisons.
  8. Substantially incomplete result
  9. Substantially incomplete result – Includes complete vote from city of Tula and 10 out of 12 uezds. Lacks result from Yefremov uezd and one of the volosts of Odoyev uezd.
  10. Substantially incomplete result – Out of 10 uezds in the constituency, 1 uezd has largely incomplete result and 2 uezds have gaps in coverage
  11. Includes all joint Bolshevik/Menshevik-Internationalist lists. Includes the joint Bolshevik-Menshevik list in Vologda, but not the joint Menshevik-Bolshevik list in Tobolsk (as the latter was reportedly dominated by Mensheviks).
  12. Substantially incomplete result – According to Radkey Odessa city results appeared complete, the Odessa uezd possibly incomplete, the Kherson uezd having results from 195 out of 223 voting centers, no indication about whether 2 other uezds results were complete or not. From the remaining 2 uezds the results were missing altogether.
  13. Includes all Ukrainian SR-led lists in Ukraine, the Ukrainian SR-led lists in the army districts as well as the Petrograd Ukrainian SR-Ukrainian SD-Faryenikte lists.
  14. Substantially incomplete result - the vote for other lists than the SR, Bolsheviks and Orthodox in Vyatka could be double as high in reality, according to Radkey
  15. Includes joint Menshevik-Bund lists, and the joint Menshevik-Bolshevik list in Tobolsk. This line does not include the votes from the joint SR-Menshevik list in Olonets, which elected one Menshevik deputy. However, the Menshevik from Olonets is included in the seat count.
  16. Includes dissident right-wing SR lists that contested against the official SR party lists
  17. In many constituencies the party contested on the Ukrainian SR-led lists. This count is only for the 2 districts where the Ukrainian Social Democrats contested alone.
  18. Various local alliances of Popular Socialists, cooperatives, right-wing Mensheviks, right-wing SRs, Plekhanov's Unity group, etc.
  19. In most constituencies where the Bund was active, it contested on joint lists with the Mensheviks. This line only counts the 3 constituencies were the Bund ran its own lists.
  20. Does not include any results for joint lists with the Bolsheviks
  21. Includes the leftist dissident lists, that contested against the official SR party lists. In locations where the left faction of the SRs dominated the official party list, the result is included in the main SR count.
  22. In many locations the Folkspartei joined Jewish national lists.
  23. Includes 6 Ukrainian lists, outside of Ukraine, with unclear party identity.
  24. Incomplete result

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