Arkhangelsk electoral district (Russian Constituent Assembly election, 1917)

Arkhangelsk electoral district (Russian: Архангельский избирательный округ) was a constituency created for the 1917 Russian Constituent Assembly election. The electoral district covered the Arkhangelsk Governorate.[3]

Arkhangelsk
Former Civilian Constituency for the All-Russian Constituent Assembly
Former constituency
Created	1917
Abolished	1918
Number of members	2
Number of Uyezd Electoral Commissions	9
Number of Urban Electoral Commissions	1
Number of Parishes	126
Sources:	[1][2]

Notably, Arkhangelsk had a different electoral system than the rest of the country, as voters voted for individual candidates rather than party lists.[4] 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.[5]

The election was held in the Arkhangelsk electoral district on November 27–29, 1917.[5]

Candidates

• 
  Aleksander Isupov, Kadet candidate
• 
  Matvei Muranov, Bolshevik candidate
• 
  Georgy Oppokov, Bolshevik candidate

Results

Arkhangelsk Party Vote % Seats List 3 - Socialist-Revolutionaries and Soviet of Peasants' Deputies 85,272 66.81 2 List 5 - Bolsheviks 21,779 17.06 List 1 - Kadets 12,086 9.47 List 2 - Mensheviks 7,335 5.75 List 3 - Citizens Group of Kurlev volost 1,160 0.91 Total: 127,632 2 [6][7]

Deputies Elected Ivanov SR Kvyatkovskiy SR [8]

The account of U.S. historian Oliver Henry Radkey (shown in the table above) is missing the votes from 4 uezds, representing some 25% of the electorate the Arkhangelsk electoral district.[4] The account of Soviet historian L. M. Spirin differs somewhat from the account presented by Radkey; Spirin assigns 106,570 votes for the SRs, 36,522 votes for the Bolsheviks, includes 5,032 "unaccounted votes" but his figures for the remaining 3 parties are identical with Radkey's totals.[7] In Arkhangelsk town, according to Spirin, the Bolsheviks obtained 5,776 votes (29.7%), the Kadets 5,619 votes (28.9%), the SRs 5,238 votes (26.9%), the Mensheviks 2,765 votes (14.2%) and the Kurlev's Citizens Group 61 votes (0.3%).[7]

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. 161. ISBN 978-0-8014-2360-4.
5. Людмила Дмитриевна Попова; Архангельский областной краеведческий музей (2006). Мезень и Мезенский край в истории Отечества и Баренцева региона: сборник статей международной научно-практической конференции, Мезень, 7-9 февраля 2006 года. ОАО ИПП "Правда Севера". p. 56.
6. 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.
7. Л. М Спирин (1987). Россия 1917 год: из истории борьбы политических партий. Мысль. pp. 273–328.
8. Лев Григорьевич Протасов (2008). Люди Учредительного собрания: портрет в интерьере эпохи. РОССПЭН. ISBN 978-5-8243-0972-0.