Kaluga electoral district (Russian Constituent Assembly election, 1917)

The Kaluga electoral district (Russian: Калужский избирательный округ) was a constituency created for the 1917 Russian Constituent Assembly election. The electoral district covered the Kaluga Governorate.[3] The constituency was assigned 8 seats in the Constituent Assembly.[4]

Kaluga
Former Civilian Constituency
for the All-Russian Constituent Assembly
Former constituency
Created1917
Abolished1918
Number of members8
Number of Uyezd Electoral Commissions11
Number of Urban Electoral Commissions1
Number of Parishes199
Sources:[1][2]

In Kaluga, the SR list was dominated by leftist elements.[5]

In Kaluga town the Kadets emerged victorious with 6,857 votes (49.2%), followed by the Bolsheviks with 3,454 votes (24.7%), Mensheviks 2,321 votes (16.7%), SRs 772 votes (5.5%), Gromada 320 votes (2.3%), Old Believers 166 voters (1.2%) and Popular Socialists 54 votes (0.4%).[6] In the town garrison, the Bolsheviks got the major share of votes (1,619 votes, 72.5%), followed by the Kadets 298 votes (13.3%), SRs 203 votes (9.1%), Mensheviks 86 votes (3.9%), Gromada 17 votes (0.7%) and 8 Popular Socialists (0.4%).[6]

Results
Kaluga
Party Vote % Seats
List 7 - Bolsheviks 225,378 57.81 5
List 2 - Socialist-Revolutionaries 127,313 32.65 3
List 3 - Kadets 24,125 6.19
List 5 - Mensheviks 6,996 1.79
List 4 - Old Believers 4,409 1.13
List 6 - Belorussian Socialist Gromada 1,067 0.27
List 1 - Popular Socialists 601 0.15
Total: 389,889 8

[5][6]
Deputies Elected
Borodachov SR
Eliseev SR
Parol SR
Ginzburg Bolshevik
Glebov-Avilov Bolshevik
Logachev Bolshevik
Stukov Bolshevik
Zakharov Bolshevik

[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. Б. Ф Додонов; Е. Д Гринько; О. В.. Лавинская (2004). Журналы заседаний Временного правительства: Сентябрь-октябрь 1917 года. РОССПЭН. p. 207.
  5. 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.
  6. Л. М Спирин (1987). Россия 1917 год: из истории борьбы политических партий. Мысль. pp. 273–328.
  7. Лев Григорьевич Протасов (2008). Люди Учредительного собрания: портрет в интерьере эпохи. РОССПЭН. ISBN 978-5-8243-0972-0.
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