Kamchatka electoral district (Russian Constituent Assembly election, 1917)

The Kamchatka electoral district (Russian: Камчатский избирательный округ) was a constituency created for the 1917 Russian Constituent Assembly election. The electoral district covered the Kamchatka Oblast.[3] The constituency was assigned a single seat in the Constituent Assembly.[4]

Kamchatka
Former Civilian Constituency for the All-Russian Constituent Assembly
Former constituency
Created	1917
Abolished	1918
Number of members	1
Number of Uyezd Electoral Commissions	6
Number of Urban Electoral Commissions	1
Number of Parishes	105
Sources:	[1][2]

The vote was held in the Kamchatka electoral district 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.[5]

At the time of the vote the soviets in Kamchatka were under Socialist-Revolutionary and Menshevik influence. By October 1917 Kamchatka lacked an independent Bolshevik party organization (party politics in Petropavlovsk took shape by mid-November 1917).[6]

U.S. historian Oliver Henry 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.[7] 275 people had voted in Zavoyko, 258 of them for SR, 9 for Social Democrats and 8 for others.[8]

Results

Deputies Elected

Lavrov

SR

[9]

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. Rex A. Wade (31 July 2004). Revolutionary Russia: New Approaches to the Russian Revolution of 1917. Routledge. pp. 256–257. ISBN 978-1-134-39764-8.
6. Gallyamova, Ludmila Ivanova. 1917 год на Дальнем Востоке России: региональные особенности социально-политических трансформаций
7. Oliver Henry Radkey (1989). Russia goes to the polls: the election to the all-Russian Constituent Assembly, 1917. Cornell University Press. pp. 161–163. ISBN 978-0-8014-2360-4.
8. 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.
9. Лев Григорьевич Протасов (2008). Люди Учредительного собрания: портрет в интерьере эпохи. РОССПЭН. ISBN 978-5-8243-0972-0.