Northern Front electoral district (Russian Constituent Assembly election, 1917)

The Northern Front electoral district (Russian: округа Северного фронта) was a constituency created for the 1917 Russian Constituent Assembly election. 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.[1] Voter turnout stood at 72.36482% per official records.[2]

Results

Northern Front Party Vote % List 5 - Bolsheviks 471,828 56.13 List 3 - Socialist-Revolutionaries and Peasants' Deputies 249,832 29.72 List 4 - Ukrainian Socialist-Revolutionaries and the Muslim National Socialist Organization 88,956 10.58 List 7 - Kadets 13,687 1.63 List 1 - Mensheviks 5,966 0.71 List 2 - Popular Socialists 5,868 0.70 List 6 - Menshevik-Internationalists (Novayazhiznists) 4,454 0.53 Total: 840,591 [3][4]

Deputies Elected 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 [5]

References

1. Олег Иванович Чистяков (1994). Российское законодательство X-XX веков: Законодательство эпохи буржуазно-демократических ревоюций. Юридическая лит-ра. pp. 176–177.
2. Oliver Henry Radkey (1989). Russia goes to the polls: the election to the all-Russian Constituent Assembly, 1917. Cornell University Press. p. 98. ISBN 978-0-8014-2360-4.
3. 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.
4. Л. М Спирин (1987). Россия 1917 год: из истории борьбы политических партий. Мысль. pp. 273–328.
5. Лев Григорьевич Протасов (2008). Люди Учредительного собрания: портрет в интерьере эпохи. РОССПЭН. ISBN 978-5-8243-0972-0.