Orenburg electoral district (Russian Constituent Assembly election, 1917)

The Orenburg electoral district (Russian: Оренбургский избирательный округ) was a constituency created for the 1917 Russian Constituent Assembly election.

Orenburg
Former Civilian Constituency for the All-Russian Constituent Assembly
Former constituency
Created	1917
Abolished	1918
Number of members	12
Number of Uyezd Electoral Commissions	5
Number of Urban Electoral Commissions	2
Number of Parishes	154
Sources:	[1][2]

The electoral district covered the Orenburg Governorate.[3] Initially eleven seats were allocated to the Orenburg district, but a decree from the Provisional Government issued on October 27, 1917 increased the number of seats to 12.[4]

According to U.S. historian Oliver Henry Radkey, who is the source for the results table below, his account of the Bashkir Federalist vote is underestimated, believing that the real figure would have landed at around 100,000.[5]

Results

Orenburg Party Vote % List 8 - Bolsheviks 163,425 24.14 List 2 - Orenburg Cossack Host 144,039 21.28 List 3 - Socialist-Revolutionaries 110,172 16.28 List 9 - Bashkir Federalists 51,787 7.65 List 1 - Kadets 24,757 3.66 List 5 - Muslim Association 16,652 2.46 List 4 - Mensheviks 7,544 1.11 List 6 - Cooperative 7,296 1.08 List 7 - Popular Socialists 5,681 0.84 Unaccounted 145,512 21.50 Total: 676,865 [6][7]

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 [8]

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. И. С. Малчевский (1930). Всероссийское учредительное собрание. Гос изд-во. p. 141.
5. Oliver Henry Radkey (1989). Russia goes to the polls: the election to the all-Russian Constituent Assembly, 1917. Cornell University Press. p. 123. ISBN 978-0-8014-2360-4.
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.