Pricaspian electoral district (Russian Constituent Assembly election, 1917)

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

Pricaspian
Former Civilian Constituency for the All-Russian Constituent Assembly
Former constituency
Created	1917
Abolished	1918
Number of members	1
Sources:	[1][2]

The Pricaspian electoral district, which included areas of the Kalmyk steppe of the Astrakhan Governorate, was thinly populated.[3][4] One seat in the All-Russian Constituent Assembly was assigned to the constituency.[3]

The Pricaspian Oblast Election Commission was set up on September 16, 1917 by the Central Committee for the Kalmyk People's Administration (CCKPA).[4] The Chairman was B.E. Krishtafovich, CCKPA Chairman, accompanied by members I.O. Ochirov (assistant CCKPA chair), S.B. Bayanov, E.A. Sarangov, E.S. Bakayev and with F.I. Plyunov as its secretary.[4] On September 23, 1917 the Pricaspian Oblast Election Commission set up 52 electoral precincts: 10 in Maloderbetovsky ulus 10 precincts, 10 in Manychsky ulus, 7 in Yandyko-Mochaznyi ulus, 12 in Ikitsokhuro-Kharakhusovsky 12, 9 precincts in the uluses of Bagaotsokhuro-Khoshoutovsky and Erketenevsky and 4 precincts in the Kuma aimak of the Terek oblast (which initially had not been planned to be part of the Pricaspian Electoral District).[4]

A list was submitted, signed by 137 electors, with the 33-year old lawyer Sandzhi Bayanovich Bayanov as its candidate.[4] Due to late arrival of electoral material, the vote was postponed to November 26–28, 1917.[4] The vote was reportedly held on these dates, in some places with very low turnout. Bayanov received a majority of votes.[4]

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. Oliver Henry Radkey (1989). Russia goes to the polls: the election to the all-Russian Constituent Assembly, 1917. Cornell University Press. pp. 8, 136. ISBN 978-0-8014-2360-4.
4. Konstantin Nikolaevich Maksimov (1 January 2008). Kalmykia in Russia's Past and Present National Policies and Administrative System. Central European University Press. pp. 190–191. ISBN 978-963-9776-17-3.