Ryazan electoral district (Russian Constituent Assembly election, 1917)

The Ryazan electoral district (Russian: Рязанский избирательный округ) was a constituency created for the 1917 Russian Constituent Assembly election. The electoral district covered the Ryazan Governorate.[3] Ryazan Governorate was a rural province, marked by history of serfdom and the struggles following the Emancipation reform of 1861. Socialist-Revolutionaries and Bolsheviks battled for hegemony over the peasantry and the distribution of lands.[4]

Ryazan
Former Civilian Constituency for the All-Russian Constituent Assembly
Former constituency
Created	1917
Abolished	1918
Number of members	10
Number of Uyezd Electoral Commissions	12
Number of Urban Electoral Commissions	1
Number of Parishes	251
Sources:	[1][2]

There were 1,190,190 eligible voters in the constituency.[5] The account of U.S. historian Oliver Henry Radkey, who is the source for the vote tally in the results table below, is missing the votes from Egoriev uezd (1 out of 12 uezds in the electoral district).[6]

In Ryazan town the main party were the Constitutional Democrats, who mustered 6,430 votes (43.2%). The Bolsheviks obtained 3,841 votes (25.8%), the SRs 2,279 votes (15.3%), the Landowner-Old Believer list 1,121 votes (7.5%), Popular Socialists 612 votes (4.1%), Mensheviks 584 votes (3.9%) and the Group of Non-Party Voters 36 votes (0.2%). In the Ryazan garrison the Bolsheviks obtained 73.5% of the vote (2,929 votes).[5]

Results

Ryazan Party Vote % Seats List 3 - Socialist-Revolutionaries and Soviet of Peasants Deputies 397,229 57.14 6 List 5 - Bolsheviks 251,815 36.22 4 List 1 - Kadets 27,808 4.00 List 4 - Popular Socialists 5,216 0.75 List 2 - Mensheviks 4,389 0.63 List 7 - Bloc of Landowners and Old Believers 1,041 0.15 List 6 - Group of Non-Party Voters ? ? Unaccounted 7,732 1.11 Total: 695,230 10 [7][5]

Deputies Elected Barinov SR Gendelman SR Govorov SR Pavlov SR Sorokin SR Sukharev SR Gorshkov Bolshevik Osinsky Bolshevik Sereda Bolshevik Voronkov Bolshevik [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. Tracy McDonald (2011). Face to the Village: The Riazan Countryside Under Soviet Rule, 1921-1930. University of Toronto Press. p. 40. ISBN 978-1-4426-4082-5.
5. Л. М Спирин (1987). Россия 1917 год: из истории борьбы политических партий. Мысль. pp. 273–328.
6. 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.
7. 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.
8. Лев Григорьевич Протасов (2008). Люди Учредительного собрания: портрет в интерьере эпохи. РОССПЭН. ISBN 978-5-8243-0972-0.