Saratov electoral district (Russian Constituent Assembly election, 1917)

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

Saratov
Former Civilian Constituency for the All-Russian Constituent Assembly
Former constituency
Created	1917
Abolished	1918
Number of members	15
Number of Uyezd Electoral Commissions	10
Number of Urban Electoral Commissions	2
Number of Parishes	291
Sources:	[1][2]

The electoral district covered the Saratov Governorate.[3] Saratov had been one of the early strongholds of the SRs [4] Kerensky was one of the SR candidates, but many voters scratched his name from the list (and thus made their votes invalid).[5] was politically turbulent, also during the election.[5] In Saratov Bolshevik campaigners were frequently attacked by rich farmers.[6] Whilst the SR won in the largely agrarian district, the Bolsheviks had a strong showing with strong support from soldiers and from the industrial city of Tsaritsyn.[7] Khvalynsk uezd was an Old Believer stronghold, with presence of Khlysty and Skoptsky sects.[8]

The German socialists didn't field a list in Saratov, whilst the German Central Committee contested on the Volga German List 7.[9]

In Saratov town the Bolsheviks finished in first place with 22,712 votes (37.7%), followed by the SRs with 8,698 votes (14.5%), the Kadets 11,971 votes (19.9%), the Mensheviks 4,100 votes (6.8%), Popular Socialists 2,920 votes (4.9%), the Society for Faith and Order 2,589 votes (4.3%), the Orthodox list 1,924 votes (3.2%), Landowners 1,764 votes (2.9%), Germans 1,280 votes (2.1%), the Ukrainian-Tatar SR list 1,097 votes (1.8%), Old Believers 1,003 votes (1.7%) and 116 votes (0.2%) for the Peasants of Petrovsk uezd and Mordva.[10]

In Tsaritsyn 32,984 votes were cast; 16,613 for the Bolsheviks, 4,468 for the SRs, 2,889 for the Kadets and 2,669 for the Mensheviks.[11]

Results

Saratov Party Vote % Seats List 12 - Socialist-Revolutionaries and the Soviet of Peasants Deputies 612,094 56.28 11 List 10 - Bolsheviks 261,308 24.03 4 List 3 - Union of Ukrainian Peasants, Ukrainian Refugees and the Organization of Tatar Socialist Revolutionaries 53,445 4.91 List 7 - Volga Germans 50,025 4.60 List 1 - Kadets 27,226 2.50 List 5 - Orthodox People's Party 17,414 1.60 List 2 - Mensheviks 15,152 1.39 List 4 - Russian People's Party of Christians-Old Believers 13,956 1.28 List 6 - Union of Landowners 13,804 1.27 List 8 - Popular Socialists 10,243 0.94 List 9 - Society for Faith and Order 6,600 0.61 List 11 - Peasants of Petrovsk uezd and Mordva Population 6,379 0.59 Total: 1,087,646 15 [12][10]

Deputies Elected Antonov Bolshevik Milutin Bolshevik Minin Bolshevik Vasiliev Bolshevik Bykhovsky SR Chernavin SR Chernenkov SR Kerensky SR Kotov SR Minin SR Panchurin SR Rakitnikov SR Ulyanov SR Ustinov SR Zatonsky SR [13]

References

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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. Oliver Henry Radkey (1989). Russia goes to the polls: the election to the all-Russian Constituent Assembly, 1917. Cornell University Press. p. 11. ISBN 978-0-8014-2360-4.
5. Oliver Henry Radkey (1989). Russia goes to the polls: the election to the all-Russian Constituent Assembly, 1917. Cornell University Press. p. 43. 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. p. 45. 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. 48–49. 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. 68–69. ISBN 978-0-8014-2360-4.
9. Stephan Merl (1985). Die Anfänge der Kollektivierung in der Sowjetunion: der Übergang zur staatlichen Reglementierung der Producktions- und Markbeziehungen im Dorf (1928-1930). Otto Harrassowitz Verlag. p. 50. ISBN 978-3-447-02511-9.
10. Л. М Спирин (1987). Россия 1917 год: из истории борьбы политических партий. Мысль. pp. 273–328.
11. Leonard Mikhaĭlovich Gavrilov; Institut istorii (Akademii︠a︡ nauk SSSR) (1962). Borʹba za ustanovlenie i uprochenie sovetskoĭ vlasti: khronika sobytiĭ, 26 okti︠a︡bri︠a︡ 1917 g.-10 i︠a︡nvari︠a︡ 1918 g. Izd-vo Akademii nauk SSSR. p. 251.
12. 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.
13. Лев Григорьевич Протасов (2008). Люди Учредительного собрания: портрет в интерьере эпохи. РОССПЭН. ISBN 978-5-8243-0972-0.