Syr Darya electoral district (Russian Constituent Assembly election, 1917)

The Syr Darya electoral district (Russian: Сыр-Дарьинский избирательный округ) was a constituency created for the 1917 Russian Constituent Assembly election. The electoral district covered the Syr-Darya Oblast, except for the Amu Darya Division.[3]

Syr Darya
Former Civilian Constituency for the All-Russian Constituent Assembly
Former constituency
Created	1917
Abolished	1918
Number of members	9
Number of Uyezd Electoral Commissions	5
Number of Urban Electoral Commissions	1
Number of Parishes	154
Sources:	[1][2]

Seven candidate lists registered to contest the election in Syr Darya; List 1 - Second Congress of Peasant Deputies, List 2 - Muslim Congress of the Syr-Darya Province, List 3 - All-Muslim List, List 4 - Mensheviks, List 5 - Kadets, List 6 - Progressives and List 7 - Socialist-Revolutionaries. List 1 and List 7 had an electoral alliance.[4] In the autumn of 1917, a meeting of the Muslim National Committee and the Musavat Party had decided to field Alimardan Topchubashov as their candidate in Amu Darya.[5] Alash Orda did not field a separate list in Syr-Darya, but joined with other Muslim forces for the election.[6]

Voting in Syr-Darya was postponed until mid-Dec 1917, then to January 19, 1918.[7] In the end no vote ever took place.[7][8] 9 seats had been allotted to Syr Darya.[9]

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. Л. М Спирин (1987). Россия 1917 год: из истории борьбы политических партий. Мысль. pp. 273–328.
5. Jamil Hasanli (18 December 2018). Leadership and Nationalism in Azerbaijan: Ali Mardan bey Topchibashov, Founder and Creator. Taylor & Francis. p. 119. ISBN 978-0-429-78536-8.
6. Н. Н. Алеврас (1995). Россия и Восток: Россия между Европой и Азией. Национальный вопрос и политические движения. Челябинский гос. унив. p. 157.
7. Oliver Henry Radkey (1989). Russia goes to the polls: the election to the all-Russian Constituent Assembly, 1917. Cornell University Press. p. 95. ISBN 978-0-8014-2360-4.
8. Rex A. Wade (31 July 2004). Revolutionary Russia: New Approaches to the Russian Revolution of 1917. Routledge. pp. 256–257. ISBN 978-1-134-39764-8.
9. 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.