Vologda electoral district (Russian Constituent Assembly election, 1917)

The Vologda electoral district (Russian: Вологодский избирательный округ) was a constituency created for the 1917 Russian Constituent Assembly election. The electoral district covered the Vologda Governorate.[3] Out of the 10 uezds in Vologda electoral district, the account of U.S. historian Oliver Henry Radkey (see table below) has 1 uezds with a largely incomplete vote count and gaps in coverage in another 2 uezds.[4]

Vologda
Former Civilian Constituency
for the All-Russian Constituent Assembly
Former constituency
Created1917
Abolished1918
Number of members7
Number of Uyezd Electoral Commissions10
Number of Urban Electoral Commissions1
Number of Parishes263
Sources:[1][2]

In Vologda the Bolsheviks and Mensheviks had a common list.[4] Soviet sources indicated that Social Democratic list was dominated by the Bolsheviks.[5] In the Komi areas, the main competitors of the SRs were the Kadets and the Popular Socialists.[6]

Results
Vologda
Party Vote % Seats
List 1 - Socialist-Revolutionaries and Soviet of Peasants' Deputies 320,528 75.79 6
List 2 - Social Democrats (Bolsheviks/Mensheviks) 67,650 16.00 1
List 4 - Kadets 22,912 5.42
List 3 - Popular Socialists 8,071 1.91
List 5 - Unity 3,742 0.88
Total: 422,903 7

[7][8]
Deputies Elected
Galkin SR
Koryakin SR
Maslov SR
Raschesaev SR
Sorokin SR
Yuretsky SR
Vetoshkin Bolshevik

[9]

In Vologda town the Kadets got 5,973 votes (37.5%), the SRs 4,651 (29.2%), the Social Democrats 3,718 votes (23.3%), Unity 1,169 votes (7.3%) and the Popular Socialists 423 votes (2.7%). In the Vologda garrison, the SRs got 929 votes (47.4%), the Social Democrats 825 votes (42.1%), the Kadets 163 votes (8.3%), Unity 27 votes (1.4%) and the Popular Socialists 15 votes (0.8%).

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. Oliver Henry Radkey (1989). Russia goes to the polls: the election to the all-Russian Constituent Assembly, 1917. Cornell University Press. p. 163. 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. 118. ISBN 978-0-8014-2360-4.
  6. Михаил Владимирович Таскаев (2000). Небольшевистские партии и Белая армия в Коми крае, 1917-1920 гг. Российская академия наук, Уральское отделение, Коми научный центр. p. 18. ISBN 978-5-89606-060-4.
  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. Л. М Спирин (1987). Россия 1917 год: из истории борьбы политических партий. Мысль. pp. 273–328.
  9. Лев Григорьевич Протасов (2008). Люди Учредительного собрания: портрет в интерьере эпохи. РОССПЭН. ISBN 978-5-8243-0972-0.
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