Western Front electoral district (Russian Constituent Assembly election, 1917)

The Western Front electoral district (Russian: округе Западного фронта) was a constituency created for the 1917 Russian Constituent Assembly election. The electoral district covered the Western Front of the Russian Army.[1]

Results

Western Front Party Vote % List 9 - Bolsheviks 653,430 66.95 List 12 - Socialist-Revolutionaries and the Soviet of Peasants Deputies of the Armies of the Western Front 180,582 18.50 List 1 - Ukrainian SRs and Ukrainian Social Democratic Labour Party 85,062 8.72 List 2 - Muslim Socialists 16,846 1.73 List 3 - Kadets 16,750 1.72 List 5 - Mensheviks-Bund 5,622 0.58 List 4 - Belorussian Socialist Party (Gromada) and the Congress of Belorussian Soldiers of the Western Front 4,380 0.45 List 6 - Russian Democratic Party 3,055 0.31 List 10 - Bloc of Popular Socialists, Unity and right-wing SRs (based around the Volya Naroda newspaper) 2,840 0.29 List 7 ? List 8 ? List 11 ? Unaccounted 7,433 0.76 Total: 976,000 [2][3]

Deputies Elected Bazyak Ukrainian Bloc Lebedinets Ukrainian Bloc Morgenstiern SR Nikolayev SR Zetel-Zusman SR Anuchin Bolshevik Apeter Bolshevik Fedenev Bolshevik Ksenofontov Bolshevik Kukonkov Bolshevik Lysyakov Bolshevik Miasnikian Bolshevik Rogozinsky Bolshevik Grzelszczak Bolshevik Tikhmenev Bolshevik Vasiliev Bolshevik Yakovlev Bolshevik [4]

The result for Muslim Socialists stems from a newspaper report in Russkiye Vedomosti, which had data from 472 out of 602 voting centres.[5]

References

1. Олег Иванович Чистяков (1994). Российское законодательство X-XX веков: Законодательство эпохи буржуазно-демократических ревоюций. Юридическая лит-ра. pp. 176–177.
2. 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.
3. Л. М Спирин (1987). Россия 1917 год: из истории борьбы политических партий. Мысль. pp. 273–328.
4. Лев Григорьевич Протасов (2008). Люди Учредительного собрания: портрет в интерьере эпохи. РОССПЭН. ISBN 978-5-8243-0972-0.
5. Oliver Henry Radkey (1989). Russia goes to the polls: the election to the all-Russian Constituent Assembly, 1917. Cornell University Press. p. 164. ISBN 978-0-8014-2360-4.