Terek-Dagestan electoral district (Russian Constituent Assembly election, 1917)
The Terek-Dagestan electoral district (Russian: Терско-Дагестанский избирательный округ) was a constituency created for the 1917 Russian Constituent Assembly election.
| Ter-Dagestan | |
|---|---|
| Former Civilian constituency for the All-Russian Constituent Assembly | |
 | |
| Former constituency | |
| Created | 1917 |
| Abolished | 1918 |
| Number of members | 10 |
| Number of Uyezd Electoral Commissions | 19 |
| Number of Urban Electoral Commissions | 4 |
| Number of Parishes | 494 |
| Sources: | [1][2] |
The electoral district covered the Terek Oblast (except the Karanogai precinct and the aimak of the Kalmyks) and the Dagestan Oblast.[3] Voting was delayed in Terek Oblast and Dagestan and was held between November 26 and December 5. In some areas the votes were counted but not reported, in other areas votes were left uncounted.[4] In the account of U.S. historian Oliver Henry Radkey, the source for the results table below, a complete result was only available for Vladikavkaz city. He includes sporadic results of the major parties in some towns and garrisons. Radkey's account contains no results from rural areas.[5] According to Wade, the election was not carried through to completion in Ter-Dagestan.[6]
Bolsheviks obtained 44% of the vote in Vladikavkaz. This situation could be compared to that by March 1917 the Bolshevik Party had been so weak in the city that it had been decided to form a joint Bolshevik-Menshevik Party Committee in the city.[7] The Bolshevik list had 13 candidates, out of whom 4 were cadres from Vladikavkaz (Buachidze, Mamiia Orakhelashvili, Mamsurov and Mishurov).[8] However, Sergei Kirov, who had been the vice chairman of the joint Bolshevik-Menshevik committee, was not included among the Bolshevik candidates.[8][9]
Results
edit| Party | Vote | % |
|---|---|---|
| List 7 - Bolsheviks | 21,495 | 55.95 |
| List 5 - Kadets | 7,725 | 20.11 |
| List 8 - Socialist-Revolutionaries | 4,292 | 11.17 |
| List 1 - Cossack | 3,062 | 7.97 |
| List 4 - Mensheviks | 958 | 2.49 |
| List 9 - Chechen-Ingush Peoples | 332 | 0.86 |
| List 10 - Ukrainians | 209 | 0.54 |
| List 2 - Popular Socialists | 53 | 0.14 |
| List 3 - Muslim National Committee | ? | |
| List 6 - Kabardian and Balkarian people and the Russian population of the Nalchik district |
? | |
| List 11 - Dagestan Socialist Group | ? | |
| Unaccounted | 291 | 0.76 |
| Total: | 38,417 |
References
edit- ^ И. С. Малчевский (1930). Всероссийское учредительное собрание. Гос изд-во. pp. 140–142.
- ^ Б. Ф Додонов; Е. Д Гринько; О. В.. Лавинская (2004). Журналы заседаний Временного правительства: Сентябрь-октябрь 1917 года. РОССПЭН. pp. 206–208.
- ^ Татьяна Евгеньевна Новицкая (1991). Учредительное собрание: Россия 1918 : стенограмма и другие документы. Недра. p. 13.
- ^ 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.
- ^ 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.
- ^ 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.
- ^ Alex Marshall (13 September 2010). The Caucasus Under Soviet Rule. Routledge. p. 105. ISBN 978-1-136-93824-5.
- ^ a b Richard Douglas King (December 1987). Sergei Kirov and the struggle for Soviet power in the Terek Region, 1917-1918. Garland. p. 150. ISBN 978-0-8240-8056-3.
- ^ Georges Haupt; Jean-Jacques Marie (17 February 2017). Makers of the Russian Revolution: Biographies. Taylor & Francis. p. 135. ISBN 978-1-315-40020-4.
- ^ 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.
- ^ Л. М Спирин (1987). Россия 1917 год: из истории борьбы политических партий. Мысль. pp. 273–328.