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

The Romanian Front electoral district (Russian: избирательный округ Румынского фронта) was a constituency created for the 1917 Russian Constituent Assembly election. The electoral district covered the Romanian Front of the Russian Army.^[1] Moreover, the constituency covered the Danube Flotilla.^[1]

Unlike the Western Front, the Romanian Front was remote from events in the mother country and relatively untouched by Bolshevik agitation for immediate peace.^[2] As of the spring of 1917, the soldiers' organizations of the Romanian Front were dominated by officers, who repressed revolutionary soldier organizers.^[3]

According to U.S. historian Oliver Henry Radkey some 12,000-15,000 votes appeared to be missing from official records.^[4]

Results

Romanian Front Party Vote % List 3 - Socialist-Revolutionaries and Soviet of Peasants Deputies 666,438 59.05 List 1 - United Ukrainian Socialists 186,219 16.50 List 6 - Bolsheviks 173,804 15.40 List 4 - Mensheviks 36,115 3.20 List 2 - Muslim Socialists 23,136 2.05 List 7 - Kadets 21,443 1.90 List 5 - Popular Socialists 4,514 0.40 List 9 -Lettish Soldiers 3,386 0.30 List 8 - Moldovan SRs  ? Unaccounted 13,545 1.20 Total: 1,128,600 [5][6][7]

Deputies Elected Grischenko Ukrainian Socialist Bloc Petliura Ukrainian Socialist Bloc Pisnachevsky Ukrainian Socialist Bloc Ternichenko Ukrainian Socialist Bloc Abramov SR Alekseevsky SR Andrianov SR Bocharnikov SR Bylinkin SR Erofeev SR Ilinskiy SR Kotlin SR Krakovetsky SR Lordkipanidze SR Markov SR Shmelyov SR Krylenko Bolshevik Mostovenko Bolshevik Ryazanov Bolshevik Solers Bolshevik [8]

References

1. Олег Иванович Чистяков (1994). Российское законодательство X-XX веков: Законодательство эпохи буржуазно-демократических ревоюций. Юридическая лит-ра. pp. 176–177.
2. Pahomov; Lupinin (15 September 2008). The Russian Century: A Hundred Years of Russian Lives. University Press of America. p. 129. ISBN 978-0-7618-4175-3.
3. Christopher Reed (10 November 2005). From Tsar To Soviets. Routledge. p. 70. ISBN 978-1-135-36625-4.
4. 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.
5. 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.
6. Л. М Спирин (1987). Россия 1917 год: из истории борьбы политических партий. Мысль. pp. 273–328.
7. Всероссийское учредительное собрание. Гос изд-во. 1930. p. 116. OCLC 29435267.
8. Лев Григорьевич Протасов (2008). Люди Учредительного собрания: портрет в интерьере эпохи. РОССПЭН. ISBN 978-5-8243-0972-0.