Tobolsk electoral district (Russian Constituent Assembly election, 1917)

The Tobolsk electoral district (Russian: Тобольский избирательный округ) was a constituency created for the 1917 Russian Constituent Assembly election.

Tobolsk
Former Civilian constituency for the All-Russian Constituent Assembly
Former constituency
Created	1917
Abolished	1918
Number of members	10
Number of Uyezd Electoral Commissions	10
Number of Urban Electoral Commissions	1
Number of Parishes	270
Sources:	[1][2]

The electoral district covered the Tobolsk Governorate.^[3] Tobolsk hosted one of only 2 undivided Social Democratic lists in the fray across the country.^[4] Soviet sources indicated that the Social Democratic list was Menshevik-dominated.^[5] In September 1917, the Bolshevik Party in Omsk sent a small soldiers and railway workers to campaign amongst the peasantry in Tobolsk Governorate ahead of the elections.^[6]

Soviet sources reported voter turnout at a mere 33.5%.^[7]

Results

Tobolsk Party Vote % List 5 - Socialist-Revolutionaries (Southern Group) 388,328 78.53 List 3 - Peasants Union-Popular Socialists alliance 50,780 10.27 List 4 - Muslims 25,830 5.22 List 1 - Kadets 13,793 2.79 List 2 - Menshevik-Bolshevik alliance 12,061 2.44 List 6 - Socialist-Revolutionaries (Northern Group), leftists 3,733 0.75 Total: 494,525 [8][9]

Deputies Elected Sukhanov, A. S. Peasants Union- Popular Socialists alliance Barantsev SR Evdokimov SR Gul'tyaev SR Ivanitsky-Vasilenko SR Kotelnikov SR Krasnousov SR Mikhailov SR Mukhin SR Sukhanov, P. S. SR [10]

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. xi. 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. Революционное движение в Сибири и на Дальнем Востоке. Сб. статей. Вып. VII. Томск, 1974. p. 121
7. Oliver Henry Radkey (1989). Russia goes to the polls: the election to the all-Russian Constituent Assembly, 1917. Cornell University Press. p. 98. ISBN 978-0-8014-2360-4.
8. 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.
9. Л. М Спирин (1987). Россия 1917 год: из истории борьбы политических партий. Мысль. pp. 273–328.
10. Лев Григорьевич Протасов (2008). Люди Учредительного собрания: портрет в интерьере эпохи. РОССПЭН. ISBN 978-5-8243-0972-0.