Tula electoral district (Russian Constituent Assembly election, 1917)

The Tula electoral district (Russian: Тульский избирательный округ) was a constituency created for the 1917 Russian Constituent Assembly election. The electoral district covered the Tula Governorate.^[3] The city of Tula was a major metallurgical industrial centre, located close to Moscow.^[4]

Tula
Former Civilian constituency for the All-Russian Constituent Assembly
Former constituency
Created	1917
Abolished	1918
Number of members	8
Number of Uyezd Electoral Commissions	12
Number of Urban Electoral Commissions	1
Number of Parishes	266
Sources:	[1][2]

The account of U.S. historian Oliver Henry Radkey, who is the source for the results table below, has a complete vote count from the city of Tula and 10 out 12 uezds are complete. The votes from Yefremov uezd and one of the volosts of Odoyev uezd are not covered in Radkey's account.^[5]

Results

Tula Party Vote % Seats List 5 - Bolsheviks 219,337 45.93 4 List 1 - Socialist-Revolutionaries 216,267 45.28 4 List 2 - Kadets 21,298 4.46 List 4 - Mensheviks 9,605 2.01 List 7 - Commercial-Industrial 6,624 1.39 List 6 - Popular Socialists 1,832 0.38 List 9 - Cooperative 1,294 0.27 List 3 - Peasants of Basavsk volost 770 0.16 List 8 - Menshevik-Internationalists 550 0.12 Total: 477,577 8 [6][7]

Deputies Elected Arvatov SR Gurevich SR Medvedev SR Nearonov SR Kaminsky Bolshevik Kaul Bolshevik Kolesnikov Bolshevik Yakovleva Bolshevik [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. Robin Bisha; Jehanne Gheith; Christine Holden (2002). Russian Women, 1698-1917: Experience and Expression, an Anthology of Sources. Indiana University Press. p. 375. ISBN 0-253-21523-4.
5. 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.
6. 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.
7. Л. М Спирин (1987). Россия 1917 год: из истории борьбы политических партий. Мысль. pp. 273–328.
8. Лев Григорьевич Протасов (2008). Люди Учредительного собрания: портрет в интерьере эпохи. РОССПЭН. ISBN 978-5-8243-0972-0.