Kaluga electoral district (Russian Constituent Assembly election, 1917)

Constituency of the Russian Republic

Kaluga
Former Civilian constituency for the All-Russian Constituent Assembly

Former constituency
Created	1917
Abolished	1918
Number of members	8
Number of Uyezd Electoral Commissions	11
Number of Urban Electoral Commissions	1
Number of Parishes	199
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The Kaluga electoral district (Russian: Калужский избирательный округ) was a constituency created for the 1917 Russian Constituent Assembly election. The electoral district covered the Kaluga Governorate. The constituency was assigned 8 seats in the Constituent Assembly.

In Kaluga, the SR list was dominated by leftist elements.

In Kaluga town the Kadets emerged victorious with 6,857 votes (49.2%), followed by the Bolsheviks with 3,454 votes (24.7%), Mensheviks 2,321 votes (16.7%), SRs 772 votes (5.5%), Gromada 320 votes (2.3%), Old Believers 166 voters (1.2%) and Popular Socialists 54 votes (0.4%). In the town garrison, the Bolsheviks got the major share of votes (1,619 votes, 72.5%), followed by the Kadets 298 votes (13.3%), SRs 203 votes (9.1%), Mensheviks 86 votes (3.9%), Gromada 17 votes (0.7%) and 8 Popular Socialists (0.4%).

Results

**Kaluga**
Party	Vote	%	Seats
List 7 - Bolsheviks	225,378	57.81	5
List 2 - Socialist-Revolutionaries	127,313	32.65	3
List 3 - Kadets	24,125	6.19
List 5 - Mensheviks	6,996	1.79
List 4 - Old Believers	4,409	1.13
List 6 - Belorussian Socialist Gromada	1,067	0.27
List 1 - Popular Socialists	601	0.15
Total:	389,889		8

**Deputies Elected**
Borodachov	SR
Eliseev	SR
Parol	SR
Ginzburg	Bolshevik
Glebov-Avilov	Bolshevik
Logachev	Bolshevik
Stukov	Bolshevik
Zakharov	Bolshevik

References

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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.
Б. Ф Додонов; Е. Д Гринько; О. В.. Лавинская (2004). Журналы заседаний Временного правительства: Сентябрь-октябрь 1917 года. РОССПЭН. p. 207.
^ 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.
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Лев Григорьевич Протасов (2008). Люди Учредительного собрания: портрет в интерьере эпохи. РОССПЭН. ISBN 978-5-8243-0972-0.

v t e Electoral Districts of the 1917 Russian Constituent Assembly election
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Central Industrial	Moscow Metropolis Moscow Tver Yaroslavl Kostroma Vladimir Kaluga Tula
Central Black Earth	Ryazan Oryol Kursk Voronezh Tambov Penza
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Kama-Ural	Vyatka Perm Ufa Orenburg
Ukraine	Kiev Volynia Podolia Chernigov Poltava Kharkov Yekaterinoslav Kherson
Southern-Black Sea/Southeastern	Bessarabia Taurida Don Cossack Region Stavropol
Caucasus	Kuban-Black Sea Ter-Dagestan Pricaspian Transcaucasus
Turkestan	Horde Uralsk Turgai Transcaspian Samarkand Amu Darya Syr Darya Fergana Semirechie
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Military districts	Baltic Fleet Black Sea Fleet Northern Front Western Front South-Western Front Romanian Front Caucasian Front Russian forces in France and the Balkans

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Electoral districts of the Russian Constituent Assembly election, 1917