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Olonets electoral district (Russian Constituent Assembly election, 1917)

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1917 Russian electoral constituency
Olonets
Former Civilian constituency
for the All-Russian Constituent Assembly
Former constituency
Created1917
Abolished1918
Number of members2
Number of Uyezd Electoral Commissions7
Number of Urban Electoral Commissions1
Number of Parishes17
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The Olonets electoral district (Russian: Олонецкий избирательный округ) was a constituency created for the 1917 Russian Constituent Assembly election. The electoral district covered the Olonets Governorate. Olonets had special electoral system, electing 2 deputies and with each voter having 2 votes.

Candidates

Five candidates were in the fray for the 2 seats from Olonets. Andrey Fedorovich Matveev of the Socialist-Revolutionary Party and Matvei Dmitrievich Shishkin of the Russian Social Democratic Labour Party (Mensheviks) ran on List 1 - Soviet of Peasants' Deputies. The Kadet Party had fielded Deyakonov and Melekhov on its List 2. List 3 - 'Citizens of Vazhinskaya Volost, Olonets Uezd' had a single candidate (Mirokhin), who was a member of Plekhanov's Unity faction.

Results

Olonets
Uezd Matveev
(SR) 		Shishkin
(Menshevik) 		Melekhov
(Kadet) 		Deyakonov
(Kadet) 		Mirokhin
(Unity)
Petrozavodsk town 4,515 4,498 1,829 1,600 262
Petrozavodsk uezd 21,123 21,057 3,624 3,367 517
Olonets 12,057 11,918 3,159 3,069 480
Lodeynoye Pole 15,542 15,442 2,142 2,092 191
Povenets 10,864 10,846 1,621 1,553 144
Kargopol 35,129 35,382 3,394 3,290 536
Pudozh 10,806 10,783 2,414 2,186 446
Vytegra 17,084 16,901 2,095 1,994 237
Total: 127,120
(elected) 		126,827
(elected) 		20,278 19,151 2,813

Deputies Elected
Matveev SR-Menshevik bloc
Shishkin SR-Menshevik bloc

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. 19. ISBN 978-0-8014-2360-4.
  5. Б. Ф Додонов; Е. Д Гринько; О. В.. Лавинская (2004). Журналы заседаний Временного правительства: Сентябрь-октябрь 1917 года. РОССПЭН. p. 207.
  6. ^ Олонецкие губернские ведомости. Результаты выборов в Учредительное собрание по Олонецкой губернии. №136 за 5 декабря 1917 года
  7. ^ 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.
  8. ^ Л. М Спирин (1987). Россия 1917 год: из истории борьбы политических партий. Мысль. pp. 273–328.
  9. ^ Лев Григорьевич Протасов (2008). Люди Учредительного собрания: портрет в интерьере эпохи. РОССПЭН. ISBN 978-5-8243-0972-0.
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