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Saratov
Former Civilian constituency for the All-Russian Constituent Assembly
Former constituency
Created	1917
Abolished	1918
Number of members	15
Number of Uyezd Electoral Commissions	10
Number of Urban Electoral Commissions	2
Number of Parishes	291
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The Saratov electoral district (Russian: Саратовский избирательный округ) was a constituency created for the 1917 Russian Constituent Assembly election.

The electoral district covered the Saratov Governorate. Saratov had been one of the early strongholds of the SRs Kerensky was one of the SR candidates, but many voters scratched his name from the list (and thus made their votes invalid). was politically turbulent, also during the election. In Saratov Bolshevik campaigners were frequently attacked by rich farmers. Whilst the SR won in the largely agrarian district, the Bolsheviks had a strong showing with strong support from soldiers and from the industrial city of Tsaritsyn. Khvalynsk uezd was an Old Believer stronghold, with presence of Khlysty and Skoptsky sects.

The German socialists didn't field a list in Saratov, whilst the German Central Committee contested on the Volga German List 7.

In Saratov town the Bolsheviks finished in first place with 22,712 votes (37.7%), followed by the SRs with 8,698 votes (14.5%), the Kadets 11,971 votes (19.9%), the Mensheviks 4,100 votes (6.8%), Popular Socialists 2,920 votes (4.9%), the Society for Faith and Order 2,589 votes (4.3%), the Orthodox list 1,924 votes (3.2%), Landowners 1,764 votes (2.9%), Germans 1,280 votes (2.1%), the Ukrainian-Tatar SR list 1,097 votes (1.8%), Old Believers 1,003 votes (1.7%) and 116 votes (0.2%) for the Peasants of Petrovsk uezd and Mordva.

In Tsaritsyn 32,984 votes were cast; 16,613 for the Bolsheviks, 4,468 for the SRs, 2,889 for the Kadets and 2,669 for the Mensheviks.

Results

References

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v t e Electoral Districts of the 1917 Russian Constituent Assembly election
Northern/Northwestern	Arkhangelsk Olonets Vologda Petrograd Metropolis Petrograd Pskov Novgorod
Baltic/White Russian	Estonia Livonia Vitebsk Minsk Mogilev Smolensk
Central Industrial	Moscow Metropolis Moscow Tver Yaroslavl Kostroma Vladimir Kaluga Tula
Central Black Earth	Ryazan Oryol Kursk Voronezh Tambov Penza
Volga	Nizhni Novgorod Simbirsk Kazan Samara Saratov Astrakhan
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
Siberia	Tobolsk Steppes Tomsk Altai Yenisei Irkutsk Transbaikal Priamur Chinese Eastern Railroad Yakutsk Kamchatka
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

• Electoral districts of the Russian Constituent Assembly election, 1917