Astrakhan electoral district
Constituency of the Russian Republic
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The Astrakhan electoral district (Russian: Астраханский избирательный округ) was a constituency created for the 1917 Russian Constituent Assembly election. The electoral district covered parts of the Astrakhan Governorate, excluding the areas of the Bukey Horde and the Kalmyk Steppe.[3]
| Astrakhan | |
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| Former Civilian constituency for the All-Russian Constituent Assembly | |
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| Former constituency | |
| Created | 1917 |
| Abolished | 1918 |
| Number of members | 5 |
| Number of Uyezd Electoral Commissions | 5 |
| Number of Urban Electoral Commissions | 1 |
| Number of Parishes | 49 |
| Sources: | [1][2] |
Results
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The account of U.S. historian Oliver Henry Radkey (used for the table above) is incomplete, with some votes missing.[4] In Astrakhan town, the Bolsheviks got 9,556 votes (27.5%), the Kadets 8,981 votes (25.8%), the Muslim list 6,376 votes (18.3%), the SRs 4,310 votes (12.4%), the Cossack list 3,900 votes (11.2%), the Mensheviks 1,486 votes (4.3%) and the Popular Socialists 191 votes (0.5%).[5] The Bolsheviks won 53.4% of the votes in the Astrakhan garrison.[5]