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Bessarabia electoral district (Russian Constituent Assembly election, 1917)

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Created1917
Abolished1918
Number of members13
Number of Uyezd Electoral Commissions8
Bessarabia
Former Civilian constituency
for the All-Russian Constituent Assembly
Former constituency
Created1917
Abolished1918
Number of members13
Number of Uyezd Electoral Commissions8
Number of Urban Electoral Commissions2
Number of Parishes225
Sources:[1][2]

The Bessarabia electoral district (Russian: Бессарабский избирательный округ) was a constituency created for the 1917 Russian Constituent Assembly election.

The electoral district covered the Bessarabia Governorate.[3] Oliver Radkey's account is substantially incomplete.[4] According to Radkey, only the results from Chișinău and 3 out of 8 uezds could be gathered by scholars.[5] The 5 uezds left out of the count were more populous.[6] Two other sets have been published: one by Moldovan historian Gheorghe Cojocaru, providing a detailed account of the civilian votes, covering almost two thirds of the ones cast in Bessarabia, and a reportedly complete set provided by Soviet author G. Ustinov.[7] 17 lists were in the fray in Bessarabia. The demographics of the district were divided between Romanians (48%), Ukrainians (20%) and Russians (8%). Among the elected deputies, SR deputies were Jewish or Russian, while the peasant soviet deputies, who were in favor of Bessarabia's autonomy, were Romanian.[5][8]

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