Transbaikal electoral district (Russian Constituent Assembly election, 1917)
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| Transbaikal | |
|---|---|
| Former Civilian constituency for the All-Russian Constituent Assembly | |
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| Former constituency | |
| Created | 1917 |
| Abolished | 1918 |
| Number of members | 7 |
| Number of Uyezd Electoral Commissions | 8 |
| Number of Urban Electoral Commissions | 1 |
| Number of Parishes | 141 |
| Sources: | [1][2] |
The Transbaikal electoral district (Russian: Забайкальский избирательный округ) was a constituency created for the 1917 Russian Constituent Assembly election. The electoral district covered the Transbaikal Oblast.[3] 6 out of the 15 submitted lists in Transbaikal were rejected by the electoral authorities.[4]
In Transbaikal the local Bolshevik party organization had steered away from the party centre, and cooperated with the local Mensheviks and Socialist-Revolutionaries. In May 1917 the three parties had a joint list for the local government election. As of July 1917 Bolsheviks and Mensheviks were still holding joint meetings in Chita.[5] The city was ruled by a People's Soviet, gathering SRs (both right and left-wing factions), Mensheviks and Bolsheviks.[6] Only in the immediate run-up to the October Revolution was an All-Siberian Executive Bureau of the Bolshevik Party formed and the Siberian Bolsheviks began to conform with the party line.[5]
