Altai electoral district (Russian Constituent Assembly election, 1917)

Constituency of the Russian Republic

Altai
Former Civilian constituency for the All-Russian Constituent Assembly

Former constituency
Created	1917
Abolished	1918
Number of members	13
Number of Uyezd Electoral Commissions	6
Number of Urban Electoral Commissions	1
Number of Parishes	257
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Altai electoral district (Russian: Алтайский избирательный округ) was a constituency created for the 1917 Russian Constituent Assembly election. The electoral district covered the Altai Governorate. List 1, the Old Believers of Altai, was headed by the 28-year old Samuel Fomichev.

Results

**Altai**
Party	Vote	%	Seats
List 2 - Socialist-Revolutionaries	621,377	87.03	13
List 7 - Bolsheviks- Menshevik-Internationalists	45,268	6.34
List 1 - Old Believers	17,292	2.42
List 5 - Kadets	12,108	1.70
List 6 - Russian Germans	8,048	1.13
List 3 - Popular Socialists	6,068	0.85
List 4 - Mensheviks	3,785	0.53
Total:	713,946		13

**Deputies Elected**
Devisorov	SR
Krivorotov	SR
Levin	SR
Lomshakov	SR
Lyubimov	SR
Ramazanov	SR
Rogovsky	SR
Rudnev	SR
Sotnin	SR
Shaposhnikov	SR
Shnyrev	SR
Kosorotov	SR
Shatilov	SR

In Barnaul city, the Bolsheviks obtained 3,530 votes (44.2%), followed by the SR with 2,228 votes (27.9%), 1,424 votes for the Kadets (17.8%), 396 votes for the Mensheviks (4.9%), 235 votes for the Old Believers (2.9%), 170 votes for the Popular Socialists (2.1%) and 18 votes for the Russian German list (0.2%). In the town garrison, the Bolsheviks obtained 312 votes (49.9%), the SRs 269 votes (43%), Kadets 25 votes (4%), Mensheviks 11 votes (1.9%), Popular Socialists 7 votes (1.1%) and a single vote for the Old Believer list.

References

И. С. Малчевский (1930). Всероссийское учредительное собрание. Гос изд-во. pp. 140–142.
Б. Ф Додонов; Е. Д Гринько; О. В.. Лавинская (2004). Журналы заседаний Временного правительства: Сентябрь-октябрь 1917 года. РОССПЭН. pp. 206–208.
Татьяна Евгеньевна Новицкая (1991). Учредительное собрание: Россия 1918 : стенограмма и другие документы. Недра. p. 13.
Администрация Алтайского края. Управление архивного дела (1997). Документы по истории церквей и вероисповеданий в Алтайском крае: XVII-начало XX вв. Упр. архивного дела администрации Алтайского края. p. 220.
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.
^ Л. М Спирин (1987). Россия 1917 год: из истории борьбы политических партий. Мысль. pp. 273–328.
Лев Григорьевич Протасов (2008). Люди Учредительного собрания: портрет в интерьере эпохи. РОССПЭН. ISBN 978-5-8243-0972-0.

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

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Electoral districts of the Russian Constituent Assembly election, 1917