Arkhangelsk Electoral District (Russian Constituent Assembly Election, 1917)
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Arkhangelsk electoral district () was a constituency created for the 1917 Russian Constituent Assembly election. The electoral district covered the
Arkhangelsk Governorate Arkhangelsk Governorate () was an administrative-territorial unit (''guberniya'') of the Russian Empire and the Russian SFSR, which existed from 1796 until 1929. Its seat was in Arkhangelsk. The governorate was located in the north of the Russ ...
. Notably, Arkhangelsk had a different electoral system than the rest of the country, as voters voted for individual candidates rather than party lists. Five parties had fielded their candidates in the constituency; The Kadets fielded Aleksander Isupov and Viktor Bartenev, the Socialist-Revolutionaries (supported by the Peasants' Deputies Soviet) fielded Alexey Ivanov and Mikhail Kvyatkovsky, the
Bolsheviks The Bolsheviks, led by Vladimir Lenin, were a radical Faction (political), faction of the Marxist Russian Social Democratic Labour Party (RSDLP) which split with the Mensheviks at the 2nd Congress of the Russian Social Democratic Labour Party, ...
fielded Matvei Muranov and
Georgy Oppokov Georgy Ippolitovich Oppokov (; also known as Afanasi Lomov; 28 January 1888 – 2 September 1937) was a prominent Bolshevik leader, Soviet Union, Soviet politician and the first People's Commissariat for Justice, People's Commissar for Justice of ...
and the Mensheviks fielded Anatoli Zhidkov and Vladimir Bustrem. Pavel Osipov was nominated by a group of citizens from Kurlev volost in Kholmogory uezd. The election was held in the Arkhangelsk electoral district on November 27–29, 1917.


Candidates

Isupov AE.jpg, Aleksander Isupov, Kadet candidate Muranov MK.jpg, Matvei Muranov, Bolshevik candidate Georgy Lomov-Oppokov.jpg,
Georgy Oppokov Georgy Ippolitovich Oppokov (; also known as Afanasi Lomov; 28 January 1888 – 2 September 1937) was a prominent Bolshevik leader, Soviet Union, Soviet politician and the first People's Commissariat for Justice, People's Commissar for Justice of ...
, Bolshevik candidate


Results

{, , , The account of U.S. historian Oliver Henry Radkey (shown in the table above) is missing the votes from 4 uezds, representing some 25% of the electorate the Arkhangelsk electoral district. The account of Soviet historian L. M. Spirin differs somewhat from the account presented by Radkey; Spirin assigns 106,570 votes for the SRs, 36,522 votes for the Bolsheviks, includes 5,032 "unaccounted votes" but his figures for the remaining 3 parties are identical with Radkey's totals. In
Arkhangelsk Arkhangelsk (, ) is a types of inhabited localities in Russia, city and the administrative center of Arkhangelsk Oblast, Russia. It lies on both banks of the Northern Dvina near its mouth into the White Sea. The city spreads for over along the ...
town, according to Spirin, the Bolsheviks obtained 5,776 votes (29.7%), the Kadets 5,619 votes (28.9%), the SRs 5,238 votes (26.9%), the Mensheviks 2,765 votes (14.2%) and the Kurlev's Citizens Group 61 votes (0.3%).


References

{{Electoral Districts of the Russian Constituent Assembly election, 1917 Electoral districts of the Russian Constituent Assembly election, 1917 Arkhangelsk Governorate