Caucasian Front electoral district (Russian Constituent Assembly election, 1917)

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The Caucasian Front electoral district (

Caucasian Front of the Russian Army.[1] Moreover, it included the Urmia-Van Flotilla.[1]

The

Socialist-Revolutionaries dominated the soldiers soviets in the Caucasian Front. They used their dominance of the soviets to campaign for national defence and against the Bolsheviks' 'peace now' line. In several locations, the SRs excluded the Bolsheviks from local electoral committees.[2] However, whilst the Caucasian Front soldiers supported the defencists line of the SR in the election, they nevertheless 'voted with their feet' and deserted the army en masse.[2]

Results

The SRs won a landslide victory in the constituency.

Erzerum fortress, with 16,824 votes.[4] However, the Ukrainian vote in Erzerum was missing in the source material available to Radkey.[5]

Caucasian Front:
Erzerum Fortress[6]
Party Vote %
Socialist-Revolutionaries
 6,537 38.86
Bolsheviks 6,211 36.92
Armenian Revolutionary Federation 1,948 11.58
Mensheviks 1,113 6.62
Kadets 357 2.12
Georgians 51 0.30
Unaccounted 607 3.61
Total: 16,824


Deputies Elected[7]
Berezov SR
Donskoy SR
Mikhailov SR
Pyzhev SR
Tumanov SR
Badaev
 Bolshevik


References

  1. ^ a b Олег Иванович Чистяков (1994). Российское законодательство X-XX веков: Законодательство эпохи буржуазно-демократических ревоюций. Юридическая лит-ра. pp. 176–177.
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    ISBN 978-0-691-65703-5
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  3. ^ Л. М Спирин (1987). Россия 1917 год: из истории борьбы политических партий. Мысль. pp. 273–328.
  4. ISBN 978-0-8014-2360-4
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  5. ISBN 978-0-8014-2360-4
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  6. ISBN 978-0-8014-2360-4
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  7. ISBN 978-5-8243-0972-0
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