Kostroma | |
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Former Civilian constituency for the All-Russian Constituent Assembly | |
Former constituency | |
Created | 1917 |
Abolished | 1918 |
Number of members | 8 |
Number of Uyezd Electoral Commissions | 12 |
Number of Urban Electoral Commissions | 1 |
Number of Parishes | 264 |
Sources: | [1][2] |
The Kostroma electoral district (Russian: Костромский избирательный округ) was a constituency created for the 1917 Russian Constituent Assembly election. The electoral district covered the Kostroma Governorate.[3]
Out 15 candidate lists submitted, 5 were rejected by the electoral authorities.[4]
In Kostroma town the Bolsheviks won the election, with 12,190 votes (43.6%), followed by the Kadets with 6,265 votes (22.4%), the Orthodox list 3,457 votes (12.4%), Mensheviks 3,147 votes (11.3%) and SRs 2,885 votes (10.3%).[5] The Bolshevik vote was largely drawn from the military, in the town barrack the Bolsheviks obtained 79.6% of the vote.[5]
In Chukhloma out of 1,214 eligible voters, 787 participated - the Kadet list got 488 votes, the Bolsheviks 114 votes, the clergy 75 votes, the Mensheviks 46 votes and the SRs 41 votes.[6]
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