Altai electoral district (Russian Constituent Assembly election, 1917)

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.^[3] List 1, the Old Believers of Altai, was headed by the 28-year old Samuel Fomichev.^[4]

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
Sources:	[1][2]

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 [5][6]

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 [7]

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%).^[6] 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.^[6]