Moscow Metropolis electoral district (Russian Constituent Assembly election, 1917)

The Moscow Metropolis electoral district (Russian: Московский столичный избирательный округ) was a constituency created for the 1917 Russian Constituent Assembly election. The electoral district covered the city of Moscow.^[1] Voter turnout in the city was estimated at between 65.4% and 69.7%.^[2]

Moscow Metropolis electoral district

Advert for List 1

Leaflet of the Moscow Muslim National Council, calling for a vote for List 2

Advert for List 4

Advert for List 6

Advert for List 8

Advert of the Moscow Zionist Organization, calling for a vote for List 8

Advert for List 11

Adverts for List 12

Advert for List 12

The Menshevik list was headed by Pavel Axelrod.^[3] The Democratic Socialist Bloc list was headed by Georgi Plekhanov.^[4]

Results

Moscow City Party Vote % Seats % List 5 - Bolsheviks 366,148 47.88 6 54.55 List 1 - Kadets 263,859 34.50 4 36.36 List 3 - Socialist-Revolutionaries 62,260 8.14 1 9.09 List 8 - Democratic Socialist Bloc (incl. Cooperative, Unity) 35,305 4.62 0 0.00 List 4 - Mensheviks 19,690 2.57 0 0.00 List 9 - Labour Non-Party Group (Rightists, ex-Octobrists) 4,085 0.53 0 0.00 List 7 - Popular Socialists 2,508 0.33 0 0.00 List 2 - National-Socialist Bloc (Ukrainian Socialist Bloc and Nationalist Bloc) 2,346 0.31 0 0.00 List 12 - Commercial-Industrial Group 2,300 0.30 0 0.00 List 11 - All-Russian Peasants Union 2,279 0.30 0 0.00 List 6 - Commonwealth of Nations (mainly Germans) 2,076 0.27 0 0.00 List 10 - United Internationalists 1,907 0.25 0 0.00 Total: 764,763 11 [5][6]

Deputies Elected Astrov Kadet Kokoshkin Kadet Maklakov Kadet Novgorodtsev Kadet Minor SR Bukharin Bolshevik Ignatov Bolshevik Meshcheryakov Bolshevik Skvortsov-Stepanov Bolshevik Smidovich Bolshevik Yaroslavsky Bolshevik [7]