November 1917 Yekaterinburg City Duma election

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An election to the city duma (municipal assembly) of Ekaterinburg was held on November 5, 1917. [1] The election was part of the series of municipal elections across Russia following the February Revolution. [2] A Ekaterinburg city duma election had been held on July 30, 1917, but in November a second election was held. [3]

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The Bolsheviks emerged as the largest party in the new city duma, with 40 out of 85 seats. [1] The share of Bolshevik votes had increased from 21% in the July election to 46%. [3] Pyotr Voykov, Pavel Bikov  [ ru ] and Ivan Malishev  [ ru ] and were among the newly elected Bolshevik deputies. [4] [5] On November 14, the new city duma elected veteran Bolshevik leader Sergei Chutskaev  [ ru ] as the new mayor. [3] [1] Voikov was elected city duma chairman. [3] Chutskaev and others among the newly elected Bolsheviks requested the assistance of the outgoing administration to help with the transition. [1]

The Socialist-Revolutionaries formed the second largest contingent in the new city duma, with 20 deputies. [1] As part of their election campaign, the SRs held a concert at the Verkh-Iset Theater in early November. [6] The election result illustrated the declining influence of the SRs in the city. [6] The Kadets, who were led by Lev Krol  [ ru ], emerged as the third largest faction in the new city duma. [2] [1]

The result was humiliating for the Mensheviks, after the election the membership of the Menshevik party decreased rapidly in the city. [6]

Result

Below an account from Kononenko (2003), with a total of 81 seats. [6] [7] However, other references outline that the city duma had 85 seats - among them 40 held by Bolsheviks, 20 SRs and 15 Kadets. [1] [8] [4]

ListVotes%Seats
Bolsheviks 9,19439
Socialist-Revolutionaries 4,47919
People's Freedom Party (Kadets)3,43815
Home-Owners' List5893
Mensheviks 3492
Muslim List3211
Trudoviks 2431
General Jewish Labour Bund 2631
Total19,850

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References

  1. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 Lara Douds; James Harris; Peter Whitewood, eds. (23 January 2020). The Fate of the Bolshevik Revolution: Illiberal Liberation, 1917-41. Bloomsbury Publishing. p. 56. ISBN   978-1-350-11791-4. OCLC   1127940376.
  2. 1 2 William G. Rosenberg (12 March 2019). Liberals in the Russian Revolution: The Constitutional Democratic Party, 1917-1921. Princeton University Press. p. 187. ISBN   978-0-691-19846-0. OCLC   1047776324.
  3. 1 2 3 4 Идеям партии верны: Свердловская областная организация КПСС, 1903-1981 : хроника. Средне-Уральское книжное изд-во. 1983. p. 70. OCLC   12871375.
  4. 1 2 Nikolaĭ Zhukovskiĭ (1986). Дипломаты нового мира. Izd-vo polit. lit-ry. p. 302. OCLC   1073633267.
  5. ↑ В. Кириллов; С. Быкова; М. Вебер; И. Дробина; А. Килин; Т. Кириллова; С. Константинов; Е. Миронова-Шушарина; А. Мосин; В. Олешко; Е. Парфенова; Н. Паэгле; А. Печерин; Р. Печуркина; С. Погорелов; А. Прищепа (10 December 2021). Книга памяти: Екатеринбург репрессированный 1917 – сер. 1980-х гг. Часть I. Научные исследования. Litres. ISBN   9785043835086.
  6. 1 2 3 4 Анатолий Кононенко (2003). Социалисты в политической жизни Урала: 1917-1918 гг. Мандр и К°. pp. 26, 75. ISBN   9785930201505. OCLC   231979910.
  7. ↑ Ural v ogne revoli︠u︡t︠s︡ii: proletarskai︠a︡ revoli︠u︡t︠s︡ii︠a︡ v Permskoĭ gubernii. Permskoe kn. izd-vo. 1967. p. 163. OCLC   215571413.
  8. ↑ Великая Октябрьская Социалистическая Революция: 12 сентября-25 октября 1917 года. Изд-во Академии наук СССР. 1957. p. 188. OCLC   1671760.
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