November 1917 Yekaterinburg City Duma election

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]

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 and Ivan Malishev and were among the newly elected Bolshevik deputies.[4][5] On November 14, the new city duma elected veteran Bolshevik leader Sergei Chutskaev 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, 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]

List Votes % Seats
Bolsheviks 9,194 39
Socialist-Revolutionaries 4,479 19
People's Freedom Party (Kadets) 3,438 15
Home-Owners' List 589 3
Mensheviks 349 2
Muslim List 321 1
Trudoviks 243 1
General Jewish Labour Bund 263 1
Total 19,850

References
  1. 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. 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. Идеям партии верны: Свердловская областная организация КПСС, 1903-1981 : хроника. Средне-Уральское книжное изд-во. 1983. p. 70. OCLC 12871375.
  4. 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. 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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