Russian Constituent Assembly election, 1917

GPTKB entity

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Predicate Object
gptkbp:instanceOf gptkb:politics
gptkbp:country gptkb:Russia
gptkbp:date 1917-11-25
gptkbp:followedBy gptkb:Dissolution_of_the_Constituent_Assembly
https://www.w3.org/2000/01/rdf-schema#label Russian Constituent Assembly election, 1917
gptkbp:location gptkb:Russian_Republic
gptkbp:organizer gptkb:Provisional_Government_of_Russia
gptkbp:party gptkb:Bolshevik_Party
gptkb:Socialist_Revolutionary_Party
gptkb:Constitutional_Democratic_Party
gptkb:Menshevik_Party
gptkbp:precededBy gptkb:February_Revolution
gptkbp:purpose to elect members of the All-Russian Constituent Assembly
gptkbp:result Bolsheviks won majority in urban areas
Socialist Revolutionary Party won plurality
Constituent Assembly dissolved by Bolsheviks in January 1918
gptkbp:seatingCapacity 767
gptkbp:significance first and only free nationwide election in Russia until 1990s
gptkbp:stateElectorate all citizens over 20 years old
gptkbp:voterTurnout about 44 million
gptkbp:votingSystem proportional representation
gptkbp:bfsParent gptkb:Socialist_Revolutionary_Party_(Russia)
gptkbp:bfsLayer 7