Talk:Transcaucasus electoral district (Russian Constituent Assembly election, 1917)

Old version of vote counts
I'm updating the vote count per Suny (2019), I think the new reference settles the vote count for all 15 lists. Leaving below the text on comparison of Radkey, Spirin, on vote count,

The numbers in the column to the left originate from Hovannisian (1967) and Vestnik Evrazii (2004) The source for Vestnik Evrazii for the results stems from the State Archive of the Russian Federation.

These two references present a more complete account than that of U.S. historian Oliver Henry Radkey. Radkey’s account lists a total of 1,887,453 votes, including 215,121 unspecified 'residue' votes. Radkey’s effort to map the votes in Transcaucasus was frustrated by the insistence of Soviet source to lump parties like Musavat and Dashnaksiun into a single bloc.

Between Hovannisian and Vestnik Evrazii, the votes for the Mensheviks, Kadets, SRs and Bolsheviks are identical. Vestnik Evrazii presents the vote for the Popular Socialist list, which is not detailed in Hovannasian. Vestnik Evrazii groups the Dashnaks, the Muslim Socialist Bloc and Hummet together (825,672 votes) and 728,206 for Bourgeois parties (presumably including Musavat). In the case of Musavat, Hummet, Ittihad and Dashnaks, the figures from Hovannisian are used. Hovannisian does not present a total of votes, so the total from Vestnik Evrazii is utilized instead.

Comparing the account from Hovannisian with that of Swietochowski (2004) the numbers for the Mensheviks, Musavat, the Muslim Socialist Bloc, SRs, Hummet and Ittihad are identical. The minor discrepancies between Hovannisian and Swietochowski are different vote for Bolshevik list (93,581 in Hovannisian and Vestnik Evrazii, 95,581 in Switeochowski), the Dashnaks got 40 votes more in Swietochowski’s account and Swietochowski lists a total of 2,455,274 (plus 2,172 compared to Vestnik Evrazii). Maḣmudov (2004) and Balaev (1998) carries the same numbers as Swietochowski.

The results in the column to the right is from the account of Soviet historian L. M. Spirin. Spirin's total is missing about half a million votes compared to the other accounts. --Soman (talk) 11:53, 2 August 2019 (UTC)