January 1907 election to Russian State Duma were the second election to the supreme legislative body of Russian empire.
Those were not direct elections. Members of different social groups voted for their representatives in electoral colleges, who would then vote for deputies in the Duma.
Members of urban electoral colleges were directly elected by middle class voters and by delegates of congresses of workers’ representatives
Members of governorate-level electoral colleges were elected by delegates of congresses of rural landowners and priests; of congresses of factory workers; of congresses of urban middle class voters; of county-level congresses of peasants and cossacks (whose delegates themselves were elected by local councils).
Weight of vote varied across social groups. There was one electoral college member per 2000 rural landowners; one per 4000 urban landowners; one per 30,000 peasants; one per 90,000 workers.
Foreign citizens, women, individuals younger than 25, soldiers, convicted criminals, bankrupt individuals, policemen, civil servants, Siberian hunter-gatherers were prohibited from voting.
January 1907 election was highly competitive; unlike in 1906, it was not boycotted by the SR party — a prominent socialist group.
Electoral results were characterised by weakening of Constitutional democrats and Labourites and strengthening of Social Democrats, Octobrists and Right-wingers.
On the map, each circle represents a deputy to Duma. Governorates/okrugs/oblasts are striped into colours of multiple parties if no party controls over 50% of deputies; they are coloured in a single colour if one party controlled more deputies than others combined.
First map shows results by governorates; second by urban constituencies; then there are maps for main factions and, finally, a map of administrative divisions.
Note: the information on composition of State Duma varies from source to source. This is because many independent Duma deputies could join the legislature as independents and then join factions in it. Data regarding membership of particular deputies in such factions as the Right Group, Union of October 17 or Labour is inconsistent. The key source for the map is “the map of elections to the Second State Duma” printed in Odessa in 1907.
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