November 1917 - Election Results

• SRs

  • 17.5 million votes
  • 370 seats
• Bolsheviks

  • 9.8 million votes
  • 175 seats
• National Minorities

  • 8.3 million votes
  • 99 seats
• Left SRs who supported the Bolshevik seizure of power

  • 2.9 million votes
  • 40 seats
• Kadets

  • 2 million votes
  • 17 seats
• Mensheviks

  • 1.2 million votes
  • 16 seats
• Though Lenin had initially supported the idea of a Constituent Assembly, the results of the November elections were something he could not accept.

  • The Assembly met for 1 day on 5 January 1918 and was dissolved at gunpoint by the Red Guard.
  • Lenin would make "no fetish of democracy".