Talk:1906 Russian legislative election

A fact from 1906 Russian legislative election appeared on Wikipedia's Main Page in the Did you know column on 19 March 2007. The text of the entry was as follows:

Did you know... that during the 72 day session of the First State Duma in 1906, a total of 391 requests about illegal actions of the Russian government were filed, but only two laws were passed?

A record of the entry may be seen at Wikipedia:Recent additions/2007/March.

Wikipedia

Elections and Referendums

This article is within the scope of WikiProject Elections and Referendums, an ongoing effort to improve the quality of, expand upon and create new articles relating to elections, electoral reform and other aspects of democratic decision-making. For more information, visit our project page.Elections and ReferendumsWikipedia:WikiProject Elections and ReferendumsTemplate:WikiProject Elections and ReferendumsElections and Referendums articles

Russia: History Mid‑importance

	Russia portal This article is within the scope of WikiProject Russia, a WikiProject dedicated to coverage of Russia on Wikipedia. To participate: Feel free to edit the article attached to this page, join up at the project page, or contribute to the project discussion.RussiaWikipedia:WikiProject RussiaTemplate:WikiProject RussiaRussia articles
Mid	This article has been rated as Mid-importance on the project's importance scale.
	This article is supported by the history of Russia task force.

Untitled

There is: Session The State Duma (and the State Council - the upper house) convened for the first time on April 27, 1906. On May 10, Sergey Muromtsev, a Law Professor at the Saint Petersburg University, was elected President of the Duma.

I think it's the same date: Thursday the 27th of April 1906 Julian date (OS) = Thursday the 10th of May 1906 Gregorian date (NS)

Wdew (talk) 12:07, 14 September 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Lack of sources?

The election results appear to be entirely unsourced. I can't find where they got the results from. The Russian page of the article also displays different results. For example, the English article claims the Kadets won 179/478 seats, whilst the top of the Russian page claims they won 176, but scroll down to the results section and they won 161. Meanwhile, in 'Revolutionary Russia', Orlando Figes, claims (without reference) that the Kadets received 153/448 seats.

So that's 4 different results, all of which don't appear to have a direct source, so it seems impossible to tell where these figures came from or their veracity. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Emis98 (talk • contribs) 12:41, 8 November 2019 (UTC)[reply]