Volhynia electoral district (Russian Constituent Assembly election, 1917)
The Volhynia electoral district (Russian: Волынский избирательный округ) was a constituency created for the 1917 Russian Constituent Assembly election. The electoral district covered the Volhynian Governorate.[3] The western parts of the governorate were under German or Austrian occupation.[4] U.S. historian Oliver Henry Radkey, whose account forms the basis of the table below, expresses concern that the account from Volhynia (exclusively brought from a 1918 study by N. S. Sviatitski) may have been largely incomplete, possibly an effect of the proximity to the battle lines.[4]
| Volhynia | |
|---|---|
| Former Civilian constituency for the All-Russian Constituent Assembly | |
 | |
| Former constituency | |
| Created | 1917 |
| Abolished | 1918 |
| Number of members | 10 |
| Number of Uyezd Electoral Commissions | 7 |
| Number of Urban Electoral Commissions | 1 |
| Number of Parishes | 140 |
| Sources: | [1][2] |
A total of 17 submitted lists were rejected, out of which 5 were peasants' lists.[5]
Results edit
| Party | Vote | % | Seats |
|---|---|---|---|
| List 11 - Ukrainian Socialist-Revolutionaries and Council of Peasant Deputies | 569,044 | 70.76 | 9 |
| List 4 - Polish | 57,998 | 7.21 | 1 |
Jewish national lists;
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55,967 | 6.96 | |
| List 12 - Bolsheviks | 35,612 | 4.43 | |
| List 6 - Socialist-Revolutionaries | 27,575 | 3.43 | |
| List 5 - Kadets and Non-Party Farmers | 22,337 | 2.78 | |
| List 1 - Mensheviks-Bund | 16,947 | 2.11 | |
| List 13 - Rightists and coreligionists | 1,438 | 0.18 | |
| List 10 - United Jewish Socialist Labour Party (S.S. and E.S.) | ? | ||
| List 9 - Poalei Zion | ? | ||
| List 7 - Ukrainian Socialist-Federalists | ? | ||
| Unaccounted | 17,290 | 2.15 | |
| Total: | 804,208 | 10 |
In Zhitomir town the Polish lost got 3,592 votes (17.4%), the Kadet-Farmer list 3,077 votes (14.9%), the Ukrainian SRs 2,756 votes (13.4%), the Bolsheviks 2,117 votes (10.3%), the Jewish Community Personalities list 1,943 votes (9.5%), the Jewish National Electoral Committee 1,858 votes (9%), the rightist list 1,453 (7%), the Menshevik-Bund list 1,426 votes (6.9%), the SR 1,011 votes (4.9%), the United Jewish Socialist Labour Party 529 votes (2.6%), the Ukrainian Socialist-Federalists 489 votes (2.3%), the Jewish National Party 269 votes (1.3%) and Poalei Zion 104 votes (0.5%). In the Zhitomir garrison the Ukrainian SRs got 1,757 votes (35.8%), the Kadet-Farmer list 931 votes (19.1%), the SR 855 votes (17.4%), the Bolsheviks 656 votes (13.4%), the Polish list 223 votes (4.5%), the Menshevik-Bund list 221 votes (4.5%), the Ukrainian Socialist-Federalist list 113 votes (2.3%), the rightist list 73 votes (1.5%), the Jewish National Electoral Committee 23 votes (0.5%), the United Jewish Socialist Labour Party 23 votes (0.5%), the Jewish Community Personalities list 13 votes (0.2%), the Jewish National Party 12 votes (0.2%) and Poalei Zion 7 votes (0.1%).[7]
References edit
- ^ И. С. Малчевский (1930). Всероссийское учредительное собрание. Гос изд-во. pp. 140–142.
- ^ Б. Ф Додонов; Е. Д Гринько; О. В.. Лавинская (2004). Журналы заседаний Временного правительства: Сентябрь-октябрь 1917 года. РОССПЭН. pp. 206–208.
- ^ Татьяна Евгеньевна Новицкая (1991). Учредительное собрание: Россия 1918 : стенограмма и другие документы. Недра. p. 13.
- ^ a b Oliver Henry Radkey (1989). Russia goes to the polls: the election to the all-Russian Constituent Assembly, 1917. Cornell University Press. pp. 161–163. ISBN 978-0-8014-2360-4.
- ^ Oliver Henry Radkey (1989). Russia goes to the polls: the election to the all-Russian Constituent Assembly, 1917. Cornell University Press. pp. 104–105. ISBN 978-0-8014-2360-4.
- ^ Oliver Henry Radkey (1989). Russia goes to the polls: the election to the all-Russian Constituent Assembly, 1917. Cornell University Press. pp. 148–160. ISBN 978-0-8014-2360-4.
- ^ a b Л. М Спирин (1987). Россия 1917 год: из истории борьбы политических партий. Мысль. pp. 273–328.