Yekaterinoslav electoral district (Russian Constituent Assembly election, 1917)

The Yekaterinoslav electoral district (Russian: Екатеринославский избирательный округ) was a constituency created for the 1917 Russian Constituent Assembly election.

Yekaterinoslav
Former Civilian constituency
for the All-Russian Constituent Assembly
Former constituency
Created1917
Abolished1918
Number of members18
Number of Uyezd Electoral Commissions8
Number of Urban Electoral Commissions5
Number of Parishes238
Sources:[1][2]

The electoral district covered the Yekaterinoslav Governorate.[3] Yekaterinoslav was a large province; ethnically and economically diverse.[4] The Yekaterinoslav electoral district recorded the highest vote for a landowners list in the country. List 1, Landowners and Nonpartisan Progressives, gathered 26,597 votes (2.2%), and was headed by Mikhail Rodzianko (an Octobrist leader, having served as the presiding officer in the 3rd and 4th Dumas, elected on the Stolypin franchise).[5] Joseph Stalin stood as a candidate on the Bolshevik list.[6] The conservative press reported a quiet and orderly election in the province.[7]

Out of the ten deputies elected from List 5, nine belonged to the Ukrainian Socialist-Revolutionary Party and one belonged to the Ukrainian Social Democratic Labour Party.[8]

Results edit

 
Evreisky Put' ('Jewish Path') newspaper, calling for a vote for List 10
Ekaterinoslav
Party Vote % Seats
List 5 - Bloc of Ukrainian Socialist-Revolutionaries, Selyanska Spilka,
Soviet of Peasant Deputies, Ukrainian Soc.-Dem. Labour Party
556,012 46.60 10
List 3 - Socialist-Revolutionaries 231,717 19.42 4
List 9 - Bolsheviks, Bakhmut Soviet of Peasants Deputies 213,163 17.87 4
List 10 - Jewish National Electoral Committee 37,032 3.10
List 7 - Kadets 27,551 2.31
List 12 - Mensheviks 26,909 2.26
List 1 - Landowners and Nonpartisan Progressives 26,597 2.23
List 14 - Russian Citizens of German Nationality 25,977 2.18
List 4 - Popular Socialists-Cooperative alliance 9,496 0.80
List 13 - Greek Settlement of Mariupol uezd 9,143 0.77
List 6 - Orthodox-Farmers alliance 8,068 0.68
List 15 - Unity 7,363 0.62
List 2 - United Jewish Socialist Labour Party (S.S. and E.S.) 5,831 0.49
List 11 - Bund 4,883 0.41
List 8 - Poalei Zion 3,307 0.28
Total: 1,193,049 18

[9][8]

Deputies Elected
Gvozdikovsky SR
Popov SR
Rosenblum SR
Socheva SR
Bachinsky Ukrainian SR
Karpenko Ukrainian SR
Korzh Ukrainian SR
Mitsyuk Ukrainian SR
Radomsky Ukrainian SR
Romanenko Ukrainian SR
Rosin Ukrainian SR
Storubel Ukrainian SR
Stromenko Ukrainian SR
Surgae Ukrainian SR
Averin Bolshevik
Lutovinov Bolshevik
Petrovsky Bolshevik
Voroshilov Bolshevik

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In Yekaterinoslav town the Bolshevik list won the election, obtaining 20,849 votes (26.4%), followed by the Jewish National Electoral Committee 14,521 votes (18.3%), the Ukrainian socialist bloc 12,950 votes (16.4%), Kadets 9,224 votes (11.7%), SRs 6,627 votes (8.4%), Mensheviks 4,601 votes (5.8%), Landowners 3,608 votes (4.5%), the United Jewish Socialist Labour Party 1,781 votes (2.3%), Bund 1,545 votes (1.9%), Cooperative-Popular Socialists 1,007 votes (1.3%), Poalei-Zion 624 votes (0.8%), Unity 607 votes (0.8%), Germans 533 votes (0.7%), Orthodox-Farmers list 531 votes (0.7%) and Greeks 43 votes.[8] The Ukrainian list dominated the vote in the Yekaterinoslav garrison, obtaining 3,770 votes (41.9%), followed by the Bolsheviks with 1,756 votes (19.5%), SRs 1,415 votes (15.7%), Jewish National Electoral Committee 720 votes (8%), Landowners 461 votes (5.1%), Kadets 301 votes (3.3%), Mensheviks 286 votes (3.2%), Popular Socialists-Cooperative 100 votes (1.1%), Unity 59 votes (0.7%), United Jewish Socialist Labour Party 56 votes (0.7%), Germans 49 votes (0.5%) and Orthodox-Farmer list 33 votes (0.4%).[8]

Ballots edit

References edit

  1. ^ И. С. Малчевский (1930). Всероссийское учредительное собрание. Гос изд-во. pp. 140–142.
  2. ^ Б. Ф Додонов; Е. Д Гринько; О. В.. Лавинская (2004). Журналы заседаний Временного правительства: Сентябрь-октябрь 1917 года. РОССПЭН. pp. 206–208. ISBN 9785824302035.
  3. ^ Татьяна Евгеньевна Новицкая (1991). Учредительное собрание: Россия 1918 : стенограмма и другие документы. Недра. p. 13.
  4. ^ Oliver Henry Radkey (1989). Russia goes to the polls: the election to the all-Russian Constituent Assembly, 1917. Cornell University Press. p. 93. ISBN 978-0-8014-2360-4.
  5. ^ Oliver Henry Radkey (1989). Russia goes to the polls: the election to the all-Russian Constituent Assembly, 1917. Cornell University Press. p. 111. ISBN 978-0-8014-2360-4.
  6. ^ Joseph Stalin (1953). 1917, March-October. Foreign Languages Publishing House. p. 449.
  7. ^ Oliver Henry Radkey (1989). Russia goes to the polls: the election to the all-Russian Constituent Assembly, 1917. Cornell University Press. pp. 48–49. ISBN 978-0-8014-2360-4.
  8. ^ a b c d Л. М Спирин (1987). Россия 1917 год: из истории борьбы политических партий. Мысль. pp. 273–328.
  9. ^ 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.
  10. ^ Лев Григорьевич Протасов (2008). Люди Учредительного собрания: портрет в интерьере эпохи. РОССПЭН. ISBN 978-5-8243-0972-0.