| Kharkov | |
| Type: | Civilian |
| Parl Name: | All-Russian Constituent Assembly |
| Elects Howmany: | 15 |
| Blank1 Name: | Number of Uyezd Electoral Commissions |
| Blank1 Info: | 11 |
| Blank2 Name: | Number of Urban Electoral Commissions |
| Blank2 Info: | 2 |
| Blank3 Name: | Number of Parishes |
| Abolished: | 1918 |
| Year: | 1917 |
| Blank3 Info: | 251 |
| Blank4 Name: | Sources: |
| Blank4 Info: | [1] [2] |
The Kharkov electoral district (Russian: Харьковский избирательный округ) was a constituency created for the 1917 Russian Constituent Assembly election. The electoral district covered the Kharkov Governorate.[3]
The official Socialist-Revolutionary Party list in Kharkov was dominated by the left-wing faction of the party, contesting jointly with the Ukrainian Socialist-Revolutionary Party. This list, List no. 5, won an overwhelming victory; a predictable development as these groups heavily dominated the soviets in the area and played the most prominent role in the campaigning ahead of the polls.[4] The list also carried an older narodniks' name of "Zemlia i volia" (see Land and Liberty (Russia)).
On July 25, 1917 the Kharkov Provincial Soviet of Peasants Deputies adopted a resolution, put forth by its executive committee, declaring that the Kharkov Soviet would not field a list of its own but ordered all local soviets to support the SR-Ukrainian SR list.[4] The right-wing pro-war SR faction had its own list, a "garrison soldiers' and peasants' list", headed by E.K. Breshko-Breshkovskaia.[4] The Kharkov Provincial Soviet Executive Committee denounced the right-wing SR list, declaring on October 13, 1917 that the Soviet would campaign against the list and that all of the candidates on the list as expelled from the Socialist-Revolutionary Party.[4]
Whilst trailing far behind the SRs across the country-side, the Bolsheviks won the election in Kharkov city.[5]
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