Kiev electoral district (Russian Constituent Assembly election, 1917) explained

Kiev
Type:Civilian
Parl Name:All-Russian Constituent Assembly
Elects Howmany:22
Blank1 Name:Number of Uyezd Electoral Commissions
Blank1 Info:12
Blank2 Name:Number of Urban Electoral Commissions
Blank2 Info:3
Blank3 Name:Number of Parishes
Blank3 Info:211
Blank4 Name:Sources:
Abolished:1918
Year:1917
Blank4 Info:[1] [2]

The Kiev electoral district (Russian: Киевский избирательный округ) was a constituency created for the 1917 Russian Constituent Assembly election. The electoral district covered the Kiev Governorate.[3]

The city of Kiev was a historical Black Hundred stronghold, and monarchists got some 3% of the votes in the district as a whole (a significant vote compared to the rest of the country).[4] In the city itself the Ukrainian Socialist Bloc got 45,315 votes (25.6%), with the monarchist right-wing list getting 36,268 votes (20.5%), Bolsheviks 29,650 (16.8%), Kadets 18,165 votes (10.3%), the Jewish National Bloc 15,080 votes (8.5%), Polish 10,765 votes (6.1%), SRs 7,415 votes (4.2%), Mensheviks 6,530 votes (3.7%), Bund 1,975 votes (1.1%), Ukrainian Socialists-Federalists and Popular Socialists 1,860 votes (1%), Jewish Socialists 1,474 votes (0.8%), Poalei-Zion 966 votes (0.6%), Unity 707 votes (0.4%), Commercial-Industrial 394 votes (0.2%), Villagers' Group 170 votes (0.1%), Military Revolutionary Union 117 votes (0.1%) and 32 votes for List no. 15. In the Kiev garrison the monarchists did not amass any major share of votes, instead the Ukrainian Socialists obtained 46.1% and Bolsheviks 37%.

Results

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Notes and References

  1. Book: И. С. Малчевский. Всероссийское учредительное собрание. 1930. Гос изд-во. 140–142.
  2. Book: Б. Ф Додонов. Е. Д Гринько. О. В.. Лавинская. Журналы заседаний Временного правительства: Сентябрь-октябрь 1917 года. 2004. РОССПЭН. 206–208. 9785824302035 .
  3. Book: Татьяна Евгеньевна Новицкая. Учредительное собрание: Россия 1918 : стенограмма и другие документы. 1991. Недра. 13.
  4. Book: Oliver Henry Radkey. Russia goes to the polls: the election to the all-Russian Constituent Assembly, 1917. registration. 1989. Cornell University Press. 978-0-8014-2360-4. xii.
  5. Book: Oliver Henry Radkey. Russia goes to the polls: the election to the all-Russian Constituent Assembly, 1917. registration. 1989. Cornell University Press. 978-0-8014-2360-4. 148–160.
  6. Book: Л. М Спирин. Россия 1917 год: из истории борьбы политических партий. 1987. Мысль. 273–328.
  7. Book: Лев Григорьевич Протасов. Люди Учредительного собрания: портрет в интерьере эпохи. 2008. РОССПЭН. 978-5-8243-0972-0.