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Volhynia electoral district (Russian Constituent Assembly election, 1917)

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Constituency of the Russian Republic
Volhynia
Former Civilian constituency
for the All-Russian Constituent Assembly
Former constituency
Created1917
Abolished1918
Number of members10
Number of Uyezd Electoral Commissions7
Number of Urban Electoral Commissions1
Number of Parishes140
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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. The western parts of the governorate were under German or Austrian occupation. 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.

A total of 17 submitted lists were rejected, out of which 5 were peasants' lists.

Results

Volhynia
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;
  • List 2 - Jewish National Electoral Committee
  • List 3 - Jewish National Party
  • List 8 - Jewish Community Personalities
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%).

References

  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.
  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. pp. 161–163. 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. pp. 104–105. ISBN 978-0-8014-2360-4.
  6. 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.
  7. ^ Л. М Спирин (1987). Россия 1917 год: из истории борьбы политических партий. Мысль. pp. 273–328.
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