The Kherson electoral district (Russian: Херсонский избирательный округ) was a constituency created for the 1917 Russian Constituent Assembly election.
| Kherson | |
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| Former Civilian constituency for the All-Russian Constituent Assembly | |
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| Former constituency | |
| Created | 1917 |
| Abolished | 1918 |
| Number of members | 18 |
| Number of Uyezd Electoral Commissions | 6 |
| Number of Urban Electoral Commissions | 4 |
| Number of Parishes | 202 |
| Sources: | [1][2] |
The electoral district covered the Kherson Governorate.[3]
Odessa witnessed fierce competition for the Jewish vote, with fist-fights between Bundists and Zionists.[4] David Lvovich of Fareynikte was elected as a SR list candidate.[5]
Results
editAccording to the U.S. historian Oliver Henry Radkey, whose account is the source for the results table below, the Odessa city results appeared complete, the Odessa uezd possibly incomplete, the Kherson uezd having results from 195 out of 223 voting centers, no indication about whether 2 other uezds results were complete or not. From the remaining 2 uezds the results were missing altogether.[6]
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Per the Menshevik newspaper Vpered, in Odessa city the Jewish Bloc got 27% of the vote, the Bolsheviks 25%, the Kadets 16%, the SRs 6%, the rightists 5% and the Mensheviks 4%.[10] In Kherson city the Jewish Bloc got 5,522 votes, the Bolsheviks 3,899 votes, the SRs 3,533 votes, the Kadets 3,357, the Ukrainian Social-Democrats 1,728 votes, Orthodox Clergy and Laymen 2,036 votes.[10] In Elisabetgrad the Jewish Bloc got 7,829 votes, the Kadets 3,719 votes, the Ukrainian Social Democrats 3,640 votes, the Bolsheviks 1,744 votes and the Menshevik-Bund list 1,279 votes.[10] In Nikolaev the most voted list was that of the Bolsheviks, followed by the SRs, Jewish Bloc, Kadets and Ukrainians respectively.[10]
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.
- ^ Zvi Y. Gitelman (8 March 2015). Jewish Nationality and Soviet Politics: The Jewish Sections of the CPSU, 1917-1930. Princeton University Press. pp. 80–81. ISBN 978-1-4008-6913-8.
- ^ Union of Russian Jews (1969). Russian Jewry, 1917-1967. T. Yoseloff. p. 42.
- ^ 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. 148–160. ISBN 978-0-8014-2360-4.
- ^ Л. М Спирин (1987). Россия 1917 год: из истории борьбы политических партий. Мысль. pp. 273–328.
- ^ Лев Григорьевич Протасов (2008). Люди Учредительного собрания: портрет в интерьере эпохи. РОССПЭН. ISBN 978-5-8243-0972-0.
- ^ a b c d Результаты выборовъ въ Учр.Собр., in Vpered, November 18 (O.S.), 1917. p. 3