Poltava electoral district (Russian Constituent Assembly election, 1917)

Poltava
Former Civilian constituency
for the All-Russian Constituent Assembly
Former constituency
Created1917
Abolished1918
Number of members15
Number of Uyezd Electoral Commissions15
Number of Urban Electoral Commissions2
Number of Parishes262
Sources:[1][2]

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

The electoral district covered the Poltava Governorate.[3] Poltava was an agrarian province.[4] Voter turnout was reported at 74%.[5]

The Russian SRs (dominated by the left) ran a joint list with the Ukrainian SRs (also dominated by its leftist faction).[6] The Selianska Spilka ('Village Union'), the agrarian wing of the Ukrainian SRs, confronted the Farmers (Landowners) Party, excluding Landowners from local election commissions. The campaign against the Landowners Party occasionally took a violent shape.[4]

The lists of the Folkspartey and the Jewish National Electoral Committee formed an electoral bloc, likewise the Poalei Zion and the United Socialist Jewish Workers Party lists formed an electoral bloc. Three minor Ukrainian lists formed an electoral bloc: the Ukrainian Social Democrats and the Ukrainian Socialist-Federalists and the Ukrainian National Republican Group.[7]

In Poltava town, the Kadet list got the highest vote number (4,345 votes), followed by SRs, the Jewish list, the Ukrainian SRs and the Bolsheviks respectively.[8]

Results

Poltava
Party Vote %
List 8 - Ukrainian Socialist-Revolutionaries and Selianska Spilka 727,247 63.28
List 17 - Socialist-Revolutionaries and Ukrainian Socialist-Revolutionaries 198,437 17.27
List 12 - Bolsheviks 64,460 5.61
List 2 - Farmer-Owners 61,115 5.32
List 15 - Ukrainian Social Democrats 22,613 1.97
List 3 - Kadets 18,105 1.58
List 6 - Jewish National Electoral Committee 13,722 1.19
List 9 - Jewish List 12,100 1.05
List 13 - Ukrainian Socialist-Federalists 9,092 0.79
List 1 - Folkspartey 6,448 0.56
List 10 - Mensheviks, Bund, Polish Unity 5,993 0.52
List 14 - Popular Socialists and Cooperativists 4,391 0.38
List 5 - List without title 1,657 0.14
List 7 - United Jewish Socialist Labour Party (S.S. and E.S.) 1,482 0.13
List 11 - Ukrainian National Republican Group 1,070 0.09
List 4 - Poalei Zion 879 0.08
List 16 - Soviet of Peasants Deputies of Smenoi Rovno Village 445 0.04
Total: 1,149,256

[9][7]

Deputies Elected
Kovalyov Ukrainian SR-SR alliance
Poloz Ukrainian SR-SR alliance
Terletsky Ukrainian SR-SR alliance
Galagan Ukrainian SR
Ivchenko Ukrainian SR
Kovalenko Ukrainian SR
Kovalevsky Ukrainian SR
Kulichenko Ukrainian SR
Petrenko Ukrainian SR
Polotsky Ukrainian SR
Semenyaga Ukrainian SR
Sten'ka Ukrainian SR
Stepanenko Ukrainian SR
Yanko Ukrainian SR

[10]

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. ISBN 978-5-8243-0554-8.
  3. ^ Татьяна Евгеньевна Новицкая (1991). Учредительное собрание: Россия 1918 : стенограмма и другие документы. Недра. p. 13.
  4. ^ a b Oliver Henry Radkey (1989). Russia goes to the polls: the election to the all-Russian Constituent Assembly, 1917. Cornell University Press. pp. 46–47. 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. 98. 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. p. 32. ISBN 978-0-8014-2360-4.
  7. ^ a b Л. М Спирин (1987). Россия 1917 год: из истории борьбы политических партий. Мысль. pp. 273–328.
  8. ^ Результаты выборовъ въ Учр.Собр., in Vpered, November 18 (O.S.), 1917. p. 3
  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.