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Volhynia electoral district (Russian Constituent Assembly election, 1917)

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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
Sources:[1][2]

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.[3] The western parts of the governorate were under German or Austrian occupation.[4] 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.[4]

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

Results

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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

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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%).[7]

References

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  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. ^ a b 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. ^ a b Л. М Спирин (1987). Россия 1917 год: из истории борьбы политических партий. Мысль. pp. 273–328.
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