Kherson electoral district (Russian Constituent Assembly election, 1917)

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

Kherson
Former Civilian Constituency for the All-Russian Constituent Assembly
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] According 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.[4]

Odessa witnessed fierce competition for the Jewish vote, with fist-fights between Bundists and Zionists.[5] David Lvovich of Fareynikte was elected as a SR list candidate.[6]

Results

Kherson Party Vote % List 4 - Ukrainian SRs, SRs and the United Jewish Socialist Labour Party (S.S. and E.S.) 266,771 42.98 List 10 - Jewish Bloc 86,190 13.89 List 9 - Bolsheviks 81,826 13.18 List 8 - Ukrainian Soc.-Dem. Labour Party 63,159 10.18 List 5 - Kadets 53,770 8.66 List 3 - Russian Citizens of German Nationality 27,879 4.49 List 7 - Mensheviks-Bund 14,369 2.31 List 1 - [Orthodox] Clergy and Laymen 13,038 2.10 List 11 - Popular Socialists 5,626 0.91 List 2 - Russian Popular State Union (Rightists) 4,217 0.68 List 12 - Old Believers 2,188 0.35 List 6 - Poalei Zion 1,687 0.27 Total: 620,720 [7][8]

Deputies Elected Gruzenberg Jewish National Bloc Tyomkin Jewish National Bloc Meiendorf German Asmolov SR Bontzarevich SR Eremenchuk SR Feofilaktov SR Gavrilyuk SR Glevenko SR Holubovych SR Gordievsky SR Lvovich SR Richter SR Trichevsky SR Troichuk SR Vekhtev SR Yuritsin SR Velikhov Kadet Chekhivsky Ukrainian SD Sklyar Bolshevik [9]

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. 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.
6. Union of Russian Jews (1969). Russian Jewry, 1917-1967. T. Yoseloff. p. 42.
7. 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.
8. Л. М Спирин (1987). Россия 1917 год: из истории борьбы политических партий. Мысль. pp. 273–328.
9. Лев Григорьевич Протасов (2008). Люди Учредительного собрания: портрет в интерьере эпохи. РОССПЭН. ISBN 978-5-8243-0972-0.