Kiev electoral district (Russian Constituent Assembly election, 1917)

The Kiev electoral district (Russian: Киевский избирательный округ) was a constituency created for the 1917 Russian Constituent Assembly election. The electoral district covered the Kiev Governorate.[3]

Kiev
Former Civilian Constituency for the All-Russian Constituent Assembly
Former constituency
Created	1917
Abolished	1918
Number of members	22
Number of Uyezd Electoral Commissions	12
Number of Urban Electoral Commissions	3
Number of Parishes	211
Sources:	[1][2]

The city of Kiev was a historical Black Hundred stronghold, and monarchists got some 3% of the votes in the district as a whole (a significant vote compared to the rest of the country).[4] In the city itself the Ukrainian Socialist Bloc got 45,315 votes (25.6%), with the monarchist right-wing list getting 36,268 votes (20.5%), Bolsheviks 29,650 (16.8%), Kadets 18,165 votes (10.3%), the Jewish National Bloc 15,080 votes (8.5%), Polish 10,765 votes (6.1%), SRs 7,415 votes (4.2%), Mensheviks 6,530 votes (3.7%), Bund 1,975 votes (1.1%), Ukrainian Socialists-Federalists and Popular Socialists 1,860 votes (1%), Jewish Socialists 1,474 votes (0.8%), Poalei-Zion 966 votes (0.6%), Unity 707 votes (0.4%), Commercial-Industrial 394 votes (0.2%), Villagers' Group 170 votes (0.1%), Military Revolutionary Union 117 votes (0.1%) and 32 votes for List no. 15. In the Kiev garrison the monarchists did not amass any major share of votes, instead the Ukrainian Socialists obtained 46.1% and Bolsheviks 37%.

Results

An election poster of the General Jewish Labour Bund hung in Kiev. Heading: "Where we live, there is our country!" Inside frame: "Vote List 9, Bund". Bottom: "A democratic republic! Full national and political rights for Jews!"

Kiev Party Vote % List 1 - Ukrainian Socialist Bloc 1,161,033 77.26 List 2 - Jewish National Bloc 90,829 6.04 List 12 - Bolsheviks 60,693 4.04 List 8 - Russian Rightists 48,758 3.24 List 11 - Polish 42,943 2.86 List 6 - Kadets 21,667 1.44 List 9 - Bund 20,144 1.34 List 14 - Socialist-Revolutionaries 19,220 1.28 List 3 - Jewish Socialists 14,115 0.94 List 5 - Mensheviks 11,613 0.77 List 4 - Poalei Zion 4,086 0.27 List 13 - Ukrainian Socialists-Federalists and Popular Socialists 3,072 0.20 List 16 - Commercial-Industrial 2,508 0.17 List 17 - Unity 928 0.06 List 10 - Villagers' Group 655 0.04 List 7 - Military Revolutionary Union 258 0.02 List 15 - Zaustsinsky 203 0.01 Total: 1,502,725 [5][6]

Deputies Elected Chechel Ukrainian Bloc Darchuk Ukrainian Bloc Donchenko Ukrainian Bloc Dragomiretsky Ukrainian Bloc Hrushevsky Ukrainian Bloc Ilchenko Ukrainian Bloc Khimerik Ukrainian Bloc Khomutovsky Ukrainian Bloc Kotik Ukrainian Bloc Mandryka Ukrainian Bloc Porsh Ukrainian Bloc Prisyazhnyuk Ukrainian Bloc Pyrkovka Ukrainian Bloc Rohmanyuk Ukrainian Bloc Sevryuk Ukrainian Bloc Shvets Ukrainian Bloc Stasyuk Ukrainian Bloc Tkachenko Ukrainian Bloc Vynnychenko Ukrainian Bloc Fyalek Bolshevik Syrkin Jewish National Bloc [7]

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. p. xii. 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. 148–160. ISBN 978-0-8014-2360-4.
6. Л. М Спирин (1987). Россия 1917 год: из истории борьбы политических партий. Мысль. pp. 273–328.
7. Лев Григорьевич Протасов (2008). Люди Учредительного собрания: портрет в интерьере эпохи. РОССПЭН. ISBN 978-5-8243-0972-0.