Mogilev electoral district (Russian Constituent Assembly election, 1917)

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

Mogilev
Former Civilian Constituency
for the All-Russian Constituent Assembly
Former constituency
Created1917
Abolished1918
Number of members15
Number of Uyezd Electoral Commissions11
Number of Urban Electoral Commissions2
Number of Parishes146
Sources:[1][2]

The electoral district covered the Mogilev Governorate.[3] The SRs benefited from the fact that the leader heading the Mogilev Provincial Soviet of Peasants Deputies was largely popular in the province.[4]

According to U.S. historian Oliver Henry Radkey, whose account forms the basis of the results in the table below, the vote count in Mogilev is largely incomplete. He claims to have the data for Gomel (with the votes for all 11 lists), Mogilev (with votes for the 7 most voted lists) and Orsha (with votes for the 6 most votes lists) towns as well as 80 precincts in Gomel uezd (but in these precincts, only the vote for SR and Bolshevik lists).[5] The account of Soviet historian L. M. Spirin, shown to the right in the table and which Radkey did not consider reliable, includes a much greater number of votes accounted for the Mogilev electoral district.

In Gomel town, per Spirin's account, the Jewish National Electoral Committee obtained 6,010 votes (27.6%), Kadets 3,957 (18.2%), Menshevik-Bund 3,370 votes (15.5%), Bolsheviks 2,012 (9.3%), SRs 1,848 votes (8.5%), Polish list 1,584 votes (7.3%), United Jewish Socialist Labour Party 1,497 votes (6.9%), Poalei-Zion 761 votes (3.5%), White Russians 370 votes (1.7%), Landowners 220 votes (1%) and Folkspartei 114 votes (0.5%).[6]

Results
Mogilev
Party Vote (Radkey) % (Radkey) Vote (Spirin) % (Spirin)
List 1 - Socialist-Revolutionaries and
Soviet of Peasants Deputies		 50,684 37.55 511,998 70.62
List 11 - Bolsheviks 28,446 21.07 93,060 12.83
List 6 - Kadets 14,494 10.74 19,316 2.66
List 9 - Jewish National Electoral Committee 14,101 10.45 42,037 5.80
List 2 - Mensheviks-Bund 10,549 7.81 21,664 2.99
List 4 - Jewish Soc.-Dem. Labour Party (Poalei Zion) 7,900 5.85 2,596 0.36
List 10 - Mogilev Governorate Polish Council 4,635 3.43 15,981 2.20
List 3 - United Jewish Socialist Labour Party (S.S. and E.S.) 1,583 1.17 4,004 0.55
List 8 - White Russian Organizations 1,385 1.03 2,523 0.35
List 5 - Union of Landowners 293 0.22 10,136 1.40
List 7 - Yidishe Folkspartei and
Non-Party Democratic Committee		 [7] 1,737 0.24
Unaccounted 924 0.68
Total: 134,994 725,052

[8][6]
Deputies Elected
Buslov SR
Khrisanenkov SR
Kovarsky SR
Maleev SR
Malyshitsky SR
Rappoport SR
Shishaev SR
Tsvetaev SR
Vasilevsky SR
Voronov SR
Zakrevsky SR
Zasorin SR
Kaganovich Bolshevik
Leplevsky Bolshevik
Friedman Jewish National Committee
Mazeh Jewish National Committee

[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. p. 34. 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. 161–163. ISBN 978-0-8014-2360-4.
  6. Л. М Спирин (1987). Россия 1917 год: из истории борьбы политических партий. Мысль. pp. 273–328.
  7. The votes of the Folkspartei list might have been included in the total of the Jewish National Electoral Committee list above
  8. 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.
  9. Лев Григорьевич Протасов (2008). Люди Учредительного собрания: портрет в интерьере эпохи. РОССПЭН. ISBN 978-5-8243-0972-0.
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