Podolia electoral district (Russian Constituent Assembly election, 1917)

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

Podolia
Former Civilian Constituency for the All-Russian Constituent Assembly
Former constituency
Created	1917
Abolished	1918
Number of members	19
Number of Uyezd Electoral Commissions	12
Number of Urban Electoral Commissions	1
Number of Parishes	163
Sources:	[1][2]

The electoral district covered the Podolian Governorate.[3] Podolia was close to the frontline.[4] U.S. historian Oliver Henry Radkey, whose work is one of the sources for the results table below, cites that the Ukrainian Social Democratic Labour Party organ Robitchna Gazeta reported that elections were held in Podolia between Dec 3-7, and presented results from 9 out of 12 uezds, but that Robitchna Gazeta's party tally greater than the vote cast in the 9 uezds, possibly pointing to results included from the remaining 3 uezds.[4] The conservative Russkoe Slovo reported normal voting conditions in Podolia.[5]

Results

The ballot of List no. 2, the Jewish National Electoral Committee. The list was headed by Rabbi Yaakov Mazeh.

Podolia Party Vote % List 1 - Ukrainian SRs, Selyanska Spilka and Ukrainian Soc.-Dem. Labour Party 652,306 78.57 List 2 - Jewish National Electoral Committee 62,544 7.53 List 8 - Regional Polish List 46,500 5.60 List 15 - Bolsheviks 27,550 3.32 List 10 - Socialist-Revolutionaries,Soviet of Peasants and Soviet of Soldiers of the South-Western Front 10,170 1.22 List 5 - Bund 7,959 0.96 List 4 - Kadets 7,951 0.96 List 14 - Mensheviks 4,028 0.49 List 12 - Ukrainian Toilers List 3,810 0.46 List 3 - United Jewish Socialist Labour Party (S.S. and E.S.) 3,415 0.41 List 7 - Poalei Zion 2,164 0.26 List 9 - Popular Socialists 852 0.10 List 16 - United Polish 412 0.05 List 6 - Jewish List 322 0.04 List 13 - Ushitsky Uezd List 284 0.03 List 11 - Zionists - Total: 830,267 [6][7]

Deputies Elected Antonovych Ukrainian Bloc Blonski Ukrainian Bloc Dudich Ukrainian Bloc Dyachuk Ukrainian Bloc Gerasimenko Ukrainian Bloc Golovchuk Ukrainian Bloc Grigoriev Ukrainian Bloc Isaevich Ukrainian Bloc Litvitsky Ukrainian Bloc Liubynsky Ukrainian Bloc Machushenko Ukrainian Bloc Nikolaychuk Ukrainian Bloc Shevchenko Ukrainian Bloc Shimanovich Ukrainian Bloc Tkach Ukrainian Bloc Verkhola Ukrainian Bloc Widybida-Rudenko Ukrainian Bloc Bartoszewicz Polish List [8]

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. 7. 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. 48–49. 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. Л. М Спирин (1987). Россия 1917 год: из истории борьбы политических партий. Мысль. pp. 273–328.
8. Лев Григорьевич Протасов (2008). Люди Учредительного собрания: портрет в интерьере эпохи. РОССПЭН. ISBN 978-5-8243-0972-0.