Poltava electoral district (Russian Constituent Assembly election, 1917)

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

Poltava
Former Civilian Constituency for the All-Russian Constituent Assembly
Former constituency
Created	1917
Abolished	1918
Number of members	15
Number of Uyezd Electoral Commissions	15
Number of Urban Electoral Commissions	2
Number of Parishes	262
Sources:	[1][2]

The electoral district covered the Poltava Governorate.[3] Poltava was an agrarian province.[4] Voter turnout was reported at 74%.[5]

The Russian SRs (dominated by the left) ran a joint list with the Ukrainian SRs (also dominated by its leftist faction).[6] The Selianska Spilka ('Village Union'), the agrarian wing of the Ukrainian SRs, confronted the Farmers (Landowners) Party, excluding Landowners from local election commissions. The campaign against the Landowners Party occasionally took a violent shape.[4]

The lists of the Folkspartey and the Jewish National Electoral Committee formed an electoral bloc, likewise the Poalei Zion and the United Socialist Jewish Workers Party lists formed an electoral bloc. Three minor Ukrainian lists formed an electoral bloc: the Ukrainian Social Democrats and the Ukrainian Socialist-Federalists and the Ukrainian National Republican Group.[7]

Results

Poltava Party Vote % List 8 - Ukrainian Socialist-Revolutionaries and Selianska Spilka 727,247 63.28 List 17 - Socialist-Revolutionaries and Ukrainian Socialist-Revolutionaries 198,437 17.27 List 12 - Bolsheviks 64,460 5.61 List 2 - Farmer-Owners 61,115 5.32 List 15 - Ukrainian Social Democrats 22,613 1.97 List 3 - Kadets 18,105 1.58 List 6 - Jewish National Electoral Committee 13,722 1.19 List 9 - Jewish List 12,100 1.05 List 13 - Ukrainian Socialist-Federalists 9,092 0.79 List 1 - Folkspartey 6,448 0.56 List 10 - Mensheviks, Bund, Polish Unity 5,993 0.52 List 14 - Popular Socialists and Cooperativists 4,391 0.38 List 5 - List without title 1,657 0.14 List 7 - United Jewish Socialist Labour Party (S.S. and E.S.) 1,482 0.13 List 11 - Ukrainian National Republican Group 1,070 0.09 List 4 - Poalei Zion 879 0.08 List 16 - Soviet of Peasants Deputies of Smenoi Rovno Village 445 0.04 Total: 1,149,256 [8][7]

Deputies Elected Kovalyov Ukrainian SR-SR alliance Poloz Ukrainian SR-SR alliance Terletsky Ukrainian SR-SR alliance Galagan Ukrainian SR Ivchenko Ukrainian SR Kovalenko Ukrainian SR Kovalevsky Ukrainian SR Kulichenko Ukrainian SR Petrenko Ukrainian SR Polotsky Ukrainian SR Semenyaga Ukrainian SR Sten'ka Ukrainian SR Stepanenko Ukrainian SR Yanko Ukrainian SR [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. 46–47. 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. p. 98. 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. p. 32. ISBN 978-0-8014-2360-4.
7. Л. М Спирин (1987). Россия 1917 год: из истории борьбы политических партий. Мысль. pp. 273–328.
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.