Kiev electoral district (Russian Constituent Assembly election, 1917)

Kiev
Former Civilian constituency
for the All-Russian Constituent Assembly
Former constituency
Created1917
Abolished1918
Number of members22
Number of Uyezd Electoral Commissions12
Number of Urban Electoral Commissions3
Number of Parishes211
Sources:[1][2]

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]

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%.

  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. ISBN 9785824302035.
  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.

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