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Kharkov electoral district (Russian Constituent Assembly election, 1917)

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Kharkov
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 Parishes251
Sources:[1][2]

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

The official Socialist-Revolutionary Party list in Kharkov was dominated by the left-wing faction of the party, contesting jointly with the Ukrainian Socialist-Revolutionary Party.[4] This list, List no. 5, won an overwhelming victory; a predictable development as these groups heavily dominated the soviets in the area and played the most prominent role in the campaigning ahead of the polls.[5] The list also carried an older narodniks' name of "Zemlia i volia" (see Land and Liberty (Russia)).

On July 25, 1917 the Kharkov Provincial Soviet of Peasants Deputies adopted a resolution, put forth by its executive committee, declaring that the Kharkov Soviet would not field a list of its own but ordered all local soviets to support the SR-Ukrainian SR list.[5] The right-wing pro-war SR faction had its own list, a "garrison soldiers' and peasants' list", headed by E.K. Breshko-Breshkovskaia.[4][5] The Kharkov Provincial Soviet Executive Committee denounced the right-wing SR list, declaring on October 13, 1917 that the Soviet would campaign against the list and that all of the candidates on the list as expelled from the Socialist-Revolutionary Party.[5]

Whilst trailing far behind the SRs across the country-side, the Bolsheviks won the election in Kharkov city.[4]

Results

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Kharkov
Party Vote %
List 5 -Socialist-Revolutionaries and Ukrainian SRs 795,558 72.82
List 3 - Bolsheviks 114,743 10.50
List 6 - Kadets 58,302 5.34
List 15 - SR Defencists 42,331 3.87
List 2 - Landowners 13,847 1.27
List 4 - Menshevik-Internationalists 12,192 1.12
List 11 - Popular Socialists 11,852 1.08
List 1 - [Orthodox] Parishes 10,478 0.96
List 12 - Commercial-Industrial 6,543 0.60
List 10 - Jewish National Bloc 6,366 0.58
List 9 - Menshevik Defencists 6,024 0.55
List 16 - Germans 5,221 0.48
List 7 - E. Abramov 3,776 0.35
List 14 - Unity 2,293 0.21
List 13 - Serp 917 0.08
List 8 - Poalei Zion 875 0.08
List 19 - Cooperators and Unity 590 0.05
List 18 - Peasants of Zmiyevsky Uezd 311 0.03
List 17 - Peasants of Sumy Uezd 229 0.02
Total: 1,092,448

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Deputies Elected
Muranov Bolshevik
Sergeyev Bolshevik
Alekseev SR
Dyakonov SR
Kachinsky-Oreshin SR
Karelin SR
Kravchenko SR
Mikhailichenko SR
Ovcharenko SR
Popov SR
Severov-Odoyevsky SR
Shkorbatov SR
Streltsov SR
Svyatitsky SR

[7]

References

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  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. ^ a b c Oliver Henry Radkey (1989). Russia goes to the polls: the election to the all-Russian Constituent Assembly, 1917. Cornell University Press. pp. 115, 117. ISBN 978-0-8014-2360-4.
  5. ^ a b c d Mark Robert Baker (2002). Peasants, Power and Revolution in the Village: A Social History of Kharkiv Province, 1914-1921 : a Thesis Presented. Harvard University. pp. 109–110, 115.
  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.
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