Yekaterinoslav electoral district (Russian Constituent Assembly election, 1917)

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

Yekaterinoslav
Former Civilian constituency for the All-Russian Constituent Assembly
Former constituency
Created	1917
Abolished	1918
Number of members	18
Number of Uyezd Electoral Commissions	8
Number of Urban Electoral Commissions	5
Number of Parishes	238
Sources:	[1][2]

The electoral district covered the Yekaterinoslav Governorate.^[3] Yekaterinoslav was a large province; ethnically and economically diverse.^[4] The Yekaterinoslav electoral district recorded the highest vote for a landowners list in the country. List 1, Landowners and Nonpartisan Progressives, gathered 26,597 votes (2.2%), and was headed by Mikhail Rodzianko (an Octobrist leader, having served as the presiding officer in the 3rd and 4th Dumas, elected on the Stolypin franchise).^[5] Joseph Stalin stood as a candidate on the Bolshevik list.^[6] The conservative press reported a quiet and orderly election in the province.^[7]

Out of the ten deputies elected from List 5, nine belonged to the Ukrainian Socialist-Revolutionary Party and one belonged to the Ukrainian Social Democratic Labour Party.^[8]

Results

Evreisky Put' ('Jewish Path') newspaper, calling for a vote for List 10

Ekaterinoslav Party Vote % Seats List 5 - Bloc of Ukrainian Socialist-Revolutionaries, Selyanska Spilka, Soviet of Peasant Deputies, Ukrainian Soc.-Dem. Labour Party 556,012 46.60 10 List 3 - Socialist-Revolutionaries 231,717 19.42 4 List 9 - Bolsheviks, Bakhmut Soviet of Peasants Deputies 213,163 17.87 4 List 10 - Jewish National Electoral Committee 37,032 3.10 List 7 - Kadets 27,551 2.31 List 12 - Mensheviks 26,909 2.26 List 1 - Landowners and Nonpartisan Progressives 26,597 2.23 List 14 - Russian Citizens of German Nationality 25,977 2.18 List 4 - Popular Socialists-Cooperative alliance 9,496 0.80 List 13 - Greek Settlement of Mariupol uezd 9,143 0.77 List 6 - Orthodox-Farmers alliance 8,068 0.68 List 15 - Unity 7,363 0.62 List 2 - United Jewish Socialist Labour Party (S.S. and E.S.) 5,831 0.49 List 11 - Bund 4,883 0.41 List 8 - Poalei Zion 3,307 0.28 Total: 1,193,049 18 [9][8]

Deputies Elected Gvozdikovsky SR Popov SR Rosenblum SR Socheva SR Bachinsky Ukrainian SR Karpenko Ukrainian SR Korzh Ukrainian SR Mitsyuk Ukrainian SR Radomsky Ukrainian SR Romanenko Ukrainian SR Rosin Ukrainian SR Storubel Ukrainian SR Stromenko Ukrainian SR Surgae Ukrainian SR Averin Bolshevik Lutovinov Bolshevik Petrovsky Bolshevik Voroshilov Bolshevik [10]

In Yekaterinoslav town the Bolshevik list won the election, obtaining 20,849 votes (26.4%), followed by the Jewish National Electoral Committee 14,521 votes (18.3%), the Ukrainian socialist bloc 12,950 votes (16.4%), Kadets 9,224 votes (11.7%), SRs 6,627 votes (8.4%), Mensheviks 4,601 votes (5.8%), Landowners 3,608 votes (4.5%), the United Jewish Socialist Labour Party 1,781 votes (2.3%), Bund 1,545 votes (1.9%), Cooperative-Popular Socialists 1,007 votes (1.3%), Poalei-Zion 624 votes (0.8%), Unity 607 votes (0.8%), Germans 533 votes (0.7%), Orthodox-Farmers list 531 votes (0.7%) and Greeks 43 votes.^[8] The Ukrainian list dominated the vote in the Yekaterinoslav garrison, obtaining 3,770 votes (41.9%), followed by the Bolsheviks with 1,756 votes (19.5%), SRs 1,415 votes (15.7%), Jewish National Electoral Committee 720 votes (8%), Landowners 461 votes (5.1%), Kadets 301 votes (3.3%), Mensheviks 286 votes (3.2%), Popular Socialists-Cooperative 100 votes (1.1%), Unity 59 votes (0.7%), United Jewish Socialist Labour Party 56 votes (0.7%), Germans 49 votes (0.5%) and Orthodox-Farmer list 33 votes (0.4%).^[8]

Ballots

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  List 6 - Orthodox-Farmers
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  List 7 - Kadets
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  List 8 - Jewish Social Democratic Labour Party (Poalei Zion)
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  List 9 - Russian Social Democratic Labour Party (Bolsheviks-Internationalists) and the Bakhmut Soviet of Peasants Deputies
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  List 10 - Jewish National Electoral Committee
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  List 11 - Bund
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  List 12 - Mensheviks
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  List 13 - Greek settlement of Mariupol uezd