Chernigov electoral district (Russian Constituent Assembly election, 1917)

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

Chernigov
Former Civilian Constituency for the All-Russian Constituent Assembly
Former constituency
Created	1917
Abolished	1918
Number of members	14
Number of Uyezd Electoral Commissions	15
Number of Urban Electoral Commissions	2
Number of Parishes	181
Sources:	[1][2]

The electoral district covered the Chernigov Governorate.[3] Chernigov was an agrarian province. The Bolshevik Party was absent in most uezds and weak in others. But returning soldiers, about a quarter of the electorate, boosted the Bolshevik vote.[4]

Results

Chernigov Party Vote % Seats List 10 - Ukrainian Socialist-Revolutionaries 484,156 49.73 9 List 9 - Bolsheviks 271,174 27.85 4 List 1 - Socialist-Revolutionaries 105,565 10.84 1 List 7 - Kadets 28,864 2.96 List 4 - Jewish National Committee 28,308 2.91 List 15 - Non-Partisan Public Figures 12,050 1.24 List 14 - Landowners 11,857 1.22 List 2 - Mensheviks 10,813 1.11 List 3 - Bloc of Ukrainian Socialist-Federalists and Popular Socialists 10,089 1.04 List 5 - Old Believers 4,858 0.50 List 11 - Poalei Zion 2,808 0.29 List 8 - Toiling Peasants 1,020 0.10 List 13 - Employees of Government Agencies 1,005 0.10 List 6 - Peasants of Mglin Uezd 538 0.06 List 12 - Commercial-Industrial 525 0.05 Total: 973,630 14 [5]

Deputies Elected Breshko-Breshkovskaya SR Kostenetsky Ukrainian SR Kovalevsky Ukrainian SR Kovbasa Ukrainian SR Kuzmenko Ukrainian SR Lashkevich Ukrainian SR Odinets Ukrainian SR Sayenko Ukrainian SR Shapoval Ukrainian SR Shrag Ukrainian SR Bosch Bolshevik Motorra Bolshevik Pyatakov Bolshevik Ryndich Bolshevik [6]

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. 57–58. ISBN 978-0-8014-2360-4.
5. Л. М Спирин (1987). Россия 1917 год: из истории борьбы политических партий. Мысль. pp. 273–328.
6. Лев Григорьевич Протасов (2008). Люди Учредительного собрания: портрет в интерьере эпохи. РОССПЭН. ISBN 978-5-8243-0972-0.