Yekaterinoslav electoral district (Russian Constituent Assembly election, 1917)
# 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.

The electoral district covered the Yekaterinoslav Governorate. Yekaterinoslav was a large province; ethnically and economically diverse. 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). Joseph Stalin stood as a candidate on the Bolshevik list. The conservative press reported a quiet and orderly election in the province.

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.

## Results

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 |

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 |

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. 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%).

## Ballots

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