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. The electoral district covered the

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. Odessa witnessed fierce competition for the Jewish vote, with fist-fights between

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and

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of Fareynikte was elected as a SR list candidate.

Results

According to the U.S. historian

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, whose account is the source for the results table below, the

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city results appeared complete, the Odessa uezd possibly incomplete, the Kherson uezd having results from 195 out of 223 voting centers, no indication about whether 2 other uezds results were complete or not. From the remaining 2 uezds the results were missing altogether. Per the Menshevik newspaper ''Vpered'', in Odessa city the Jewish Bloc got 27% of the vote, the Bolsheviks 25%, the Kadets 16%, the SRs 6%, the rightists 5% and the Mensheviks 4%.Результаты выборовъ въ Учр.Собр.
in ''Vpered'', November 18 (O.S.), 1917. p. 3 In

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city the Jewish Bloc got 5,522 votes, the Bolsheviks 3,899 votes, the SRs 3,533 votes, the Kadets 3,357, the Ukrainian Social-Democrats 1,728 votes, Orthodox Clergy and Laymen 2,036 votes. In Elisabetgrad the Jewish Bloc got 7,829 votes, the Kadets 3,719 votes, the Ukrainian Social Democrats 3,640 votes, the Bolsheviks 1,744 votes and the Menshevik-Bund list 1,279 votes. In Nikolaev the most voted list was that of the Bolsheviks, followed by the SRs, Jewish Bloc, Kadets and Ukrainians respectively.

References

{{Electoral Districts of the Russian Constituent Assembly election, 1917 Electoral districts of the Russian Constituent Assembly election, 1917 1910s elections in Ukraine