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electors, eight millions of the middle class choose only 590 electors, twelve millions of working-men choose 112 electors, seventy million peasants choose 1168. It works out at one elector for every 230 of the landed gentry, for every thousand wealthy citizens, for every fifteen thousand middle-class citizens, for every sixty thousand peasants, and for every 125,000 working-men. The former Austrian system was more liberal, as it gave one elector for every 64 noblemen, 23 wealthy citizens, 3171 middle-class citizens and 11,555 peasants.

Now let us come to the highest electoral unit,—the provincial electoral assembly, where the electors for the Duma are chosen. There are about fifty of them in Russia.

Table V.

Composition of a provincial electoral assembly.

Country				City
$\scriptstyle {\overbrace {\quad \quad \quad \quad \quad \quad \quad \quad \quad } }$				$\scriptstyle {\overbrace {\quad \quad \quad \quad \quad \quad \quad \quad \quad } }$
Peasants	Small land owners	Big land owners		Rich citizens	Middle class	Working men
		$\scriptstyle {\underbrace {\quad \quad \quad \quad \quad \quad \quad \quad \quad } }$
			A majority of these elects, own represen- tatives, others of peasants and working men:
province $\mid$	province $\mid$	province $\mid$		province $\mid$	province $\mid$	province $\mid$
district $\mid$	district $\mid$	district		district	district	district $\mid$
township $\mid$	preparatory					factory
village