Soviet Union legislative election, 1946

Soviet Union legislative election, 1946

10 February 1946

All of seats to the Soviet Supreme Soviet   First party   Leader Joseph Stalin Party CPSU Leader since 21 January 1924 Seats won 576 (Soviet of the Union) 509 (Soviet of Nationalities)

Elected General Secretary Joseph Stalin CPSU

Elections to the Supreme Soviet were held in the Soviet Union on 10 February 1946.^[1] According to Soviet law, 325,000 out of an eligible adult population of 101,718,000 were disenfranchised for various reasons. This election was the first in which a 1945 decree allowed members of the Red Army stationed outside the Soviet Union to vote for both chambers of the Supreme Soviet in special 100,000-member districts, a practice which would continue for decades with the Red Army presence in the Eastern bloc.

Results

Party	Soviet of the Union			Soviet of Nationalities
	Votes	%	Seats	Votes	%	Seats
Communist Party of the Soviet Union	100,621,225	99.2	576	100,603,567	99.2	509
Independents			106			148
Against	819,699	0.8	–	818,955	0.8	–
Invalid/blank votes	10,012	–	–	28,414	–	–
Total	101,450,936	100	682	101,450,936	100	657
Registered voters/turnout	101,717,686	99.7	–	101,717,686	99.7	–
Source: Nohlen & Stöver

References

1. Nohlen, D & Stöver, P (2010) Elections in Europe: A data handbook, p1642 ISBN 978-3-8329-5609-7

• The Distinctiveness of Soviet Law. Ferdinand Joseph Maria Feldbrugge, ed. Martinus Nijhoff Publishers: Dordrecht (1987): 110-112.