1936 Soviet Union legislative election

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1936 Soviet Union legislative election
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  1935 November 1936 1937  

All 2,025 seats in the All-Union Congress of Soviets
 First partySecond partyThird party
  Joseph Stalin in 1932 (4) (cropped)(2).jpg 3x4.svg Aleksandr Kosarev 1937.jpg
Leader Joseph Stalin Aleksandr Kosarev
Party VKP(b) Independents Komsomol
Seats won1,448416161
Seat changeDecrease2.svg 50Decrease2.svg 9Increase2.svg 62

Chairman of the Council of People's Commissars before election

Vyacheslav Molotov
VKP(b)

Elected Chairman of the Council of People's Commissars

Vyacheslav Molotov
VKP(b)

Legislative elections were held in Soviet Union in November 1936 to elect or delegate the 2,025 members of the eighth All-Union Congress of Soviets. [1]

Results

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PartySeats+/–
All-Union Communist Party (Bolsheviks) 1,448–50
Komsomol 161+62
Independents416–9
Total2,025+3

References

  1. Institute of Law (USSR Academy of Sciences) (1960). Congresses of Soviets of the USSR, Union and Autonomous Soviet Socialist republics: collection of documents, 1917-[1937]. State. legal publishing house lit-ry. p. 408. Archived from the original on 2023-03-09.