1938 Russian Supreme Soviet election

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1938 Russian Supreme Soviet election
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  1921 26 June 1938 (1938-06-26) 1947  

All 727 seats in the Supreme Soviet
 First partySecond party
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Leader Joseph Stalin
Party VKP(b) Independents
Alliance BKB BKB
Seats won568159

Prime Minister before election

Nikolay Bulganin
VKP(b)

Elected Prime Minister

Nikolay Bulganin
VKP(b)

Legislative elections were held in the Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic on 26 June 1938, the first after the establishment of the Soviet Union.

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Background

The constitution of the USSR was adopted on 5 December 1936, in accordance with which elections were held for new bodies at all levels from local councils and ending with the Supreme Council of the Soviet Union. [1]

Results

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PartyVotes%Seats
All-Union Communist Party (Bolsheviks) 59,542,99399.46568
Independents159
Against320,4960.54
Total59,863,489100.00727
Valid votes59,863,48999.88
Invalid/blank votes73,2260.12
Total votes59,936,715100.00
Registered voters/turnout60,368,85899.28
Source: Open Text [2]

References

  1. "Постановление ВЦИК от 16.02.1938 "Об утверждении "Положения о выборах в Верховный Совет РСФСР"". Archived from the original on 2016-08-10. Retrieved 2016-07-10.
  2. Open Text