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1938 Russian Supreme Soviet election

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1938 Russian Supreme Soviet election

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All 727 seats to the
Supreme Soviet of the Russian SFSR
  First party Second party
 
Leader Joseph Stalin
Party VKP(b) Independent
Alliance BKB BKB
Leader since 3 April 1922
Seats won 568 159


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.

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

Party Votes % Seats
All-Union Communist Party (Bolsheviks) 59,542,993 99.46 568
Independents 159
Against 320,496 0.54
Invalid 73,226
Total 59,936,715 100 727
Registered voters/turnout 60,368,858 99.3
Source: Open Text

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.