1950 Soviet Union legislative election

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1950 Soviet Union legislative election
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All 1,316 seats in the Supreme Soviet
  First party Second party
  Stalin 1945.jpg
Leader Joseph Stalin
Party VKP(b) Independents
Leader since 21 January 1924
Last election 1085 seats 254 seats
Seats won 1099 217
Seat change Increase 14 Decrease 37
Chairman of the Council of Ministers before election

Joseph Stalin
CPSU

Elected Chairman of the Council of Ministers

Joseph Stalin
CPSU

Elections to the Supreme Soviet were held in the Soviet Union on 12 March 1950.[1]

Electoral system[]

Candidates had to be nominated by the All-Union Communist Party (Bolsheviks) (CPSU) or by a public organisation.[2] However, all public organisations were controlled by the party and were subservient to a 1931 law that required them to accept party rule.[2] The CPSU itself remained the only legal party in the country.[3]

Voters could in theory vote against the CPSU candidate, but could only do so by using polling booths, whereas votes for the party could be cast simply by submitting a blank ballot.[2] Turnout was required to be over 50% for the election to be valid.[2]

Candidates[]

CPSU candidates accounted for around three quarters of the nominees, whilst many of the others were members of Komsomol.[4]

Results[]

Party Soviet of the Union Soviet of Nationalities
Votes % Seats Votes % Seats
All-Union Communist Party (Bolsheviks) 110,788,377 99.7 580 110,782,009 99.7 519
Independents 98 119
Against 300,146 0.3 – 306,830 0.3 –
Invalid/blank votes 1,487 – – 1,619 – –
Total 111,090,010 100 678 111,090,010 100 638
Registered voters/turnout 111,116,373 100 – 111,116,373 100 –
Source: Nohlen & Stöver

References[]

  1. ^ Dieter Nohlen & Philip Stöver (2010) Elections in Europe: A data handbook, p1642 ISBN 978-3-8329-5609-7
  2. ^ a b c d Nohlen & Stöver, p1630
  3. ^ Nohlen & Stöver, p1654
  4. ^ Nohlen & Stöver, p1631
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