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
Party	Votes	%	Seats	Votes	%	Seats
Communist Party of the Soviet Union	100,621,225	99.2	576	100,603,567	99.2	509
Independents	100,621,225	99.2	106	100,603,567	99.2	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

↑ 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.

Elections and referendums in the Soviet Union

Legislative elections	1921 1924 1925 1927 1929 1931 1935 1936 1937 1946 1950 1954 1958 1962 1966 1970 1974 1979 1984 1989

Regional elections	1938 1939 1947 1951 1955 1959 1985 1990

Referendums	1991