Election Name: | 1922 Soviet Union legislative election |
Country: | Soviet Union |
Flag Year: | 1922 |
Type: | parliamentary |
Ongoing: | no |
Next Election: | 1924 Soviet Union legislative election |
Next Year: | 1924 |
Seats For Election: | All 2,214 seats in the All-Union Congress of Soviets |
Turnout: | 22.3% |
Leader1: | Vladimir Lenin |
Colour1: | D40000 |
Party1: | RKP(b) |
Leader Since1: | 17 January 1912 |
Seats1: | 2082 |
Party2: | Independents |
Seats2: | 127 |
Leader3: | Ya'akov Zerubavel |
Party3: | Poale Zion |
Seats3: | 2 |
Leader4: | Georgiy Laskhishvili |
Party4: | Georgian Socialist-Federalist Revolutionary Party |
Seats4: | 2 |
Leader5: | Vera Figner |
Colour5: | 000000 |
Party5: | Anarchists |
Seats5: | 1 |
Chairman of the Council of People's Commissars | |
Before Election: | New Position |
Before Party: | Independent |
After Election: | Vladimir Lenin |
After Party: | RKP(b) |
Elections to the First All-Union Congress of Soviets were held on December 30, 1922 in the Soviet Union,[1] at which 2,214 deputies were elected.
The Congress of Soviets was convened following the end of the main hostilities of the Russian Civil War, when the overwhelming number of White Army forces were defeated. As a result, there was a need to unite the autonomous Bolshevik forces within a single state and government, for which it was decided to convene the All-Union Congress of Soviets, where representatives from all the Soviets of Workers' and Soldiers' Deputies could sign an agreement on the formation of the USSR.