Country: | Soviet Union |
Flag Year: | 1936 |
Flag Image: | Flag of the USSR (1936-1955).svg |
Type: | Parliamentary |
Previous Election: | 1937 Soviet Union legislative election |
Previous Year: | 1937 |
Election Date: | 10 February 1946 |
Next Election: | 1950 Soviet Union legislative election |
Next Year: | 1950 |
Seats For Election: | All 1,339 seats in the Supreme Soviet |
Image1: | Stalin 1945.jpg |
Leader1: | Joseph Stalin |
Party1: | VKP(b) |
Alliance1: | BKB |
Last Election1: | 870 seats |
Seats Before1: | 870 |
Seats1: | 1,085 |
Seat Change1: | 215 |
Party2: | Independents |
Last Election2: | 273 seats |
Seats Before2: | 273 |
Seats2: | 254 |
Seat Change2: | 19 |
Chairman of the Council of Ministers | |
Before Election: | Joseph Stalin |
Before Party: | VKP(b) |
After Election: | Joseph Stalin |
After Party: | VKP(b) |
Alliance2: | BKB |
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.
Soviet Republic | Votes | Seats | |||||
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For | % | Against | % | Invalid | |||
Russian SFSR | 56,331,954 | 99.22 | |||||
Armenian SSR | 641,254 | 99.71 | |||||
Azerbaijan SSR | 1,415,493 | 99.72 | |||||
Byelorussian SSR | 4,011,161 | 99.37 | |||||
Estonian SSR | 719,803 | 94.59 | |||||
Georgian SSR | 1,937,780 | 99.90 | |||||
Karelo-Finnish SSR | 208,654 | 99.43 | |||||
Kazakh SSR | 3,284,296 | 99.56 | |||||
Kirghiz SSR | 773,891 | 99.54 | |||||
Latvian SSR | 1,223,310 | 98.93 | |||||
Lithuanian SSR | 1,207,200 | 95.38 | |||||
Moldavian SSR | 1,286,652 | 99.62 | |||||
Tajik SSR | 723,889 | 99.80 | |||||
Turkmen SSR | 620,207 | 99.74 | |||||
Ukrainian SSR | 20,392,737 | 99.08 | |||||
Uzbek SSR | 3,096,932 | 99.79 | |||||
Soviet Union | 100,621,225 | 99.18 | 819,699 | 0.81 | 10,012 | 682 | |
Source: Cīņa, Nr. 38 (14,02.1946) |