Country: | Soviet Union |
Flag Year: | 1936 |
Type: | parliamentary |
Previous Election: | 1946 Soviet Union legislative election |
Previous Year: | 1946 |
Next Election: | 1954 Soviet Union legislative election |
Next Year: | 1954 |
Seats For Election: | All 1,316 seats in the Supreme Soviet |
Election Date: | 12 March 1950 |
Image1: | Joseph Stalin, 1950 (cropped).jpg |
Leader1: | Joseph Stalin |
Party1: | VKP(b) |
Last Election1: | 1,085 seats |
Seats1: | 1,099 |
Seat Change1: | 14 |
Party2: | Independents |
Last Election2: | 254 seats |
Seats2: | 217 |
Seat Change2: | 37 |
Chairman of the Council of Ministers | |
Before Election: | Joseph Stalin |
Before Party: | Communist Party of the Soviet Union |
After Election: | Joseph Stalin |
After Party: | Communist Party of the Soviet Union |
Alliance1: | BKB |
Alliance2: | BKB |
Elections to the Supreme Soviet were held in the Soviet Union on 12 March 1950.[1]
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]
CPSU candidates accounted for around three quarters of the nominees, whilst many of the others were members of Komsomol.[4]