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1938 Soviet Union regional elections

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1938 Soviet Union regional elections
June 1938 1939 →
  First party Second party Third party
  Emblem of the Armenian SSR, with a fixed Hammer and Sickle under the star to the prior always used one.
Leader Mir Jafar Baghirov Grigory Arutinov Panteleimon Ponomarenko
Party AzKP(b) ArCP(b) KPB(b)
Leader since November 1933 23 September 1937 18 June 1938
Seats won
310 / 310
340 / 340
273 / 273
  Fourth party Fifth party Sixth party
 
Leader Lavrentiy Beria Nikolay Skvortsov Aleksey Vagov
Party CNG(b) KPKaz(b) KPK(b)
Leader since 15 January 1934 3 May 1938 1938
Seats won
237 / 237
300 / 300
284 / 284
  Seventh party Eighth party
 
Leader Nikolai Bulganin Nikita Khrushchev
Party VKP(b) CPU(b)
Leader since 3 April 1922 27 January 1938
Seats won
568 / 727
222 / 304

In June 1938, elections took place in the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (USSR) for the Supreme Soviets of its 11 constituent republics.[1] These elections were held following the adoption of the 1936 Constitution of the Soviet Union, which established a division of government branches into the Executive Council of People's Commissars of the Soviet Union and Legislative Supreme Soviet of the Soviet Union.[2] Consequently, the constitutions of the union republics were amended in 1937 to reflect this separation of powers, leading to the institutionalization of parliamentary structures. The elections were conducted for each of the Supreme Soviets of the USSR's constituent republics. According to Soviet law, approximately 5,100,000 individuals out of a total eligible adult voting population of 93,411,000 were disenfranchised due to various reasons. This marked the first instance of direct elections to these parliamentary bodies, signifying a significant shift in the political landscape of the USSR.[1][3]

Certain individuals ran and were elected simultaneously in several union republics among which were Joseph Stalin, Kliment Voroshilov and others.

1938 Soviet Union regional elections
Union Republic Election date Election name Results
AzSSR 		24 June 1938 1938 Azerbaijani Supreme Soviet election
310 / 310
ArSSR 		1938 Armenian Supreme Soviet election
340 / 340
BSSR 		1938 Byelorussian Supreme Soviet election
273 / 273
GSSR 		12 June 1938 1938 Georgian Supreme Soviet election
237 / 237
Kazakh SSR 		24 June 1938 1938 Kazakh Supreme Soviet election
300 / 300
borderless
borderless
Kirghiz SSR 		24 June 1938 1938 Kirghiz Supreme Soviet election
284 / 284
RSFSR 		26 June 1938 1938 Russian Supreme Soviet election
568 / 727
Tajik SSR 		1938 Tajik Supreme Soviet election Composition unknown
Turkmen SSR 		1938 Turkmen Supreme Soviet election Composition unknown
Uzbek SSR 		1938 Uzbek Supreme Soviet election Composition unknown
UkSSR 		26 June 1938 1938 Ukrainian Supreme Soviet election
222 / 304

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References

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  1. ^ a b The Distinctiveness of Soviet Law. Ferdinand Joseph Maria Feldbrugge, ed. Martinus Nijhoff Publishers: Dordrecht (1987): 110.
  2. ^ Максимова Ольга Дмитриевна (2014). "Разработка и всенародное обсуждение проекта Конституции СССР 1936 года" (3) (Пробелы в российском законодательстве. Юридический журнал ed.): 46–51. ISSN 2072-3164. Archived from the original on 2022-11-30. {{cite journal}}: Cite journal requires |journal= (help)CS1 maint: date and year (link)
  3. ^ "История выборов в России". Archived from the original on 2016-08-02. Retrieved 2016-07-10.
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