1946 Soviet Union legislative election

1946 Soviet Union legislative election

← 1937 10 February 1946 1950 →
All 1,339 seats in the Supreme Soviet
First party Second party   Leader Joseph Stalin Party VKP(b) Independents Alliance BKB BKB Last election 870 seats 273 seats Seats before 870 273 Seats won 1,085 254 Seat change 215 19
Chairman of the Council of Ministers before election Joseph Stalin VKP(b) Elected Chairman of the Council of Ministers Joseph Stalin VKP(b)

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.