Draft:1931 Soviet Union legislative election

  • Comment: If a single sentence is all that's worth saying about an election, the election seems insignificant. Do historians say that these small-percentage changes affected the Congress, and if so, then how? Hoary (talk) 06:41, 14 November 2023 (UTC)

1931 Soviet Union legislative election

← 1929 February 1931 1935 →

All 1,576 seats in the All-Union Congress of Soviets
  First party Second party Third party
 
Leader Vyacheslav Molotov Aleksandr Kosarev (politician)
Party VKP(b) Independents VLKSM
Leader since 19 December 1930[2] 24 March 1929[1]
Seats won 1151 390 35
Seat change Decrease11 Decrease67 Increase32

Chairman of the Council of People's Commissars before election

Vyacheslav Molotov
VKP(b)

Elected Chairman of the Council of People's Commissars

Vyacheslav Molotov
VKP(b)

Elections to the Sixth All-Union Congress of Soviets were held in February 1931, at which 1,576 deputies were elected or delegated.[3]

Progress of elections edit

The elections were held in all of the SSRs.

Election result edit

Deputies of the Sixth All-Union Congress of Soviets

Composition of the Sixth All-Union Congress of Soviets
Party Votes % Seats Change
VKP(b) N/A 73.03 1151  -11, 2.87%
Non-party N/A 24.74 390  -67, −2.85 %
VLKSM N/A 2.23 35  32, −0.02%
Other parties N/A 0.00 0   no changes
Overall result N/A 100 1576  -46

References edit

  1. ^ "Kosarev, Aleksandr Vasilevich". TheFreeDictionary.com. Retrieved 2021-03-07.
  2. ^ Phillips 2000, p. 89.
  3. ^ Institute of Law (USSR Academy of Sciences) (1960). Congresses of Soviets of the USSR, Union and Autonomous Soviet Socialist republics: collection of documents, 1917-[1937]. State. legal publishing house lit-ry. p. 408. Archived from the original on 2023-03-09.

Works cited edit


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