1938 Soviet Union regional elections

1938 Soviet Union regional elections

June 1938

First party Second party Third party   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 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

See also

• 1938 Russian Supreme Soviet election
• 1938 Ukrainian Supreme Soviet election

References

1. 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)
3. "История выборов в России". Archived from the original on 2016-08-02. Retrieved 2016-07-10.