Russian legislative election, 1938

26 June 1938 (1938-06-26)

All 727 seats to the Supreme Soviet of the Russian SFSR

	First party	Second party

Leader	Joseph Stalin
Party	CPSU	Independent
Leader since	3 April 1922
Seats won	568	159

Elected Chairman

Andrei Zhdanov
CPSU

Legislative elections were held in the Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic on 26 June 1938, the first after the establishment of the Soviet Union.

Background

The Constitution of the USSR was adopted on 5 December 1936, in accordance with which elections were held for new bodies at all levels from local councils and ending with the Supreme Council of the Soviet Union.^[1]

Party	%	Seats
Communist Party of the Soviet Union	78	568
Independents	22	159
Total	100	727
Registered voters/turnout	99.3	–
Source: Open Text

Elections and referendums in Russia

Presidential elections	1991 1996 2000 2004 2008 2012 2018

Legislative elections	1906 1907 (Jan) 1907 (Oct) 1912 1917 1938 1947 1951 1955 1959 1963 1967 1971 1975 1980 1985 1990 1993 1995 1999 2003 2007 2011 2016

Gubernatorial elections	1991 1992 1993 1994 1995 1996 1997 1998 1999 2000 2001 2002 2003 2004 2005 2012 2013 2014 2015

Regional elections	1990 1991 1992 1993 1994 1995 1996 1997 1998 1999 2000 2001 2002 2003 2004 2005 2006 2007 2008 2009 2010 2011 2012 2013 2014 2015

Referendums	1991 1993 (Apr) 1993 (Dec)

See also: Elections and referendums in the Soviet Union

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