Elections to the Supreme Soviet were held in the

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on 10 February 1946. Dieter Nohlen & Philip Stöver (2010) ''Elections in Europe: A data handbook'', p1642 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

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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.

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References

*''The Distinctiveness of Soviet Law''. Ferdinand Joseph Maria Feldbrugge, ed. Martinus Nijhoff Publishers: Dordrecht (1987): 110-112. {{Soviet elections Legislative elections in the Soviet Union

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One-party elections Single-candidate elections

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