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1984 Soviet Union legislative election

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Field	Value
country	Soviet Union
type	parliamentary
previous_election	1979 Soviet Union legislative election
previous_year	1979
next_election	1989 Soviet Union legislative election
next_year	1989
election_date	4 March 1984
module	{{Infobox legislative election
embed	yes
election_name	Soviet of the Union
seats_for_election	All 750 seats in the Soviet of the Union
noleader	yes
nopercentage	yes
party1	Communist Party	last_election1 = 549	seats1 = 551
party2	Independents	last_election2 = 201	seats2 = 199
module	{{Infobox legislative election
embed	yes
election_name	Soviet of Nationalities
seats_for_election	All 750 seats in the Soviet of Nationalities
noleader	yes
nopercentage	yes
party1	Communist Party	last_election1 = 526	seats1 = 521
party2	Independents	last_election2 = 224	seats2 = 229
title	Chairman of the Council of Ministers
before_election	Nikolai Tikhonov
before_party	Communist Party of the Soviet Union
after_election	Nikolai Tikhonov
after_party	Communist Party of the Soviet Union

Supreme Soviet elections were held in the Soviet Union on 4 March 1984. The elections were called on December 16, 1983. The elections were not free and fair, as there was no genuine competition and no meaningful choice for voters to make.

They were the last in the Soviet Union to be held before Mikhail Gorbachev's policies of perestroika and demokratizatsiya resulted in partially free elections in 1989. They were also the last direct elections to the Supreme Soviet, as in 1989 deputies were elected to the Congress of People's Deputies, who then elected the Supreme Soviet.

Electoral system

Candidates had to be nominated by the Communist Party of the Soviet Union (CPSU) or by a public organisation. However, all public organisations were controlled by the party and were subservient to a 1931 law that required them to accept party rule.

Voters could vote against the CPSU candidate, but could only do so by using polling booths, whereas votes for the party could be cast simply by submitting a blank ballot. Turnout was required to be over 50% for the election to be valid.

Candidates

CPSU candidates accounted for around three quarters of the nominees, whilst many of the others were members of Komsomol.

Results

With over 184 million Soviet citizens voting in the election, over 99% of the votes went to a deputy to the Supreme Soviet, with over 100,000 votes against Party candidates, the lowest for any election in the Soviet Union.

Soviet of the Union

Soviet of Nationalities

References

[[Dieter Nohlen]] & Philip Stöver (2010) ''Elections in Europe: A data handbook'', p1642 {{ISBN. 978-3-8329-5609-7
White, Stephen. (1985). "Non-competitive elections and national politics: The USSR Supreme Soviet elections of 1984". Electoral Studies.
Nohlen & Stöver, p1630
The CPSU itself remained the only legal one in the country.Nohlen & Stöver, p1654
Nohlen & Stöver, p1631
''Party, State, and Citizen in the Soviet Union: A Collection of Documents'', edited by [[Mervyn Matthews]], London: M.E. Sharpe, Inc., 1989, p. 5-6, 16-18.

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