On February 27, 1955,

elections An election is a formal group decision-making process by which a population chooses an individual or multiple individuals to hold public office. Elections have been the usual mechanism by which modern representative democracy has operate ...

were held for the

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s of the

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. According to Soviet law, 3,369,000 out of an eligible adult voting population of 123,174,000 were disenfranchised for various reasons.

References

*''The Distinctiveness of Soviet Law''. Ferdinand Joseph Maria Feldbrugge, ed. Martinus Nijhoff Publishers: Dordrecht (1987): 110. 1955 elections in the Soviet Union Regional elections in the Soviet Union February 1955 events in Europe February 1955 events in Asia {{soviet-stub

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