Soviet Union legislative election, 1979

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4 March 1979

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All 1500 seats to the Soviet Supreme Soviet

	First party	Second party

Leader	Leonid Brezhnev
Party	CPSU	Independent
Leader since	14 October 1964
Seats won	1075	425
Percentage	71.6%	28.4%

Elected General Secretary

Leonid Brezhnev
CPSU

Elections to the Supreme Soviet were held in the Soviet Union on 4 March 1979.

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. The CPSU itself remained the only legal one in the country.

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.

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

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