1984 Soviet Union legislative election

1984 Soviet Union legislative election

4 March 1984
Soviet of the Union

All 750 seats in the Soviet of the Union
Party Seats +/–
Communist Party 551 +2
Independents 199 −2
This lists parties that won seats. See the complete results below.
Soviet of Nationalities

All 750 seats in the Soviet of Nationalities
Party Seats +/–
Communist Party 521 −5
Independents 229 +5
This lists parties that won seats. See the complete results below.
Chairman of the Council of Ministers before Chairman of the Council of Ministers after
Nikolai Tikhonov
CPSU
Nikolai Tikhonov
CPSU

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.