1990 Byelorussian Supreme Soviet election

none Byelorussian Soviet Socialist Republic 1951 1985 Belarusian Supreme Soviet election 1985 1995 Belarusian parliamentary election 1995 parliamentary 86.5% (first round) 4 March – 14 May 1990 310 of the 360 seats in the Supreme Soviet 181 Communist Party of Byelorussia 3x4.svg Yefrem Sokolov BPF 2008.06.16._Zianon_Pazniak_Fot_Mariusz_Kubik_01.JPG Zianon Pazniak Chairman of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet Nikolai Dementey Communist Party of the Soviet Union Chairman of the Supreme Soviet after election Communist Party of the Soviet Union Nikolai Dementey Parliamentary elections were held in the Byelorussian Soviet Socialist Republic in 1990 to elect the twelfth Supreme Council. A total of 1,473 candidates contested the 310 seats,https://www.google.co.uk/books/edition/The_Politics_of_Transition/O9IGbITqT_EC&pg=PA32 The Politics of Transition: Shaping a Post-Soviet Future Stephen White, Graeme J. Gill & Darrell Slider 1993 32 while a further 50 members were appointed by organizations of veterans and invalids. However, by the time of the first meeting of the Supreme Council, only 278 of the 310 elected seats were filled. Results In the first round of voting on 4 March 98 deputies were elected, with voter turnout at 86.5%. A second round on 17–18 March saw a further 131 deputies were elected. However, this was still below the quorum of 240. By-elections were subsequently held on 22 April (18 districts) and 5 May (63 districts) resulting in a further 38 deputies being elected. An additional eleven were elected in second rounds held between 10 and 14 May, taking the total number of elected deputies to 278, in addition to the 50 appointed deputies.http://nn.by/?c=ar&i=150176 What was the Belarusian parliament quarter of a century ago? The Supreme Council of XII convocation, 1990-1995 Nasha Niva 26 May 2015 3 December 2016 Further members were later elected, although thirteen seats were never filled.https://books.google.com/books?id=QPMgEAAAQBAJ Belarus: The Last European Dictatorship 2011 Andrew Wilson Yale University Press 978-0-300-26087-8 The Belarusian Popular Front (BNF) won around 25–37 seats (different figures are given as not all of the elected members were formally members of the BNF). By the start of 1991 the Communists had broken into several factions; the main Communist Party group had 170 members, with 40 in the affiliated Agrarian group, 35 in the affiliated Industrialists group and 30 in a hardline "Union" group. The BNF faction had 27 members. Bibliography Палітычная гісторыя незалежнай Беларусі / Пад рэд. Валера Булгакава. Вільня, Інстытут Беларусістыкі. — 2006. — 744 с. be References Category:12th Belarusian Supreme Council Supreme Soviet Byelorussia Category:Parliamentary elections in Belarus Byelorussia Byelorussia Byelorussia