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1940 Estonian parliamentary election

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the figures from the election were re-examined. Voter turnout was found to have been 80.1%, and the proportion of total votes for the Working People's Union was revised down to 91.6%. The distortions in the official figures were caused by officials artificially reducing the number of registered
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to remove opposition candidates from the ballot. Opposition candidates were required to present a manifesto within a few hours, which most of them did. However, almost all were subsequently removed by a mixture of threats, violence and invalidations. Only one opposition candidate remained; Jüri
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voters and counting invalid votes as valid ones, as well as assigning votes received by Rajur-Liivak to the Working People's Union. Additional evidence was uncovered that the Election Committee had forged 35,119 votes.
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of the three countries. As was the case in Latvia and Lithuania, the elections in Estonia were blatantly rigged. They were also unconstitutional, since only seats for the lower chamber of the
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established the Estonian Working People's Union to run in the elections, whilst despite having only three days to organise, the opposition put forward 78 candidates in 66 of the 80
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told readers that "it would be extremely unwise to shirk elections... Only people's enemies stay at home on election day."
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Elections of the lower chamber of the parliament and establishing the Soviet order in Estonia in 1940
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List of members of the Supreme Soviet of the Estonian Soviet Socialist Republic, 1940–1947
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Formation of the Supreme Soviet of the ESSR: Elections and the principles of assembling
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the following day. The request was approved by the Soviet government on 6 August.
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Rajur-Liivak, who was later arrested along with the other removed candidates.
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The elections followed the Soviet occupation of Estonia in June. The
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Identity and Continuity of States in Public International Law
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on 14 and 15 July 1940 alongside simultaneous elections in
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On the first day of the election the main daily newspaper
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A flyer to vote for the Estonian Working People's Union
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