INSTRUCTION on the Elections of the Councils of the Workers, Peasants and Red Army Men Deputies and of the Congresses of Soviets

Chapter III

Electoral Commissions

12. For the Soviet elections the following electoral commissions shall be set up:

a) Central Electoral Commission;

b) The electoral commissions of the Abkhaz SSR, Autonomous SSR of Adjara and the Autonomous Oblast of South Ossetia;

c) District electoral commissions;

d) City electoral commissions;

e) Village electoral commissions.

13. The Central Electoral Commission shall consist of 23 members of the Presidium of the Central Executive Committee of Georgia, which will organize and hold the elections in the whole of the Republic.

14. The electoral commissions of the Abkhaz SSR, Autonomous SSR of Adjara and the Autonomous Oblast of South Ossetia shall consist of members the presidiums of the central executive committees accordingly.  These commissions shall include: chairman, two representatives of relevant central executive committees, one representative from the trade unions, one representative from the Union of Young Leninians (Komsomol), one representative form the working women’s local committee, one representative from the local city council, one representative of the national minority, one representative from the Red Army and Navy, one worker from the industrial enterprise, one peasant, one from the Peasants’ Mutual Aid Association and from other public organizations (economic entities, “Defence -Aviachemistry” etc.).

The members of the aforementioned electoral commissions shall be approved by the presidium of the Central Executive Committee of the relevant republics or oblast, and the chairmen shall be appointed by the Presidium of the central executive committee of Georgia upon nomination of the Central electoral commission. 

16. The city electoral commissions, upon the decree of the relevant council, shall be set up in Poti, Gori, Stalinisi, Borjomi, Chiatura and Samtredia.

19. The members of Batumi and Sukhumi city electoral commissions shall be approved by the relevant district or city executive committee; the chairmen, upon nomination of the electoral commission of the republic shall be appointed by the presidiums of the Presidiums of the central executive committees of the Abkhaz SSR and the Autonomous SSR of Adjara accordingly.

20. The members of the city electoral commissions of Gori, Stalinisi, Borjomi, Chiatura and Samtredia shall be approved by the respective city councils and the chairmen shall be appointed by the relevant district executive committee.

21. Upon decision of the city councils, the auxiliary electoral commissions may be set up at the big factories, plants and other enterprises of the cities of Tbilisi, Batumi, Sukhumi and Kutaisi.

89. The delegates to the Soviet Congress of Georgia shall be the representatives of the Soviet Congress of Abkhaz SSR, the Autonomous SSR of Adjara, Autonomous Oblast of South Ossetia and the districts – one delegate from each 10 000 of residents from the local councils where the delegates are elected on the basis of number of population, and one delegate from each 2000 of residents where the delegates are elected on the basis of number of voters…

90. The Soviets of the Abkhaz SSR, the Autonomous SSR of Adjara, the Autonomous Oblast of South Ossetia… simultaneously to the elections of delegates to the Soviet Congress of the Georgian SSR, shall elect the delegates to the Soviet Congress of the Trans-Caucasus: from the Abkhaz SSR, Autonomous SSR of Adjara, the Autonomous oblast of South Ossetia… one delegate from each 15 000 of from the local councils where the delegates are elected on the basis of number of population, and one delegate from each 3000 of residents where the delegates are elected on the basis of number of voters…

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Chairman of the Central Executive Committee of Georgia M. Tskhakaia

Secretary of the Central Executive Committee of Georgia S. Todria

9 November 1930

(Collection of the laws and Decrees of the Workers and Peasants Government of the Georgian SSR, N 22, 1930, p. 661-682)