Romanian general election, 1946

1939 ←

19 November 1946

→ 1948

All 414 seats to the Great National Assembly

	Majority party	Minority party

Leader	Petru Groza	Iuliu Maniu
Party	BPD	PNT
Leader's seat	Cluj County	Alba County
Seats won	347	33
Seat change	new party	53
Popular vote	4,773,689	881,304
Percentage	69.80%	12.90%

Prime Minister before election

Nicolae Rădescu
None (Military)

Subsequent Prime Minister

Petru Groza
Ploughmen's Front

General elections were held in Romania on 19 November 1946. The official results gave a victory to the Romanian Communist Party (PCR), its allies inside the Bloc of Democratic Parties (Blocul Partidelor Democrate, BPD), together with its associates, the Hungarian People's Union (UPM or MNSz) and the Democratic Peasants' Party–Lupu. The event marked a decisive step towards the disestablishment of the Romanian monarchy and the proclamation of a Communist regime at the end of the following year. Breaking with the traditional universal male suffrage confirmed by the 1923 Constitution, it was the first national election to feature women's suffrage, and the first to allow active public officials and army personnel the right to vote. The BPD, representing the incumbent leftist government formed around Prime Minister Petru Groza, was an electoral alliance comprising the PCR, the Social Democratic Party (PSD), the Ploughmen's Front, the National Liberal Party–Tătărescu, the National Peasants' Party–Alexandrescu and the National Popular Party.