[3] Soon afterwards, the government announced the formation of the Union of the Working People of Lithuania (Lithuanian: Lietuvos liaudies darbo sąjunga), ostensibly a popular front.

According to the official results, voter turnout reached 95% and the Union list received over 99% of the votes.

The remaining data shows that turnout was indeed high, but that many ballots were invalid (missing, destroyed, left blank, or marked with anti-Soviet slogans).

The new parliament was convened on 21 July and voted unanimously to established the Lithuanian SSR and request to join the Soviet Union.

[4][5] EUvsDisinfo has documented examples of disinformation in the pro-Kremlin media, which falsely used the 1940 election as a justification of Soviet occupation.