[1] They were the first elections held under communist rule; the communist-dominated parliament had declared Romania a people's republic after King Michael was forced to abdicate in December 1947.

[2][3] With all meaningful opposition having been eliminated, the People's Democratic Front (FDP), dominated by the communist Romanian Workers Party (PMR) received 93.2% of the vote[4] and won 405 of the 414 seats in the Great National Assembly.

[7] The following year, Groza's pro-Communist government oversaw an election that resulted in a parliament in which the Communist-dominated Bloc of Democratic Parties won over four-fifths of the seats (over 91 percent counting the BPD's allies).

[2][dubious – discuss] The National Peasants' leaders, Iuliu Maniu and Ion Mihalache, were tried on charges of plotting to overthrow the government in the Tămădău Affair, and were both sentenced to life imprisonment.

A month before the elections, the Communists and part of the Social Democrats merged to form the Romanian Workers' Party (PMR).