1990 East German general election

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East German general election, 1990
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All 400 seats in the Volkskammer
201 seats were needed for a majority
  First party Second party Third party
 
Leader Lothar de Maizière Ibrahim Böhme Hans Modrow
Party CDU SPD PDS
Leader's seat Erfurt Halle Rostock
Last election 52 seats — 127 seats
Seats before 52 — 127
Seats won 163 88 66
Seat change Increase111 Increase88 Decrease61
Popular vote 6,139,450 3,295,440 2,467,818
Percentage 40.8% 21.9% 16.4%
Swing — — —
  Fourth party
 
Leader Hans-Wilhelm Ebeling
Party DSU
Leader's seat Neubrandenburg
Last election —
Seats before —
Seats won 25
Seat change Increase25
Popular vote 948,003
Percentage 6.3%
Swing —
Ministerpräsident before election

Hans Modrow
PDS

Resulting Ministerpräsident

Lothar de Maizière
CDU

Legislative elections were held in East Germany on 18 March 1990. It was the first—and as it turned out, only—free parliamentary election in the GDR, and the first truly free election held in that part of Germany since 1933. A total of 400 deputies were elected to the Volkskammer, the plurality of them from the opposition pro-unification Alliance for Germany, led by the East German branch of the Christian Democratic Union. The former Socialist Unity Party of Germany participated under its new name, Party of Democratic Socialism and received the third largest number of seats. On 5 April 1990, the new Volkskammer elected the CDU member Sabine Bergmann-Pohl as its president; as the State Council was at the same time dissolved, she became East Germany's head of state. Lothar de Maizière (CDU) became prime minister, heading a grand coalition consisting of the CDU, the SDP, the FDP, the German Social Union (DSU) and one non-attached member.[1]

On 3 October of the same year the parliament voted to dissolve East Germany and to unify its territory with the Federal Republic of Germany, thus ending the state's 40-year existence. The unification treaty was approved on a 442–47 vote by the Bundestag and by a 299–80 margin in the Volkskammer.[2]

Results

Parties and coalitions % Seats
bgcolor="Template:Christian Democratic Union (East Germany)/meta/color" | Christian Democratic Union 40.8% 163
bgcolor="Template:German Social Union (East Germany)/meta/color" | German Social Union 6.3% 25
bgcolor="Template:Christian Democratic Union (East Germany)/meta/color" | Democratic Awakening 0.9% 4
Total Alliance for Germany 48% 192
bgcolor="Template:Social Democratic Party in the GDR/meta/color" | Social Democratic Party of Germany 21.9% 88
bgcolor="Template:Party of Democratic Socialism (Germany)/meta/color" | Party of Democratic Socialism 16.4% 66
Template:German politics/party colours/FDP | Association of Free Democrats 5.3% 21
Alliance 90 2.9% 12
Democratic Farmers' Party 2.2% 9
Template:German politics/party colours/Green | East German Green Party and Independent Women's Association 2% 8
National Democratic Party of Germany 0.4% 2
Democratic Women's League of Germany 0.3% 1
Template:German politics/party colours/SPD | United Left 0.3% 1
Others 0.5% 0
Turnout: 93.4%[3] 100% 400

References

  1. ^ "History of German parliamentarianism: 1949–89: Volkskammer of the GDR (East-Germany)". German Bundestag. 2008-11-19.
  2. ^ "Politics in Germany: The Online Edition". University of California, Irvine. 2008-11-19.
  3. ^ Geoffrey Pridham, Tatu Vanhanen. Democratization in Eastern Europe Routledge, 1994. ISBN 0-415-11063-7 pp. 135
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