1963 East German general election

1963 East German general election

20 October 1963 (1963-10-20)
All 500 seats in the Volkskammer
Turnout	99.25% ( 0.35pp)
Majority party   Leader Walter Ulbricht Party SED Alliance National Front Seats won 127 Seat change 10
Chairman of the Council of Ministers before election Otto Grotewohl SED Chairman of the Council of Ministers after election Otto Grotewohl SED

General elections were held in East Germany on 20 October 1963. They were to originally be held in November 1962 but were postponed. 434 deputies to the Volkskammer were elected, with all of them being candidates of the single-list National Front, dominated by the communist Socialist Unity Party of Germany.

Results

Party or alliance				Votes	%	Seats	+/–
	National Front		Socialist Unity Party of Germany		99.95	127	+10
			Free German Trade Union Federation			68	+15
			Christian Democratic Union			52	0
			Liberal Democratic Party of Germany			52	0
			National Democratic Party of Germany			52	0
			Democratic Farmers' Party of Germany			52	0
			Free German Youth			40	+11
			Democratic Women's League of Germany			35	+6
			Cultural Association of the GDR			22	+4
Against					0.05	–	–
Total						500	+34
Total votes				11,533,859	–
Registered voters/turnout				11,621,158	99.25
Source: Nohlen et al.

References

• Dieter Nohlen, Dolf Sternberger, Bernhard Vogel and Klaus Landfried (Ed.). Die Wahl der Parlamente und anderer Staatsorgane. Herausgegeben von Dolf Sternberger und Bernhard Vogel. Redaktion von Dieter Nohlen Band I: Europa. Berlin: Verlag Walter de Gruyter & Co. 1969. p. 376.
• Cyril Edwin Black and Ernst Christian Helmreich. Twentieth Century Europe: A History. New York: Knopf. 1972. p. 677.

External links

• Law on the Elections to the People's Representatives of the GDR of 31 July 1963
• Decision of the State Council of the German Democratic Republic on the constituencies and the number of representatives to be elected in each constituency for the election to the People's Chamber of the German Democratic Republic in 1963