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1967 East German general election

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1967 East German general election

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All 500 seats in the Volkskammer
Turnout98.82% (Decrease 0.43pp)
  Majority party
 
Leader Walter Ulbricht
Party SED
Alliance National Front
Seats won 127
Seat change Steady

Chairman of the Council of Ministers before election

Willi Stoph
SED

Chairman of the Council of Ministers after election

Willi Stoph
SED

General elections were held in East Germany on 2 July 1967.[1] 434 deputies were elected to the Volkskammer, with all of them being candidates of the single-list National Front, dominated by the communist Socialist Unity Party of Germany (SED). 583 Front candidates were put forward, with 434 being elected. The allocation of seats remained unchanged from the 1963 election.

These were the last elections held under the original constitution adopted in 1949. Two months before election day, SED leader Walter Ulbricht had called for a new constitution that reflected the larger goal of building a socialist society. In December 1967 a commission of the newly elected Volkskammer was tasked with recasting the constitution in accordance with the SED's stipulations. A year after the elections, a referendum approved a new constitution promulgated later that year. While the 1949 constitution was a superficially liberal democratic document, the 1968 constitution was a communist document. It defined East Germany as a socialist state under the leadership of the SED, codifying the actual state of affairs that had prevailed in the country since 1949.[2]

Results

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Party or allianceVotes%Seats
ElectedEast
Berlin
Total+/–
National FrontSocialist Unity Party of Germany11,197,26599.93110171270
Free German Trade Union Federation608680
Christian Democratic Union457520
Liberal Democratic Party of Germany457520
National Democratic Party of Germany457520
Democratic Farmers' Party of Germany457520
Free German Youth355400
Democratic Women's League of Germany305350
Cultural Association of the GDR193220
Against8,0050.07
Total11,205,270100.00434665000
Valid votes11,205,27099.98
Invalid/blank votes2,7460.02
Total votes11,208,016100.00
Registered voters/turnout11,341,72998.82
Source: IPU

References

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  1. ^ *German Democratic Republic Inter-Parliamentary Union
  2. ^ Burant, Stephen R. East Germany: a country study Library of Congress, p.166
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