1963 East German general election

East German general election, 1963

20 October 1963
All 434 seats to the People's Chamber
Majority party   Leader Walter Ulbricht Party Socialist Unity Alliance National Front Seats won 434 Seat change ±0

Legislative elections were held in the German Democratic Republic 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.

Out of 11,621,158 registered electors, 11,533,859 (99.25%) voted, with 99.95% voting for Front candidates and 0.05% against. 0.04% of the votes were invalid.

Party/Group	Acronym	Seats
Socialist Unity Party of Germany	SED	110
Free German Trade Union Federation	FDGB	60
Christian Democratic Union	CDU	45
Liberal Democratic Party of Germany	LDPD	45
Democratic Farmers' Party of Germany	DBD	45
National Democratic Party of Germany	NDPD	45
Free German Youth	FDJ	35
Democratic Women's League of Germany	DFD	30
Cultural Association of the DDR	KB	19

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.