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.
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All 500 seats in the Volkskammer | ||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Turnout | 99.25% ( 0.35pp) | |||||||||||||||||||||
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Results
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| 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
edit- 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
edit- 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