State elections in the GDR in 1950

The state elections on October 15, 1950 were the last state elections of the German Democratic Republic (GDR) before the dissolution of the states in the GDR in 1952.

It was not a question of free, general and secret elections, but of sham elections . The deputies were determined on the basis of unit lists of the National Front and the distribution of the mandates between the aligned parties was determined in advance. The elections were not secret. Voters who voted no or abstained faced persecution.

Real or supposed opponents of the SED regime had been removed from the bloc parties , forced to flee to the West or arrested; In addition, the distribution of seats ensured that the SED (together with the SED members named in the name of the mass organizations it controlled ) each received absolute majorities.

Results

country	voter turnout	List of candidates for the National Front	Votes against	Invalid
Brandenburg	98.6%	99.9%	0.1%	0.1%
Mecklenburg	99.2%	99.9%	0.1%	0.1%
Saxony	98.1%	99.8%	0.2%	0.1%
Saxony-Anhalt	99.1%	99.8%	0.2%	0.2%
Thuringia	98.2%	99.1%	0.9%	0.3%

Election before: State elections in the Soviet Zone in 1946

Brandenburg

Political party	Seats
SED	18th
CDU	14th
LDP	12
DBD	6th
NDPD	6th
FDGB (*)	11
DFD (*)	9
FDJ (*)	9
Kulturbund (*)	5
VVN (*)	4th
Consumer cooperatives (*)	3
VdgB (*)	3

(*) Mass organizations: 44 in total

Mecklenburg

Political party	Seats
SED	18th
CDU	12
LDP	11
DBD	6th
NDPD	5
FDGB (*)	10
DFD (*)	7th
FDJ (*)	6th
Kulturbund (*)	4th
Consumer cooperatives (*)	4th
VdgB (*)	4th
VVN (*)	3

(*) Mass organizations: 38 in total

Saxony-Anhalt

Political party	Seats
SED	20th
CDU	15th
LDP	18th
DBD	9
NDPD	9
FDGB (*)	12
DFD (*)	6th
FDJ (*)	6th
Kulturbund (*)	6th
VVN (*)	5
Consumer cooperatives (*)	2
VdgB (*)	2

(*) Mass organizations: 39 in total

Saxony

Political party	Seats
SED	27
CDU	18th
LDP	17th
DBD	9
NDPD	9
FDGB (*)	12
DFD (*)	7th
FDJ (*)	7th
Kulturbund (*)	5
VVN (*)	5
Consumer cooperatives (*)	2
VdgB (*)	2

(*) Mass organizations: 40 in total

Thuringia

Political party	Seats
SED	21st
CDU	15th
LDP	15th
DBD	6th
NDPD	6th
FDGB (*)	11
DFD (*)	6th
FDJ (*)	6th
Kulturbund (*)	5
VVN (*)	3
Consumer cooperatives (*)	3
VdgB (*)	3

(*) Mass organizations: A total of 37, of which 30 were members of the SED, 4 were non-party, one each was a member of the CDU, LDPD and NDPD

literature

(chronologically)

Richard Schachtner , 1956: The German post-war elections: election results in the Federal Republic of Germany, in the German federal states, in West Berlin, in Saarland and in the Soviet zone (GDR) 1946–1956 . Munich: Isar publishing house. Pp. 77, 78.
Günter Braun , 1990: Elections and Votes ; in: Martin Broszat and Hermann Weber (eds.): SBZ-Handbuch. Munich: Oldenbourg. Pp. 397, 396, 418.
Herbert Gottwald , 1994: The Thuringian Parliament 1946–1952 (Writings on the History of Parliamentarism in Thuringia, no.5). Jena: Thuringian Parliament in conjunction with Wartburg Verlag. Pp. 56, 81ff., 101.
Kurt Adamy / Kristina Hübener (eds.), 1999: Brief history of the Brandenburg state parliament . Potsdam: Brandenburg State Center for Political Education , p. 169.
www.wahlen-in-deutschland.de: election results

Web links

bundesarchiv.de (pictures, information, further links)

Individual evidence

↑ Preamble to the electoral law: “Out of national responsibility and to secure the construction of the republic, the bloc of anti-fascist-democratic parties and organizations made use of its constitutional right and decided to hold the elections on the basis of a joint election program with joint lists of candidates from the National Front of the democratic Germany. "

[1] Preamble to the electoral law: “Out of national responsibility and to secure the construction of the republic, the bloc of anti-fascist-democratic parties and organizations made use of its constitutional right and decided to hold the elections on the basis of a joint election program with joint lists of candidates from the National Front of the democratic Germany. "