Volkskammer election 1986

Seats in the People's Chamber after the 1986 election

The election to the People's Chamber of the GDR in 1986 was the election to the 9th People's Chamber of the GDR and took place on June 8, 1986 . It was a sham election . It could only be voted on the unified list of the National Front . The election did not affect the strength of the factions, the size of which was determined in advance.

Election result

According to official figures, the voter turnout was 12,402,013 votes cast and 12,434,444 registered voters at 99.74%. 2407 votes were considered invalid. With this, 99.94% approval (12,392,094 votes) was counted for the election proposal of the National Front, 7512 people or 0.06% had therefore voted against it.

	acronym	Seats
Socialist Unity Party of Germany	SED	127
Free German Federation of Trade Unions	FDGB	61
Christian Democratic Union of Germany	CDU	52
Liberal Democratic Party of Germany	LDPD	52
Democratic Peasant Party of Germany	DBD	52
National Democratic Party of Germany	NDPD	52
Free German Youth	FDJ	37
Democratic Women's Association of Germany	DFD	32
Kulturbund	KB	21st
Association of mutual farmers' aid	VdgB	14th

Election fraud

The electoral law of the GDR allowed public control of the electoral count on paper. In practice, this did not take place for fear of repression. In the 1986 Volkskammer elections, a group led by Pastor Rainer Eppelmann dared to check eight polling stations in Berlin-Friedrichshain. In these eight polling stations alone, 547 voters did not take part in the election. However, the official election result showed only 840 citizens for the whole of East Berlin who did not vote. There is therefore a high probability that the election was fraudulent . In the municipal elections in the GDR in 1989 , controls were carried out by citizens according to the same pattern. The electoral frauds uncovered there were a trigger for the turning point.

literature

Secretariat of the People's Chamber on behalf of the President of the People's Chamber of the GDR (ed.): The People's Chamber of the German Democratic Republic. 9th legislative term. State Publishing House of the GDR, Berlin 1987.

Web links

Commons : Volkskammer (9th period) - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

↑ Electoral system of the GDR Volkskammer elections . Wahlrecht.de; Retrieved June 6, 2015.
↑ Historical Archive Of Parliamentary Election Results - Germany (PDF; 15.3 kB). Inter-Parliamentary Union (English).
↑ Hermann Weber : The GDR 1945–1990 (= Oldenbourg floor plan of history . 20). 5th updated edition. Oldenbourg, Munich 2012, ISBN 3-486-70440-0 , p. 107.
Jump up ↑ Hans Michael Kloth: From “folding paper” to free voting. The democratization of the GDR in 1989/90 and the “election question”. Links, Berlin 2000, ISBN 3-86153-212-3 , p. 269 ff. ( Online ; also: University of Lüneburg, dissertation, 1999).

[1] Electoral system of the GDR Volkskammer elections . Wahlrecht.de; Retrieved June 6, 2015.

[2] Historical Archive Of Parliamentary Election Results - Germany (PDF; 15.3 kB). Inter-Parliamentary Union (English).

[3] Hermann Weber : The GDR 1945–1990 (= Oldenbourg floor plan of history . 20). 5th updated edition. Oldenbourg, Munich 2012, ISBN 3-486-70440-0 , p. 107.

[4] Jump up ↑ Hans Michael Kloth: From “folding paper” to free voting. The democratization of the GDR in 1989/90 and the “election question”. Links, Berlin 2000, ISBN 3-86153-212-3 , p. 269 ff. ( Online ; also: University of Lüneburg, dissertation, 1999).