1967 East German general election

2 July 1967 (1967-07-02)
All 500 seats in the Volkskammer
Turnout	98.82% ( 0.43pp)
Majority party   Leader Walter Ulbricht Party SED Alliance National Front Seats won 127 Seat change
Chairman of the Council of Ministers before election Willi Stoph SED Chairman of the Council of Ministers after election Willi Stoph SED

Politics of East Germany
Constitution 1949 1968
Leadership Socialist Unity Party General Secretary President (1949–1960) State Council (1960–1990) Head of State Council of Ministers Head of Government
Legislature President Chamber of States
Elections Referendums Constitutional Assembly 1949 General elections 1950 1954 1958 1963 1967 1971 1976 1981 1986 1990 Referendums 1951 1954 1968
Political parties Christian Democratic Union Democratic Farmers' Party Liberal Democratic Party National Democratic Party
Administrative divisions East Berlin (independent) Cottbus Dresden Erfurt Frankfurt Gera Halle Karl-Marx-Stadt Leipzig Magdeburg Neubrandenburg Potsdam Rostock Schwerin Suhl Leaders
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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

Party or alliance				Votes	%	Seats
						Elected	East Berlin	Total	+/–
	National Front		Socialist Unity Party of Germany	11,197,265	99.93	110	17	127	0
			Free German Trade Union Federation			60	8	68	0
			Christian Democratic Union			45	7	52	0
			Liberal Democratic Party of Germany			45	7	52	0
			National Democratic Party of Germany			45	7	52	0
			Democratic Farmers' Party of Germany			45	7	52	0
			Free German Youth			35	5	40	0
			Democratic Women's League of Germany			30	5	35	0
			Cultural Association of the GDR			19	3	22	0
Against				8,005	0.07	–	–	–	–
Total				11,205,270	100.00	434	66	500	0
Valid votes				11,205,270	99.98
Invalid/blank votes				2,746	0.02
Total votes				11,208,016	100.00
Registered voters/turnout				11,341,729	98.82
Source: IPU

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