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1986 East German general election Turnout 99.74% (pp )
General elections were held in East Germany on 8 June 1986. 500 deputies were elected to the Volkskammer , with all of them being candidates of the single-list National Front . 703 Front candidates were put forward, with 500 being elected and 203 becoming substitute deputies. At its first session on 16 June, the Volkskammer re-elected Willi Stoph as Chairman of the Council of Ministers , while Erich Honecker , General Secretary of the ruling Socialist Unity Party , was also re-elected Chairman of the State Council .
This would be the last election held in East Germany before the Peaceful Revolution in 1989, three years into the Volkskammer's term.
Party or alliance Votes % Seats +/– National Front Socialist Unity Party of Germany 12,392,094 99.94 127 0 Free German Trade Union Federation 61 –7 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 37 –3 Democratic Women's League of Germany 32 –3 Cultural Association of the GDR 21 –1 Peasants Mutual Aid Association 14 New Against 7,512 0.06 – – Total 12,399,606 100.00 500 0 Valid votes 12,399,606 99.98 Invalid/blank votes 2,407 0.02 Total votes 12,402,013 100.00 Registered voters/turnout 12,434,444 99.74 Source: IPU , Wahlrecht
General Peter W. Sperlich. Oppression and Scarcity: The History and Institutional Structure of the Marxist-Leninist Government of East Germany and Some Perspectives on Life in a Socialist System . Westport, CT: Greenwood Publishing Group. 2006. p. 46.
Richard Felix Staar. Communist Regimes in Eastern Europe . Fifth Edition. California: Hoover Institution Press. 1988. p. 104.
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