1986 East German general election

1986 East German general election
All 500 seats in the Volkskammer
Turnout	99.74% ( 0.53pp)
Chairman of the Council of Ministers before election; Willi Stoph; SED	Elected Chairman of the Council of Ministers ; Willi Stoph; SED

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.

Results



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

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.