All 400 seats in the Volkskammer 201 seats needed for a majority
Turnout
93.38%
Party
Leader
%
Seats
CDU
Lothar de Maizière
40.82
163
SPD
Ibrahim Böhme
21.88
88
PDS
Gregor Gysi
16.40
66
DSU
Hans-Wilhelm Ebeling
6.31
25
BFD
Rainer Ortleb Bruno Menzel Jürgen Schmieder
5.28
21
B90
Jens Reich
2.91
12
DBD
Günther Maleuda
2.18
9
Green–UFV
Carlo Jordan
1.97
8
DA
Wolfgang Schnur
0.92
4
NDPD
Wolfgang Rauls
0.38
2
DFD
Eva Rohmann
0.33
1
United Left
Thomas Klein
0.18
1
This lists parties that won seats. See the complete results below.
Results of the election by Kreis
Distribution of seats in the election
Government before
Government after election
Modrow cabinet National unity government
de Maizière cabinet Alliance for Germany–SPD–BFD
Politics of East Germany
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1949
1968
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Socialist Unity Party
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State Council (1960–1990)
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Head of Government
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Chamber of States
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General elections were held in East Germany on 18 March 1990, and were the first and only free elections held in the state before German reunification. The Alliance for Germany, led by the new East German branch of the right-wing Christian Democratic Union (CDU), won 192 seats and emerged as the largest bloc in the 400-seat Volkskammer, having run on a platform of speedy reunification with West Germany. The East German branch of the Social Democratic Party (SPD), which had been dissolved in 1946 and refounded only six months before the elections, finished second with 88 seats despite being widely expected to win. The former Socialist Unity Party of Germany, restyled as the Party of Democratic Socialism (PDS), finished third with 66 seats.
The Alliance fell slightly short of the 201 seats needed to govern alone.[1] Lothar de Maizière of the CDU invited the SPD to join his Alliance partners – the German Social Union (DSU) and Democratic Awakening (DA) – in a grand coalition. The SPD was initially cold to de Maizière's offer, in part because of the presence of the right-wing populist DSU in de Maizière's grouping; the SPD had originally been willing to govern alongside all parties other than the PDS and DSU.[2] However, they ultimately agreed, and the four parties formed government. The government, which was able to amend the constitution thanks to its two-thirds supermajority of seats in the Volkskammer, subsequently organised and ratified the reunification of Germany, resulting in the dissolution of the German Democratic Republic into the Federal Republic of Germany on 3 October 1990.
^Kamm, Henry (1990-03-19). "Conservatives Backed By Kohl Top East German Vote Solidly, But Appear To Need Coalition". The New York Times.
^Kamm, Henry (1990-03-20). "German Losers Reject Victor's Invitation". The New York Times.
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