General elections were held in
East Germany
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on 14 June 1981. 500 deputies were elected to the
Volkskammer, with all of them being candidates of the single-list
National Front. 679 Front candidates were put forward, with 500 being elected and 179 becoming substitute deputies. At its first session on 25 June, the Volkskammer re-elected
Willi Stoph as
Chairman
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of the
Council of Ministers
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, while
Erich Honecker,
General Secretary
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of the ruling
Socialist Unity Party, was also re-elected
Chairman
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of the
Council of State.
Results
References
Inter-Parliamentary Union: HISTORICAL ARCHIVE OF PARLIAMENTARY ELECTION RESULTS - Germany*Richard Felix Staar. ''Communist Regimes in Eastern Europe''. Fourth Edition. California: Hoover Institution Press. 1982. p. 109.
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East Germany, officially the German Democratic Republic (GDR; german: Deutsche Demokratische Republik, , DDR, ), was a country that existed from its creation on 7 October 1949 until its dissolution on 3 October 1990. In these years the state ...