Country: | East Germany |
Flag Year: | 1949 |
Type: | parliamentary |
Turnout: | 98.41% (0.09pp) |
Previous Election: | 1950 East German general election |
Previous Year: | 1950 |
Next Election: | 1958 East German general election |
Next Year: | 1958 |
Seats For Election: | All 466 seats in the Volkskammer |
Leader1: | Walter Ulbricht |
Alliance1: | National Front |
Party1: | Socialist Unity Party of Germany |
Seats1: | 117 |
Seat Change1: | 7 |
Chairman of the Council of Ministers | |
Before Election: | Otto Grotewohl |
Before Party: | Socialist Unity Party of Germany |
Posttitle: | Chairman of the Council of Ministers after election |
After Election: | Otto Grotewohl |
After Party: | Socialist Unity Party of Germany |
General elections were held in East Germany on 17 October 1954. It was the second election to the Volkskammer, which had 466 deputies; due to the four-power status of the city of Berlin, the 66 deputies from East Berlin were indirectly appointed by the East Berlin magistrate.
As the country was a de facto one-party state, voters only had the option of approving or rejecting a single list of candidates from the National Front, dominated by the Communist Socialist Unity Party of Germany. The list received the approval of 99.46% of voters, with turnout reported to be 98.5%.[1]