Country: | East Germany |
Type: | legislative |
Turnout: | 99.25% (0.35pp) |
Previous Election: | 1958 East German general election |
Previous Year: | 1958 |
Next Election: | 1967 East German general election |
Next Year: | 1967 |
Image1: | Opvolger van Pieck, Walter Ulbricht, Bestanddeelnr 911-5926 (cropped).jpg |
Leader1: | Walter Ulbricht |
Party1: | Socialist Unity Party of Germany |
Alliance1: | National Front |
Seats1: | 127 |
Seat Change1: | 10 |
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 20 October 1963. They were to originally be held in November 1962 but were postponed. 434 deputies to the Volkskammer were elected, with all of them being candidates of the single-list National Front, dominated by the communist Socialist Unity Party of Germany.