East German general election, 1990

1986 ←

18 March 1990 (1990-03-18)

→ 1990 (re-unification)

All 400 seats in the Volkskammer 201 seats were needed for a majority

	First party	Second party	Third party

Leader	Lothar de Maizière	Ibrahim Böhme	Hans Modrow
Party	CDU	SPD	PDS
Seats won	163	88	66
Popular vote	4,710,598	2,525,534	1,892,381
Percentage	40.8%	21.9%	16.4%

Maps showing the distribution of party votes per district.
The map in the bottom right shows the largest party in each district.

Prime Minister before election

Hans Modrow
PDS

Resulting Prime Minister

Lothar de Maizière
CDU

Hans Modrow
PDS

Lothar de Maizière
CDU

Legislative elections were held in the German Democratic Republic (East Germany) on 18 March 1990. It was the first and only free parliamentary election in the GDR, and the first truly free election held in that part of Germany since 1932. Four hundred deputies were elected to the Volkskammer.

The largest bloc was the Alliance for Germany, led by the East German branch of the Christian Democratic Union and running on a platform of speedy reunification with the West. The runner-up was the East German branch of the Social Democratic Party of Germany, which had been refounded only six months earlier. The former Socialist Unity Party of Germany, renamed the Party of Democratic Socialism, ran in a free election for the first time ever and finished in third place.

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