Legislative elections were held in the German Democratic Republic on 18 March 1990. It was the first and only free parliamentary election in East Germany. A total of 400 deputies were elected to the Volkskammer, the plurality of them from the opposition pro-unification Alliance for Germany. The former Socialist Unity Party of Germany participated under its new name, Party of Democratic Socialism and obtained the third place. On April 5, 1990, the new Volkskammer elected the CDU member Sabine Bergmann-Pohl as its president; as the State Council was at the same time dissolved, she became the head of state of the German Democratic Republic. Lothar de Maizière (CDU) became Prime Minister and formed a grand coalition consisting of the CDU, the SDP, the FDP, the German Social Union (DSU) and one non-attached member.^[1]

On October 3 of the same year the parliament voted to dissolve East Germany and to annex its territory into the Federal Republic of Germany, thus ending the state's 40-year existence. The unification treaty was approved on a 442-47 vote by the Bundestag and by a 299-80 margin in the Volkskammer.^[2]

[edit] Results

	Parties and coalitions		%	Seats
	Christian Democratic Union		40.8%	163
	German Social Union		6.3%	25
	Democratic Awakening		0.9%	4
	Total Alliance for Germany		48%	192
	Social Democratic Party of Germany		21.9%	88
	Party of Democratic Socialism		16.4%	66
	Association of Free Democrats		5.3%	21
	Alliance 90		2.9%	12
	Democratic Farmers' Party		2.2%	9
	East German Green Party and Independent Women's Association		2%	8
	National Democratic Party of Germany		0.4%	2
	Democratic Women's League of Germany		0.3%	1
	United Left		0.3%	1
	Others		0.5%	0
		Turnout: 93.4%[3]	100%	400

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