General elections were held in East Germany 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.
This was the first election where East Berlin's Volkskammer members were directly "elected". Until then, East Berlin's Volkskammer members (66 in 1976) were chosen indirectly by the city government, the Magistrate of East Berlin, though since 1976, they had the same rights as regular Volkskammer members. For the purpose of the 1981 election, five new multi-member constituencies were set up in East Berlin that elected between 6 (Berlin-Prenzlauer Berg) and 11 (Berlin-Marzahn, Berlin-Lichtenberg) deputies. Three Politburo members (Alfred Neumann, Joachim Herrmann and Konrad Naumann) switched constituencies to be elected as first-placed candidates in East Berlin constituencies.
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