General elections were held in East Germany on 2 July 1967.

[1] 434 deputies were elected to the Volkskammer, with all of them being candidates of the single-list National Front, dominated by the communist Socialist Unity Party of Germany (SED).

Two months before election day, SED leader Walter Ulbricht had called for a new constitution that reflected the larger goal of building a socialist society.

In December 1967 a commission of the newly elected Volkskammer was tasked with recasting the constitution in accordance with the SED's stipulations.

It defined East Germany as a socialist state under the leadership of the SED, codifying the actual state of affairs that had prevailed in the country since 1949.