On September 26th, all Berliners who are eligible to vote are called to vote for their House of Representatives.
The Wahl-O-Mat can be used as an important source of information.
Berlin - On September 26, 2021, not only the federal election will take place.
In some federal states, those entitled to vote are also called upon to elect their respective state representative.
This is also the case in Berlin.
The residents of the capital also decide on their state parliament on the day of the general election.
The Wahl-O-Mat can serve as a source of information for the voting decision.
However, the tool does not make the decision of who should be elected for those entitled to vote.
All information about the Berlin election 2021 can be found in our news ticker.
Berlin election 2021: Election of the House of Representatives will take place on September 26th
The super election year 2021 will culminate in the federal election on September 26th.
At the same time, the citizens of Berlin decide on their state parliament.
Since 2016, members of the SPD, the Left and the Greens have been sitting on the government bench, while the CDU, AfD and FDP are in the opposition.
The Social Democrats form the strongest parliamentary group with 38 out of 160 seats, followed by the CDU (31 seats), Greens (27), Left (27), AfD (22) and FDP (11).
A decision will be made before the election: The governing mayor Michael Müller (SPD) will not stand for re-election.
The social democrat is running for the Bundestag.
This is what the current surveys and forecasts say.
Further surveys, live data and figures can be found in our result text with an overview of all the important graphics.
For the election of the House of Representatives in Berlin: You can find the Wahl-O-Mat here
As the
Federal Agency for Civic Education
(
bpb
) announced on its website, the Wahl-O-Mat for the election of the Berlin House of Representatives will be published on August 26, 2021.
At the same time as Wahl-O-Mat for the Berlin election, Wahl-O-Mat for the state election in Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania goes online.
You can
access
the information on
the
bpb
website
up to and including election day.
The Wahl-O-Mat is a question-and-answer tool that summarizes the election programs of the approved parties and thus provides information on the party positions.
Click here to go to the Wahl-O-Mat for the election to the House of Representatives in Berlin.
Wahl-O-Mat for Berlin-Wahl: How it works and history
The Wahl-O-Mat comprises 38 theses, which users can answer with “agree”, “disagree”, “neutral” or “skip thesis”.
Wahl-O-Mat users can compare their personal positions with those of the approved parties.
The users can then weight the answers differently in order to underline their attitude to certain topics.
Before the result is displayed to the users in the form of a bar chart, the Wahl-O-Mat compares the answers with the election programs of the respective parties.
The question-and-answer tool celebrated its premiere in 2002, and according to the
bpb
, the Wahl-O-Mat has been used over 85 million times since then.
Wahl-O-Mat result serves as information basis for the election to the House of Representatives in Berlin
After all questions have been answered, the Wahl-O-Mat shows the result in the form of a bar chart. However, the result is not a recommendation as to where you should ultimately make the crosses on your ballot papers. Rather, it serves as an information base. "You should therefore under no circumstances make your decision for or against a party solely dependent on your Wahl-O-Mat result," emphasizes the
bpb
on their own website.
The Federal Center recommends viewing the result as a “starting point” in order to obtain further information.
This year the Wahl-O-Mat was already available for the state elections in Baden-Württemberg, Rhineland-Palatinate and Saxony-Anhalt.
If you haven't received a voting notification by September 5th, you can find out what you can do here.
You can vote at the polling station or by postal vote.
