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Berlin election – direct mandates: SPD loses numerous direct mandates to the CDU

2023-02-12T21:52:09.775Z


In Berlin, the SPD is not only losing its status as the strongest political force in the city – the Social Democrats are also suffering significant losses in the individual direct mandates. Above all, one party benefits.


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SPD members at the election party in Berlin

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According to projections, the SPD will achieve the worst result in the history of the state in the re-election to the Berlin House of Representatives.

The party of the Governing Mayor Franziska Giffey ends up well behind the CDU of top candidate Kai Wegner – and will probably also lose numerous direct mandates.

First and foremost,

SPD top candidate Giffey

will lose her Neukölln 6 constituency in the south of the capital to CDU candidate Olaf Schenk.

After counting almost 97 percent of the areas, Giffey came to 29.1 percent, Schenk to 45.9.

Giffey is likely to move into the House of Representatives as her party's top candidate.

In the September 2021 election, Giffey also ran in the Neukölln 6 constituency and clearly won the direct mandate with 40.8 percent of the first votes.

After counting more than 85 percent of the areas in the Spandau 2 constituency, the

Greens' top candidate Bettina Jarasch

was also unable to prevail against the CDU candidate Ersin Nas.

Jarasch received 9.8 percent of the votes for the time being, Nas landed with 34.7 percent well ahead of the Berlin SPD parliamentary group leader Raed Saleh (25.9 percent).

The Green Jarasch had applied for the state parliament for the first time in 2016, but failed at the time in the fight for the direct mandate for the Pankow 5 constituency.

She then moved into the House of Representatives via the list of the Greens.

In the September 2021 election, Jarasch did not apply for a direct mandate, but came to the top of the list in the House of Representatives.

SPD losses in the south and west

In addition, several former SPD mandates in

south-east Berlin

fell to the CDU.

According to continuously updated information from the state returning officer, the Christian Democrats were ahead in the Treptow-Köpenick districts 3, 4, 5 and 6, and in some cases by a clear margin.

The SPD also lost ground in the neighborhoods of

Mariendorf, Steglitz and Britz

south of the city center .

The districts of Tempelhof-Schoeneberg 5, Steglitz-Zehlendorf 2 and Charlottenburg-Wilmersdorf 7, which were previously won by the SPD, are clearly going to the CDU.

In the

west of the city,

the CDU was temporarily ahead in the Spandau 1, 2, 3 constituencies and in Reinickendorf.

In Wedding (Middle 5 constituency), the CDU (23.1 percent) overtook 97.4 percent of the areas, both the SPD (19.3) and possibly just ahead of the Greens (22.8).

As in the 2021 breakdown election and the previous regular parliamentary election in 2016, the AfD

is expected to win two direct mandates in the Marzahn-Hellersdorf 1 and 3 constituencies.

The left could also lose the Lichtenberg 3 constituency to the Union.

After counting 94 percent of the votes, the Christian Democrats have 23.1 percent, the left is 22.3 percent.

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Source: spiegel

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