After the Berlin election, it becomes clear: Franziska Giffey (SPD) is the loser of the election evening.
The CDU wants to probe on Monday.
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Update from February 14, 2:27 p.m .
: But another glitch in the Berlin repeat election: According to
Spiegel
information, a good 450 postal votes were not counted.
The district of Lichtenberg was affected, it said, citing administrative circles.
An "internal error" is given as the reason.
The votes would be counted during the week and, according to state returning officer Stephan Bröchler, taken into account in the final election result.
According to the district electoral office, the letters were not delivered in time by the post office.
Governing Mayor Franziska Giffey's lead over the Greens is currently slim
.
Does he melt down yet?
On the evening of the election, the SPD and the Greens were in a close race for second place behind the CDU.
In the provisional official final result, the SPD finally came in 2nd place, which was able to unite 105 votes more than the Öko-Party.
Additional
votes could now change the election result again.
As a result, the cards could also be reshuffled in the forthcoming coalition negotiations.
Final result of the Berlin election: Giffey has to tremble for second place – postal ballot paper appeared
Update from February 13, 11:10 a.m .:
In view of the SPD’s narrow lead in the Berlin repeat election, the state returning officer is checking a recount.
"We will take a close look at the numbers again and discuss this with our lawyers," said election officer Stephan Bröchler on Monday of the German Press Agency.
According to the preliminary result, the SPD and the Greens both have 18.4 percent of the votes, but the SPD has a wafer-thin lead of 105 votes.
"It is indeed a very small distance," says Bröchler.
He assumes that the question of a recount will be decided this week.
Update from February 13, 10:30 a.m .:
The SPD chairman Lars Klingbeil considers the CDU election victory in Berlin to be a result of the high level of dissatisfaction in the capital.
"You have the resentment that there is undoubtedly in Berlin bundled in the election result of the CDU," he said on Monday in the ARD "Morgenmagazin".
However, the CDU has little of its own concepts.
"The question, what are they actually up to, where do they want to go, has not been answered."
Berlin election: Giffey still intercepts Greens - CDU wants to probe Monday
Update from February 13, 10 a.m.:
After the CDU won the repeat election in Berlin, top candidate Kai Wegner wants to invite SPD and Greens to exploratory talks this Monday evening.
The aim is to hold talks this week or early next week, Wegner told the German Press Agency on Monday.
"Now is not the time for tacticians, now is the time for doers."
"The government mandate is clearly ours," said Wegner.
"The Berliners have chosen the change."
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Berlin election: The SPD presented the governing mayor Giffey with flowers.
Scholz, Klingbeil and Esken clap.
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Dramatic Berlin election: 105 votes decide - Giffey still intercepts the Greens
Update from February 13, 0.34 a.m .:
The preliminary final result of the Berlin election shows a last-minute turnaround: The SPD of the Governing Mayor Franziska Giffey has probably intercepted the Greens in the race for second place.
According to the state returning officer's result table, both parties came to 18.4 percent - but the SPD received a total of 105 votes more than the Greens.
278,978 for the SPD are on the books, the Greens come to 278,873 according to official information.
Giffey could now lead a red-green-red government.
That doesn't have to mean anything good for the CDU: Giffey had said in the evening that an alliance under his own leadership was his first "preference".
In theory, the Greens could also make pacts with the Union.
During the election campaign, however, rags flew between the CDU and Bettina Jarasch's Greens.
In the election campaign, the path to black and green "became a little further," said the top candidate on ZDF.
Nevertheless, the clear winner of the election is the CDU with 28.2 percent of the votes and thus an advantage of almost ten percentage points.
The Berlin elections ended bitterly for the FDP.
With 4.6 percent, she clearly missed the re-entry into the House of Representatives.
Close race in the Berlin election: Greens are 700 votes ahead of SPD shortly before the end
Update from February 12, 11:03 p.m .:
How is the head-to-head race between the SPD and the Greens in the Berlin election?
ARD election expert Jörg Schönenborn presented specific figures in the "Tagesthemen": With 15 voting districts still outstanding, the Greens have 276,644 votes, according to him, the SPD has 275,900 votes.
So it's a matter of a few hundred ballot papers difference - they make no difference in the tenths of the extrapolation.
In the end, however, they could become decisive.
At least for the chief ambitions of the Greens' top candidate Bettina Jarasch, who is unpopular in the polls.
CDU | SPD | Green | left | AfD | FDP | Other | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
ARD (10:56 p.m.) | 28.2% | 18.4% | 18.4% | 12.2% | 9.1% | 4.7% | 9.0% |
ZDF (10:31 p.m.) | 28.2% | 18.4% | 18.4% | 12.2% | 9.1% | 4.6% | 9.1% |
Source: Extrapolations from infratest dimap (ARD) and research group Wahlen (ZDF).
Berlin election before heartbeat final for second place?
Tie between SPD and Greens
Update from February 12, 10:20 p.m .:
A new Berlin projection by ARD does not result in any decisive movement.
The CDU gains another 0.1 percentage points (now 28.2 percent), the left loses minimally.
The SPD and the Greens are still tied in second place.
New Berlin projections make parties tremble: SPD and Greens bloom long election night
Update from February 12, 9:25 p.m .:
SPD and Greens must be prepared for a long election evening – the latest projections from ARD and ZDF continue to see a completely open race for second place in the Berlin House of Representatives.
In both variants, the parties are equal.
In the meantime, the assessment of the overall level of votes has also largely converged: Infratest dimap for ARD sees the SPD and Greens at 18.5 percent each.
The Wahlen research group puts the (still) coalition partner at 18.4 percent.
In the case of the FDP, on the other hand, hope is fading after the Berlin election: according to both sources, the Liberals are still well below the five percent hurdle.
It would be the next blow in a long series of lost state elections for Finance Minister Christian Lindner's party.
Update from February 12, 8:15 p.m .:
The answer to a key question in the Berlin election seems completely open two hours after the polling stations have closed: who will be the second strongest force and thus the possible leader of a mathematically conceivable alliance of SPD, Greens and Left?
The latest projections from ARD and ZDF now see the Greens and SPD tied for second place.
The figures are 18.6 and 18.2 percent respectively.
In the meantime, the FDP must prepare itself for going into the extra-parliamentary opposition.
At 4.6 and 4.7 percent respectively, the five percent hurdle is becoming increasingly distant.
This election result could mean new fuel for the traffic light coalition at the federal level.
Explosive projections for the Berlin election: is Giffey out of office?
Green Square 2 could change everything
Update from February 12, 7.40 p.m .:
The victory of the CDU in the Berlin election is now out of the question.
But new projections from ARD and ZDF leave an explosive question unanswered: will the Greens overtake the SPD and thus become a potential leader in a green-red-red left-wing alliance?
According to ARD data, the Greens and SPD are back in second place.
The ZDF sees the Greens only wafer-thin in front.
The numbers should probably still be treated with caution: the discrepancies between the data from infratest dimap (ARD) and the research group Wahlen (ZDF) are still unusually high.
The Greens and SPD rank at 18.7 percent on ARD and 0.3 to 0.4 percentage points lower on ZDF.
A “GroKo” could be a conceivable option, especially for a third-placed SPD;
Giffey has always been strangers to red-green-red.
The Greens, on the other hand, were repeatedly on a confrontation course with the Conservatives of lead candidate Kai Wegner during the election campaign.
Forecasts for the Berlin election on time?
There will probably be no major glitches this time
Update from February 12, 4:50 p.m .:
A first forecast for the Berlin election at 6:00 p.m. sharp – the Berliners can probably prepare themselves for that: As things stand, the House of Representatives election has so far been without major incidents and breakdowns, which should be the case the polling stations can close at 6 p.m. as planned.
The first forecasts are based on so-called exit polls, surveys of voters after they have left the polling station.
This data may only be published once voting has ended.
Around 6.30 p.m., ARD and ZDF, in cooperation with the institutes infratest dimap and research group Wahlen, then usually present the first projections based on the counts that are beginning.
A provisional final result for the Berlin election could be available late in the evening or during the night on Monday (February 13).
Results and forecasts for the Berlin election: open race to the end for Giffey and Co?
Preliminary report:
Berlin – Just 17 months after the most recent Berlin election, the time has come again: the residents of the capital are called to the polls.
The Berlin Constitutional Court declared the result of the September 2021 House of Representatives elections invalid after the election chaos.
A “repeat election” is now pending.
As a result, Berlin is breaking new ground: the electoral period does not begin anew, the legislature nominally continues.
And yet the election result will probably shake up political realities - the outcome should differ noticeably from the result of 2021, Franziska Giffey (SPD) has to worry about the Red Town Hall.
At least that's what the latest polls before election day indicate.
But which government alliance will it suffice for?
A prognosis is difficult.
Forecasts for the Berlin election hardly possible: polls at odds - many dissatisfied?
Strictly speaking, the institutes' election polls are not "forecasts" in the narrower sense anyway: they show an opinion at the time of their survey.
In Berlin, however, an additional problem could arise, as Forsa boss Manfred Güllner told
Merkur.de
: "I have never seen such displeasure as in Berlin at the moment," he emphasized.
"Here it can be that many say that I would now vote for this and that party, but still grumble about whether they will go at all."
At the same time, the results of the last surveys differed considerably.
The ZDF "political barometer" published on Friday saw the CDU with 25 percent well ahead of Giffey's SPD (21 percent) and the Greens (17 percent).
In the Sunday question of Civey's competition for
Spiegel
and
Tagesspiegel,
the CDU and SPD were only two percentage points apart: 24 and 22 percent were recorded here.
It could also be of importance for the coalition formation whether the FDP manages to jump over the five percent hurdle.
The "Politbarometer" saw the Liberals at 6 percent, Civey at 7 percent.
SPD | Green | CDU | left | AfD | FDP | Other | |
Berlin election 2021 | 21:4 | 18.9 | 18.0 | 14.1 | 8.0 | 7.1 | 9.1 |
Political Barometer (10.2.) | 21 | 17 | 25 | 11 | 10 | 6 | 10 |
Results of the Berlin election on Sunday evening: the polling stations close at 6 p.m., the first forecasts will follow
In any case, the Berlin state returning officer assumes, despite all the warnings, that there will be no renewed chaos in the polling stations.
How smoothly the vote is cast can also influence the time at which the preliminary final result is announced - and theoretically also the forecasts: Because numbers should actually only be made public when all the bars have closed.
This is nominally the case at 6 p.m.
In 2021, however, citizens had to wait much longer.
A result in the narrower sense can only be announced when the counts have been completed.
This can take a long time if logistical problems arise, as in the 2021 Berlin election.
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