Green inner city, black outer ring. The second vote results of the districts show the political division of the city more clearly than ever. The SPD suffers losses throughout Berlin.
Landslide victory of the CDU
The clear election victory of the CDU in this repeat election is reflected in the districts. The party was able to improve its result in all districts compared to the 2021 election. She gained the most in Lichtenberg. Here she was able to improve her result (as of 10:30 p.m.) from 13.9 percent to 25.5. At the same time, it replaced the SPD as the strongest force in the district.
The CDU got its strongest results in Spandau and Reinickendorf with 39.3 and 39.9 percent respectively. The party in Friedrichshain-Kreuzberg got the worst result with 13.4 percent. Overall, the party was able to win the second vote result in nine districts, in 2021 it only succeeded in four.
The SPD does not lose much, but steadily
The SPD is the big loser in this election. The party even undercut its historically poor result from 2021 in the repeat election. The party of the still governing mayor Franziska Giffey lost votes in all districts. Often not very many. In many districts, the result was two, three, four percentage points below that of 2021. The problem was that the party could not gain anywhere.
The losses were greatest in Neukölln, where the governing mayor also lost her direct mandate (see page B9). In 2021, the SPD will still achieve 27.2 percent here, in 2023 only 21.1 percent. The SPD was no longer the strongest force in any district in 2023, in 2021 it was still able to do so in four districts. The SPD recorded its worst result with 14.3 percent in Friedrichshain-Kreuzberg.
The Greens remain stable
The Greens were able to confirm their result from 2021 not only in the entire city area, but also in the individual districts. In some, like Steglitz-Zehlendorf and Spandau, they lost a few percentage points, in others like Neukölln, Treptow-Köpenick and Marzahn-Hellersdorf they gained slightly.
As in 2021, the Greens were the strongest in the inner-city districts of Mitte and Friedrichshain-Kreuzberg. In their stronghold of Friedrichshain-Kreuzberg, the Greens gained 1.2 percentage points and ended up with 33.5 percent shortly before the end of the count. There were light casualties in Pankow, as were in Tempelhof-Schoeneberg and Charlottenburg-Wilmersdorf. In Pankow, where the party was still at the top a year and a half ago with 23.3 percent, the Greens lost slightly (22.7), but were still the strongest force.
FDP fails in nine districts
The fact that the FDP will probably just fail at the five percent hurdle is also evident in the districts. Here the situation is even clearer. Only in three districts, Steglitz-Zehlendorf, Reinickendorf and Charlottenburg-Wilmersdorf, did the party climb above 5 percent. In 2021 it was exactly the opposite. At that time, the FDP only failed at the hurdle in Friedrichshain-Kreuzberg.
The FDP achieved its best result with 8 percent in Steglitz-Zehlendorf, in 2021 the party still got 11 percent. Nevertheless, the losses should be particularly painful for the FDP here. In Charlottenburg-Wilmersdorf, for example, the party lost more than three percentage points compared to 2021. In Steglitz-Zehlendorf, the home district of FDP top candidate Sebastian Czaja, the Liberals still got 11 percent in 2021.
AfD and Linke with results similar to 2021
As in the previous elections, AfD and Linke remain strong, especially in the east of the city. The left achieved its strongest result in Friedrichshain-Kreuzberg with 21.1 percent. In Spandau and Reinickendorf, on the other hand, the party would have failed at the five percent hurdle. She also achieved above-average results in Mitte, Pankow, Lichtenberg, Treptow-Köpenick, Marzahn-Hellersdorf and Köpenick.
As in 2021, the AfD was able to record its best election result in Marzahn-Hellersdorf. Contrary to the trend in Berlin, the party even gained a little here, from 16.2 to 19 percent. The AfD achieved its worst result in Friedrichshain-Kreuzberg (3.7). It also performed poorly in the west, with 5.3 percent in Charlottenburg-Wilmersdorf and 5.3 percent in Steglitz-Zehlendorf.
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