Monday, June 10
How did Berlin vote in the European elections?
All across Europe, people took to the polls for the European elections on Sunday, and results in Berlin saw some shifts in the political map of the city. In comparison to 2019, the winners were the AfD, the BSW and the CDU, while there were losses from the Greens, the SPD and Die Linke. The main results were as follows:
- Greens: 19.6%
- CDU: 17.6%
- SPD: 13.2%
- AfD: 11.6%
- BSW: 8.7%
- Die Linke: 7.3%
Although the Greens remain the largest party in Berlin, they suffered considerable losses, with a -8.3% drop since the 2019 vote. The CDU gained slightly in that same time (+2.4%) while the 13.2% shared by the SPD represented their worst result to date in a European election in Berlin.
Broadly speaking, the map of Berlin was coloured black in the West (where the CDU was the largest party in three districts), Green in the middle and blue for the AfD in the east – but this big picture was complicated with some interested details. The BSW (Sahra Wagenknecht’s party which recently split off from Die Linke) seemed to limit what could have been an even larger success for the AfD. With vote shares of 17.1% in Marzahn, 15.2% in Lichtenberg and 14% in Treptow, their successes were not limited to the east. In fact, they won more that 5% of the vote in all of Berlin’s 12 districts.
As for Die Linke, they only came first in one district: Neukölln. This area also saw notable results for MeRa25, the movement of former Greek finance minister Yanis Varoufakis, which achieved 7.9 percent in the area of southern Sonnenallee.
