ARD pre-election poll
Before the Berlin election: CDU increases lead in polls
Berlin will elect a new state parliament on February 12 because the last vote was invalid. The result depends on whether Franziska Giffey remains the governing mayor. photo
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There are still ten days until the parliamentary elections are repeated in Berlin. A recent survey by ARD sees the SPD well behind the CDU.
A good week before the repetition of the parliamentary elections in Berlin, the CDU is expanding its lead in the polls. According to a representative survey by infratest dimap on behalf of ARD published on Thursday, the CDU would get 25 percent if the elections were held this Sunday. The second strongest force would be the SPD with Prime Minister Franziska Giffey at 19 percent. The Greens would have 18, the Left 12, the AfD 10 and the FDP 6 percent. Other parties accounted for a total of 10 percent.
If the poll result were also the election result, mathematically different three-way alliances would be possible under the leadership of the CDU with top candidate Kai Wegner. Whether Wegner will actually succeed in forging a government alliance in the event of an election victory remains to be seen – according to the figures, the current coalition of SPD, Greens and Left could continue because they would still have a majority in the House of Representatives.
In the House of Representatives elections on September 26, 2021, the SPD achieved 21.4 percent. The Greens were in second place with 18.9 percent, followed by the CDU with 18.0 percent. At that time, the left received 14.1 percent, the AfD 8.0 and the FDP 7.1 percent. Because many problems and mistakes arose during the election, the Berlin Constitutional Court ordered a complete rerun, which will take place on February 12.
Election polls are generally subject to uncertainties. Among other things, declining party ties and increasingly short-term voting decisions make it difficult for the opinion research institutes to weight the data they collect. In principle, surveys only reflect the opinion at the time of the survey and are not a forecast for the outcome of the election.