At a meeting in the Rotes Rathaus, the Berlin State Election Commission certified the final results of the September 20 election.
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The new Berlin House of Representatives is slightly smaller than initially expected immediately after the election on September 20.
This is evident from the official election results, which the State Election Commission certified in a public session. According to those results, the parliament has 153 seats. Initially, the election commission had estimated there would be 158 seats.
The reason for the change is an error in the transmission of election results in Spandau’s Constituency 1, which had already come to light more than a week ago. A recount revealed that AfD candidate Tommy Tabor received the most first-choice votes there and thus won the direct seat, not CDU candidate Bettina Meißner. With the final results now confirmed, it is official that, following the recalculation of compensatory and overhang seats, the CDU, the Greens, and the SPD each have one fewer seat in parliament than originally thought, while The Left has two fewer. The change has no impact on potential coalition possibilities.
According to official results, Die Linke emerged as the largest party in the election held just over three weeks ago, with 25.7 percent of the vote. It was followed by the CDU (18.8 percent), the AfD (16.3 percent), the Greens (14.3 percent), and the SPD (12.1 percent). In the new parliament, Die Linke holds 45 of the 153 seats, the CDU holds 33 seats, and the AfD holds 29 seats. The Greens have 25 representatives and the SPD has 21. The State Election Commission consists of State Election Commissioner Stephan Bröchler, two judges from the Higher Administrative Court, and six eligible voters nominated by the political parties.