By Julian Loevenich
There will probably be no recount of the votes! That said state returning officer Stephan Bröchler (61) on Monday. The SPD is ahead of the Greens by 105 votes. “But at the moment we have no indications that there will be a recount,” said Bröchler.
Because: The electoral law only provides for a review if there are concrete indications of a wrong result, for example due to counting errors. “A close result doesn’t fall under that,” explained Bröchler’s deputy, Roland Brumberg.
Overall, the election went largely smoothly. Bröchler: “There was only a series of low-threshold incidents,” said Bröchler. One electoral board overslept, “but his deputy stepped in until he was there.”
Overall turnout was 63 percent. In 2021, 75.4 percent of those eligible to vote had voted. The CDU got the most direct mandates at 48. “That’s a great value,” says Bröchler. This is followed by the Greens with 20 direct mandates, the SPD and the Left Party each won four constituencies, and the AfD two.
In Temepelhof-Schoeneberg 7, Christian Zander fought for the biggest lead with 30.1 percent over the runner-up. However, the race in Lichtenberg 3 was extremely close: Dennis Haustein (CDU) won with a 0.1 percent lead over Claudia Engelmann from the left.