Poll: The Left Is the Strongest Party in Berlin; the CDU Loses Ground:
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Left Party Tops Polls Ahead of Berlin State ElectionTwo months before the election, the Left leads with 20%, while CDU drops to 17%, losing ground since 2023.
- The Left Party leads the current Berlin poll with 20 percent support.
- The Greens come in second with 19 percent, followed by the AfD at 18 percent.
- The CDU, currently holding the mayor's office, falls to 17 percent and fourth place.
- The poll indicates the incumbent black-red coalition would lose its majority, with 78 percent dissatisfied with the Senate's performance.
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Left Party in the lead, CDU falls back: Wegner calls Berlin election poll a "warning signal for the city"
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Kai Wegner reacts to low poll numbers: “Warning signal for the city”: Kai Wegner (CDU), Governing Mayor of Berlin, speaks at the CDU Berlin party conference.
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Political bombshell before Berlin election: CDU completely collapses and lands only in fourth place
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Political bombshell before the Berlin election: CDU completely collapses and lands in fourth place
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Key FactsPoll puts Left Party ahead before Berlin election
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- In the Forsa survey for T-Online, the Left Party with lead candidate Elif Eralp polls at 22 percent, ahead of the CDU and AfD at 18 percent each, the Greens at 16 percent and the SPD at 12 percent; according to the stated figures, the data are representative with a margin of error of plus or minus three percentage points.
- According to the poll, BSW and FDP would receive 4 percent and 3 percent respectively and would therefore fail to enter the state parliament; a new House of Representatives will be elected on September 20.
- Berlin’s Governing Mayor Kai Wegner is not running again, so the CDU is putting forward Finance Senator Stefan Evers as its lead candidate.
- The poll indicates that forming the government would require more than a two-party coalition, with possible alliances including the Left Party, Greens and SPD or the CDU, Greens and SPD, while T-Online identified the first option as the most popular.
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- In the Civey voting-intention poll, the Left would receive 21 percent if voting took place on 9 August 2026, ahead of the CDU (19), AfD (18), Greens (17) and SPD (12).
- The FDP and BSW each receive three percent and would therefore currently fail to enter the House of Representatives.
- In a representative Insa poll published on 23 July, the AfD led with 19 percent, while the CDU and Left each received 18 percent.
- The report notes that polls reflect public opinion only at the time of questioning and are not forecasts of the election result.
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Election campaign chaos in Berlin: Hundreds of fines for poster violations - | and The Left Party leads in polls.
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- In a Civey survey of about 3,000 people conducted between 20 July and 3 August, Die Linke received 21%, the CDU 19%, the AfD 18%, the Greens 17% and the SPD 12%, while the FDP and BSW each stood at 3%.
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- After poster placement officially opened at noon on 2 August, Steglitz-Zehlendorf reported around 100 indications and 50 confirmed violations, while Marzahn-Hellersdorf cited 58 cases and expects fines of about €2,900.
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- Opposition parties criticized Wegner’s one-hour tennis break on the first day and his refusal to apologize so far.
You have massively damaged the trust in politics. An immediate apology would be the least you could do.— Elif Eralp, Left Party's top candidate for the September election, speaking in the state parliament
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