🇩🇪 German state & local elections

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why is the SPD stronger in Brandenberg than in most of the rest of East Germany? Berlin exurbia?

also do the AFD strong local election results in the east mean they run any councils now?

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Would it be completely out of the question for the AfD to give passive support to the FDP and CDU or would even trying that cause too much of a crisis? Is the CDU putting any feelers out for potential agreements on the "broader right"?

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Tbh I think the fact the AfD's support is significant even without a key leader is best for them in the long run. The fact that UKIP only really had Garage as a public face kind of capped their staying power, whilw afd has proven resilient through several leadership changes.

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Why do the SDP do so strongly in M-V (and Brandenburg) relative to other eastern Lander anyway?

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Is this the first time AfD has not been elected to a state parliament since the refugee crisis?

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Per exit polls; Greens eating sh-t on transportation situation, SPD eating sh-t on housing 😬

What does this mean in practice? Voters want more car-centric urbanism and more laissez faire Housing policies? Or is it just disagreement with the nitty gritty of how RRG has handled these issues?

Edit: what parties have got the blame for the Brandenburg Airport shambles over the past decade?

Wowereit, but that's long ago.

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Why do the Greens oppose expanding subways?

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Tagesspiegel has identified an electoral curiosity - a crossroads in Berlin where four different precincts meet which have voted CDU, SPD, Greens, and Left respectively.





It's also directly located at the border between the localities of Prenzlauer Berg (southwest - the SPD/Left areas) and Weißensee (northeast - the CDU/Green areas), both in the borough of Pankow.

Long ago, the four nations lived together in harmony. Then everything changed when the afd Nation attacked