Overview

• Potsdam voters are choosing between independent Noosha Aubel and SPD's Severin Fischer after neither won a majority in the first round.
• By 14:00 in Potsdam, 15.4% of the 143,046 eligible voters had cast in-person ballots, and 21.9% had applied for postal voting, according to the city’s election chief.
• Frankfurt (Oder) reports 22.2% in-person turnout of 46,234 eligible voters by 14:00, with more than 7,000 postal ballot documents issued, officials said.
• Eisenhüttenstadt’s runoff between AfD’s Maik Diepold and SPD’s Marko Henkel began with slower participation than in the first round, the local election office reported.
• The votes fill leadership vacuums created by Potsdam’s citizen-initiated removal of Mike Schubert in May and Frankfurt (Oder)’s search for a successor to René Wilke, while Eisenhüttenstadt’s winner will replace Frank Balzer.