A PARTIAL rerun of Germany’s 2021 election in Berlin brought a decline in support for the governing parties and cost one of them a seat in parliament, official results showed today.

The repeat election was held Sunday in 455 of 2,256 precincts in the capital, which account for only 0.9 per cent of the national electorate.

Germany’s highest court in December ruled that certain districts had to rerun their vote because of they had run out of ballot papers or received the wrong ones during the September 2021 election.