Muslim Voters Determine Outcome of Elections in Germany and Sweden
Recent elections in Germany and Sweden confirm that the Muslim population in Europe has reached a point where it can now determine electoral outcomes.
Muslim Voters Determine Outcome of Elections in Germany and Sweden
Soeren Kern | Ideological Defense Institute | October 19, 2026
Muslim voters have propelled leftwing parties to recent electoral victories in Germany and Sweden. The voting patterns reveal growing cooperation between Muslim voters and the political left in municipal, regional, and national elections. They also confirm that the Muslim population in Europe has reached a point where it can now determine electoral outcomes.
In Germany, Die Linke (The Left), a hard-left party (the direct successor to the East German Communist Party) that is openly antisemitic, anti-Zionist, and pro-Palestinian, won the most seats in the September 20 election in Berlin, the German capital. The Left Party trounced the mainstream center-left Social Democrats and the center-right Christian Democrats by significant margins thanks to strong support from Muslim voters.
Fifty-one percent of Muslim voters in Berlin cast their ballots for the Left Party, according to exit polls conducted by the research group Wahlen. Another 17 percent of Muslim voters cast their ballots for a party called Bündnis Sahra Wagenknecht (BSW), an offshoot of the Left Party. In total, 82 percent of Muslim voters cast their ballots for left-wing parties.
In an interview with the Berliner Zeitung, Sharjil Khalid, imam of the Khadija Mosque in Berlin, encapsulated the true meaning of the Muslim vote in Berlin: “If we look at the demographic trends, it’s clear that Muslims represent the future of this country.”
Passports for Votes?
Berlin’s Muslim population is estimated to be around 400,000, or roughly 10 percent of the city’s total population of four million. Muslim voters comprise at least eight percent of eligible voters and that number is certain to grow. In 2025, close to 40,000 immigrants in Berlin were given German citizenship, an 80 percent increase over 2024, when around 22,000 people were naturalized, according to official statistics. In 2025, Syrians and Turks constituted the largest groups of those in Berlin who were given German citizenship—and with that the right to vote.
The Left Party campaigned on a pledge to naturalize more immigrants from the Muslim world. It promised a comprehensive migration and naturalization reform that includes the legal right to German citizenship after five years of residence and lower income requirements. The party also called for “state-level reception programs” for immigrants from Afghanistan, Gaza, Iraq, Lebanon, Sudan, and Syria.
Günter Krings, a lawmaker with the Christian Democrats, accused the Left Party of seeking to give away passports in exchange for votes:
“The Left Party believes that mere residence in Germany is enough to become a citizen of our country: without income, without a language test, regardless of any integration. As if there were an inherent right to a German passport. This will predictably lead to naturalization in parallel societies and reliance on social welfare. A cynic might suspect ulterior motives—there are hard-nosed power interests behind this: The Berlin Left Party is banking on attracting new, grateful voter groups.”
Hermann Binkert, head of the INSA polling institute, said that the Left Party’s electoral success would have been impossible without the Muslim vote. In an interview with Bild, Germany’s largest-circulation newspaper, he said:
“Parties that are left-of-center benefit in elections from the naturalization of Muslims because these voters vote disproportionately for the Left Party, the Greens, and the Social Democrats. This applies to elections at all levels. In the recent Berlin state elections, the Left Party achieved an absolute majority among Muslim voters. It received twice as much support from this group as it did from the general electorate. The Left Party’s great success in Berlin would not have been possible without Muslim voters.”
The Left’s Embrace of Antisemitism
In Berlin, which has the largest Jewish community in Germany, candidates from the Left Party campaigned in Arabic and Turkish on pro-Muslim identity politics and a staunchly anti-Israel agenda. While chanting the Palestinian terrorist battle cry “Yalla, Yalla Intifada” (Arabic for Let’s go, uprising) and “Death to the IDF,” they courted the Muslim vote by focusing on the war in Gaza and the “apartheid,” “genocide,” and other “war crimes” allegedly committed by Israel.
After winning the election, the Left Party celebrated its success alongside Berlin’s most notorious clan leader, Issa Remmo, head of the Lebanese Arab organized crime family. His presence at the victory celebration confirmed suspicions that leaders of clans and mosques encouraged Muslims to vote en masse for the left.
Remmo was accompanied by the anti-Israel activist Ibrahim Ibrahim, a vocal supporter of the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (PFLP), which the European Union lists as a terrorist organization. Ibrahim once described Yahya Sinwar, the slain Hamas mastermind of the October 7 attacks, as a “steadfast leader” and a “martyr hero.”
In an interview with Focus magazine, the Israeli-Arab extremism expert Ahmad Mansour explained the Left Party’s antisemitic drift:
“After the death of George Floyd in the United States in 2020, identity politics gained traction within the left. According to them, the white majority society supposedly oppresses all migrants—all Muslims. Then Hamas attacked Israel, and suddenly the members were arguing about Israel. Now the dominant party in Berlin embraces postcolonial ideology, which sees and demonizes Israel as the last colonial project and views the Palestinians solely as victims. Party members refused to call Hamas terrorists. This quickly turned into antisemitism.”
Berlin Follows Sweden and France
A similar scene emerged during the September 13 general elections in Sweden, where a coalition of left-leaning parties beat their center-right competitors by only 50,000 votes. The deciding ballots were cast by Muslim voters. Since 2020, Sweden, a country with a population of around 10.7 million, has naturalized more than 1.2 million people, mostly from Muslim countries including Syria, Iraq, Somalia, Iran, Afghanistan, Eritrea, and Turkey, according to official statistics. Sweden’s Muslim population now constitutes approximately 10 percent of the country’s total population.
In a Novus poll conducted for Fokus magazine less than a month before the election, 85 percent of Muslim voters in Sweden said they would cast their ballots for one of Sweden’s three leftwing parties: the center-left Social Democrats, the far-left Left Party, or the Greens. In some immigrant neighborhoods, support for left-wing parties reaches 90 percent.
The Left Party (Vänsterpartiet), the Swedish equivalent of the German Left Party, was particularly active in courting Muslims: it distributed election materials in Arabic, and it also ran an online campaign specifically geared toward Muslim voters. One of the slogans was: “If you don’t want them to force you to take off your veil, the solution is: vote for the Left Party.”
In France, meanwhile, Jean-Luc Mélenchon, leader of the left-wing populist party La France Insoumise (LFI, Unbowed France), is working to create the largest Islamo-Leftist party in Europe. Known for his fiercely anti-Israel rhetoric, he has long been accused of using antisemitic tropes to attract Muslim votes.
Sixty-two percent of Muslim voters cast their ballots for LFI in the last European elections in 2024, with over 80 percent citing the war in Gaza as the decisive factor in their vote, according to an Ifop poll published by the news outlet La Croix.
During a recent speech at Institut La Boétie, a think tank linked to the LFI, he declared: “If you are counting on white Catholic workers to bring about socialism in France, it is not going to happen.” The inference was that he needs to import voters from the Muslim world to build his woke utopia.
Muslim Voters Become Kingmakers
German-American lawyer and political commentator Andrew Hammel noted that the recent elections in Berlin “again confirmed” that Muslims in Germany have “reached a critical mass as a self-sustaining voting bloc.” He said this was already the case in many high-immigration cities in Western Germany “and we’ll continue to see it solidify.” He added that Denmark has managed to cap Muslim immigration “to a point where Muslim-affiliated parties cannot be king-makers or spoilers at the national level.” Hammel said the “entrenchment of Muslims as a unified bloc” will make serious immigration reform “a non-starter” with mainstream parties because they will seek avoid adopting policies that encourage more Muslims to vote for leftwing parties.
The Swiss political commentator Daniel Rickenbacher, writing in the Neue Zürcher Zeitung, warned that Muslim-Leftist alliance will have a massive impact on the future of liberal democracy in Europe:
“For a long time, Europe clung to the illusion that the large waves of immigration in recent years would have no consequences for domestic politics. The elections in Berlin and Sweden show that the new demographics are changing democracy. The influence of naturalized Muslims, in particular, is increasing—and the left is profiting greatly from this. With its identity politics, it is courting nationalist and Islamist voters among Muslims. Its main issues: the war in Gaza and the culture war.”
In an opinion article, “We Will All Pay A Heavy Price for This,” Ulf Poschardt, deputy editor of Die Welt, summarized Europe’s predicament:
“In Sweden, one can see that demographics prevent future conservative and bourgeois majorities. In the end, Islamic minorities decide the election outcome. Anyone who knows the demographics of a city like Berlin and sees how school classes in some neighborhoods now must make do without Christians and native German speakers senses where this journey is headed.”
Soeren Kern is a fellow at the Ideological Defense Institute. Follow him on Substack at: https://islamicgeopolitics.substack.com/
