 However, a truer picture of the SED's support was revealed in Berlin, which was still undivided.The Berlin SPD managed to preserve its independence and, running on its own, polled 48.7% of the vote while the SED, with 19.8%, was third in the voting behind the SPD and the CDU.In May 1949, elections were held in the Soviet zone for the German People's Congress to draft a constitution for a separate East German state.