AfD took 43.8% and 39 of 83 seats in Saxony-Anhalt — three short of a majority — in preliminary official results, according to DW and AP. CDU fell to 17.2% with zero direct mandates. Turnout was about 78%.
Germany’s far-right Alternative for Germany (AfD) topped Sunday’s Saxony-Anhalt state election with 43.8% of the vote and 39 seats in the 83-seat Landtag — three seats short of a majority — according to preliminary official results on DW and AP via NBC News. It is the first time a far-right party has topped a German state vote since World War II. Mainstream parties’ “political firewall” still blocks coalition with AfD.
Chancellor Friedrich Merz’s CDU took 17.2% and 15 seats — its worst Saxony-Anhalt result since reunification — and won zero of 41 direct mandates. SPD 9.3%, Greens 8.9%, and the Left 8.6% won eight seats each. BSW took 5.3% and five seats. The FDP polled 2.6% and is out. Turnout was about 78% (AP: 77.8%), the highest in the state since reunification.
AfD lead candidate Ulrich Siegmund called the result a clear mandate to govern and said he currently saw no coalition partners, while leaving open that individual lawmakers could break — or, in a worst case, new elections. National CDU general secretary Franziska Hoppermann, on the AP wire, said AfD “wants to leave the euro” and “works closely together with Russia,” restating the firewall. Those lines are attributed on that wire.
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