Germany results show east-west split

Friedrich Merz’s CDU/CSU conservatives dominated almost all of the
constituencies in Germany’s south and west, while the far-right AfD
prevailed in the former communist east


CONSTITUENCY RESULTS

Showing leading party
in second vote*

CDU-CSU
Christian Democrats-
Christian Social Union
(conservative)

AfD: Alternative
for Germany (far-right)

SPD
Social Democrats
(centre-left)

Greens

Die Linke
(left-wing)


Hamburg
Cologne
Dortmund
Frankfurt
Leipzig
Berlin
Munich

*Each voter elects
constituency candidate with
their first vote and party list
with their second vote.
Second vote determines
percentage of seats each
party gets in parliament


Sources: BBC, Federal Returning Officer, The Guardian, Wikimedia Commons 
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