Sunday's vote followed a heated election campaign centred on the issues of migration, internal security and peace.

The Social Democrats of Chancellor Olaf Scholz have won an election in the eastern German state of Brandenburg. They gained a ...

Brandenburg is a longstanding stronghold for the party. But it is located in Germany’s relatively impoverished east, where ...

The narrow win by Olaf Scholz’s party came in a state election, the third in a series that was seen as a reflection of the ...

The SPD, which has governed the state surrounding the capital Berlin since reunification in 1990, scored 30.9% of the vote, ...

Germany has avoided having a far-right party as the strongest force in a second state on Sunday, just weeks the anti-migrant ...

German Chancellor Olaf Scholz's Social Democrats narrowly beat the far-right AfD in a state election Sunday in the formerly ...

German Chancellor Olaf Scholz’s Social Democrats (SPD) looked set to fend off the far right in a state election in ...

After strong showings in two other state elections in eastern Germany, the far-right, anti-immigrant Alternative for Germany ...

Alternative for Germany (AfD) is the first far-right political party to win a state election in Germany since World War II.

The AfD, classed as suspected right-wing extremist by German intelligence services, is predicted to win less than a third of ...

First projections in state elections in the eastern German state of Brandenburg give the Social Democrats a slim lead over ...