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

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

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, ...

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

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

A state election is taking place in Brandenburg three weeks after a far-right party made gains in two other states in eastern ...

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 ...