Germany's anti-immigration Alternativ fur Deutschland wins Saxony-Anhalt state election | Eastern NC Now

Germany's populist nationalist anti-immigration right Alternativ fur Deutschland (AfD) has scored a major win in the German state election in Saxony-Anhalt.  The AfD finished almost 30 points ahead of its nearest rivel, the traditional conservative Christian Democrats (CDU)1, which led the outgoing state government.  No other party finished in double digits.

A second anti-immigration party, this one of the left, also entered the state Landtag (parliament) for the first time..  The Block Sahra Wagenkrecht (BSW) is led by the former floor leader of the Left Party, who broke with that party over her opposition to mass migration, "woke" cultural issues, and climate alarmism.  On economic issues, however, the BSW is a party of the left. 

With 84% of the vote counted, AfD leads with 46.2%, followrf by the CDU at 16.3%.  The AfD has more than doubled its vote from the last state election when it received 19.8%..  The CDU, which received 36.9% in the last election, however, has lost more than half of its vote.

The populist left BSW is running in its first election on the state level in Saxony-Anhalt, is receiving 5.2% of the vote.

Among other parties crossing the 5% threshold to win seats, the Left Party (former East German Communist Party)  is on 8.2%, down almost 3 points from the last election, while the Social Democrats and Greens made very slight gains to 8.7%l each.

While the final seat allocation is unknown, AfD is on the knife edge of gaining a majority by itself.  If it does not, coalition building could get interesting.  One possibility is a right / left populist alliance between the SfD and BSW.  another is a conservative alliance between AfD and CDU.  The national CDU leadership is strongly opposed to an alliance with the AfD bit local CDU leaders have been vocal that they prefer that alliance to the alternative which would include teaming up with the ex-communist Left Party.  A grab bay coalition of all the other parties is the last possibility.

Preliminary seat allocation of the 83 seats in the sate landtag:  AfD 39 (+16), CDU 16 (-24); Social Democrats 8 (-1), Left Party 8 (-4); Green Party 8 (+2), BSW 4 (+4)

Two other German state;s will vote for their state elections later this month, Mecklenburg-Lower Pomerania and the state of Berlin.  AfD also holds a commanding lead in the polls in the former.

Saxony-Anhalt was created as a state after World War II.  It consists of the former Duchy of Anhalt plus the old Prussian province of Saxony, that had been a part of the Kingdom of Saxony, but ceded to Prussia in a peace treaty during the Napoleonic Wars.

https://europeanconservative.com/articles/news/afd-saxony-anhalt-growth-isolation-strategy-merz-cdu/

https://www.breitbart.com/europe/2026/09/06/afd-wins-historic-victory-in-saxony-anhalt-state-elections-but-german-establishment-may-keep-them-out-of-power/