In terms of increase of votes in comparison to the 2021 election for new state parliament in Baden-Württemberg, the AfD is the big winner with almost a doubling of its votes, receiving 18.8% in the March 8 election. Whereas voters from all other parties migrated to the rightwing AfD, the biggest such migration occurred with the labor vote, which quit the SPD and supported the AfD. That resonates with the fact that, as the Infrastest polling team found before the election, 29% of voters viewed the economic crisis as the most important issue—way above the 16% who thought so of the climate issue.
Official winners of the election are the Greens, with 30.3%, followed by the CDU with 29.7%, the AfD with 18.8%, the SPD with 5.5%. The SPD losses—which almost failed to get the minimum 5% needed to enter to the state parliament—are most dramatic, cutting in half their 2021 level.
