In terms of increase of votes in comparison to the 2021 election for new state parliament in Baden-Wuerttemberg, the AfD is the big winner with an almost doubling of votes, receiving 18.8% in yesterday’s 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 the electorate viewed the economic crisis as the most important issue—way above the 16% that 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 losses of the SPD - which almost failed getting the minimum 5% level needed to re-enter to the state parliament - are most dramatic, cutting in half their 2021 level.
