Mecklenburg:: Alternativ fuer Deutschland (AfD) 38.2% (up 21.5); Social Democrats (SPD) 25.5%; Linke 6.5%; Green 5.7%; Christian Democrats (CDU) 4.9% (down 8.4); Bundnis Sara Wagenknecht (BSW) 4.7%.

Berlin: Linke 25.7% (up 11.6); CDU 18.8%; AfD 16.3%; Greens 14.3%; SPD 12.1%; BSW 4.8%.

Voter participation was higher than in the last election: In Mecklenburg-Vorpommern (MVP) 78.1% turnout (up 8); in Berlin 74.2% (up 11)—in both cases, the election winners attracted non-voters massively, as well as young or first-time voters.

Dmitri Peskov, Russia’s Presidential spokesman, had this comment: “The decline in the competitiveness of the German economy is largely due to Germany’s decision to stop buying cheap Russian gas and instead purchase much more expensive gas from other countries, primarily the United States, at times paying several times more on the spot market…. Naturally, Germans, or at least some of them, are looking for an alternative to the current authorities in order to improve their situation. That is a natural process.”