Brutal defeat for SPD in elections in Schleswig-Holstein

In the state elections in the northern German state of Schleswig-Holstein, initial forecasts indicate a clear victory for the ruling Christian Democrats. According to calculations by the television stations ARD and ZDF, the CDU of the popular Prime Minister Daniel Günther comes to 41 to 43 percent (2017: 32.0 percent). The previously co-governing Greens improved to 17.0 to 19.5 percent (2017: 12.9 percent).

The opposition Social Democrats, who govern Germany at the federal level, fell to 15.5 to 16 percent (2017: 27.3 percent). This is the worst SPD result in this state so far. The SPD last provided the prime minister from 2012 to 2017.

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