In Sunday’s elections in the German Federal Country of North Rhine-Westphalia, according to preliminary final results, 33.3 percent of Christian Democrats (CDU) won. The Social Democrats (SPD) with a profit of 22.1 percent came second, an alternative to Germany (AfD) won 14.5 percent of the vote. According to the DPA report, TASR reports this. The fourth most successful party was green with a profit of 13.5 percent, the fifth left won 5.6 percent and the Free Democratic Party (FDP) achieved a result of 3.7 percent. The biggest slump was recorded by the Greens, which were voted in 2020 by 20 percent of voters.
Almost 14 million voters in North Rhine-Westphalia chose their local representatives on Sunday. In addition to the Land Parliament, they also decided who will keep 396 seats for the next five years and who will sit in 31 local boards.
Elections in the most populous state of the country were considered the first mood of the mood of voters after the National Elections in February. He has been in North Rhine-Westphalia’s CDU since 1999. He is currently in a coalition with the Green.
North Rhine-Westphalia is considered to be an industrial base of Germany and contains large cities such as Düsseldorf, Cologne, Dortmund, Bonn and Essen. Almost 14 million citizens may vote in this state of country, which is about a fifth of all eligible voters in Germany.
