The Alternative for Germany (AfD) managed to get 13.5% and is thus getting into the parliament. The Free Democratic Party (FDP) will also be part of the government with 10.5%, the left-wing party (Die Linke) got 9.0%, the Green Party (Grüne) 9.5% - all numbers are preliminary at the moment.

For the first official projections the areas who have finished counting already are being used to calculate first results in relation to the last elections. Once all the polling stations are closed at 6pm there will be detailed counting.

During the last elections in 2013 the CDU/CSU got 41.5%, the Social Democrats were at 25.7% back then, the Linke had 8.6% and the Green Party 8.4%. Both FDP and AfD could not climb the 5-%-barrier which keeps parties from entering parliament in Germany.

The AfD managed to motivate approximately 1.2 million people who have been non-voters before. Of all the elected parties the AfD was the one who got the most votes from people who voted „out of frustration“, not out of conviction.

Eligible to vote were 61.5 million German citizens. They could choose between 42 parties and 4828 candidates, divided up into the individual constituencies.

A third of the people in Bonn have voted per postal vote, approximately 67,000 voters in total. 1,207 young people in Bonn were allowed to vote for the first time in their life. More than 2,000 poll clerks worked in 33 districts in Bonn.

(Original text: General-Anzeiger/dpa / Translation: Mareike Graepel)