Alternative fur Deutschland (AfD) has fallen short of the outright majority needed to govern alone - but it secured 43.8% of the vote compared with the conservative CDU's 17.2%

Exit polls show it winning 44% of vote, but too early to tell if victory will pave way for country's first far-right state government since WWII, as all major parties have ruled…

The far-right Alternative for Germany party has surged to a resounding victory in a regional election