SPD clearly wins in Lower Saxony election – Green strong – FDP outside

The SPD clearly won the state elections in Lower Saxony. After counting all constituencies and publishing the provisional result on Sunday evening on the Internet, the Social Democrats, with the incumbent Prime Minister Stephan Weil, received 33.4 percent of the votes. The CDU came second with 28.1 percent. This is followed by the Greens with 14.5 percent and the AfD with 10.9 percent. Both the FDP with 4.7 percent and the left with 2.7 percent miss out on entering the state parliament in Hanover.