If the figures are correct, the CDU will improve its election result from the 2016 state election, when the party received 29.8 percent of the vote and formed a coalition with the Social Democrats (SPD) and the Greens.
AFD became the second largest party in that election.
Although the state is small in size, the election result in Saxony-Anhalt, located in the former East German part of the country, may have consequences on a larger scale. This is because it is the last state election before the autumn federal election and thus gives a clue as to where the CDU stands under the relatively newly elected party leader Armin Laschet.