Trump hailed the result as a "GREAT DAY FOR GERMANY," while the far-right AfD party that Elon Musk has championed made historic gains.

While the result isn't a surprise, the fragile process of coalition building as well as the number of issues on the next government's in tray means the path to power isn't easy.

The exit polls for ARD and ZDF public television show Chancellor Olaf Scholz’s center-left Social Democrats on track for their worst postwar result in a national parliamentary election ...

hailed the party's best-ever national election result Sunday after exit polls gave it 19.5 to 20 percent of the vote. "We have achieved a historic result," Weidel told cheering supporters at the ...

Despite the strong result, the AfD is set to stay out of power for now, because its possible coalition partners refuse all cooperation with the far right. If the exit polls are confirmed in the ...

Exit polls have placed AfD high in the tallies of the high-stakes election - but full results are expected on Monday morning. Leader of AfD Alice Weidel, praised her party's best-ever national ...

German Chancellor Olaf Scholz conceded defeat for his center-left Social Democrats after what he called 'a bitter election result.' ...

Chancellor Olaf Scholz’s Social Democrats (SPD) tumbled to their worst result since World War II, with 16.5% of the vote share, according to the ZDF exit poll. The Greens were on 12% while the ...

Millions voted for a new federal government after the country's three-party coalition fell apart at the end of last year.

Meanwhile, the updated exit polls showed a slightly lower expected result for the leading party, the CDU/CSU, which is now projected to win with 28.8%. The SPD, which came top in the last election ...