The far-right Alternative for Germany (AfD) is predicted to come first in an election in Brandenburg on Sunday, seeking to build on gains in other eastern states this month and beat Chancellor Olaf Scholz's Social Democrats in a traditional stronghold.

A state election is taking place in Brandenburg three weeks after a far-right party made gains in two other states in eastern Germany.

An exit poll shows Germany's Social Democrats with a slight edge over a far-right party in a state election in Brandenburg. The election took place on Sunday, three weeks after

Olaf Scholz’s Social Democrats appear to have held off a strong challenge from the far-right Alternative for Germany to retain power in the eastern region of Brandenburg, sparing the chancellor and his party another embarrassing electoral setback.

Following AfD’s victory in Thuringia, race in one of smallest German states in terms of population becomes focus of attention

Germans in the state of Brandenburg were voting in a regional election on Sunday with the far-right Alternative for Germany (AfD) expected to finish first, building on successes in other eastern states and beating Chancellor Olaf Scholz's Social Democrats in one of their traditional strongholds.

Exit polls in the eastern German state of Brandenburg gave the ruling centre-left Social Democrats (SPD) a narrow lead over the far-right Alternative for Germany in Sunday's state parliamentary elections.

German Chancellor Olaf Scholz's Social Democrats narrowly beat the far-right AfD in a state election Sunday in the formerly communist east, initial projections by public broadcasters said.

Germans began casting ballots Sunday for a regional election in a formerly communist eastern state where the far-right AfD party is narrowly ahead in opinion polls.The anti-immigration Alternative for Germany has long railed against Chancellor Olaf Scholz's unpopular coalition government,