As the Social Democrats have managed to edge ahead of the AfD in the Brandenburg vote, we look at the big winners and losers and what happens next.

However, questions about the future of Germany's ruling coalition remain.It was "only" a regional election and Brandenburg, with its 2.1 million eligible voters, is only one of Germany's 16 federal states.

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.