Chancellor Angela Merkel's embattled Christian-Democratic Union Party (CDU) suffered its worst loss ever in the left-leaning German city of Hamburg, sliding to third place behind the Greens.
The Social-Democrats (SPD) remained the strongest party in Hamburg with a 39.1% share of the votes, despite losing 8%.
Merkel's CDU only garnered 11.2% of the vote, representing a drop of 4.7% from the last election. CDU conceded second place in the city to the Greens, who seem to have grabbed the combined losses of the aforementioned two parties, almost doubling their share of the vote to 24.2% in the city-state.
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