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		</div><p>Final results confirmed a larger-than-expected win for Chancellor Angela Merkel’s party in the last German state election before a national vote in September.</p>
<p>The outcome offers a boost to Mrs Merkel’s would-be successor on the centre-right, though it was first and foremost a triumph for the popular state governor.</p>
<p>Mrs Merkel’s Christian Democratic Union won Sunday’s election in the eastern state of Saxony-Anhalt with 37.1% of the vote, far ahead of the far-right Alternative for Germany with 20.8%.</p>
<p>Pre-election polls had pointed to a much narrower outcome, in some cases even a neck-and-neck race.</p>
<p>The CDU gained over seven percentage points compared with the last election five years ago, while Alternative for Germany dropped 3.5 points.</p>
<p>Elections in Germany’s 16 states are often influenced by local issues and voting sentiments but are also seen as important bellwethers for the national mood.</p>
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<p>The vote in Saxony-Anhalt, a sparsely populated region of 2.2 million inhabitants, gives CDU leader Armin Laschet, the party’s candidate to succeed four-term chancellor Mrs Merkel in the national election, reason to celebrate after a bumpy start that included two defeats in state votes in March.</p>
<p>However, the outcome was widely viewed as the work of the state’s governor, who appears to have rallied voters behind him as a bulwark against Alternative for Germany, which is strongest in the formerly communist east.</p>
<p>The Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung daily commented Monday that “it wasn’t the party that was decisive in the triumph of the (Christian Democratic) Union, but one person: Reiner Haseloff”.</p>
<p>Sunday’s results were disappointing for the other two parties competing for the chancellery in the September 26 national election.</p>
<p>The centre-left Social Democrats took 8.4% of the vote, dropping into single digits for the first time in Saxony-Anhalt.</p>
<p>The environmentalist Greens scored 5.9%, making only minimal gains despite their current strong showing in national polls.</p>
<p>Mr Haseloff may no longer need them to form a state government after running Saxony-Anhalt for the past five years in a coalition with the Social Democrats and Greens.</p>
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