Alice Weidel: AfD top candidate has no chance in her constituency

BERLIN LIVE Alice Weidel: AfD top candidate has no chance in her constituency Jonas Forster • 4 hours • 2 minutes reading time While the AfD achieved a brilliant result in the 2025 federal election, its top candidate Alice Weidel was clearly defeated in her constituency. Hers and other interesting results from the constituencies. The AfD's federal spokeswoman, Alice Weidel, did not manage to win her constituency. According to the preliminary result in constituency 293 on Lake Constance, Weidel received 20.34 percent. The clear winner of the constituency is Volker Mayer-Lay. The CDU politician received 40.07 percent. "Mission Silverlocke" was successful "Mission Silverlocke" was successful. Gregor Gysi, Bodo Ramelow and Dietmar Bartsch had set themselves the goal of each winning a direct mandate. They wanted to make it into the Bundestag in any case. Because to get into the Bundestag you need either five percent or three direct mandates. And lo and behold: they did it. Gregor Gysi won the "Treptow-Köpenick" constituency with an incredible 41.8 percent. Bodo Ramelow also won in his constituency 192 (Erfurt - Weimar - Weimarer Land II). After almost 300 of the 324 voting districts had been counted, Ramelow came in with 37 percent, well ahead of the AfD candidate, Alexander Claus, who received just under 27 percent. Virologist Streeck also made it into the Bundestag And Dietmar Bartsch can also celebrate. After 183 of 185 voting districts had been counted, he won the Rostock constituency with 28.5 percent. Behind him is the AfD politician Steffi Burmeister (24.5 percent). The well-known virologist Hendrik Streeck was able to win as a CDU candidate in his Bonn constituency - with 33.10 percent. The Green Party's Katrin Uhlig came in at a good 24 percent. Chancellor Olaf Scholz (SPD) also narrowly defended his constituency in Brandenburg with 21.7 percent, despite severe losses of 12.2 percentage points. Tabea Gutschmidt (CDU) came in second with 20.5 percent. What was particularly bitter was that the Green Party's Annalena Baerbock also ran in the same constituency, only coming in fourth with 15.9 percent.