Polls have closed for Germans voting in Bavaria's state elections. Initial estimates by Germany's public broadcaster, the ARD, suggest the region's dominant conservative Social Union has lost its long-standing, outright grip on power.
The CSU is projected to have won 43 percent of the vote. In second, the Social Democrats are projected to have won 19 percent. They are seeking to form a broad coaltion with Greens, Liberal Democrats and an independent bloc, which have each won around 10 percent of the vote. The CSU, a sister party to Chancellor Angela Merkel's Christian Democratic Union, has held an absolute majority in Bavaria since 1962.
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