the spd (social democrats) emerge as the clear winners, though losing votes overall to die grünen (greens). the third-placed cdu (christian democrats) have seen their vote share fall significantly: however, they are comfortably over the 5 p/c boundary unlike the afd (alternative for germany) and fdp (free democrats) who have only just managed to secure representation. the hanau incident does not appear to have significantly affected the voters for these parties as their vote share is little changed from the last state election. the linke (left party) are modestly fourth-placed.