If elections were held today, the AfD would be the second most voted party, according to polls. The AfD has disproportionate support in the formerly communist and less prosperous states of eastern Germany.
The party's appeal is especially strong among men – about two-thirds of its voters are male – and, increasingly, among younger voters. The Thuringian branch of AfD is especially radicalized and under surveillance by the national intelligence service as a "proven far-right group" and "monument of Germany's Nazi past"