The AfD lost the runoff election for the district office in the Saale-Orla district in eastern Thuringia. The CDU candidate Christian Herrgott prevailed on Sunday against AfD man Uwe Thrum.
The AfD is hoping for its second district administrator post in Germany after Robert Sesselmann in Sonneberg in the rural and low-income district. In total, over 66,000 people in the district are eligible to vote. Voter turnout was around 66 percent, twice as high as in the last district election in 2018. In the first round of voting, Thrum dominated with 45.7 percent of the vote.