Projections: German governing parties punished in state vote
In a state election on Sunday, projections based on exit polls and partial counting gave German Chancellor Angela Merkel's Christian Democratic Union 27-28 percent support and coalition partners, the center-left Social Democrats, about 20 percent. When Hesse last elected its state legislature in 2013, they won 38.3 and 30.7 percent, respectively. That would be the worst result in the region for the