… 2018 and wouldn’t seek reelection as chancellor in 2021. The 2018 setbacks were preceded by significant losses … elections. In Bavaria, the vote for the CSU dropped by 10.5 percentage points, from 47.7 percent in 2013 to 37.2 … Brandenburg, the CDU vote fell from 23 percent in 2014 to 15.6 percent, while the vote for the AfD nearly doubled, from …