The German states of Bavaria and Hesse vote in regional elections on Sunday, in what is widely being seen as a test-case for Germany’s shifting political landscape.

Just under a quarter of all eligible voters in Germany will be called upon to elect new state parliaments in Bavaria and Hesse next Sunday. But their opportunity to influence political events with ...

On Sunday, voters in the German states of Hesse and Bavaria went to the polls to select their new state parliament. Both states retained their CDU/CSU leaders, with the Bundestag’s main ...

The CSU, which has governed the state of Bavaria since 1957, gained just 37.3 percent of the vote and failed to gain an absolute majority. It was its worst result since 1950.

BERLIN — Bavaria will become Germany's first federal state to go into full lockdown, state premier Markus Söder announced Friday. From midnight, Bavarians will not be permitted to leave their homes ...

Locals lost faith in Germany's federal authorities when tens of thousands of refugees entered Bavaria in the summer of 2015. Now the southern state plans to reinstate its border guard.

The population of Bavaria is set to grow in the coming years - while also becoming more international. That's according to official estimates from the State Office for Statistics, which revealed ...

Prior to 2018, the CSU had only fallen short of an absolute majority in Bavaria’s state assembly once since 1954, when it missed the mark by just two seats in 2008.