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German regional elections test far-right AfD surge

Rank
Ran
5d
Updated
15d ago
Final
Outlets
28
Regions
5
Countries
19
Languages
11

+9

Where it travelled

The 19 countries whose press covered it; when each joined is no longer held. Open the live map

The regions

68%

  • Africa 1 outlet · 1 country · 3%
  • Americas 3 outlets · 2 countries · 11%
  • Asia-Pacific 2 outlets · 2 countries · 7%
  • Europe 19 outlets · 12 countries · 68%
  • Middle East 3 outlets · 2 countries · 11%

The figures

Coverage
28 outlets in 19 countries, across 5 regions. The article links are no longer held: they lasted a week past the story’s last article; the outlet list is permanent. Of the 28 outlets, 2 state-owned, 9 public-service, 17 private. A count of countries is not a count of independent press systems.
Countries by region
Africa 1: Senegal. Americas 2: Argentina, Costa Rica. Asia-Pacific 2: Malaysia, South Korea. Europe 12: Austria, Belgium, Czechia, France, Germany, Greece, Lithuania, Netherlands, Poland, Portugal, Romania, United Kingdom. Middle East 2: Qatar, Turkey. The region a country’s press publishes from, as the feed list files it; the outlets that publish from no single country count as one country under International.
Languages
Czech, German, Greek, English, Spanish, French, Lithuanian, Dutch, Polish, Portuguese, Romanian.
Timeline
Earliest article ČT24, 13 Sept 2026, 23:11 UTC. First seen 14 Sept 2026, 17:10 UTC. Last seen 20 Sept 2026, 11:45 UTC. The earliest article is the earliest claimed publication time among the outlets Loudest reads, a claim rather than an observation and not a record of who broke the story (the data files call it the lead article); first seen is when Loudest first fetched an article of it, from which the running time counts.
Classification
Region Europe, Germany. Topic Politics. Hard news Not judged. This story predates the hard-news rule (methodology 3.0). Whether the story is hard news under the rule in the methodology, judged from its headlines by a model; a story judged outside the rule is left off the map and kept here. The region and country are where the story is about, not where it was covered.
Score
9.97, at the end of the last day measured. One vote per general-press country and a smaller term for outlets, each counted from the moment it joined the story and fading on its own clock, so a late article does not renew the rest. A day in the archive keeps the score it was ranked by that day.
Chain
Continued by German regional elections: AfD surges in Mecklenburg, Left wins Berlin; AfD wins regional elections as Merz's CDU collapses. A story continues another when it resembled it as it began, past that story’s own 48-hour box.
Day by day

Outlets and countries are the story’s whole life as of that midnight; the 24-hour columns are that day’s own coverage; the last column is the methodology version the day was measured under, and a day that spans a change of version shows the first and last, linked to the changelog that lists every version between. A day marked partial is one Loudest read only in part: fewer than 130 of its 144 ten-minute runs, or more than 30 minutes missed at its start or end.

Day Rank Score Outlets Countries 24h outlets 24h countries Method
14 Sept 2026 (partial) 156 1.10 2 2 – – 1.0
15 Sept 2026 277 3.07 5 5 – – 1.0
16 Sept 2026 193 5.24 5 5 – – 1.2
17 Sept 2026 334 3.70 8 7 – – 1.2
18 Sept 2026 160 8.28 12 9 – – 1.3
19 Sept 2026 81 12.34 17 11 – – 1.4
20 Sept 2026 105 9.97 28 19 13 12 1.4 → 2.0

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How this was measured

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Started 14 Sept, 17:10 UTC · Updated 20 Sept, 11:45 UTC

Covered by 28 outlets

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Africa 1 outlet

  • Seneweb Senegal

Americas 3 outlets

  • Clarín Argentina
  • Infobae Argentina
  • La Nación (CR) Costa Rica

Asia-Pacific 2 outlets

  • Free Malaysia Today Malaysia
  • The Korea Herald South Korea

Europe 19 outlets

  • ČT24 Czechia
  • Der Spiegel Germany
  • Deutsche Welle Germany
  • Digi24 Romania
  • ERT Greece
  • France 24 France
  • Frankfurter Allgemeine Germany
  • Gazeta Wyborcza Poland
  • Le Monde France
  • Le Soir Belgium
  • Libération France
  • LRT Lithuania
  • NOS Netherlands
  • ORF Austria
  • RFI France
  • RTP Portugal
  • The Economist United Kingdom
  • The Independent United Kingdom
  • TVN24 Poland

Middle East 3 outlets

  • Al Jazeera Qatar
  • Anadolu Agency Turkey
  • Daily Sabah Turkey

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