Germany’s AfD has recorded its strongest state-election performance since World War II, winning 39 of 83 seats in Saxony-Anhalt. Here are four key takeaways from the far-right party’s historic breakthrough and the political challenge it creates.

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A far-right party, known as the AfD, is projected to finish first in the German state of Saxony-Anhalt but lacked a majority that would make it the first far-right party to govern part of the coutnry since the Nazi era.

Alternative for Germany failed to secure an absolute majority in the state legislature to govern alone and overcome the so-called firewall of mainstream parties' refusal to work with AfD.

BERLIN—Germany’s Alternative for Germany scored a historic victory at a regional election on Sunday but it was unclear whether it would secure enough support to form Germany’s first far-right government since World War II,