the german chancellor angela americaels conservatives have lost in two out of three state elections onunday. polls closed at 17 gmt. so just 15 minutes ago and the first results have already started to come through. state contests were held sunday's vote was seen as a big test for merkel's open-door policy to refugees. live now to dominic kane, from the state capitol. dominic, take us through what we know. it doesn't look good for merkel at the moment. >> results are coming in provisionally. first projected vote results. the cdu has emerged at the launchest party with 29 per of the vote. surprisingly, the right-wing populist party, the afd appears to have got around 23% of the vote. almost a quarter. people who turned out appear to have voted for the alternative for german party. a statement from a broad section of society about the policy, the asylum policy, the refugee openness. coalition government dominating and in the other states as you say, they note. >> in hineland, it is work making the point they were not the governor be party in either of those two states. those two states w