Germany's Councillor Angela Merkel's party 'CDU' has suffered a historic lost in Berlin election.

AfD celebrating Berlin victory

Chancellor Angela Merkel's party CDU has suffered historic losses in Berlin state elections conducted.

The victory for AfD  (Alternative for Germany) means they will be entering the state parliament for the first time since the party's existence.

Allowing more than a million migrants into Germany has caused Mrs Merkel's popularity, which has caused her party to a defeat.

Her party CDU, won only 17.6% of the vote its worst-ever result in Berlin.

It is the party's second electoral blow in two weeks, having been pushed into third place by the AfD in Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania at the beginning of the month.

The Social Democrat SPD has emerged as the strongest party with about 22%, in spite of losing almost 7% of their voters.

Joerg Meuthen

The strong showing of the AfD, 14%, has prompted its co-chairman Joerg Meuthen to say the party was strongly positioned for next year's national elections.

"We are firmly convinced that we will end next year with a double-digit result,'' he said.

The AfD is now set to be represented in 10 out of 16 state parliaments.

Bavarian Finance Minister Markus Soeder, from the CDU's sister party CSU, was quick to call it the "second massive wake-up call" in two weeks.

Michael Muller

"A long-term and massive loss in trust among traditional voters threatens the conservative bloc," he told the Bild daily, adding Ms Merkel's right-left national coalition had to win back support by changing course on its immigration policy.

The election in Berlin, a city-state of 3.5 million people, was dominated by local issues including poor public services, crumbling school buildings, late trains and a housing shortage, as well as problems in coping with the migrant influx.