
The centre-right CDU party won mayoralties across North Rhine-Westphalia on Sunday, including Dortmund's first non-Social Democrat mayor since 1946, while the far-right AfD failed to capture any cities despite reaching runoffs in three municipalities.
CDU candidate Alexander Khalouti defeated the centre-left SPD in Dortmund, ending the Social Democrats' 78-year control of Germany's largest working-class city.