The extreme right-wing Republican Party suffered a bigger loss than originally reported, according to complete returns from the March 18 Bavarian elections announced Sunday.
The final tally gave the Republicans 5.4 percent of the vote cast in statewide municipal balloting.
The early results had them winning 7 percent, in itself a setback compared with the 14.6 percent the Republicans scored in Bavaria during the nationwide elections last year for delegates to the European Parliament.
Bavaria is home to the Munich-based party, which is headed by a former Waffen SS officer, Franz Schoenhuber, and is reputedly neo-Nazi.
In the March 18 election, the Republican Party did better in cities than in rural areas. The party, which campaigns on an ultranationalist, anti-foreign worker platform, scored its biggest success in Rosenheim with 11.8 percent of the vote, up from 11 percent reported earlier.
The Republicans got 9.6 percent in Landshut and 7.3 percent in Munich.
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