After casting his vote yesterday alongside his wife Dunja, Mr McAllister, 42, who is the son of a soldier from Glasgow and is state leader of Ms Merkel's Christian Democrats (CDU), was confronted by exit polls showing the CDU as the biggest party in the swing state with 36%. But the chief victors of the evening appeared to be their Free Democrat (FDP) allies, who defied doomsayers to win 10%. That FDP success may have been at the cost of a decisive CDU result.




