According to final results published Sunday evening by the state electoral administration, the SPD won 30.9% of the votes while the AfD came a close second with 29.2%.
Scholz has expressed his desire to be his party's candidate for Chancellor in next year's federal election, with this weekend's vote also being watched for what it might signal about his political future.
The success of the SPD in Brandenburg was largely credited not to Scholz, but to the state governor Dietmar Woidke. He distanced himself from Scholz during his campaign.
"It is an important victory for me, it's an important victory for my party, and it's an important victory for the state of Brandenburg," Woidke said after polls closed.
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