First Results: Merkel Wins Election, But May Need New Coalition - Chancellor Angela Merkel's conservatives won a clear election victory on Sunday, putting her on course for a third term. But she may have to form an alliance with the center-left Social Democrats in a repeat of the 'grand coalition' with which she ruled in 2005-2009.

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