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German Chancellor Angela Merkel's conservative party has won elections but finished just short of an absolute majority, official results show. Mrs Merkel earlier urged her party to celebrate "a super result" after exit polls suggested she was set to win a historic third term. Her Christian Democrats (CDU) took about 42% of the vote. But she might yet have to seek a grand coalition with the Social Democrats (SPD) who won about 26% of the vote. Mrs Merkel's preferred liberal partners appear not to have made it into parliament. | 
