Ok, the final*) results are here:
225 Seats CDU/CSU - Merkel
222 Seats SPD - Schröder
61 Seats FDP - Liberal Party
54 Seats Linke - Communist Party
51 Seats Die Grünen - Green Party
*) One Seat is missing from Dresdnen, the election is in two weeks there.
The Left parties have a clear majority of seats. That is the bottom line. Angela Merkel will not I suspect be running the government.
Thanks, K.O.!
225 Seats CDU/CSU - Merkel
222 Seats SPD - Schröder
61 Seats FDP - Liberal Party
54 Seats Linke - Communist Party
51 Seats Die Grünen - Green Party
327 total leftie seats
286 total center-right seats
613 total seats? (or 1 more in Dresden?)
Looks like a hamstrung gov't. The three minor parties will sit it out, Merkel will be chancellor, and will work out something with the SPD.
As others pointed out, the only other possibilities aren't really possible. Merkel won't deal with the Commies; the FDP won't join a coalition with the Greens (and probably vice versa); the SPD and Commies would have serious differences to patch up.
A gov't of CDU/CSU and the SPD is probably going to happen. That would be the most workable outcome, bad as it may seem now.
http://www16.dw-world.de/wahlgrafik/index.php?lang=en
YIKES
Only solution is CDU / FDP / Green