These results don't tell us too much about the Landtag election later this year. The European election probably won't either because it will probably have low and partly distorted turnout because of the divergence of local runoff elections, but at least all important entities will compete everywhere, especially BSW which still is the biggest wildcard.
They did well, where they competed, but they did not compete in many places for a lack of local organizations in many places.
They competed for the disctrict councils of
Sonneberg: 7.6 %
Greiz: 11.1 %
Wartburgkreis: 10.4 %
Gotha: 12.4 %
With the exception of Sonneberg there vote share was higher than the loss of the Left Party
Town councils:
Gotha: 8.5 %
Sonneberg: 5.7 %
Bad Salzungen (Wartburgkreis) labeled as an "open list" which emphasizes including allies: 8,8%
Zeulenroda-Triebes (Greiz): 10.2 %
Bleicherode (Nordhausen): 16 %
They fielded a mayoral candidate in Zeulenroda-Triebes who got third with 11.1 %.
In Bleicherode they got an "Ortsbürgermeister" elected ("Ortschaft" is a sub-level of a muncipality, often a village, in this case it's Bleicherode proper - let's call it a muncipality district mayor for the lack of a better term) with 56.6% against a CDU candidate.
And that's basically it. The general trend is that the town council elections are much more localised than the district council elections (many people don't know what district councils do) and so BSW regularly fared better there. It basically looks like they will enter the Thuringia Landtag later that year.
Regional public broadcaster mdr has
a site with interactive maps
