Concerning Germany:

Social Democrats being in office for the last ten years or so and thus responsible for the failure in control of state-owned banks etc. about 20 % of the votes - their worst outcome ever. Conservatives (who are in office with the Social Democrats since 2005) also lost votes, but are still strongest party. Liberals (accused of neoliberalism - not in government since 1998) won, so did the Greens (in coalition with the Social Democrats 1998 - 2005). The Left (merger of East German Communists with West German lefts of all sorts) won just a tiny bit.

Social Democrats still opt for subsidizing failed big companies (Opel etc.) with successless management from tax money - most people work for medium sized companies who would would never get subsidized that way. Apparently even people who`d normally tend towards the Social Democrats saw this as a kind of buying votes and voted differently or stayed away.

No stupid conspiracy theories needed here.