Bundestag constituency of Kaiserslautern

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Constituency 209: Kaiserslautern
Bundestag constituency 209-2017.svg
Country Germany
state Rhineland-Palatinate
Constituency number 209
Eligible voters 229.169
voter turnout 75.2%
Election date September 24, 2017
Constituency representative
Surname
Photo of the MP
Political party SPD
Voting share 32.06%
MPs

The Bundestag constituency of Kaiserslautern (constituency 209, in the federal elections 2009 and 2013 constituency 210) has been a constituency in Rhineland-Palatinate since 1949 . It includes the independent city of Kaiserslautern , the Donnersbergkreis , the Kusel district and, from the Kaiserslautern district, the municipalities of Enkenbach-Alsenborn , Otterbach-Otterberg and Weilerbach .

Bundestag elections

Bundestag election 2017

The 2017 federal election took place on Sunday, September 24, 2017. As in previous years, Gustav Herzog from the SPD won the constituency .

Direct candidate Political party First votes in% Second votes in%
Xaver Jung CDU 30.32 28.12
Gustav Herzog SPD June 32 25.04
Achim Oliver Bertram FDP 6.14 10.34
Paul Bunjes Alliance 90 / The Greens 6.52 8.74
Alexander Ulrich The left 8.5 9.45
Stefan Scheil AfD 12.8 13.67
Günther Mack Free voters 1.75 1.25
Pirate party
NPD
ÖDP
Marxist-Leninist Party of Germany (MLPD)
V-Party 3-Party for Variation, Vegetarians and Vegans
Basic Income Alliance - The Basic Income Party
Alexander Mühlmann The party 1.91 1.52

Bundestag election 2013

The 2013 federal election took place on Sunday, September 22, 2013.

14 parties competed against each other nationwide in Rhineland-Palatinate. This was decided by the state election committee in a public meeting on July 26, 2013 in Mainz. This granted approval to all parties who had submitted their state lists and other documents by July 15.

The order of the approved state lists on the ballot is initially based on the number of second votes that the respective party received in the last federal election in the state (list positions 1 - 10): CDU, SPD, FDP, GRÜNE, Die Linke, PIRATEN, NPD , REP, ÖDP and MLPD. Newly candidate lists follow in alphabetical order of their names (list positions 11-14): Alternative für Deutschland (AfD), Bürgerbewegung pro Deutschland (pro Germany), Free Voters and the Party of Reason.

Direct candidate Political party First votes in% Second votes in%
Xaver Jung CDU 37.2 35.9
Gustav Herzog SPD 38.5 32.7
Christian Kopp FDP 2.3 4.6
Felicitas Flörchinger Alliance 90 / The Greens 5.3 7.1
Alexander Ulrich The left 7.4 7.6
Johannes Merkert Pirate party 3.0 2.7
Klaus Alfons Gras NPD 2.5 1.9
- The Republicans - 0.4
- ÖDP - 0.2
- Marxist-Leninist Party of Germany (MLPD) - 0.0
- AfD - 4.4
- Citizens' movement for Germany - 0.3
Manfred Petry Free voters 2.6 1.9
- Party of reason - 0.3
Anette Sabine Metzger Family Party of Germany
(individual candidate)
1.2 -

Gustav Herzog is the only SPD direct candidate from Rhineland-Palatinate, all other direct mandates went to the CDU candidates. Xaver Jung from the CDU was able to move into the Bundestag via the state list. The top candidate of the left, Alexander Ulrich, also became a member of the Bundestag via the state list.

Bundestag election 2009

In the 2009 Bundestag election , 235,030 residents were eligible to vote, the turnout was 69.5% and had the following result:

Direct candidate Political party First votes in% Second votes in% Bundestag election 2005
second votes in%
Xaver Jung CDU 32.8 28.2 29.6
Gustav Herzog SPD 34.6 27.7 38.9
Brigitta Röthig-Wentz FDP 9.2 14.3 10.4
Dirk Just Alliance 90 / The Greens 6.8 8.7 7.1
Alexander Ulrich The left . 13.9 14.2 8.8
- REP - 0.9 1.2
Sascha Wagner NPD 2.6 2.0 2.3
- PBC - 0.3 0.3
- FAMILY - 1.3 1.4
- MLPD - 0.0 0.1
- PIRATES - 2.1 -
- ödp - 0.3 -

Alexander Ulrich (Die Linke.) Entered the Bundestag via the state list.

Constituency winner

choice Surname Political party
1949 Adolf Ludwig SPD
1953 August Spies CDU
1957 August Spies CDU
1961 Adolf Müller-Emmert SPD
1965 Adolf Müller-Emmert SPD
1969 Adolf Müller-Emmert SPD
1972 Adolf Müller-Emmert SPD
1976 Adolf Müller-Emmert SPD
1980 Adolf Müller-Emmert SPD
1983 Adolf Müller-Emmert SPD
1987 Rose Gotte SPD
1990 Rose Gotte SPD
1994 Hansjörg Schäfer SPD
1998 Hansjörg Schäfer SPD
2002 Gustav Herzog SPD
2005 Gustav Herzog SPD
2009 Gustav Herzog SPD
2013 Gustav Herzog SPD
2017 Gustav Herzog SPD

Constituency history

choice Constituency name area
1949 13 Kaiserslautern City of Kaiserslautern, District of Kaiserslautern, District of Kusel
1953-1961 160 Kaiserslautern
1965-1976 161 Kaiserslautern
1980-1998 159 Kaiserslautern
2002 212 Kaiserslautern City of Kaiserslautern, from the district of Kaiserslautern the association communities Enkenbach-Alsenborn, Otterbach-Otterberg and Weilerbach, district of Kusel, Donnersbergkreis
2005 211 Kaiserslautern
2009-2013 210 Kaiserslautern
since 2017 209 Kaiserslautern

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. constituencies
  2. Preliminary result ( memento from March 5, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) from September 22, 2013 on wahlen.rlp.de
  3. 14 parties are running for the election of the 18th German Bundestag ( Memento from April 7, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Press release by the regional returning officer of July 26, 2013
  4. 14 parties compete in the federal election in Rhineland-Palatinate on Allgemeine-zeitung.de on July 26, 2013
  5. Public announcement by the district returning officer of constituency 210 Kaiserslautern for the election to the 18th German Bundestag on September 22, 2013 ( memento from October 1, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) as a PDF file from July 26, 2013
  6. Bundestag election 2013: Elected applicants ( memento from December 4, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) on wahlen.rlp.de from September 23, 2013