Mainz constituency

Constituency 205: Mainz
Country	Germany
state	Rhineland-Palatinate
Constituency number	205
Eligible voters	248.996
voter turnout	81.3%
Election date	September 24, 2017
Constituency representative
Surname	Ursula Groden-Kranich
Political party	CDU
Voting share	35.7%

Ballot papers for the 2017 Bundestag election, partial representation

The Bundestag constituency of Mainz (constituency 205, in the federal elections 2009 and 2013 constituency 206) has been a constituency in Rhineland-Palatinate since 1949 . It includes the state capital Mainz and, from the district of Mainz-Bingen, the community-free communities Bingen am Rhein , Budenheim and Ingelheim am Rhein as well as the community communities Gau-Algesheim , Nieder-Olm and Rhein-Nahe .

Bundestag elections

Bundestag election 2017

The 2017 federal election took place on September 24, 2017. The state electoral committee decided in a public meeting on Friday, July 28, 2017, that the parties in Rhineland-Palatinate will compete against each other nationwide and decided on the approval of the submitted state lists.

Direct candidate	Political party	First votes in%	Second votes in%
Ursula Groden-Kranich	CDU	35.7%	32.7%
Carsten Kühl	SPD	28.0%	22.0%
David Dietz	FDP	6.9%	11.3%
Tabea Roessner	Alliance 90 / The Greens	10.8%	13.1%
Martin Malcherek	The left	6.5%	8.5%
René Pickhardt	Pirate party	0.7%	0.6%
Sebastian Munzenmaier	AFD	7.3%	8.2%
Bernd Foehr	The party	1.5%	1.2%
Wilhelm shield	ÖDP	1.2%	0.9%
Bernhard Heck	CITIZEN CANDIDATES - for the common good and referendum	0.2%	-
Jim Preuss	New liberals	0.1%	-
Gerhard Wenderoth	Free voters	1.1%	0.7%

The direct mandate was won by Ursula Groden-Kranich from the CDU with 35.7 percent of the vote. The top candidate of Bündnis 90 / Die Grünen Rhineland-Palatinate Tabea Rößner and the top candidate of the AfD Rhineland-Palatinate Sebastian Munzenmaier were able to move into the Bundestag via the respective state lists.

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, Bündnis 90 / Die Grünen, Die Linke , Pirate Party, NPD, The Republicans, ÖDP and MLPD. Newly candidate lists follow in alphabetical order of their name (list positions 11-14): Alternative für Deutschland, Bürgerbewegung pro Deutschland, Free Voters and the Party of Reason.

Also on July 26th, the district electoral committee, chaired by the election supervisor Michael Ebling , Lord Mayor of Mainz, met ten direct candidates, including Barbara Spahn, who is only a direct candidate for the civil rights movement Solidarity, as the party does not have any Has drawn up a country list.

Direct candidate	Political party	First votes in%	Second votes in%
Ursula Groden-Kranich	CDU	40.1	38.4
Michael Hartmann	SPD	34.9	26.7
Rainer Brüderle	FDP	5.0	6.6
Tabea Roessner	Alliance 90 / The Greens	10.0	13.1
Kathrin Senger-Schäfer	The left	4.3	5.5
Britta Werner	Pirate party	2.7	2.5
-	NPD	-	0.5
-	The Republicans	-	0.3
Wilhelm shield	ÖDP	0.9	0.7
-	MLPD	-	0.0
-	AfD	-	4.6
-	Citizens' movement for Germany	-	0.2
Gerhard Wenderoth	Free voters	1.4	0.7
Patrick Wybranietz	Party of reason	0.4	0.3
Barbara Spahn	Civil rights movement Solidarity (individual candidate)	0.1	-

Michael Hartmann from the SPD Rhineland-Palatinate (4th place) and the top candidate from Alliance 90 / The Greens Rhineland-Palatinate Tabea Rößner were able to move into the Bundestag via the respective state lists.

Bundestag election 2009

In the 2009 Bundestag election , 251,837 residents were eligible to vote, the turnout was 75.9 percent and the result was as follows:

Direct candidate	Political party	First votes in%	Second votes in%	Bundestag election 2005 second votes in%
Ute Granold	CDU	36.3	32.8	34.0
Michael Hartmann	SPD	30.6	23.0	33.4
Rainer Brüderle	FDP	11.8	15.4	12.9
Tabea Roessner	Alliance 90 / The Greens	12.6	15.8	12.0
Karl Vosskühler	The left .	5.7	7.4	4.6
-	REP	-	1.2	1.2
Ingo Helge	NPD	1.1	0.6	0.8
-	PBC	-	0.1	0.2
-	FAMILY	-	0.5	0.9
-	MLPD	-	0.0	0.1
Felix Linen	ödp	1.3	0.7	-
-	PIRATES	-	2.4	-
Erwin Schott	THE VIOLETS	0.4	-	-

Michael Hartmann (SPD), Rainer Brüderle (FDP) and Tabea Rößner (Bündnis 90 / Die Grünen) entered the Bundestag via the respective state lists.

Bundestag election 2005

The 2005 Bundestag election had the following result:

Direct candidate	Political party	First votes in%	Second votes in%	Federal Parliament election 2002 second votes in%
Ute Granold	CDU	39.2	34.0	36.1
Michael Hartmann	SPD	40.9	33.4	37.4
Rainer Brüderle	FDP	8.7	12.9	10.0
Daniel Koebler	Alliance 90 / The Greens	5.8	12.0	12.4
Peter Balluff	The left .	3.7	4.6	1.3
-	REP	-	1.2	1.1
Heinz-Jörg Zeitzmann	NPD	1.2	0.8	0.2
-	PBC	-	0.2	0.1
-	FAMILY	-	0.9	-
-	MLPD	-	0.1	-
Manfred Bartl	K: Bartl	0.5	-	-
-	Offensive D	-	-	0.5
-	The animal welfare party	-	-	0.6

Ute Granold (CDU) and Rainer Brüderle (FDP) entered the Bundestag via the state lists.

Former constituency winners

choice	Surname	Political party
1949	Joseph Schmitt	CDU
1953	Josef Schlick	CDU
1957	Josef Schlick	CDU
1961	Josef Schlick	CDU
1965	Josef Hofmann	CDU
1969	Hugo Brandt	SPD
1972	Hugo Brandt	SPD
1976	Hugo Brandt	SPD
1980	Hugo Brandt	SPD
1983	Johannes Gerster	CDU
1987	Johannes Gerster	CDU
1990	Johannes Gerster	CDU
1994	Hans-Otto Wilhelm	CDU
1998	Eckhart Pick	SPD
2002	Michael Hartmann	SPD
2005	Michael Hartmann	SPD
2009	Ute Granold	CDU
2013	Ursula Groden-Kranich	CDU
2017	Ursula Groden-Kranich	CDU

Constituency history

choice	Constituency name	area
1949	9 Mainz	City of Mainz, district of Mainz without the district court district of Oppenheim , district of Bingen
1953-1961	156 Mainz
1965-1969	156 Mainz
1972-1976	156 Mainz	City of Mainz, the municipalities of Bingen, Budenheim and Ingelheim from the Mainz-Bingen district and the municipalities of Gau-Algesheim, Heidesheim, Nieder-Olm, Rhein-Nahe and Sprendlingen-Gensingen
1980-1998	154 Mainz
2002	208 Mainz
2005	207 Mainz
2009-2013	206 Mainz
since 2017	205 Mainz	City of Mainz, from the district of Mainz-Bingen the communities Bingen, Budenheim and Ingelheim as well as the association communities Gau-Algesheim, Heidesheim, Nieder-Olm and Rhein-Nahe

Web links

• Structural data for the Mainz constituency from the Federal Returning Officer

Individual evidence

1. ↑ constituencies
2. ↑ Meeting dates of the state election committee ( memento from August 2, 2017 in the Internet Archive ) 2017, accessed on May 7, 2017
3. ↑ Public announcement by the constituency leader , accessed on August 4, 2017.
4. ↑ 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
5. ↑ 14 parties compete in the federal election in Rhineland-Palatinate on Allgemeine-zeitung.de on July 26, 2013
6. ↑ District electoral committee met: Ten candidates admitted to the Bundestag election in constituency 206 - Today the district electoral committee approved the following district election proposals for election to the 18th German Bundestag on September 22, 2013 in constituency 206 at its meeting in the Mainz town hall ( Memento from 29 July 2013 in the web archive archive.today ) Press release on mainz.de from July 26, 2013
7. ↑ Public announcement by the constituency leader ( memento from October 1, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) as a PDF file from July 26, 2013
8. ↑ Bundestag election 2013: Elected applicants ( memento from December 4, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) on wahlen.rlp.de from September 23, 2013