Central Saxony Bundestag constituency

Constituency 161: Central Saxony
Country	Germany
state	Saxony
Constituency number	161
Residents	264,300
Eligible voters	201,629
voter turnout	74.7%
Election date	September 24, 2017
Constituency representative
Surname	Veronika Bellmann
Political party	CDU
Voting share	32.4%

The federal constituency of central Saxony (constituency 161) is a federal constituency in Saxony that was newly formed for the 2009 federal election . It includes the district of Central Saxony without the towns of Geringswalde , Lunzenau , Penig , the communities Claußnitz , Erlau , Hartmannsdorf , Königshain-Wiederau , Lichtenau and Wechselburg as well as the communities that are combined in the administrative communities of Burgstädt and Rochlitz .

Bundestag election 2017

Preliminary constituency result of the 2017 federal election :

Direct candidate	Political party	First votes in%	Second votes in%
Veronika Bellmann	CDU	32.4	27.7
Falk Neubert	The left	14.0	14.5
Simone Raatz	SPD	12.0	9.7
Heiko Hessenkemper	AfD	31.5	31.2
Matthias Wagner	Green	3.1	2.8
-	NPD	-	1.3
Philipp Hartewig	FDP	5.8	7.9
-	Pirates	-	0.4
-	Free voters	-	1.0
-	BüSo	1.2	0.3
-	MLPD	-	0.1
-	UBI	-	0.2
-	DiB	-	0.2
-	ÖDP	-	0.2
-	The party	-	1.0
-	Animal welfare party	-	1.3
-	V party³	-	0.1

Official result of the federal election 2013 :

Direct candidate	Political party	First votes in%	Second votes in%
Veronika Bellmann	CDU	51.9	45.3
Lothar Schmidt	The left	20.3	20.6
Simone Raatz	SPD	15.4	13.3
Marco Weissbach	FDP	2.2	3.4
Sebastian Tröbs	Green	3.2	3.3
Heidelore Karsten	NPD	4.7	3.7
Stephan Pschera	Pirates	2.2	2.1
-	AfD	-	6.3
-	Free voters	-	1.3
Others		-	0.6

The 2009 Bundestag election had the following result:

Direct candidate	Political party	First votes in%	Second votes in%
Veronika Bellmann	CDU	43.6	38.5
Simone Raatz	SPD	14.7	13.2
Lothar Schmidt	The left	23.2	24.5
Sandro Dierbeck	FDP	9.9	13.9
Claudia gloss	Alliance 90 / The Greens	4.2	4.4
Peter Naumann	NPD	4.5	4.4
-	BüSo	-	0.6
-	REP	-	0.3
-	MLPD	-	0.2

With the district reform of 2008, the constituencies in Saxony were fundamentally redesigned. The area of the former Döbeln district and the towns of Frankenberg / Sa in the former Mittweida district . , Hainichen and Mittweida and the municipalities Kriebstein , Rossau , Altmittweida and Striegistal belonged to the 2005 election to the Bundestag constituency Döbeln - Mittweida - Meissen II , the former district Freiberg for parliamentary constituency Freiberg - Middle Erzgebirgskreis . For the 2013 federal election, the constituency number was changed from 162 to 161.