Bundestag constituency South Palatinate

Constituency 211: Southern Palatinate
Country	Germany
state	Rhineland-Palatinate
Constituency number	211
Eligible voters	216.138
voter turnout	73.4%
Election date	22nd September 2013
Constituency representative
Surname	Thomas Gebhart
Political party	CDU
Voting share	48.8%

The Bundestag constituency of Southern Palatinate (constituency 211, in the federal elections from 2009 constituency 212) has been an electoral district in Rhineland-Palatinate since 1965 . It includes the independent city of Landau in the Palatinate as well as the districts of Germersheim and Südliche Weinstrasse . The constituency has always been won by the direct candidates of the CDU .

Bundestag elections

Bundestag election 2017

The 2017 federal election took place on Sunday, September 24, 2017.

Direct candidate	Political party	First votes in%	Second votes in%
Thomas Gebhart	CDU	40.3	34.8
Thomas Hitschler	SPD	26.0	21.9
Tobias Lindner	Alliance 90 / The Greens	7.9	8.7
Mario Brandenburg	FDP	6.0	10.3
Simon Georg Bludovsky	The left	4.7	6.4
Heiko Wildberg	AfD	12.3	13.6
Kim Julia Orth	Pirate party	-	0.5
Bernd Ließfeld	Free voters	2.7	1.7
-	NPD	-	9.3
-	ÖDP	-	0.3
-	MLPD	-	0.0
-	UBI	-	0.2
-	The party	-	1.0
-	V party	-	0.3

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%
Thomas Gebhart	CDU	48.8	42.7
Thomas Hitschler	SPD	28.0	26.0
Volker Wissing	FDP	4.0	6.2
Tobias Lindner	Alliance 90 / The Greens	7.1	8.5
Sebastian Frech	The left	4.1	4.8
Kim Julia Orth	Pirate party	3.0	2.6
Klaus Armstroff	NPD	1.3	1.2
Frank Herbert Karl Köhler	The Republicans	1.0	0.8
Rudiger John	ÖDP	0.6	0.4
-	MLPD	-	0.0
-	AfD	-	4.9
-	Citizens' movement for Germany	-	0.2
Franz Alois Pietruska	Free voters	2.0	1.4
-	Party of reason	-	0.3

Thomas Hitschler and Tobias Lindner have moved in via the respective state lists.

Bundestag election 2009

In the 2009 Bundestag election , 214,215 residents were eligible to vote, the turnout was 72.9 percent and the result was as follows:

Direct candidate	Political party	First votes in%	Second votes in%	Bundestag election 2005 second votes in%
Thomas Gebhart	CDU	40.7	34.3	37.2
Heinz Schmitt	SPD	27.7	22.7	32.6
Volker Wissing	FDP	12.7	17.1	12.1
Tobias Lindner	Alliance 90 / The Greens	8.3	10.2	8.0
Ernst Jakob Kuntz	The left	7.2	8.6	4.8
-	REP	-	1.3	2.1
Karlheinz Pfirrmann	NPD	2.1	1.5	1.3
-	PIRATES	-	2.2	-
-	PBC	-	0.4	0.5
-	FAMILY	-	1.2	1.4
-	MLPD	-	0.0	0.1
-	ödp	-	0.2	-
Edeltraud Dietert	independently	0.8	-	-
Wolfgang Berger	independently	0.5	-	-

Volker Wissing (FDP) was elected to the Bundestag via the state list. Tobias Lindner (Greens) moved up in June 2011 for Ulrike Höfken as a member of the German Bundestag via the state list.

Constituency winner

choice	Surname	Political party
1965	Albert Leicht	CDU
1969	Albert Leicht	CDU
1972	Albert Leicht	CDU
1976	Albert Leicht	CDU
1980	Heiner Geissler	CDU
1983	Heiner Geissler	CDU
1987	Heiner Geissler	CDU
1990	Heiner Geissler	CDU
1994	Heiner Geissler	CDU
1998	Heiner Geissler	CDU
2002	Ralf Goebel	CDU
2005	Ralf Goebel	CDU
2009	Thomas Gebhart	CDU
2013	Thomas Gebhart	CDU
2017	Thomas Gebhart	CDU

Constituency history

The constituency was re-established under the name Landau for the 1965 federal election . The two previous constituencies were the Zweibrücken constituency and the Speyer constituency .

choice	Constituency name	area
1965-1969	163 Landau	Landau in der Pfalz, Landau in der Pfalz district, Germersheim district, Bergzabern district
1972-1976	163 Landau	Landau in the Palatinate, Landau-Bad Bergzabern district, Germersheim district
1980-1983	161 Landau	Landau in der Pfalz, Südliche Weinstrasse district, Germersheim district
1987-1998	161 South Palatinate
2002	214 South Palatinate
2005	213 South Palatinate
2009-2013	212 South Palatinate
since 2017	211 South Palatinate

Web links

• Structural data for the electoral district of Southern Palatinate from the Federal Returning Officer

Individual evidence

1. ↑ constituencies
2. ^ Regional Returning Officer Rhineland-Palatinate: Individual results according to constituencies. Retrieved February 9, 2020 . 
3. ^ Regional Returning Officer Rhineland-Palatinate: Announcements / constituencies. Retrieved February 9, 2020 . 
4. ↑ Preliminary result ( memento from January 19, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) from September 22, 2013 on wahlen.rlp.de
5. ↑ 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
6. ↑ 14 parties compete in the federal election in Rhineland-Palatinate on Allgemeine-zeitung.de on July 26, 2013
7. ↑ Announcement of the district returning officers about the approved district election proposals for the election to the 18th German Bundestag on September 22, 2013 ( memento of October 1, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) as a PDF file of 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