Bundestag constituency Suhl - Schmalkalden-Meiningen - Hildburghausen - Sonneberg

Constituency 196: Suhl - Schmalkalden-Meiningen - Hildburghausen - Sonneberg
Country	Germany
state	Thuringia
Constituency number	196
Eligible voters	234,445
voter turnout	72.6%
Election date	September 24, 2017
Constituency representative
Surname	Mark Hauptmann
Political party	CDU
Voting share	33.6%

The federal constituency of Suhl-Schmalkalden-Meiningen-Hildburghausen-Sonneberg (constituency 196) is an electoral district in Thuringia. It includes the independent city of Suhl and the districts of Schmalkalden-Meiningen , Hildburghausen and Sonneberg . Its predecessor constituency was the federal constituency of Suhl - Schmalkalden-Meiningen - Hildburghausen , which was enlarged by the district of Sonneberg for the 2017 federal election . The district of Sonneberg was previously part of the Bundestag constituency of Sonneberg - Saalfeld-Rudolstadt - Saale-Orla-Kreis . The change in the constituency of Thuringia became necessary because Thuringia lost one constituency for the 2017 federal election.

Bundestag election 2017

Bundestag election 2017 - WK Suhl - Schmalkalden-Meiningen - Hildburghausen - Sonneberg

(in %)

%

40

30th

20th

10

0

30.3

23.0

16.9

13.6

6.7

3.3

1.7

1.2

1.1

Direct candidate	Political party	First votes in%	Second votes in%
Mark Hauptmann	CDU	33.6	30.3
Steffen Harzer	left	18.2	16.9
Christoph Zimmermann	SPD	13.4	13.6
Torsten Ludwig	AfD	22.8	23.0
Roberto Kobelt	B'90 / Greens	2.6	3.3
Gerald Ullrich	FDP	4.9	6.7
Christian Horn	PIRATES	0.7	0.4
Michael student	Free voters	2.3	1.7
Martin Truckenbrodt	ÖDP	1.1	0.6
Andreas Eifler	MLPD	0.4	0.2
-	NPD	-	1.1
-	UBI	-	0.4
-	German center	-	0.3
-	The party	-	1.2
-	V party³	-	0.2

Directly elected members of the constituency since 1990 were:

choice	Surname	Political party	First votes in%
1990	Claudia Nolte	CDU	42.6
1994	Claudia Nolte	CDU	44.9
1998	Iris Gleicke	SPD	33.6
2002	Iris Gleicke	SPD	35.6
2005	Iris Gleicke	SPD	30.4
2009	Jens Petermann	The left	32.2
2013	Mark Hauptmann	CDU	42.0
2017	Mark Hauptmann	CDU	33.6

choice	Constituency name	area
1990-1998	307 Suhl - Schmalkalden - Ilmenau - Neuhaus	Suhl, district of Suhl , district of Schmalkalden , district of Ilmenau , district of Neuhaus
2002	199 Suhl - Schmalkalden-Meiningen - Hildburghausen	Suhl, district of Schmalkalden-Meiningen, district of Hildburghausen
2005	198 Suhl - Schmalkalden-Meiningen - Hildburghausen
2009-2013	197 Suhl - Schmalkalden-Meiningen - Hildburghausen
since 2017	196 Suhl - Schmalkalden-Meiningen - Hildburghausen - Sonneberg	Suhl, district of Schmalkalden-Meiningen, district of Hildburghausen, district of Sonneberg