Weiden constituency

Constituency 235: Weiden
Country	Germany
state	Bavaria
Constituency number	235
Residents	210,400
Eligible voters	167,658
voter turnout	77.9%
Election date	September 24, 2017
Constituency representative
Surname	Albert Rupprecht
Political party	CSU
Voting share	46.3%

The constituency of Weiden (2005: constituency 236, 2009: constituency 235) is a federal constituency in Bavaria. It includes the independent city of Weiden idOPf. and the districts of Neustadt adWaldnaab and Tirschenreuth . Until 1976 the constituency was called Tirschenreuth .

Bundestag election 2017

For the general election in 2017 on September 24, 2017 8 direct candidates and 21 regional lists were approved.

Direct candidate	Political party	First votes in%	Second votes in%
Albert Rupprecht	CSU	46.3	43.1
Uli Grötsch	SPD	22.3	19.0
Gisela Helgath	GREEN	3.6	5.0
Martin Hofmann	FDP	4.1	6.6
-	AfD	-	13.5
Christian Weidner	LEFT	4.4	4.8
Karl Meier	FREE VOTERS	5.7	3.9
-	PIRATES	-	0.3
Karlheinz Binner	ÖDP	1.3	0.7
Petra Ringelmann	BP	2.4	1.0
-	NPD	-	0.4
-	Animal welfare party	-	0.7
-	MLPD	-	0.0
-	Busy	-	0.0
-	UBI	-	0.1
-	DiB	-	0.1
-	DKP	-	0.0
-	DM	-	0.1
-	The party	-	0.4
-	Health research	-	0.2
-	V party³	-	0.1
Karl Schmid	Individual applicants	0.7	-
Konrad Dippel	Individual applicants	9.3	-

Direct candidate	Political party	First votes in%	Second votes in%
Albert Rupprecht	CSU	55.1	52.8
Uli Grötsch	SPD	21.9	22.5
Heinz-Dieter Pauly	FDP	1.5	3.4
Johann Mayer	GREEN	3.8	4.3
Klaus Schmitsdorf	The left	2.6	3.4
Floyd Ralf Kretschmar	PIRATES	1.5	1.5
Patrick Hermann Schröder	NPD	1.6	1.6
Karlheinz Helmut Binner	ÖDP	1.3	0.9
Hans-Peter Schaller	AfD	2.4	3.6
Karl Meier	Free voters	3.5	3.6
Karl-Justus Human	independently	0.2	-
Konrad Willibald Dippel	independently	4.4	-

The 2009 Bundestag election had the following result:

Direct candidate	Political party	First votes in%	Second votes in%	Bundestag election 2005 second votes in%
Albert Rupprecht	CSU	44.9	44.4	50.7
Werner Schieder	SPD	19.9	20.1	30.1
Johann Mayer	Alliance 90 / The Greens	4.9	6.6	3.9
Norbert Ziegler	FDP	7.1	11.7	3.4
-	REP	-	0.6	0.3
Sandro Hammer	The left	5.4	7.5	3.6
Karsten Panzer	NPD	2.5	2.5	2.1
-	PBC	-	0.1	0.1
-	BP	-	0.9	0.9
Rita Wiesend	ödp	1.3	1.3	-
-	PIRATES	-	1.8	-
-	BüSo	-	0.0	0.1
-	FAMILY	-	0.9	0.8
-	THE VIOLETS	-	0.1	-
Konrad Dippel	independently	14.1	-	13.6 (first votes)
-	The animal welfare party	-	0.7	-
-	RRP	-	0.5	-
-	CM	-	0.2	0.0

choice	Constituency name	area
1949	23 Tirschenreuth	City Weiden , Tirschenreuth , Neustadt an der Waldnaab , district Kemnath
1953-1961	218 Tirschenreuth
1965-1972	221 Tirschenreuth	City Weiden , Tirschenreuth , Neustadt an der Waldnaab , district Kemnath , district Eschenbach
1976-1998	221 pastures	City Weiden , Tirschenreuth , Neustadt an der Waldnaab
2002-2005	236 willows
2009	235 pastures

^ Structural data 235: Weiden. Federal Returning Officer , accessed on September 29, 2017 .
↑ ^a ^b ^c Results 235: Weiden. Federal Returning Officer , accessed on September 29, 2017 .
↑ Constituency division ( Memento of February 4, 2016 in the Internet Archive )
^ The Federal Returning Officer : Direct candidate (inside) in Weiden - The Federal Returning Officer. (No longer available online.) Archived from the original on September 26, 2017 ; accessed on September 18, 2017 .
^ The Federal Returning Officer : State lists of the parties in Bavaria - The Federal Returning Officer. (No longer available online.) Archived from the original on September 26, 2017 ; accessed on September 15, 2017 .