Backnang constituency

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Constituency 17: Backnang
Landtag constituencies BW 2011 WK17.svg
Country Germany
state Baden-Württemberg
Constituency number 17th
Eligible voters 93.110
voter turnout 72.2%
Election date March 13, 2016
Constituency representative
Surname
Photo of the MP
Political party CDU
Voting share 27.7%

The constituency of Backnang (constituency 17) is a state electoral district in the Rems-Murr district in Baden-Württemberg . In the 2016 state elections, it comprised the communities of Alfdorf , Allmersbach im Tal , Althütte , Aspach , Auenwald , Backnang , Berglen , Burgstetten , Großerlach , Kaisersbach , Kirchberg an der Murr , Murrhardt , Oppenweiler , Spiegelberg , Sulzbach an der Murr , Weissach im Tal and Welzheim . 93,110 of the approx. 124,000 inhabitants were eligible to vote.

The boundaries of the state electoral districts were fundamentally redesigned after the district reform of 1973 for the state elections in 1976 and have only been changed selectively since then. The population strongly below average required for the state election in 2011 for the first time a change in the cut of the constituency Backnang up in 2006 to the neighboring constituency Schorndorf belonging municipality Berglen was attached to the constituency Backnang 2011th

Election 2016

State election 2016
Constituency 17 Backnang
 %
30th
20th
10
0
27.7%
22.3%
19.7%
15.7%
8.0%
2.1%
1.5%
1.2%
1.8%
Gains and losses
compared to 2011
 % p
 20th
 18th
 16
 14th
 12
 10
   8th
   6th
   4th
   2
   0
  -2
  -4
  -6
  -8th
-10
-12
-14
-13.1  % p
+ 2.3  % p
+ 19.7  % p
-8.1  % p
+ 2.6  % p
-1.2  % p
+1.5  % p
-0.4  % p
+ 0.2  % p

In the state elections in 2016 , three candidates moved into parliament, as two second mandates were awarded to the AfD and SPD due to an above-average proportion of votes within the party. The candidates of the Greens and the FDP achieved higher percentages than in 2011, but were overtaken within the party. The results in detail:

Direct candidate Political party Votes in% State election 2011
Wilfried Klenk CDU 27.7 40.8
Götz Poppitz Green 22.3 20.0
Jörg Meuthen AfD 19.7 -
Gernot Gruber SPD 15.7 23.8
Dorothee Winter FDP 08.0 05.4
Jörg Drechsel The left 02.1 03.3
Thomas Geffken ALFA 01.5 -
Philip Koengeter PIRATES 01.2 01.6
Ralf Nentwich ödp 00.9 00.8
Harald Ballreich NPD 00.6 01.4
Bernd Offtermatt REP 00.3 01.3

Election 2011

The 2011 state election had the following result:

Direct candidate Political party Votes in% State election 2006
votes in%
Wilfried Klenk CDU 40.8 44.7
Gernot Gruber SPD 23.8 26.0
Willy Härtner Green 20.0 09.9
Gunnar Stuhlmann FDP 05.4 09.3
Titus Simon The left 03.3 WASG : 2.1
Volker Dyken PIRATES 01.6 -
Eberhard Koenig REP 01.3 03.5
Benjamin Stein NPD 01.4 01.0
Volker Bäßler ON 01.0 -
Andreas Brunold ödp 00.8 00.5
Gabriel Graber BIG 00.2 -
- Others - 03.1

Member of Parliament since 1976

In the state elections in Baden-Württemberg, each voter has only one vote, which is used to determine both the direct candidate and the total number of seats of a party in the state parliament . There are no state or district lists; instead, in order to establish the equalization of proportions, inferior constituency applicants are assigned second mandates . The regulation, which was valid until the 2006 election, provided for the allocation of these mandates according to the absolute number of votes at the level of the administrative districts, disadvantaged the Backnang constituency, as it was always one of the smallest constituencies in terms of population.

This made it difficult for applicants in the Backnang constituency to gain second mandates. The electoral system is therefore the main reason why the Backnang constituency was only represented in the state parliament by one directly elected member of the CDU between 1976 and 2011 . These MPs are:

Political party Type of mandate Elected
CDU Direct mandate Erich Schneider 1976, 1980, 1984, 1988
Rosely Schweizer 1992, 1996
Wilfried Klenk 2001, 2006, 2011, 2016
SPD Second mandate Gernot Gruber 2011, 2016
AfD Second mandate Jörg Meuthen 2016, mandate resigned as of December 31, 2017

References and comments

  1. ↑ Constituencies Landtag Election 2016
  2. ↑ Constituency division from 1975 (PDF; 344 kB).
  3. ↑ Municipal data processing in the Stuttgart region, state election 2016, constituency Backnang
  4. ↑ State Statistical Office of Baden-Württemberg: Constituency results 2011 ( Memento from May 17, 2012 in the Internet Archive )
  5. ↑ converted to the 2011 constituency
  6. ↑ Landtag Baden-Württemberg: Explanation of the right to vote