Landtag constituency of Pforzheim

Constituency 42: Pforzheim
Country	Germany
state	Baden-Württemberg
Constituency number	42
Eligible voters	94,642
voter turnout	64.2%
Election date	March 13, 2016
Constituency representative
Surname	Bernd Grimmer
Political party	AfD
Voting share	24.2%

The constituency of Pforzheim (constituency 42) is a state electoral district in Baden-Württemberg . In the last state election in 2016, it comprised the urban district of Pforzheim and the communities of Birkenfeld , Engelsbrand , Ispringen and Kieselbronn from the Enz district . 95,813 residents were entitled 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 Pforzheim constituency has always been one of the smallest constituencies in terms of population. Its area was initially identical to the urban district of Pforzheim , until the low population growth compared to the national trend for the state elections in 1992 led to a first change in the constituency structure. The municipality of Birkenfeld from the neighboring constituency of Enz was assigned to the constituency of Pforzheim. For the 2011 state elections , the communities of Engelsbrand, Ispringen and Kieselbronn were also incorporated into the Pforzheim constituency.

Election 2016

State election 2016

Constituency 42 Pforzheim

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30th

20th

10

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24.2%

24.1%

22.4%

11.4%

10.6%

3.4%

4.0%

Otherwise.

Gains and losses

compared to 2011

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20th

15th

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5

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+ 24.2 % p

+ 5.1 % p

-22.1 % p

-11.4 % p

+ 5.9 % p

-0.1 % p

-1.5 % p

Otherwise.

The 2016 state elections had the following results:

Direct candidate	Political party	Votes in%	State election 2011 Votes in%
Marianne Engeser	CDU	22.4	44.5
Katrin Lechler	GREEN	24.1	19.0
Annkathrin Wulff	SPD	11.4	22.8
Hans-Ulrich Rülke	FDP	10.6	4.7
Günter Busch	LEFT	3.4	3.5
Stefan Kohlrusch	REP	0.3	1.2
Armin scrap	NPD	0.5	1.4
Markus Rauch	ÖDP	0.6	0.9
Martin Einsiedler	ALFA	0.9	nk
Bernd Grimmer	AfD	24.2	nk
Paul Wahnsiedler	ARMINIUS Bund	0.1	nk
Michael Rößner	RIGHT	0.1	nk
Patricia Kopietz	Animal welfare party	1.6	nk

The first mandate was won by Bernd Grimmer (AfD). Hans-Ulrich Rülke (FDP) also entered the state parliament with a second mandate .

Election 2011

The 2011 state election had the following result:

Direct candidate	Political party	Votes in%	State election 2006 votes in%
Stefan Mappus	CDU	44.5	45.9
Martin Kunzmann	SPD	22.8	24.4
Sibylle Schuessler	GREEN	19.0	08.8
Monika Descharmes	FDP	04.7	11.2
Claus Spohn	THE LEFT	03.5	0 5.3!WASG : 5.3
Kai-Uwe Hermann	PIRATES	02.1	-
Emanuel Reitter	NPD	01.4	01.0
Dieter Ebert	REP	01.2	03.1
Franz Seiler	ÖDP	00.9	-
-	Others	-	00.2

Elections and MPs 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 previous regulation, which provided for these mandates to be allocated according to the absolute number of votes at the level of the administrative districts, has only allowed two applicants from the very small constituency of Pforzheim to win a second mandate since 1976.

In the 2001 state elections, the member of the Bundestag, state chairwoman and top candidate of the SPD Baden-Württemberg for the office of Prime Minister Ute Vogt ran against Stefan Mappus ( CDU ) in this constituency . The SPD gained 8.2 percentage points nationwide in this election and Ute Vogt even achieved a vote increase of 13.5 percentage points in the constituency. However, this was not enough to win the direct mandate or a second mandate. Vogt, who had won the direct mandate in the Bundestag election in 1998 in the Pforzheim constituency , therefore did not move into the state parliament in 2001 and remained a member of the Bundestag until 2005. In this context, she was accused of not seriously striving for a mandate in the state parliament, especially since a candidacy in a larger constituency would have been possible without any problems.

The current leader of the FDP parliamentary group , Hans-Ulrich Rülke , who also lives in Pforzheim , has been a candidate in the neighboring constituency of Enz . Rülke ran for the state elections in 2016 in both the Enz and Pforzheim constituencies. He won a mandate in both constituencies, which is why his substitute applicant Erik Schweickert moved up for the constituency of Enz.

The electoral district of Pforzheim has been represented by the following members in the state parliament since 1976:

Political party	Type of mandate	Elected
CDU	First mandate	Hugo Leicht 1976, 1980, 1984, 1988, 1992 Stefan Mappus 1996, 2001, 2006, 2011 (resignation from office in August 2011) Marianne Engeser moved up in 2011
AfD	First mandate	Bernd Grimmer 2016
FDP	Second mandate	Hans-Ulrich Rülke 2016
REP	Second mandate	Willi Auer 1992 (resigned in September 1993)