Kronach district, Lichtenfels

Constituency
Constituency :	Upper Franconia
District number:	407
District name:	Kronach, Lichtenfels
Constituency representative
District Representative:	Jürgen Baumgärtner
Political party:	CSU
Share of votes:	43.1%
Voter turnout:	69.3%
Date of election:	October 14, 2018

The district of Kronach, Lichtenfels (district 407) is a district in Upper Franconia . It includes the districts of Kronach and Lichtenfels .

2008 election

In the 2008 state elections , 113,753 residents were eligible to vote in the constituency. The turnout was 57.3%. The result was the following:

Direct candidate	Political party	First votes in%	Total votes in%	Change in total votes compared to the 2003 state election in%
Christian Meissner	CSU	50.7	49.6	- 14.6
Christa Steiger	SPD	24.1	24.1	+ 0.3
Thomas Meyer-Sch Delivery	GREEN	3.0	3.0	+ 0.5
Michael Linke	Free voters	9.4	9.6	+ 5.1
Bjorn Cukrowski	FDP	3.8	4.4	+ 3.3
Günter Ruff	REP	1.0	0.9	- 1.0
Thomas Müller	ödp	1.5	1.3	+ 0.4
Georg Schrenker	BP	0.4	0.3	0.0
-	BB	-	0.0	0.0
Mathias Krämer	LEFT	3.8	3.7	+ 3.7
Dominic Hanakam	NPD	2.3	2.5	+ 2.5

A total of 111,581 residents were entitled to vote in the state elections on September 15, 2013. The turnout was 62.7%. The result was the following:

Direct candidate	Political party	First votes in%	Total votes in%	+/- total votes against 2008 in% -P.
Jürgen Baumgärtner	CSU	48.3	48.7	- 0.9
Ralf Pohl	SPD	24.2	24.5	+ 0.4
Sebastian Herter	Free voters	8.6	8.2	- 1.4
Helmut Wesolek	GREEN	4.0	4.1	+ 0.6
Bjorn Cukrowski	FDP	2.0	2.0	- 2.4
Jens-Uwe Frosch	LEFT	1.5	1.5	- 2.3
Thomas Müller	ÖDP	2.0	1.4	+ 0.1
Bärbel Mr.	REP	0.5	0.5	- 0.3
Johannes Hühnlein	NPD	1.7	1.6	- 0.9
Gunter Sedlmeyer	BP	0.6	0.6	+ 0.3
Maria Gerstner	List of women	1.9	2.1	+ 2.1
Helmut Lärtz	The Franks	3.0	2.7	+ 2.7
Stefan Betz	PIRATES	2.0	2.0	+ 2.0

A total of 108,950 residents were eligible to vote in the constituency. The state election on October 14, 2018 had the following result:

Direct candidate	Political party	First votes in%	Total votes in%	Change in total votes compared to the 2013 state election in%
Jürgen Baumgärtner	CSU	43.1	44.0	- 4.6
Ralf Pohl	SPD	13.6	14.2	- 10.3
Michael Zwingmann	Free voters	11.6	10.9	+ 2.7
Edith Memmel	GREEN	10.6	10.0	+ 5.9
Harald Bischoff	FDP	4.0	3.5	+ 1.5
Dieter Knoblach	LEFT	2.4	2.5	+ 1.1
Matthias Gerbig	BP	1.0	0.9	+ 0.3
Thomas Müller	ÖDP	1.8	1.3	- 0.1
Peter Goßrau	PIRATES	0.7	0.7	- 1.3
Detlef Rauh	AfD	11.2	11.2	+ 11.2
-	courage	-	0.1	+ 0.1
-	The party	-	0.4	+ 0.4
-	Health research	-	0.1	+ 0.1
-	V party³	-	0.2	+ 0.2

The constituency is represented in the district by the directly elected constituency representative Jürgen Baumgärtner (CSU).