District of Wunsiedel, Kulmbach

District in Bavaria
Surname	Wunsiedel, Kulmbach
number	408
Constituency	Upper Franconia
last choice	October 14, 2018
voter turnout	69.8%
Member of the state parliament
Surname	Martin Schoeffel
Political party	CSU
Share of votes	37.5%
District assembly member
Surname
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Share of votes

The district of Wunsiedel, Kulmbach is a district for the Bavarian state elections in the constituency of Upper Franconia . It includes the district of Kulmbach , the district of Wunsiedel in the Fichtelgebirge and, from the district of Bayreuth, the cities of Bad Berneck in the Fichtelgebirge and Gefrees and the communities of Bischofsgrün , Fichtelberg and Mehlmeisel .

The constituency was newly formed by a resolution of the state parliament in 2011 and used for the first time in the 2013 state election . It emerged from most of the previous electoral districts of Kulmbach and Wunsiedel in the Fichtel Mountains . The amalgamation became necessary due to the reduction of the electoral districts in Upper Franconia from nine to eight. However, this was sharply criticized, so that the districts of Kulmbach and Wunsiedel and the Bavarian Greens complained against it. The Bavarian Constitutional Court rejected the complaint, however, so that the classification for the upcoming election is valid for the first time. Because of its geographical shape, the district is popularly referred to as the dog bone .

Election 2013

A total of 132,486 residents were entitled to vote in the state elections on September 15, 2013. The turnout was 62.4%. The result was the following:

Direct candidate	Political party	First votes in%	Total votes in%	+/- total votes against 2008 in% -P. converted to the area of ​​the newly formed constituency
Martin Schoeffel	CSU	44.7	45.9	+ 4.7
Inge Aures	SPD	29.8	28.1	+ 0.1
Martin Baumgartner	Free voters	7.9	8.4	- 2.5
Brigitte Artmann	GREEN	4.6	5.0	+ 0.1
Thomas Nagel	FDP	2.2	2.2	- 3.2
Christa Most	LEFT	2.4	2.4	- 2.6
Ehrenfried Bittermann	ÖDP	0.7	0.7	- 0.1
Rainer Krause	REP	0.7	0.7	- 0.5
Harald Bestehorn	NPD	1.4	1.4	- 0.8
Markus Roppel	BP	0.6	0.6	+ 0.2
-	List of women	-	0.2	+ 0.2
Georg Dieter Ludwig	The Franks	2.7	2.5	+ 2.5
Bernhard Hanakam	PIRATES	1.6	1.8	+ 1.8

Election 2018

A total of 128,258 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%
Martin Schoeffel	CSU	37.5	39.3	- 6.5
Inge Aures	SPD	19.9	17.2	- 10.9
Rainer Ludwig	Free voters	12.7	11.7	+ 3.3
Wilfried Kukla	GREEN	9.2	10.0	+ 5.0
Michael Otte	FDP	3.6	3.5	+ 1.3
Oswald Greim	LEFT	2.5	2.6	+ 0.3
Christiane Zeigler	BP	1.4	1.1	+ 0.5
Reinhard Englert	ÖDP	0.7	0.7	- 0.1
-	PIRATES	-	0.3	- 1.5
Gerd Koegler	AfD	11.7	11.8	+ 11.8
Michaela Hüttner	courage	0.8	0.9	+ 0.9
-	The party	-	0.5	+ 0.5
-	Health research	-	0.1	+ 0.1
-	V party³	-	0.2	+ 0.2

In addition to the directly elected constituency member Martin Schöffel (CSU), the SPD candidate Inge Aures and the FW candidate Rainer Ludwig were elected to the state parliament via their party's respective district lists.

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Current constituency
2. ^ Constitutional Court approves constituency reform Report of the Mittelbayerische Zeitung of October 4, 2012
3. ^ Results for the district of Wunsiedel, Kulmbach. State Returning Officer, accessed on April 17, 2019 . 
4. ↑ State election 2013 in Bavaria
5. ↑ State election - results for the constituency of Wunsiedel, Kulmbach. State Returning Officer, accessed on April 17, 2019 .