Main-Kinzig – Wetterau II – Schotten

Location of constituency in Hesse

Main-Kinzig – Wetterau II – Schotten is one of the 299 single member constituencies used for the German parliament, the Bundestag. It is one of twenty two districts in the state of Hesse.

The constituency is the Bundestag's newest district.[1] It was created for the 2013 election from parts of the Giessen, Fulda, Hanau and Wetterau constituencies. The first election was won by the Christian Democratic Union (CDU) candidate Peter Tauber.

Boundaries

Results

2013 election

Party Constituency results List results
Candidate Votes % share +/- Votes % share +/-
Christian Democratic Union Peter Tauber 61,911 48.8 +7.9 52,305 41.2 +7.4
Social Democratic Party of Germany Bettina Müller 41,061 32.4 +0.1 35,313 27.8 +3.1
Alliance '90/The Greens Udo Gernot Weiss 6,815 5.4 -0.8 9,720 7.7 -1.8
The Left Andreas Müller 6,739 5.3 -1.7 6,934 5.5 -3.0
Pirate Party Reinhard Schaffert 3,746 3.0 N/A 2,666 2.1 +0.1
National Democratic Party of Germany Daniel Lachmann 3,538 2.8 +0.5 2,662 2.1 +0.1
Free Democratic Party Conrad Buchholz 2,963 2.3 -7.2 6,516 5.1 -12.0
Alternative for Germany N/A N/A N/A N/A 8,098 6.4 N/A
Free Voters N/A N/A N/A N/A 1,325 1.0 N/A
Die PARTEI N/A N/A N/A N/A 630 0.5 N/A
The Republicans N/A N/A N/A N/A 487 0.4 -0.5
Others N/A N/A N/A N/A 358 0.3 N/A

Source:[3]

References

  1. 32 Wahlkreise für Bundestagswahl werden neu zugeschnitten, Die Welt, 2 May 2012
  2. Constituency boundaries bundeswahlleiter.de, accessed 17 March 2014
  3. 2013 constituency results, bundeswahlleiter.de, accessed 17 March 2014

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