Bruchsal – Schwetzingen
Bruchsal – Schwetzingen is one of the 299 single member constituencies used for the German parliament, the Bundestag. One of thirty eight districts covering the state of Baden-Württemberg, it contains the collective municipalities of Bad Schönborn, Bruchsal, Forst, Hambrücken, Karlsdorf-Neuthard, Kronau, Oberhausen-Rheinhausen, Östringen, Philippsburg, Ubstadt-Weiher and Waghäusel from the county of Karlsruhe. It also includes the Rhein-Neckar county collective municipalities of Altlußheim, Brühl, Hockenheim, Ketsch, Neulußheim, Oftersheim, Plankstadt, Reilingen and Schwetzingen.[1] The constituency elects one representative under the mixed member proportional representation (MMP) system. Under the current constituency numbering system, it is designated as constituency 278.
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The constituency was created for the 2002 election, drawing its electorate from the Heidelberg and Karlsruhe-Land constituencies. All four elections have been won by the Christian Democratic Union (CDU) candidate Olaf Gutting.[2]
Election results
2013 election
2013 German federal election: Bruchsal – Schwetzingen[3] | |||||||||
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Blue background denotes the winner of the electorate vote.
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Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | Party votes | % | ±% | ||
CDU | Olav Gutting | 73,944 | 51.8% | ![]() |
66,656 | 46.6% | ![]() | ||
SPD | Daniel Born | 35,252 | 24.7% | ![]() |
30,861 | 21.6% | ![]() | ||
Green | Alexander Geiger | 9,678 | 6.8% | ![]() |
11,696 | 8.2% | ![]() | ||
AfD | Klaus Voigtmann | 6,277 | 4.4% | ![]() |
8,700 | 6.1% | ![]() | ||
Left | Heinrich Stürtz | 5,345 | 3.7% | ![]() |
6,357 | 4.4% | ![]() | ||
FDP | Lucia Biedermann | 3,966 | 2.8% | ![]() |
8,133 | 5.7% | ![]() | ||
Pirates | Harry Botzenhardt | 3,396 | 2.4% | ![]() |
3,556 | 2.5% | ![]() | ||
FW | Sven Nitsche | 1,804 | 1.3% | ![]() |
1,364 | 1.0% | ![]() | ||
NPD | Jörg Scheibler | 1,716 | 1.2% | ![]() |
1,628 | 1.1% | ![]() | ||
REP | Timo Weih | 1,261 | 0.9% | ![]() |
1,042 | 0.7% | ![]() | ||
Tierschutzpartei | 1,416 | 1.0% | ![]() | ||||||
Pensioners' | 418 | 0.3% | ![]() | ||||||
ÖDP | 278 | 0.2% | ![]() | ||||||
Volksabstimmung | 272 | 0.2% | ![]() | ||||||
PDV | 173 | 0.1% | ![]() | ||||||
pro-Deutschland | 168 | 0.1% | ![]() | ||||||
PBC | 164 | 0.1% | ![]() | ||||||
BIG | 89 | 0.1% | ![]() | ||||||
MLPD | 42 | 0.0% | ![]() | ||||||
BüSo | 22 | 0.0% | ![]() | ||||||
Informal votes | 2,468 | 2,072 | |||||||
Total Valid votes | 142,639 | 143,035 | |||||||
CDU hold | Majority | 38,692 | 27.1% |
References
- Constituency boundaries Archived 2014-07-23 at the Wayback Machine, bundeswahlleiter.de, accessed 27 June 2014
- Keine Überraschungen im Wahlkreis 278, Rhein-Neckar-Zeitung, 24 September 2013
- https://www.bundeswahlleiter.de/en/bundestagswahlen/2013/ergebnisse/bund-99/land-8/wahlkreis-278.html