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.

Location of constituency in Baden-Württemberg

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]
Notes:

Blue background denotes the winner of the electorate vote.
Pink background denotes a candidate elected from their party list.
Yellow background denotes an electorate win by a list member, or other incumbent.
A Y or N denotes status of any incumbent, win or lose respectively.

Party Candidate Votes % ±% Party votes % ±%
CDU Olav Gutting 73,944 51.8% 5.0% 66,656 46.6% 10.6%
SPD Daniel Born 35,252 24.7% 1.1% 30,861 21.6% 1.4%
Green Alexander Geiger 9,678 6.8% 2.0% 11,696 8.2% 2.0%
AfD Klaus Voigtmann 6,277 4.4% 4.4% 8,700 6.1% 6.1%
Left Heinrich Stürtz 5,345 3.7% 3.5% 6,357 4.4% 3.3%
FDP Lucia Biedermann 3,966 2.8% 8.7% 8,133 5.7% 13.5%
Pirates Harry Botzenhardt 3,396 2.4% 2.4% 3,556 2.5% 0.3%
FW Sven Nitsche 1,804 1.3% 1.3% 1,364 1.0% 1.0%
NPD Jörg Scheibler 1,716 1.2% 0.9% 1,628 1.1% 0.2%
REP Timo Weih 1,261 0.9% 0.9% 1,042 0.7% 0.5%
Tierschutzpartei   1,416 1.0% 0.1%
Pensioners'   418 0.3% 0.3%
ÖDP   278 0.2% 0.1%
Volksabstimmung   272 0.2% 0.1%
PDV   173 0.1% 0.1%
pro-Deutschland   168 0.1% 0.1%
PBC   164 0.1% 0.2%
BIG   89 0.1% 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
  1. Constituency boundaries Archived 2014-07-23 at the Wayback Machine, bundeswahlleiter.de, accessed 27 June 2014
  2. Keine Überraschungen im Wahlkreis 278, Rhein-Neckar-Zeitung, 24 September 2013
  3. https://www.bundeswahlleiter.de/en/bundestagswahlen/2013/ergebnisse/bund-99/land-8/wahlkreis-278.html

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