Eichsfeld – Nordhausen – Unstrut-Hainich-Kreis I

Eichsfeld – Nordhausen – Unstrut-Hainich-Kreis I is one of the 299 single member constituencies used for the German parliament, the Bundestag. One of nine districts covering the state of Thuringia, it covers the districts of Eichsfeld and Nordhausen, the town of Rodeberg, the former municipalities of Hildebrandshausen and Lengenfeld unterm Stein and the Unstrut-Hainich district municipalities of Mühlhausen, Anrode, Dünwald and Unstruttal.

Location of constituency in Thuringia

The constituency was created for the 2005 election, expanding the Eichsfeld – Nordhausen constituency by adding parts of the abolished Eisenach – Wartburgkreis – Unstrut-Hainich-Kreis II constituency. The main predecessor constituency, which had been created for the 1990 election, had been won by the Christian Democratic Union (CDU), and they have held the new constituency since the 2005 election. The current representative is Manfred Grund,[1] who had represented Eichsfeld – Nordhausen since the 1994 election.

Results

2009 election
Party Constituency results List results
Candidate Votes % share +/- Votes % share +/-
Christian Democratic Union Manfred Grund 57,882 43.0 +5.6 51,683 38.5 +6.1
The Left Alexander Scharff 33,005 24.5 +3.8 32,391 24.0 +1.7
Social Democratic Party of Germany Joachim Schwiderke 22,854 17.0 -12.8 22,341 16.6 -11.7
Free Democratic Party Andreas Klaschka 9,942 7.4 +2.6 14,382 10.7 +2.3
Alliance '90/The Greens Michael Hoffmeier 5,540 4.1 +1.6 6,507 4.8 +0.9
National Democratic Party of Germany Thorsten Heise 3,798 2.8 -0.5 3,631 2.7 -0.5
Ecological Democratic Party Karl-Edmund Vogt 1,416 1.1 N/A 1,009 0.7 N/A
Independent Bärbel Macamo 309 0.2 N/A N/A N/A N/A
Pirate Party N/A N/A N/A N/A 2,309 1.7 N/A
The Republicans N/A N/A N/A N/A 299 0.2 -0.3
Marxist–Leninist Party of Germany N/A N/A N/A N/A 127 0.1 -0.2

References
  1. 2009 constituency results Archived 2013-07-28 at the Wayback Machine, bundeswahlleiter.de, accessed 30 August 2013

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