Südpfalz
210 Südpfalz | |
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Electoral district for the Bundestag | |
![]() Südpfalz in 2025 | |
State | Rhineland-Palatinate |
Population | 286,400 (2019) |
Electorate | 217,000 (2021) |
Major settlements | Landau Germersheim Wörth am Rhein |
Area | 1,186.2 km2 |
Current electoral district | |
Created | 1965 |
Party | SPD |
Member | Thomas Hitschler |
Elected | 2021 |
Südpfalz is an electoral constituency (German: Wahlkreis) represented in the Bundestag. It elects one member via first-past-the-post voting. Under the current constituency numbering system, it is designated as constituency 210. It is located in southern Rhineland-Palatinate, comprising the city of Landau and the districts of Germersheim and Südliche Weinstraße.[1]
Südpfalz was created for the 1965 federal election. Since 2021, it has been represented by Thomas Hitschler of the Social Democratic Party (SPD).[2]
Geography
[edit]Südpfalz is located in southern Rhineland-Palatinate. As of the 2021 federal election, it comprises the independent city of Landau and the districts of Germersheim and Südliche Weinstraße.[1]
History
[edit]Südpfalz was created in 1965, then known as Landau. It acquired its current name in the 1987 election. In the 1965 through 1976 elections, it was constituency 163 in the numbering system. In the 1980 through 1998 elections, it was number 161. In the 2002 election, it was number 214. In the 2005 election, it was number 213. In the 2009 and 2013 elections, it was number 212. In the 2017 and 2021 elections, it was number 211. From the 2025 election, it has been number 210.
Originally, the constituency comprised the city of Landau, and the districts of Landkreis Landau, Germersheim, and Bergzabern. In the 1972 and 1976 elections, it comprised the city of Landau, and the districts of Landau-Bad Bergzabern and Germersheim. It acquired its current borders in the 1980 election.
Election | No. | Name | Borders |
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1965 | 163 | Landau |
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1969 | |||
1972 |
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1976 | |||
1980 | 161 |
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1983 | |||
1987 | Südpfalz | ||
1990 | |||
1994 | |||
1998 | |||
2002 | 214 | ||
2005 | 213 | ||
2009 | 212 | ||
2013 | |||
2017 | 211 | ||
2021 | |||
2025 | 210 |
Members
[edit]The constituency has been held by the Christian Democratic Union (CDU) during all but one Bundestag term since its creation. It was first represented by Albert Leicht from 1965 to 1980. Heiner Geißler served from 1980 to 2002. Ralf Göbel was then representative from 2002 to 2009. Thomas Gebhart was elected in 2009, and re-elected in 2013 and 2017. Thomas Hitschler won the constituency for the Social Democratic Party (SPD) in 2021.
Election | Member | Party | % | |
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1965 | Albert Leicht | CDU | 51.9 | |
1969 | 52.0 | |||
1972 | 49.3 | |||
1976 | 53.5 | |||
1980 | Heiner Geißler | CDU | 50.0 | |
1983 | 55.7 | |||
1987 | 49.6 | |||
1990 | 49.6 | |||
1994 | 50.9 | |||
1998 | 47.1 | |||
2002 | Ralf Göbel | CDU | 43.5 | |
2005 | 43.2 | |||
2009 | Thomas Gebhart | CDU | 40.7 | |
2013 | 48.8 | |||
2017 | 40.3 | |||
2021 | Thomas Hitschler | SPD | 28.2 |
Election results
[edit]2021 election
[edit]Federal election (2021): Südpfalz[3] | |||||||||
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Notes: | Blue background denotes the winner of the electorate vote. | ||||||||
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | Party votes | % | ±% | ||
SPD | Thomas Hitschler | 47,901 | 28.2 | ![]() | 47,028 | 27.7 | ![]() | ||
CDU | ![]() | 47,860 | 28.2 | ![]() | 39,421 | 23.2 | ![]() | ||
Greens | Tobias Lindner | 19,058 | 11.2 | ![]() | 22,882 | 13.5 | ![]() | ||
FDP | Volker Wissing | 17,011 | 10.0 | ![]() | 21,120 | 12.4 | ![]() | ||
AfD | Bernd Schattner | 16,658 | 9.8 | ![]() | 17,702 | 10.4 | ![]() | ||
FW | Steffen Weiß | 6,388 | 3.8 | ![]() | 5,493 | 3.2 | ![]() | ||
Left | Tobias Schreiner | 5,222 | 3.1 | ![]() | 5,598 | 3.3 | ![]() | ||
Human Environment Animal Protection | Bernd Kriebel | 3,019 | 1.8 | 3,098 | 1.8 | ||||
dieBasis | Jacqueline Sharma | 2,388 | 1.4 | 2,389 | 1.4 | ||||
PARTEI | Lukas Rammefanger | 1,923 | 1.1 | 1,515 | 0.9 | ![]() | |||
Volt | Alexandra Barsuhn | 829 | 0.5 | 779 | 0.5 | ||||
Team Todenhöfer | 665 | 0.4 | |||||||
Pirates | 659 | 0.4 | ![]() | ||||||
ÖDP | Sven Leuthner | 582 | 0.3 | 471 | 0.3 | ![]() | |||
Independent | Erdal Koccu | 362 | 0.2 | ||||||
Independent | Cyrus Mobasheri | 225 | 0.1 | ||||||
NPD | 218 | 0.1 | ![]() | ||||||
Independent | Holger Volger | 206 | 0.1 | ||||||
V-Partei3 | 194 | 0.1 | ![]() | ||||||
DiB | 182 | 0.1 | |||||||
Humanists | 151 | 0.1 | |||||||
LKR | 73 | 0.0 | |||||||
MLPD | 38 | 0.0 | ![]() | ||||||
Informal votes | 1,627 | 1,583 | |||||||
Total valid votes | 169,632 | 169,676 | |||||||
Turnout | 171,259 | 78.9 | ![]() | ||||||
SPD gain from CDU | Majority | 41 | 0.0 |
2017 election
[edit]Federal election (2017): Südpfalz[4] | |||||||||
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Notes: | Blue background denotes the winner of the electorate vote. | ||||||||
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | Party votes | % | ±% | ||
CDU | ![]() | 68,588 | 40.3 | ![]() | 59,309 | 34.8 | ![]() | ||
SPD | Thomas Hitschler | 44,224 | 26.0 | ![]() | 37,293 | 21.9 | ![]() | ||
AfD | Heiko Wildberg | 20,932 | 12.3 | 23,191 | 13.6 | ![]() | |||
Greens | Tobias Lindner | 13,500 | 7.9 | ![]() | 14,788 | 8.7 | ![]() | ||
FDP | Mario Brandenburg | 10,209 | 6.0 | ![]() | 17,560 | 10.3 | ![]() | ||
Left | Simon Georg Bludovsky | 8,018 | 4.7 | ![]() | 10,975 | 6.4 | ![]() | ||
FW | Bernd Ließfeld | 4,540 | 2.7 | ![]() | 2,814 | 1.7 | ![]() | ||
PARTEI | 1,706 | 1.0 | |||||||
Pirates | 796 | 0.5 | ![]() | ||||||
NPD | 537 | 0.3 | ![]() | ||||||
V-Partei³ | 520 | 0.3 | |||||||
ÖDP | 462 | 0.3 | ![]() | ||||||
BGE | 391 | 0.2 | |||||||
MLPD | 65 | 0.0 | ![]() | ||||||
Informal votes | 2,358 | 1,962 | |||||||
Total valid votes | 170,011 | 170,407 | |||||||
Turnout | 172,369 | 79.2 | ![]() | ||||||
CDU hold | Majority | 24,364 | 14.3 | ![]() |
2013 election
[edit]Federal election (2013): Südpfalz[5] | |||||||||
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Notes: | Blue background denotes the winner of the electorate vote. | ||||||||
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | Party votes | % | ±% | ||
CDU | ![]() | 75,748 | 48.8 | ![]() | 66,523 | 42.7 | ![]() | ||
SPD | Thomas Hitschler | 43,385 | 28.0 | ![]() | 40,537 | 26.0 | ![]() | ||
Greens | Tobias Lindner | 11,064 | 7.1 | ![]() | 13,172 | 8.5 | ![]() | ||
Left | Sebastian Frech | 6,308 | 4.1 | ![]() | 7,538 | 4.8 | ![]() | ||
FDP | Volker Wissing | 6,217 | 4.0 | ![]() | 9,677 | 6.2 | ![]() | ||
AfD | 7,584 | 4.9 | |||||||
Pirates | Kim Julia Orth | 4,608 | 3.0 | 4,091 | 2.6 | ![]() | |||
FW | Franz Alois Pietruska | 3,159 | 2.0 | 2,166 | 1.4 | ||||
NPD | Klaus Armstroff | 2,082 | 1.3 | ![]() | 1,833 | 1.2 | ![]() | ||
REP | Frank Herbert Karl Köhler | 1,605 | 1.0 | 1,233 | 0.8 | ![]() | |||
ÖDP | Rüdiger John | 940 | 0.6 | 660 | 0.4 | ![]() | |||
Party of Reason | 410 | 0.3 | |||||||
PRO | 349 | 0.2 | |||||||
MLPD | 71 | 0.0 | ![]() | ||||||
Informal votes | 3,545 | 2,817 | |||||||
Total valid votes | 155,116 | 155,844 | |||||||
Turnout | 158,661 | 73.4 | ![]() | ||||||
CDU hold | Majority | 32,363 | 20.8 | ![]() |
2009 election
[edit]Federal election (2009): Südpfalz[6] | |||||||||
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Notes: | Blue background denotes the winner of the electorate vote. | ||||||||
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | Party votes | % | ±% | ||
CDU | Thomas Gebhart | 61,994 | 40.7 | ![]() | 52,517 | 34.3 | ![]() | ||
SPD | Heinz Schmitt | 42,287 | 27.7 | ![]() | 34,790 | 22.7 | ![]() | ||
FDP | Volker Wissing | 19,431 | 12.7 | ![]() | 26,201 | 17.1 | ![]() | ||
Greens | Tobias Lindner[a] | 12,637 | 8.3 | ![]() | 15,635 | 10.2 | ![]() | ||
Left | Ernst Jakob Kuntz | 10,926 | 7.2 | ![]() | 13,137 | 8.6 | ![]() | ||
Pirates | 3,322 | 2.2 | |||||||
NPD | Karlheinz Pfirrmann | 3,230 | 2.1 | ![]() | 2,272 | 1.5 | ![]() | ||
REP | 1,980 | 1.3 | ![]() | ||||||
FAMILIE | 1,889 | 1.2 | ![]() | ||||||
Independent | Edeltraud Dietert | 1,197 | 0.8 | ||||||
Independent | Wolfgang Berger | 728 | 0.5 | ||||||
ÖDP | 609 | 0.4 | |||||||
PBC | 575 | 0.4 | ![]() | ||||||
DVU | 134 | 0.1 | |||||||
MLPD | 59 | 0.0 | ![]() | ||||||
Informal votes | 3,719 | 3,029 | |||||||
Total valid votes | 152,430 | 153,120 | |||||||
Turnout | 156,149 | 72.9 | ![]() | ||||||
CDU hold | Majority | 19,707 | 13.0 | ![]() |
Notes
[edit]- ^ Lindner entered the Bundestag on the Greens list after the resignation of Ulrike Höfken in June 2011.
References
[edit]- ^ a b "Constituency Südpfalz". Federal Returning Officer.
- ^ "Results for Südpfalz". Federal Returning Officer.
- ^ Results for Südpfalz
- ^ Results for Südpfalz
- ^ Results for Südpfalz
- ^ Results for Südpfalz