Gera – Jena – Saale-Holzland-Kreis

Location of constituency in Thuringia

Gera – Jena – Saale-Holzland-Kreis 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 cities of Gera and Jena and the Saale-Holzland district.

The constituency was created for the 2005 election, expanding the Gera – Saale-Holzland-Kreis constituency by adding the city of Jena from the abolished Jena – Weimar – Weimarer Land constituency. Both the predecessor constituencies, which had been created for the 2002 election, had been won by the Social Democratic Party of Germany (SPD), and they won the new constituency in the 2005 election. However at the 2009 election the constituency was one of two in Thuringia gained by The Left. The current representative is Ralph Lenkert.[1]

Results

2009 election

Party Constituency results List results
Candidate Votes % share +/- Votes % share +/-
The Left Ralph Lenkert 49,344 30.4 +0.9 48,724 29.9 +2.2
Christian Democratic Union Roland Richwien 46,590 28.7 +4.1 44,951 27.6 +6.1
Social Democratic Party of Germany Volker Blumentritt 34,658 21.3 -10.5 28,034 17.2 -13.7
Free Democratic Party Peter Röhlinger 15,695 9.7 +3.8 16,832 10.3 +2.1
Alliance '90/The Greens Olaf Möller 11,471 7.1 +2.2 13,243 8.1 +1.5
National Democratic Party of Germany Peter Pichl 4,771 2.9 -0.6 4,209 2.6 -0.6
Pirate Party N/A N/A N/A N/A 5,519 3.4 N/A
Ecological Democratic Party N/A N/A N/A N/A 634 0.4 N/A
The Republicans N/A N/A N/A N/A 574 0.4 -0.3
Marxist–Leninist Party of Germany N/A N/A N/A N/A 190 0.1 -0.2

References

  1. ↑ 2009 constituency results, bundeswahlleiter.de, accessed 14 August 2013

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