Ludwigsburg (electoral district)

265 Ludwigsburg
Electoral district for the Bundestag
Ludwigsburg in 2009
State	Baden-Württemberg
Population	324,700 (2015)
Electorate	218,074 (2017)
Major settlements	Ludwigsburg Kornwestheim Vaihingen an der Enz
Area	361.5 km2
Current electoral district
Created	1949
Party	CDU
Member	Steffen Bilger
Elected	2009, 2013, 2017

Ludwigsburg 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 265. It is located in central Baden-Württemberg, comprising the southern part of the Ludwigsburg district.

Ludwigsburg was created for the inaugural 1949 federal election. Since 2009, it has been represented by Steffen Bilger of the Christian Democratic Union (CDU).

Geography

Ludwigsburg is located in central Baden-Württemberg. As of the 2021 federal election, it comprises the municipalities of Asperg, Ditzingen, Eberdingen, Gerlingen, Hemmingen, Korntal-Münchingen, Kornwestheim, Ludwigsburg, Markgröningen, Möglingen, Oberriexingen, Remseck am Neckar, Schwieberdingen, Sersheim, and Vaihingen an der Enz from the Ludwigsburg district, as well as the municipality of Weissach from the Böblingen district.

History

Ludwigsburg was created in 1949. In the 1949 election, it was Württemberg-Baden Landesbezirk Württemberg constituency 3 in the numbering system. In the 1953 through 1961 elections, it was number 165. In the 1965 through 1976 elections, it was number 167. In the 1980 through 1998 elections, it was number 169. In the 2002 and 2005 elections, it was number 266. Since the 2009 election, it has been number 265.

Originally, the constituency was coterminous with the Ludwigsburg district. In the 1976 election, it comprised the northern part of the Ludwigsburg district. In the 1980 election, it acquired a configuration very similar to its current borders, but lacking the Weissach municipality from the Böblingen district. It acquired the Weissach municipality in the 2017 election.

Election	No.	Name	Borders
1949	3	Ludwigsburg	Ludwigsburg district
1953	165
1957
1961
1965	167
1969
1972
1976			Ludwigsburg district (only northern parts)
1980	169		Ludwigsburg district (only Asperg, Ditzingen, Eberdingen, Gerlingen, Hemmingen, Korntal-Münchingen, Kornwestheim, Ludwigsburg, Markgröningen, Möglingen, Oberriexingen, Remseck am Neckar, Schwieberdingen, Sersheim, and Vaihingen an der Enz municipalities)
1983
1987
1990
1994
1998
2002	266
2005
2009	265
2013
2017			Ludwigsburg district (only Asperg, Ditzingen, Eberdingen, Gerlingen, Hemmingen, Korntal-Münchingen, Kornwestheim, Ludwigsburg, Markgröningen, Möglingen, Oberriexingen, Remseck am Neckar, Schwieberdingen, Sersheim, and Vaihingen an der Enz municipalities) Böblingen district (only Weissach municipality)
2021

Members

The constituency was first represented by Willi Lausen of the Social Democratic Party (SPD) from 1949 to 1953, followed by fellow SPD member Karl Mommer from 1953 to 1957. Raban Adelmann of the Christian Democratic Union (CDU) won it in 1957 and served one term before former member Mommer was re-elected in 1961. He served until 1969, when Annemarie Griesinger of the CDU was elected. Gunter Huonker of the SPD was then elected in 1972 for one term. Matthias Wissmann of the CDU was representative from 1976 to 2009, a total of nine consecutive terms. Steffen Bilger was elected in 2009, and re-elected in 2013 and 2017.

Election		Member	Party	%
bgcolor=Template:Social Democratic Party of Germany/meta/color|	1949	Willi Lausen	SPD	26.7
bgcolor=Template:Social Democratic Party of Germany/meta/color|	1953	Karl Mommer	SPD	28.8
bgcolor=Template:Christian Democratic Union of Germany/meta/color|	1957	Raban Adelmann	CDU	42.5
rowspan=2 bgcolor=Template:Social Democratic Party of Germany/meta/color|	1961	Karl Mommer	SPD	41.4
1965	42.1
bgcolor=Template:Christian Democratic Union of Germany/meta/color|	1969	Annemarie Griesinger	CDU	43.2
bgcolor=Template:Social Democratic Party of Germany/meta/color|	1972	Gunter Huonker	SPD	48.1
rowspan=9 bgcolor=Template:Christian Democratic Union of Germany/meta/color|	1976	Matthias Wissmann	CDU	48.7
1980	48.3
1983	55.5
1987	50.8
1990	48.5
1994	49.4
1998	44.3
2002	45.2
2005	45.2
rowspan=3 bgcolor=Template:Christian Democratic Union of Germany/meta/color|	2009	Steffen Bilger	CDU	39.9
2013	50.4
2017	38.3

Election results

2017 election

Federal election (2017): Ludwigsburg
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	Y Steffen Bilger		66,430	38.3	12.3	58,003	33.3	10.8
	SPD	Macit Karaahmetoğlu		30,971	17.8	3.3	28,547	16.4	4.8
	Greens	Ingrid Hönlinger		24,702	14.2	0.8	24,000	13.8	2.1
	AfD	Martin Hess		20,157	11.6		19,780	11.4	6.3
	FDP	Stefanie Knecht		17,691	10.2	7.0	25,538	14.7	7.8
	Left	Peter Schimke		9,487	5.5	0.7	10,451	6.0	1.3
	FW	Günther Frölich		3,644	2.1	0.0	1,503	0.9	0.0
	Human Environment Animal Protection						1,274	0.7	0.0
	PARTEI						1,229	0.7
	Pirates						882	0.5	1.7
	ÖDP						522	0.3	0.0
	Tierschutzallianz						410	0.2
	NPD						333	0.2	0.6
	BGE						276	0.2
	DM						266	0.2
	DiB						256	0.1
	V-Partei³						247	0.1
	MLPD	Erkan Karakaplan		453	0.3	0.3	223	0.1	0.1
	Menschliche Welt						182	0.1
	DIE RECHTE						42	0.0
	DKP						23	0.0
Informal votes				1,769			1,317
Total valid votes				173,535			173,987
Turnout				175,304	80.4	2.7
	CDU hold		Majority	35,459	20.5	8.7

2013 election

Federal election (2013): Ludwigsburg
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	Y Steffen Bilger		80,935	50.4	10.5	70,982	44.0	11.4
	SPD	Macit Karaahmetoğlu		33,977	21.2	1.4	34,338	21.3	1.1
	Greens	Ingrid Hönlinger		21,666	13.5	2.1	18,842	11.7	3.3
	Left	Peter Schimke		7,739	4.8	1.6	7,594	4.7	2.0
	FDP	Alexander Deicke		5,126	3.2	9.5	11,140	6.9	12.7
	AfD						8,247	5.1
	Pirates	Thomas Lambeck		4,349	2.7		3,567	2.2	0.3
	FW	Günther Frölich		3,373	2.1		1,380	0.9
	NPD	Klemens Lockfisch		2,251	1.4	0.2	1,359	0.8	0.2
	Human Environment Animal Protection						1,102	0.7	0.1
	REP						563	0.3	0.7
	ÖDP	Michael Dornhausen		1,145	0.7	0.1	557	0.3	0.1
	RENTNER						507	0.3
	PBC						334	0.2	0.2
	Volksabstimmung						202	0.1	0.0
	PRO						142	0.1
	BIG						138	0.1
	Party of Reason						136	0.1
	MLPD						120	0.1	0.0
	BüSo						21	0.0	0.0
Informal votes				2,254			1,544
Total valid votes				160,561			161,271
Turnout				162,815	77.5	2.1
	CDU hold		Majority	46,958	29.2	11.9

2009 election

Federal election (2009): Ludwigsburg
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	Steffen Bilger		61,328	39.9	6.4	50,274	32.6	3.8
	SPD	Jan Mönikes		34,718	22.6	11.8	31,079	20.2	11.8
	Greens	Ingrid Hönlinger		23,966	15.6	6.9	23,090	15.0	4.0
	FDP	Alexander Schopf		19,431	12.6	8.0	30,179	19.6	6.7
	Left	Hans-Jürgen Kemmerle		9,800	6.4	3.2	10,382	6.7	3.2
	Pirates						2,995	1.9
	REP						1,548	1.0	0.1
	NPD	Heiko Köhler		2,436	1.6	0.1	1,538	1.0	0.0
	Human Environment Animal Protection						943	0.6
	PBC	Hans-Dieter Völlm		971	0.6		608	0.4	0.1
	ÖDP	Guido Klamt		963	0.6		628	0.4
	DIE VIOLETTEN						360	0.2
	Volksabstimmung						245	0.2
	MLPD						109	0.1	0.0
	DVU						70	0.0
	BüSo						64	0.0	0.0
	ADM						59	0.0
Informal votes				2,440			1,822
Total valid votes				153,613			154,171
Turnout				156,053	75.5	5.8
	CDU hold		Majority	26,610	17.3	5.4