Saarbrücken (electoral district)
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Saarbrücken is one of the 299 single member constituencies used for the German parliament, the Bundestag. One of four districts covering the state of Saarland, it covers the city of Saarbrücken and the municipalities of Kleinblittersdorf, Großrosseln, Püttlingen, Riegelsberg, Völklingen, all located in the Saarbrücken district.
The constituency was created for the 1957 election, the first election after the Saar Treaty had united the Saarland with West Germany. Although the first two elections were won by the Free Democratic Party and Christian Democratic Union (CDU), from the 1965 election onwards the constituency was won by the Social Democratic Party of Germany (SPD). In the 1990s, Oskar Lafontaine, a prominent figure in the SPD was the district representative. The pattern of SPD victories was broken at the 2009 election, when, in common with the other three districts in the Saarland, the CDU gained the district.[1] The current representative is Anette Hübinger.
Results
2009 election
| Party | Constituency results | List results | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Candidate | Votes | % share | +/- | Votes | % share | +/- | ||
| Template:German politics/party colours/CDU width=3| | Christian Democratic Union | Anette Hübinger | 45,748 | 31.8 | +2.0 | 38,317 | 26.5 | +0.0 |
| Template:German politics/party colours/SPD| | Social Democratic Party of Germany | Elke Ferner | 43,737 | 30.4 | -3.2 | 34,528 | 23.9 | -8.5 |
| Template:German politics/party colours/Left| | The Left | Volker Schneider | 31,946 | 22.2 | -4.0 | 34,666 | 24.0 | +3.1 |
| Template:German politics/party colours/FDP| | Free Democratic Party | Roland König | 10,597 | 7.4 | +4.0 | 17,651 | 12.2 | +4.3 |
| Template:German politics/party colours/Green| | Alliance '90/The Greens | Karin Burkart | 9,696 | 6.7 | +3.2 | 12,685 | 8.8 | +0.9 |
| National Democratic Party of Germany | Peter Marx | 1,967 | 1.4 | -0.2 | 1,737 | 1.2 | -0.6 | |
| Marxist–Leninist Party of Germany | Reiner Aulenbacher | 0.2 | 0.1 | 112 | 0.1 | -0.1 | ||
| Pirate Party | N/A | N/A | N/A | N/A | 2,536 | 1.8 | N/A | |
| Family Party of Germany | N/A | N/A | N/A | N/A | 1,596 | 1.1 | -0.5 | |
| Pensioners and Retirees Party | N/A | N/A | N/A | N/A | 752 | 0.5 | N/A | |
List of district representatives
Boundaries
| Elections | District name | Boundaries |
|---|---|---|
| 1957–1961 | 243 Saarbrücken-Stadt | The city of Saarbrücken, the Saarbrücken district municipalities of Dudweiler, Brebach, Kleinblittersdorf and Riegelsberg |
| 1965–1972 | 244 Saarbrücken-Stadt | |
| 1976–1998 | 244 Saarbrücken I | The city of Saarbrücken and the municipality of Kleinblittersdorf |
| since 2002 | 296 Saarbrücken | The city of Saarbrücken and the municipalities of Kleinblittersdorf, Großrosseln, Püttlingen, Riegelsberg, Völklingen |
References
- ^ 2009 constituency results, bundeswahlleiter.de, accessed 13 August 2013