Magdeburg (electoral district)

Location of constituency in Saxony-Anhalt

Magdeburg is one of the 299 single member constituencies used for the German parliament, the Bundestag. One of nine districts covering the state of Saxony-Anhalt, it covers the whole of the Magdeburg district and the municipalities of Barby, Schönebeck, Calbe, Bördeland, all located in the Salzlandkreis district.

In its current form, the constituency was created for the 2009 election, replacing the former Magdeburg – Schönebeck – Wanzleben – Staßfurt constituency. The first two elections in the constituency were won by the Social Democratic Party of Germany (SPD), who had held the predecessor constituency since the 1994 election. At the 2009 election the constituency was gained by The Left party. The Christian Democratic Union (CDU) gained the seat at the 2013 election. The current representative is Tino Sorge of the CDU.

History and boundaries

The constituency was created for the 1990 election, the first following German reunification. It was then called Magdeburg – Schönebeck – Wanzleben – Staßfurt and included the municipality of Magdeburg, excluding the city's south-western districts of Buckau, Fermersleben, Salbke, Westerhüsen, Leipziger Straße, Hopfengarten and Reform. The 1990 election was won by the CDU, but the constituency was gained by the SPD at the 1994 election and held by them until the 2009 election. For the 2002 election the constituency was enlarged and renamed Magdeburg and was coterminous with the city of Magdeburg. It assumed its current boundaries for the 2009 election.

Results

2013 election

Party		Constituency results				List results
		Candidate	Votes	% share	+/-	Votes	% share	+/-
Template:German politics/party colours/CDU width=3|	Christian Democratic Union	Tino Sorge	55,046	36.3	+5.5	56,982	37.5	+9.6
Template:German politics/party colours/Left|	The Left	Rosemarie Hein	38,231	25.2	-6.9	36,473	24.9	-8.2
Template:German politics/party colours/SPD|	Social Democratic Party of Germany	Burkhard Lischka	38,153	25.2	+3.2	31,763	20.9	+2.1
Template:German politics/party colours/Green|	Alliance '90/The Greens	Stephan Bischoff	6,073	4.0	-1.8	8,490	5.6	-1.3
	Pirate Party	Jörg Schulenburg	4,153	2.7	N/A	3,654	2.4	-0.7
	National Democratic Party of Germany	Gustav Walter Haenschke	2,786	1.8	+0.1	2,272	1.5	-0.0
	Human Environment Animal Protection	Josef Fassl	2,758	1.8	N/A	N/A	N/A	N/A
Template:German politics/party colours/FDP|	Free Democratic Party	Sven Fricke	2,090	1.4	-5.2	3,687	2.4	-6.7
	Free Voters	Christian Heimann	1,875	1.2	N/A	1,256	0.8	N/A
	Marxist–Leninist Party of Germany	Daniel Wiegenstein	403	0.3	-0.1	280	0.2	-0.1
Template:German politics/party colours/AfD|	Alternative for Germany	N/A	N/A	N/A	N/A	6,355	4.2	N/A
	Others	N/A	N/A	N/A	N/A	814	0.5	N/A