Eichsfeld – Nordhausen – Unstrut-Hainich-Kreis I

Location of constituency in Thuringia

Eichsfeld – Nordhausen – Unstrut-Hainich-Kreis I 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 districts of Eichsfeld and Nordhausen, the town of Rodeberg, the former municipalities of Hildebrandshausen and Lengenfeld unterm Stein and the Unstrut-Hainich district municipalities of Mühlhausen, Anrode, Dünwald and Unstruttal.

The constituency was created for the 2005 election, expanding the Eichsfeld – Nordhausen constituency by adding parts of the abolished Eisenach – Wartburgkreis – Unstrut-Hainich-Kreis II constituency. The main predecessor constituency, which had been created for the 1990 election, had been won by the Christian Democratic Union (CDU), and they have held the new constituency since the 2005 election. The current representative is Manfred Grund,^[1] who had represented Eichsfeld – Nordhausen since the 1994 election.

Results

2009 election

Party		Constituency results				List results
		Candidate	Votes	% share	+/-	Votes	% share	+/-
	Christian Democratic Union	Manfred Grund	57,882	43.0	+5.6	51,683	38.5	+6.1
	The Left	Alexander Scharff	33,005	24.5	+3.8	32,391	24.0	+1.7
	Social Democratic Party of Germany	Joachim Schwiderke	22,854	17.0	-12.8	22,341	16.6	-11.7
	Free Democratic Party	Andreas Klaschka	9,942	7.4	+2.6	14,382	10.7	+2.3
	Alliance '90/The Greens	Michael Hoffmeier	5,540	4.1	+1.6	6,507	4.8	+0.9
	National Democratic Party of Germany	Thorsten Heise	3,798	2.8	-0.5	3,631	2.7	-0.5
	Ecological Democratic Party	Karl-Edmund Vogt	1,416	1.1	N/A	1,009	0.7	N/A
	Independent	Bärbel Macamo	309	0.2	N/A	N/A	N/A	N/A
	Pirate Party	N/A	N/A	N/A	N/A	2,309	1.7	N/A
	The Republicans	N/A	N/A	N/A	N/A	299	0.2	-0.3
	Marxist–Leninist Party of Germany	N/A	N/A	N/A	N/A	127	0.1	-0.2

References

1. 2009 constituency results, bundeswahlleiter.de, accessed 30 August 2013