Hof (electoral district)
Hof is one of the 299 single member constituencies used for the German parliament, the Bundestag. One of forty five districts in Bavaria, it covers the town of Hof, the district of Hof and the Wunsiedel district.
The constituency was created for the 1949 election, the first election in West Germany after World War II. After its creation, most of the early elections in the district were won by the Social Democratic Party of Germany (SPD). However the Christian Social Union (CSU) won the constituency at the 1983 election and, apart from a loss to the SPD at the 1998 election, have held the district since then.
The current representative is Hans-Peter Friedrich of the CSU,[1] a former Federal Minister of the Interior and Federal Minister for food and agriculture.
Results
2013 election
| Party | Constituency results | List results | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Candidate | Votes | % share | +/- | Votes | % share | +/- | ||
| Christian Social Union | Hans-Peter Friedrich | 64,888 | 55.1 | +8.6 | 55,219 | 46.9 | +5.4 | |
| Social Democratic Party of Germany | Petra Ernstberger | 33,731 | 28.6 | +1.4 | 31,406 | 26.7 | +3.2 | |
| Alliance '90/The Greens | Elisabeth Scharfenberg | 6,449 | 5.5 | -2.0 | 6,315 | 5.4 | -1.6 | |
| The Left | Ulrike Dierkes-Morsy | 5,264 | 4.5 | -3.6 | 5,619 | 4.8 | -3.7 | |
| Alternative for Germany | Hermann Klie | 4,168 | 3.5 | N/A | 5,109 | 4.3 | N/A | |
| National Democratic Party of Germany | Moroni Blankenburg | 1,722 | 1.5 | -1.0 | 1,461 | 1.2 | -0.7 | |
| Free Democratic Party | Stefan Quehl | 1,527 | 1.3 | -6.4 | 4,418 | 3.8 | -7.5 | |
| Free Voters | N/A | N/A | N/A | N/A | 2,598 | 2.2 | N/A | |
| Pirate Party | N/A | N/A | N/A | N/A | 2,257 | 1.9 | +0.1 | |
| Others | N/A | N/A | N/A | N/A | 3,235 | 2.7 | N/A | |
Source:[2]
List of district representatives
| Election | Name | Party |
|---|---|---|
| 1949 | Arno Behrisch | SPD |
| 1953 | Heinz Starke | FDP |
| 1957 | Gerhard Wacher | CSU |
| 1961 | Martin Hirsch | SPD |
| 1965 | Martin Hirsch | SPD |
| 1969 | Martin Hirsch | SPD |
| 1972 | Hans Büchler | SPD |
| 1976 | Hans Büchler | SPD |
| 1980 | Hans Büchler | SPD |
| 1983 | Jürgen Warnke | CSU |
| 1987 | Jürgen Warnke | CSU |
| 1990 | Jürgen Warnke | CSU |
| 1994 | Jürgen Warnke | CSU |
| 1998 | Petra Ernstberger | SPD |
| 2002 | Hans-Peter Friedrich | CSU |
| 2005 | Hans-Peter Friedrich | CSU |
| 2009 | Hans-Peter Friedrich | CSU |
| 2013 | Hans-Peter Friedrich | CSU |
References
- ↑ Angela Merkel holt 56,2 Prozent der Erststimmen, Der Spiegel, 23 September 2013
- ↑ 2013 Election results, Bundeswahlleiter.de, accessed 3 March 2014