Mansfeld (electoral district)

Location of constituency in Saxony-Anhalt

Mansfeld 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 Mansfeld-Südharz district and the municipalities of Bad Lauchstädt, Merseburg, Mücheln, Querfurt, Salzatal, Teutschenthal, Wettin-Löbejün and Weida-Land, all located in the Saalekreis district.

In its current form, the constituency was created for the 2009 election, when the number of constituencies in Saxony-Anhalt was reduced by one, expanding the existing Mansfelder Land constituency by adding parts of the abolished Bernburg – Bitterfeld – Saalkreis constituency.

Although the Mansfelder Land constituency had been held by the Social Democratic Party of Germany (SPD) since the 1998 election, the new constituency was won by Harald Koch of The Left party.^[1]

Results

2009 election

Party		Constituency results				List results
		Candidate	Votes	% share	+/-	Votes	% share	+/-
	The Left	Harald Koch	47,051	35.2	+8.2	46,802	34.9	+6.7
	Christian Democratic Union	Uda Heller	43,014	32.2	+3.9	39,645	29.6	+5.0
	Social Democratic Party of Germany	Silvia Schmidt	23,028	17.2	-15.7	21,030	15.7	-15.0
	Free Democratic Party	Elke Weckner-Lömm	10,818	8.1	+2.4	14,754	10.9	+1.8
	Alliance '90/The Greens	Gesine Haerting	5,465	4.1	+2.0	4,977	3.7	+0.7
	National Democratic Party of Germany	Judith Rothe	4,337	3.2	-0.1	3,713	2.8	-0.4
	Pirate Party	N/A	N/A	N/A	N/A	2,623	2.0	N/A
	German People's Union	N/A	N/A	N/A	N/A	407	0.3	N/A
	Marxist–Leninist Party of Germany	N/A	N/A	N/A	N/A	331	0.2	-0.1

References

1. 2009 constituency results, bundeswahlleiter.de, accessed 15 August 2013