Suhl – Schmalkalden-Meiningen – Hildburghausen – Sonneberg
196 Suhl – Schmalkalden-Meiningen – Hildburghausen – Sonneberg | |
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electoral district for the Bundestag | |
![]() Suhl – Schmalkalden-Meiningen – Hildburghausen – Sonneberg in 2017 | |
State | Thuringia |
Population | 282,600 (2019) |
Electorate | 230,071 (2021) |
Major settlements | Suhl Meiningen Sonneberg |
Area | 2,792.1 km2 |
Current electoral district | |
Created | 1990 |
Party | SPD |
Member | Frank Ullrich |
Elected | 2021 |
Suhl – Schmalkalden-Meiningen – Hildburghausen – Sonneberg is an electoral constituency (German: Wahlkreis) represented in the Bundestag. It elects one member via first-past-the-post voting. Under the current constituency numbering system, it is designated as constituency 196. It is located in southwestern Thuringia, comprising the city of Suhl and the districts of Hildburghausen, Schmalkalden-Meiningen, and Sonneberg.[1]
Suhl – Schmalkalden-Meiningen – Hildburghausen – Sonneberg was created for the inaugural 1990 federal election after German reunification. Since 2021, it has been represented by Frank Ullrich of the Social Democratic Party (SPD).[2]
Geography[]
Suhl – Schmalkalden-Meiningen – Hildburghausen – Sonneberg is located in southwestern Thuringia. As of the 2021 federal election, it comprises the independent city of Suhl and the districts of Hildburghausen, Schmalkalden-Meiningen, and Sonneberg.[1]
History[]
Suhl – Schmalkalden-Meiningen – Hildburghausen – Sonneberg was created after German reunification in 1990, then known as Suhl – Schmalkalden – Ilmenau – Neuhaus. In the 2002 through 2013 elections, it was named Suhl – Schmalkalden-Meiningen – Hildburghausen. It acquired its current name in the 2017 election. In the 1990 through 1998 elections, it was constituency 307 in the numbering system. In the 2002 election, it was number 199. In the 2005 election, it was number 198. In the 2009 and 2013 elections, it was number 197. Since the 2017 election, it has been number 196.
Originally, the constituency comprised the city of Suhl and the districts of Landkreis Suhl, Schmalkalden, Ilmenau, and Neuhaus. From 2002 through 2013, it comprised the city of Suhl and the districts of Schmalkalden-Meiningen and Hildburghausen. It acquired its current borders in the 2017 election.
Election | No. | Name | Borders |
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1990 | 307 | Suhl – Schmalkalden – Ilmenau – Neuhaus |
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1994 | |||
1998 | |||
2002 | 199 | Suhl – Schmalkalden-Meiningen – Hildburghausen |
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2005 | 198 | ||
2009 | 197 | ||
2013 | |||
2017 | 196 | Suhl – Schmalkalden-Meiningen – Hildburghausen – Sonneberg |
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2021 |
Members[]
The constituency was first represented by Claudia Nolte of the Christian Democratic Union (CDU) from 1990 to 1998. of the Social Democratic Party (SPD) was representative from 1998 to 2009. of The Left was elected in 2009 and served a single term. Mark Hauptmann of the CDU was elected in 2013 and re-elected in 2017. Frank Ullrich won the constituency for the SPD in 2021.
Election | Member | Party | % | |
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1990 | Claudia Nolte | CDU | 42.6 | |
1994 | 44.9 | |||
1998 | SPD | 33.6 | ||
2002 | 35.6 | |||
2005 | 30.4 | |||
2009 | LINKE | 32.2 | ||
2013 | Mark Hauptmann | CDU | 42.0 | |
2017 | 33.6 | |||
2021 | Frank Ullrich | SPD | 33.6 |
Election results[]
2021 election[]
Federal election (2021): Suhl – Schmalkalden-Meiningen – Hildburghausen – Sonneberg[3] | |||||||||
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Notes: |
Blue background denotes the winner of the electorate vote.
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Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | Party votes | % | ±% | ||
SPD | Frank Ullrich | 56,791 | 33.6 | ![]() |
42,446 | 25.1 | ![]() | ||
CDU | Hans-Georg Maaßen | 37,729 | 22.3 | ![]() |
27,923 | 16.5 | ![]() | ||
AfD | Jürgen Treutler | 35,887 | 21.2 | ![]() |
44,572 | 26.4 | ![]() | ||
Left | Sandro Witt | 14,135 | 8.4 | ![]() |
18,486 | 10.9 | ![]() | ||
FDP | Gerald Ullrich | 10,686 | 6.3 | ![]() |
13,990 | 8.3 | ![]() | ||
FW | Detlef Pappe | 4,898 | 2.9 | ![]() |
4,247 | 2.5 | ![]() | ||
Green | Stephanie Erben | 3,615 | 2.1 | ![]() |
7,221 | 4.3 | ![]() | ||
dieBasis | 2,508 | 1.5 | |||||||
Tierschutzpartei | 2,232 | 1.3 | |||||||
PARTEI | Christian Fichtner | 2,247 | 1.3 | 1,859 | 1.1 | ![]() | |||
Pirates | Christian Horn | 1,313 | 0.8 | ![]() |
1,078 | 0.6 | ![]() | ||
ÖDP | Stefan Schellenberg | 848 | 0.5 | ![]() |
547 | 0.3 | ![]() | ||
NPD | 496 | 0.3 | ![]() | ||||||
Menschliche Welt | 416 | 0.2 | |||||||
MLPD | Andreas Eifler | 443 | 0.3 | ![]() |
353 | 0.2 | ![]() | ||
Independent | Marko Bieling | 371 | 0.2 | ||||||
Volt | 264 | 0.2 | |||||||
Team Todenhöfer | 231 | 0.1 | |||||||
Humanists | 136 | 0.1 | |||||||
V-Partei3 | 120 | 0.1 | ![]() | ||||||
Informal votes | 2,146 | 1,983 | |||||||
Total Valid votes | 168,962 | 169,125 | |||||||
Turnout | 171,108 | 74.4 | ![]() |
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SPD gain from CDU | Majority | 19,062 | 11.3 |
2017 election[]
Federal election (2017): Suhl – Schmalkalden-Meiningen – Hildburghausen – Sonneberg[4] | |||||||||
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Notes: |
Blue background denotes the winner of the electorate vote.
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Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | Party votes | % | ±% | ||
CDU | ![]() |
56,316 | 33.5 | ![]() |
50,956 | 30.3 | ![]() | ||
AfD | Torsten Ludwig | 38,351 | 22.8 | 38,693 | 23.0 | ![]() | |||
Left | Steffen Harzer | 30,646 | 18.3 | ![]() |
28,467 | 16.9 | ![]() | ||
SPD | Christoph Zimmermann | 22,579 | 13.5 | ![]() |
22,826 | 13.6 | ![]() | ||
FDP | Gerald Ullrich | 8,147 | 4.9 | ![]() |
11,298 | 6.7 | ![]() | ||
Green | Roberto Kobelt | 4,408 | 2.6 | ![]() |
5,559 | 3.3 | ![]() | ||
FW | Michael Schüler | 3,823 | 2.3 | ![]() |
2,867 | 1.7 | ![]() | ||
PARTEI | 2,041 | 1.2 | |||||||
NPD | 1,835 | 1.1 | ![]() | ||||||
ÖDP | Martin Truckenbrodt | 1,822 | 1.1 | 1,029 | 0.6 | ![]() | |||
Pirates | Christian Horn | 1,176 | 0.7 | ![]() |
743 | 0.4 | ![]() | ||
BGE | 594 | 0.4 | |||||||
DM | 511 | 0.3 | |||||||
MLPD | Andreas Eifler | 604 | 0.4 | ![]() |
349 | 0.2 | ![]() | ||
V-Partei³ | 330 | 0.2 | |||||||
Informal votes | 2,365 | 2,139 | |||||||
Total Valid votes | 167,872 | 168,098 | |||||||
Turnout | 170,237 | 72.6 | ![]() |
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CDU hold | Majority | 17,965 | 10.7 | ![]() |
2013 election[]
Federal election (2013): Suhl – Schmalkalden-Meiningen – Hildburghausen[5] | |||||||||
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Notes: |
Blue background denotes the winner of the electorate vote.
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Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | Party votes | % | ±% | ||
CDU | Mark Hauptmann | 53,979 | 42.0 | ![]() |
51,060 | 39.7 | ![]() | ||
Left | ![]() |
35,147 | 27.3 | ![]() |
32,147 | 25.0 | ![]() | ||
SPD | Iris Gleicke | 23,519 | 18.3 | ![]() |
20,968 | 17.6 | ![]() | ||
AfD | 6,557 | 5.1 | |||||||
NPD | Tobias Kammler | 4,772 | 3.7 | ![]() |
4,048 | 3.1 | ![]() | ||
Green | Simone Maaß | 3,704 | 2.9 | ![]() |
5,105 | 4.0 | ![]() | ||
Pirates | Bernd Schreiner | 3,586 | 2.8 | 2,603 | 2.0 | ![]() | |||
FW | Thoralf Quent | 2,033 | 1.6 | 1,971 | 1.5 | ||||
FDP | Frank Fiedler | 1,792 | 1.4 | ![]() |
3,113 | 2.4 | ![]() | ||
ÖDP | 665 | 0.5 | ![]() | ||||||
REP | 303 | 0.2 | ![]() | ||||||
MLPD | 154 | 0.1 | ![]() | ||||||
Informal votes | 2,099 | 1,937 | |||||||
Total Valid votes | 128,532 | 128,694 | |||||||
Turnout | 130,631 | 66.6 | ![]() |
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CDU gain from Left | Majority | 18,832 | 14.7 |
2009 election[]
Federal election (2009): Suhl – Schmalkalden-Meiningen – Hildburghausen[6] | |||||||||
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Notes: |
Blue background denotes the winner of the electorate vote.
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Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | Party votes | % | ±% | ||
Left | Jens Petermann | 41,361 | 32.2 | ![]() |
40,815 | 31.7 | ![]() | ||
CDU | Alexander Kästner | 39,600 | 30.8 | ![]() |
38,338 | 29.7 | ![]() | ||
SPD | ![]() |
27,055 | 21.0 | ![]() |
22,682 | 17.6 | ![]() | ||
FDP | Lutz Recknagel | 10,313 | 8.0 | ![]() |
12,118 | 9.4 | ![]() | ||
Green | Simone Maaß | 5,936 | 4.6 | ![]() |
6,762 | 5.2 | ![]() | ||
NPD | Hendrik Heller | 4,380 | 3.4 | ![]() |
3,941 | 3.1 | ![]() | ||
Pirates | 3,109 | 2.4 | |||||||
REP | 532 | 0.4 | ![]() | ||||||
ÖDP | 414 | 0.3 | |||||||
MLPD | 185 | 0.1 | ![]() | ||||||
Informal votes | 1,857 | 1,606 | |||||||
Total Valid votes | 128,645 | 128,896 | |||||||
Turnout | 130,502 | 63.0 | ![]() |
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Left gain from SPD | Majority | 1,761 | 1.4 |
References[]
- ^ a b "Constituency Suhl – Schmalkalden-Meiningen – Hildburghausen – Sonneberg". Federal Returning Officer.
- ^ "Results for Suhl – Schmalkalden-Meiningen – Hildburghausen – Sonneberg". Federal Returning Officer.
- ^ Results for Suhl – Schmalkalden-Meiningen – Hildburghausen – Sonneberg
- ^ Results for Suhl – Schmalkalden-Meiningen – Hildburghausen – Sonneberg
- ^ Results for Suhl – Schmalkalden-Meiningen – Hildburghausen
- ^ Results for Suhl – Schmalkalden-Meiningen – Hildburghausen
- Federal electoral districts in Thuringia
- 1990 establishments in Germany
- Constituencies established in 1990
- Suhl
- Schmalkalden-Meiningen
- Hildburghausen (district)
- Sonneberg (district)