Altenburger Land II
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Altenburger Land II is an electoral constituency (German: Wahlkreis) represented in the Landtag of Thuringia. It elects one member via first-past-the-post voting, and other candidates might get elected via their party list.
Designated as constituency 44, it covers the eastern part of Altenburger Land.[1] Altenburger Land II was created for the 1994 state election. Originally named Altenburg II, it was renamed after the 1994 election.
As of the 2019 state election, Altenburger Land II covers the eastern part of Altenburger Land, specifically the municipalities of Altenburg, Fockendorf, Gerstenberg, Göpfersdorf, Haselbach, Langenleuba-Niederhain, Nobitz, Treben, and Windischleuba.[1]
Members
The constituency has been held by the Christian Democratic Union (CDU) since its creation in 1994. Its first representative was Andreas Sonntag, who served two terms from 1994 to 2004, followed by Christian Gumprecht (2004–2014) and Christoph Zippel (2014–2024).
| Election | Member | Party | % | |
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| 1994 | Andreas Sonntag | CDU | 40.4 | |
| 1999 | 46.5 | |||
| 2004 | Christian Gumprecht | CDU | 43.2 | |
| 2009 | 31.3 | |||
| 2014 | Christoph Zippel | CDU | 40.2 | |
| 2019 | 37.0 | |||
| 2024 | Torben Braga | AfD | 42.8 | |
Election results
2024 election
| State election (2024): Altenburger Land II[2] | |||||||||
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| Notes: |
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| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | Party votes | % | ±% | ||
| AfD | Torben Braga | 10,327 | 42.8 | 9,392 | 38.4 |  10.6 | |||
| CDU |  N Christoph Zippel |
8,560 | 35.4 |  1.6 |
6,036 | 24.7 | 2.0 | ||
| BSW | 3,801 | 15.6 | |||||||
| Left | Ral Plötner | 3,138 | 13.0 | 15.3 |
2,645 | 10.8 | 19.8 | ||
| SPD | Norman Müller | 1,530 | 6.3 | 4.6 |
1,150 | 4.7 | 2.0 | ||
| Greens | 362 | 1.5 | 1.9 | ||||||
| APT | 230 | 0.9 | 0.2 | ||||||
| FDP | Marco Thiele | 600 | 2.5 | 10.5 |
200 | 0.8 | 2.9 | ||
| BD | 159 | 0.7 | |||||||
| FW | 145 | 0.6 | |||||||
| Familie | 110 | 0.5 | |||||||
| Values | 75 | 0.3 | |||||||
| Pirates | 58 | 0.2 | 0.1 | ||||||
| ÖDP | 50 | 0.2 | 0.1 | ||||||
| MLPD | 26 | 0.1 | 0.1 | ||||||
| Informal votes | 460 | 176 | |||||||
| Total valid votes | 24,155 | 24,439 | |||||||
| Turnout | 24,615 | 67.9 | 11.3 |
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| AfD gain from CDU | Majority | 1,767 | 7.4 | ||||||
2019 election
| State election (2019): Altenburger Land II[3] | |||||||||
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| Notes: |
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| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | Party votes | % | ±% | ||
| CDU |  Y Christoph Zippel |
7,445 | 37.0 | 3.2 |
4,879 | 22.7 | 13.8 | ||
| Left | Ralf Plötner | 5,709 | 28.3 | 6.4 |
6,569 | 30.6 | 0.6 | ||
| AfD | 5,977 | 27.8 | 17.9 | ||||||
| FDP | Marco Thiele | 2,627 | 13.0 | 801 | 3.7 | 2.4 | |||
| SPD | Norman Müller | 2,204 | 10.9 | 1.7 |
1,445 | 6.7 | 4.6 | ||
| Greens | Bernhard Stengele | 1,134 | 5.6 | 2.7 |
735 | 3.4 |  0.0 | ||
| Menschliche Welt | Ursula Krause | 1,026 | 5.1 | ||||||
| List-only parties | 1,089 | 5.1 | |||||||
| Informal votes | 1,727 | 377 | |||||||
| Total valid votes | 20,145 | 21,495 | |||||||
| Turnout | 21,872 | 56.6 | 11.8 |
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| CDU hold | Majority | 1,736 | 8.7 | 3.2 |
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2014 election
| State election (2014): Altenburger Land II[4] | |||||||||
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| Notes: |
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| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | Party votes | % | ±% | ||
| CDU | Christoph Zippel | 6,908 | 40.2 | 8.9 |
6,322 | 36.5 | 3.0 | ||
| Left | Birgit Klaubert | 5,963 | 34.7 | 6.5 |
5,404 | 31.2 | 4.2 | ||
| SPD | Norman Müller | 2,162 | 12.6 | 13.6 |
1,965 | 11.3 | 9.1 | ||
| AfD | 1,719 | 9.9 | |||||||
| Free Voters | Klaus-Peter Liefländer | 837 | 4.9 | 221 | 1.3 | 0.4 | |||
| NPD | Robert Schmidt | 833 | 4.8 | 0.1 |
639 | 3.7 | 1.1 | ||
| Greens | Pascal Mauf | 498 | 2.9 | 589 | 3.4 | 0.7 | |||
| List-only parties | 455 | 2.6 | |||||||
| Informal votes | 342 | 229 | |||||||
| Total valid votes | 17,201 | 17,314 | |||||||
| Turnout | 17,543 | 44.8 | 3.7 |
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| CDU hold | Majority | 945 | 5.5 | 2.4 |
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2009 election
| State election (2009): Altenburger Land II[5] | |||||||||
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| Notes: |
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| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | Party votes | % | ±% | ||
| CDU | Y Christian Gumprecht |
6,188 | 31.3 | 11.9 |
6,648 | 33.5 | 8.7 | ||
| Left | Birgit Klaubert | 5,573 | 28.2 | 4.0 |
5,368 | 27.0 | 1.2 | ||
| SPD | Hartmut Schubert | 5,190 | 26.2 | 10.1 |
4,047 | 20.4 | 5.3 | ||
| FDP | Daniel Scheidel | 1,848 | 9.3 | 3.6 |
1,556 | 7.8 | 3.8 | ||
| NPD | Peter Pichl | 979 | 4.9 | 955 | 4.8 | 2.9 | |||
| Greens | 807 | 4.1 | 1.3 | ||||||
| List-only parties | 479 | 2.4 | |||||||
| Informal votes | 551 | 469 | |||||||
| Total valid votes | 19,778 | 19,860 | |||||||
| Turnout | 20,329 | 48.5 | 1.7 |
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| CDU hold | Majority | 615 | 3.1 | 7.9 |
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2004 election
| State election (2004): Altenburger Land II[6] | |||||||||
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| Notes: |
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| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | Party votes | % | ±% | ||
| CDU | Christian Gumprecht | 8,585 | 43.2 | 3.3 |
8,304 | 42.2 | 5.1 | ||
| PDS | Birgit Klaubert | 6,391 | 32.2 | 0.4 |
5,558 | 28.2 | 1.2 | ||
| SPD | Gabriele Matzulla | 3,201 | 16.1 | 2.6 |
2,963 | 15.1 | 1.2 | ||
| FDP | Martin Klimek | 1,122 | 5.7 | 2.7 |
786 | 4.0 | 3.0 | ||
| Greens | Frank Augsten | 553 | 2.8 | 545 | 2.8 | 1.1 | |||
| List-only parties | 1,525 | 7.7 | |||||||
| Informal votes | 930 | 1,101 | |||||||
| Total valid votes | 19,852 | 19,681 | |||||||
| Turnout | 20,782 | 46.8 | 3.4 |
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| CDU hold | Majority | 2,194 | 11.0 | 3.7 |
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1999 election
| State election (1999): Altenburger Land II[7] | |||||||||
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| Notes: |
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| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | Party votes | % | ±% | ||
| CDU | Y Andreas Sonntag |
10,574 | 46.5 | 6.1 |
10,882 | 47.3 | 5.5 | ||
| PDS | Birgit Klaubert | 7,235 | 31.8 | 14.5 |
6,196 | 27.0 | 9.6 | ||
| SPD | Volker Schemmel | 4,246 | 18.7 | 14.2 |
3,748 | 16.3 | 13.8 | ||
| FDP | Hans-Peter Bugar | 688 | 3.0 | 1.1 |
231 | 1.0 | 1.7 | ||
| List-only parties | 1,927 | 8.4 | |||||||
| Informal votes | 609 | 368 | |||||||
| Total valid votes | 22,743 | 22,984 | |||||||
| Turnout | 23,352 | 50.2 | 19.8 |
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| CDU hold | Majority | 3,339 | 14.7 | 7.2 |
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1994 election
| State election (1994): Altenburg II[8] | |||||||||
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| Notes: |
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| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | Party votes | % | ±% | ||
| CDU | Andreas Sonntag | 13,054 | 40.4 | 13,449 | 41.9 | ||||
| SPD | 10,622 | 32.9 | 9,649 | 30.0 | |||||
| PDS | 5,555 | 17.2 | 5,594 | 17.4 | |||||
| Greens | 1,730 | 5.4 | 1,458 | 4.5 | |||||
| FDP | 1,321 | 4.1 | 867 | 2.7 | |||||
| List-only parties | 1,097 | 3.4 | |||||||
| Informal votes | 1,626 | 1,794 | |||||||
| Total valid votes | 32,282 | 32,114 | |||||||
| Turnout | 33,908 | 70.1 | |||||||
| CDU win new seat | Majority | 2,432 | 7.5 | ||||||
References