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Biberach (Landtag electoral district)

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Biberach is an electoral constituency (German: Wahlkreis) represented in the Landtag of Baden-Württemberg.

Since 2026, it has elected one member via first-past-the-post voting. Voters cast a second vote under which additional seats are allocated proportionally state-wide. Under the constituency numbering system, it is designated as constituency 66.

It is wholly within the district of Biberach.[1]

Members

First mandate

Both prior to and since the electoral reforms for the 2026 election, the winner of the plurality of the vote (first-past-the-post) in every constituency won the first mandate.

Election Member Party %
1976 Wilfried Steuer CDU
1980
1984
1988
1992 Gerd Scheffold
1996
2001 Peter Schneider
2006 50.6
2011 50.7
2016 Thomas Dörflinger 35.9
2021 34.1
2026 46.4

Second mandate

Prior to the electoral reforms for the 2026 election, the seats in the state parliament were allocated proportionately amongst parties which received more than 5% of valid votes across the state. The seats that were won proportionally for parties that did not win as many first mandates as seats they were entitled to, were allocated to their candidates which received the highest proportion of the vote in their respective constituencies. This meant that following some elections, a constituency would have one or more members elected under a second mandate.

Prior to 2011, these second mandates were allocated to the party candidates who got the greatest number of votes, whilst from 2011-2021, these were allocated according to percentage share of the vote.

As the CDU won overhang seats in 1976, 1980, and 1984 within the Tübingen administrative district, this constituency returned members for both the first mandates and second mandates - the later of which were awarded to the substitute candidates.

Election Member Party
1976 Franz Baum SPD
1980
1984
1988
1992
1996 Josef Huchler REP
2001
2006 Oswald Metzger Grüne
Nov 2007 Ind
Feb 2008 Eugen Schlachter Grüne
2011
2016
2021

Election results

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