Calw (Landtag electoral district)

DistrictCalw

Electorate113,380 (2026)

Major settlementsCalw

PartyCDU

43: Calw
Electoral district for the Landtag of Baden-Württemberg
Calw in 2026
District	Calw
Electorate	113,380 (2026)
Major settlements	Calw
Current electoral district
Party	CDU
Member	Carl Christian Hirsch

Calw 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 43. It incorporates the entirety of the district of Calw.^[1]

The constituency comprises the entirety of the district of Calw.^[2]

There were 113,380 eligible voters in 2026.

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.

	Member	Party	%
1976	Hermann Dutt	CDU
Jun 1977	Arnold Tölg
1980
1984
1988
1992
1996
2001	Thomas Blenke		46.3
2006			44.2
2011			44.0
2016			31.5
2021			28.8
2026	Carl-Christian Hirsch		37.6

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.

Prior to 1992, this constituency did not elect any members on a second mandate.

Election	Member	Party	Member	Party
1992	Lothar König	REP
1996	Lothar König	REP	Beate Fauser	FDP
2001
2006	Rainer Prewo	SPD
2011
2016	Heinrich Kuhm	AfD
Jan 2017	Klaus Dürr	AfD
Jun 2020
2021	Miguel Klauß	AfD

State election (2026): Calw^[3]
Notes:		Blue background denotes the winner of the electorate vote. Pink background denotes a candidate elected from their party list. Yellow background denotes an electorate win by a list member, or other incumbent. A Y or N denotes status of any incumbent, win or lose respectively.
Party		Candidate		Votes	%	±%	Party votes	%	±%
	CDU	Carl Christian Hirsch		29,625	37.6	8.8	25,357	32.0	3.2
	AfD	Miguel Klauß		19,946	25.3	11.8	20,013	25.3	11.8
	Greens	Fynn Rubehn		12,842	16.3	10.8	18,484	23.3	3.8
	SPD	Daniela Steinrode		7,755	9.8	2.1	3,881	4.9	2.9
	FDP	Johannes Feldmann		3,966	5.0	5.0	3,524	4.4	5.6
	Left	Thomas Hanser		2,890	3.7	1.0	2,263	2.9	0.1
	FW						1,374	1.7	4.4
	BSW						1,012	1.3
	Bündnis C	Markus Bender		1,365	1.7		896	1.1
	APT						787	1.0
	Volt						401	0.5
	PARTEI						282	0.4
	Values	Stephan Schaible		430	0.5		274	0.3
	dieBasis						171	0.2	0.8
	ÖDP						133	0.2	0.9
	Pensioners						133	0.2
	Team Todenhöfer						96	0.1
	Verjüngungsforschung						53	0.1
	Humanists						33	0.0
	PdF						31	0.0
	KlimalisteBW						28	0.0	0.7
Informal votes				869			462
Total valid votes				78,819			79,226
Turnout				79,688	70.3	6.6
	CDU hold		Majority	9,679	12.3

Calw (Landtag electoral district)

Members

First mandate

Second mandate

Election results

2026 election

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