Eppingen (electoral district)
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| 19: Eppingen | |
|---|---|
| Electoral district for the Landtag of Baden-Württemberg | |
Heilbronn in 2026 | |
| District | Heilbronn |
| Electorate | 108,321 (2026) |
| Major settlements | Abstatt, Bad Rappenau, Beilstein, Brackenheim, Cleebronn, Eppingen, Gemmingen, Güglingen, Ilsfeld, Kirchardt, Lauffen am Neckar, Massenbachhausen, Neckarwestheim, Pfaffenhofen, Schwaigern, Siegelsbach, Untergruppenbach, and Zaberfeld |
| Current electoral district | |
| Party | CDU |
| Member | Michael Preusch |
Eppingen 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 19. It is wholly within the district of Heilbronn. [1]
The constituency includes the municipalities of Abstatt, Bad Rappenau, Beilstein, Brackenheim, Cleebronn, Eppingen, Gemmingen, Güglingen, Ilsfeld, Kirchardt, Lauffen am Neckar, Massenbachhausen, Neckarwestheim, Pfaffenhofen, Schwaigern, Siegelsbach, Untergruppenbach, and Zaberfeld, within the district of Heilbronn. [2]
There were 108,321 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.
| Election | Member | Party | % | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1976 | Gotthilf Link | CDU | ||
| 1980 | ||||
| 1984 | ||||
| 1988 | Gerd Zimmermann | |||
| 1992 | ||||
| 1996 | ||||
| 2001 | Friedlinde Gurr-Hirsch | 41.6 | ||
| 2006 | 44.3 | |||
| 2011 | 40.9 | |||
| 2016 | 26.6 | |||
| 2021 | Erwin Köhler | Grüne | 26.3 | |
| 2026 | Michael Preusch | CDU | 35.3 | |
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 1984, there were no second mandate candidates elected from this constituency.
| Election | Member | Party | Member | Party | Member | Party | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1984 | Wolfgang Bebber | SPD | |||||||
| 1988 | |||||||||
| 1992 | Richard Drautz | FDP | Michael Herbricht | REP | |||||
| 1996 | |||||||||
| 2001 | |||||||||
| May 2003 | Ingo Rust | ||||||||
| 2006 | |||||||||
| 2011 | |||||||||
| Feb 2015 | Hans Heribert Blättgen | ||||||||
| 2016 | Thomas Axel Palka | AfD | |||||||
| 2021 | Rainer Podeswa | Georg Heitlinger | FDP | Michael Preusch | CDU | ||||
| Sep 2023 | Dennis Klecker | ||||||||