Erfurt IV
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Erfurt IV is an electoral constituency (German: Wahlkreis) represented in the Landtag of Thuringia. It elects one member via first-past-the-post voting. Under the current constituency numbering system, it is designated as constituency 27. It contains southeastern parts of Erfurt, the capital and largest city of Thuringia.[1]
Erfurt IV was created in 1990 for the first state election. Since 2024, it has been represented by Marek Erfurth of Alternative for Germany.
As of the 2019 state election, Erfurt IV is located entirely within the urban district of Erfurt. It covers the central and southwestern part of the city, specifically the city districts (Stadtteile) of Büßleben, Daberstedt, Dittelstedt, Egstedt, Herrenberg, Melchendorf, Niedernissa, Rohda (Haarberg), Urbich, Waltersleben, Wiesenhügel, and Windischholzhausen.[1]
Members
The constituency was held by the Christian Democratic Union (CDU) from its creation in 1990 until 2004, during which time it was represented by Jörg Schwäblein. It was won by the Party of Democratic Socialism (PDS) in 2004, and represented by Tamara Thierbach. She was succeeded in from 2009-2024 by André Blechschmidt of The Left, successor party of the PDS. In 2024, Marek Erfurth of Alternative for Germany won the seat.
| Election | Member | Party | % | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1990 | Jörg Schwäblein | CDU | 35.0 | |
| 1994 | 34.3 | |||
| 1999 | 42.5 | |||
| 2004 | Tamara Thierbach | PDS | 37.6 | |
| 2009 | André Blechschmidt | LINKE | 32.9 | |
| 2014 | 37.1 | |||
| 2019 | 32.2 | |||
| 2024 | Marek Erfurth | AfD | 26.7 | |
Election results
2024 election
| State election (2024): Erfurt IV[2] | |||||||||
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| Notes: |
Blue background denotes the winner of the electorate vote.
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| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | Party votes | % | ±% | ||
| AfD | Marek Erfurth | 6,836 | 26.7 |  5.7 |
6,699 | 26.1 | 6.7 | ||
| CDU | Kristina Nordt | 6,500 | 25.4 | 8.2 |
5,641 | 22.0 | 6.0 | ||
| BSW | Thomas Schmid | 3,918 | 15.3 | 4,344 | 16.9 | ||||
| SPD | Cornelia Klisch | 3,590 | 14.0 |  1.5 |
2,171 | 8.5 | 0.9 | ||
| Left | Steffen Kachel | 3,451 | 13.5 | 18.7 |
4,313 | 16.8 | 20.3 | ||
| Greens | Renate Wanner-Hopp | 559 | 2.2 | 4.5 |
1,035 | 4.0 | 2.5 | ||
| FW | Henri Endter | 393 | 1.5 | 0.4 |
243 | 0.9 | |||
| FDP | Stefan Carl | 346 | 1.4 | 3.6 |
328 | 1.3 | 4.2 | ||
| APT | 290 | 1.1 |  | ||||||
| Familie | 167 | 0.7 | |||||||
| Pirates | 133 | 0.5 | 0.1 | ||||||
| Values | 121 | 0.5 | |||||||
| BD | 105 | 0.4 | |||||||
| ÖDP | 53 | 0.2 | 0.2 | ||||||
| MLPD | 21 | 0.1 | 0.2 | ||||||
| Informal votes | 285 | 214 | |||||||
| Total valid votes | 25,593 | 25,664 | |||||||
| Turnout | 25,878 | 74.4 | 8.4 |
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| AfD gain from Left | Majority | 336 | 1.3 | ||||||
2019 election
| State election (2019): Erfurt IV[3] | |||||||||
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| Notes: |
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| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | Party votes | % | ±% | ||
| Left |  Y André Blechschmidt |
7,548 | 32.2 | 4.9 |
8,718 | 37.1 | 1.4 | ||
| AfD | Stefan Möller | 4,913 | 21.0 | 4,569 | 19.4 | 10.0 | |||
| CDU | Regina Polster | 4,038 | 17.2 | 10.4 |
3,769 | 16.0 | 8.8 | ||
| SPD | Cornelia Klisch | 3,638 | 15.5 | 4.3 |
2,215 | 9.4 | 4.5 | ||
| Greens | Fabian Gabriel | 1,567 | 6.7 | 0.1 |
1,522 | 6.5 | 0.8 | ||
| FDP | Franziska Baum | 1,159 | 5.0 | 2.6 |
1,295 | 5.5 | 2.9 | ||
| Free Voters | Harald Neubacher | 449 | 1.9 | ||||||
| MLPD | Sabine Dimler | 98 | 0.4 | 72 | 0.3 | ||||
| List-only parties | 1,349 | 5.7 | |||||||
| Informal votes | 377 | 277 | |||||||
| Total valid votes | 23,409 | 23,509 | |||||||
| Turnout | 23,786 | 66.0 | 11.4 |
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| Left hold | Majority | 2,635 | 11.2 | 1.7 |
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2014 election
| State election (2014): Erfurt IV[4] | |||||||||
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| Notes: |
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| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | Party votes | % | ±% | ||
| Left | Y André Blechschmidt |
7,214 | 37.1 | 4.2 |
7,003 | 35.7 | 3.5 | ||
| CDU | Andreas Horn | 5,378 | 27.6 | 3.6 |
4,883 | 24.9 | 1.0 | ||
| SPD | Cornelia Klisch | 3,849 | 19.8 | 0.6 |
2,730 | 12.9 | 5.5 | ||
| AfD | 1,854 | 9.4 | |||||||
| Greens | Dieter Lauinger | 1,332 | 6.8 | 0.5 |
1,425 | 7.3 | 1.1 | ||
| NPD | Enrico Biczysko | 758 | 3.9 | 0.1 |
520 | 2.6 | 1.1 | ||
| Pirates | Manfred Schubert | 481 | 2.5 | 266 | 1.4 | ||||
| FDP | Jutta Czifrik | 458 | 2.4 | 3.6 |
510 | 2.6 | 4.2 | ||
| List-only parties | 441 | 2.2 | |||||||
| Informal votes | 393 | 231 | |||||||
| Total valid votes | 19,470 | 19,632 | |||||||
| Turnout | 19,863 | 54.6 | 4.6 |
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| Left hold | Majority | 1,836 | 9.5 | 0.6 |
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2009 election
| State election (2009): Erfurt IV[5] | |||||||||
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| Notes: |
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| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | Party votes | % | ±% | ||
| Left | André Blechschmidt | 7,146 | 32.9 | 4.7 |
7,022 | 32.2 | 2.8 | ||
| CDU | Manfred Scherer | 5,203 | 24.0 | 8.4 |
5,197 | 23.9 | 10.3 | ||
| SPD | Frank Schalles | 4,177 | 19.2 | 2.5 |
4,216 | 19.4 | 5.0 | ||
| Greens | Rüdiger Bender | 1,590 | 6.3 | 0.9 |
1,820 | 6.7 | 1.7 | ||
| Free Voters | Heidrun Marie-Anna Höpfner | 1,468 | 6.8 | 1,090 | 5.0 | 4.2 | |||
| FDP | Birgit Schuster | 1,298 | 6.0 | 1.9 |
1,491 | 6.8 | 3.4 | ||
| NPD | Gabriele Bölke | 831 | 3.8 | 812 | 3.7 | 2.7 | |||
| List-only parties | 138 | 0.6 | |||||||
| Informal votes | 475 | 402 | |||||||
| Total valid votes | 21,713 | 21,786 | |||||||
| Turnout | 22,188 | 59.2 | 6.4 |
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| Left hold | Majority | 1,943 | 8.9 | 3.7 |
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2004 election
| State election (2004): Erfurt IV[6] | |||||||||
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| Notes: |
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| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | Party votes | % | ±% | ||
| PDS | Tamara Thierbach | 7,179 | 37.6 | 7.4 |
6,755 | 35.0 | 6.2 | ||
| CDU |  N Jörg Schwäblein |
6,183 | 32.4 | 10.1 |
6,598 | 34.2 | 12.4 | ||
| SPD | Karin Dietrich | 3,196 | 16.7 | 4.2 |
2,772 | 14.4 | 2.6 | ||
| Greens | Matthias Zeng | 1,227 | 6.4 | 3.5 |
1,297 | 6.7 | 4.1 | ||
| FDP | Annett Pröhl | 781 | 4.1 | 2.9 |
664 | 3.4 | 2.7 | ||
| Independent | Jürgen Zerull | 546 | 2.9 | ||||||
| List-only parties | 1,229 | 6.4 | |||||||
| Informal votes | 942 | 739 | |||||||
| Total valid votes | 19,112 | 19,315 | |||||||
| Turnout | 20,054 | 52.8 | 10.1 |
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| PDS gain from CDU | Majority | 996 | 5.2 | ||||||
1999 election
| State election (1999): Erfurt IV[7] | |||||||||
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| Notes: |
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| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | Party votes | % | ±% | ||
| CDU | Y Jörg Schwäblein |
10,457 | 42.5 | 8.2 |
11,527 | 46.6 | 13.3 | ||
| PDS | Tamara Thierbach | 7,431 | 30.2 | 2.8 |
7,123 | 28.8 | 2.5 | ||
| SPD | Otto Kretschmer | 5,143 | 20.9 | 8.7 |
4,202 | 17.0 | 11.0 | ||
| Greens | Jochen Kwast | 714 | 2.9 | 4.8 |
643 | 2.6 | 2.8 | ||
| REP | Günther Steinert | 395 | 1.6 | 0.6 |
120 | 0.5 | 0.3 | ||
| FDP | Herbert Rudovsky | 293 | 1.2 | 168 | 0.7 | 1.8 | |||
| DSU | Wolfgang Mayer | 152 | 0.6 | 81 | 0.3 | 0.2 | |||
| List-only parties | 880 | 3.6 | |||||||
| Informal votes | 367 | 208 | |||||||
| Total valid votes | 24,585 | 24,744 | |||||||
| Turnout | 24,952 | 62.9 | 12.4 |
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| CDU hold | Majority | 3,026 | 12.3 | 7.6 |
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1994 election
| State election (1994): Erfurt IV[8] | |||||||||
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| Notes: |
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| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | Party votes | % | ±% | ||
| CDU | Y Jörg Schwäblein |
10,425 | 34.3 | 0.7 |
10,199 | 33.3 | 1.0 | ||
| SPD | Werner Griese | 9,006 | 29.6 | 8.6 |
8,572 | 28.0 | 5.7 | ||
| PDS | Tamara Thierbach | 8,340 | 27.4 | 9.2 |
8,049 | 26.3 | 6.8 | ||
| Greens | Katrin Göring-Eckardt | 2,352 | 7.7 | 2.9 |
1,657 | 5.4 | 5.7 | ||
| REP | F.-R. Kästner | 290 | 1.0 | 244 | 0.8 | 0.4 | |||
| List-only parties | 1,904 | 6.2 | |||||||
| Informal votes | 861 | 649 | |||||||
| Total valid votes | 30,413 | 30,625 | |||||||
| Turnout | 31,274 | 75.3 | 8.4 |
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| CDU hold | Majority | 1,419 | 4.7 | 9.3 |
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1990 election
| State election (1990): Erfurt IV[9] | |||||||||
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| Notes: |
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| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | Party votes | % | ±% | ||
| CDU | Jörg Schwäblein | 9,226 | 35.0 | 9,103 | 34.3 | ||||
| SPD | 5,541 | 21.0 | 5,918 | 22.3 | |||||
| PDS | 4,793 | 18.2 | 5,182 | 19.5 | |||||
| Greens | 2,785 | 10.6 | 2,941 | 11.1 | |||||
| FDP | 2,175 | 8.2 | 2,226 | 8.4 | |||||
| UFV | 1,005 | 3.8 | 284 | 1.1 | |||||
| DSU | 843 | 3.2 | 504 | 1.9 | |||||
| List-only parties | 386 | 1.5 | |||||||
| Informal votes | 628 | 452 | |||||||
| Total valid votes | 26,368 | 26,544 | |||||||
| Turnout | 26,996 | 66.9 | |||||||
| CDU win new seat | Majority | 3,685 | 14.0 | ||||||