Leipzig 8
State electoral district of Germany
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Leipzig 8 is an electoral constituency (German: Wahlkreis) represented in the Landtag of Saxony. It elects one member via first-past-the-post voting. Under the constituency numbering system, it is designated as constituency 32. It is within the city of Leipzig.[2] The constituency was created for the 2024 election.
| 32: Leipzig 8 | |
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| Electoral district for the Landtag of Saxony | |
Leipzig 8 in 2024 | |
| District | Leipzig |
| Electorate | 61,649 (2024) |
| Major settlements | City-district Nordeast, sub-districts Volkmarsdorf and Anger-Crottendorf (East), and sub-districts of Seehausen and Wiederitzsch (North) |
| Current electoral district | |
| Party | CDU |
| Member | Holger Gasse[1] |
Geography
The constituency comprises the district of Nordeast, the East sub-districts of Volkmarsdorf and Anger-Crottendorf, and the North sub-districts of Seehausen and Wiederitzsch within the City of Leipzig.
There were 61,649 eligible voters in 2024.[3]
Members
Election results
2024 election
Changes are compared to notional results based on the new district.
| State election (2024): Leipzig 8[4] | |||||||||
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| Notes: |
Blue background denotes the winner of the electorate vote.
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| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | Party votes | % | ±% | ||
| CDU | Holger Gasse | 13,691 | 32.0 |  4.6 |
11,436 | 26.7 |  0.2 | ||
| AfD | Holger Hentschel | 10,845 | 25.4 | 2.4 |
10,202 | 23.8 | 1.6 | ||
| Left | Uwe Fiedler | 6,490 | 15.2 | 4.0 |
5,965 | 13.9 | 1.9 | ||
| BSW | Michael Chelius | 3,596 | 8.4 | 4,506 | 10.5 | ||||
| Greens | Ulrike Gebhardt | 3,310 | 7.7 | 5.0 |
3,503 | 8.2 | 4.8 | ||
| SPD | Irena Rudolph-Kokot | 2,873 | 6.7 | 2.2 |
3,864 | 9.0 | 0.2 | ||
| FW | C. Friedrich Föster | 910 | 2.1 | 0.6 |
671 | 1.6 | 0.6 | ||
| FDP | Daniel Eich | 645 | 1.5 | 1.8 |
410 | 1.0 | 2.6 | ||
| Independent | Ralf Detlef Kohl | 382 | 0.9 | ||||||
| PARTEI | 668 | 1.6 | 1.2 | ||||||
| APT | 543 | 1.3 | |||||||
| Freie Sachsen | 497 | 1.2 | |||||||
| Pirates | 172 | 0.4 | |||||||
| V-Partei3 | 110 | 0.3 | |||||||
| BD | 90 | 0.2 | |||||||
| dieBasis | 64 | 0.1 | |||||||
| Values | 57 | 0.1 | |||||||
| ÖDP | 53 | 0.1 | |||||||
| BüSo | 31 | 0.1 | |||||||
| Bündnis C | 23 | 0.1 | |||||||
| Informal votes | 448 | 325 | |||||||
| Total valid votes | 42,742 | 42,865 | |||||||
| Turnout | 43,190 | 70.1 | |||||||
| CDU win new seat | Majority | 2,846 | 6.6 | ||||||
