Leonberg (electoral district)
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| 6: Leonberg | |
|---|---|
| Electoral district for the Landtag of Baden-Württemberg | |
Leonberg in 2026 | |
| District | Böblingen |
| Electorate | 132,021 (2026) |
| Major settlements | Aidlingen, Bondorf, Deckenpfronn, Gäufelden, Grafenau, Herrenberg, Jettingen, Leonberg, Mötzingen, Nufringen, Renningen, Rutesheim, Weil der Stadt, and Weissach |
| Current electoral district | |
| Party | CDU |
| Member | Albrecht Stickel |
Leonberg is an electoral constituency (German: ahlkreis) 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 6. It is wholly within the district of Böblingen.[1]
The constituency includes the municipalities of Aidlingen, Bondorf, Deckenpfronn, Gäufelden, Grafenau, Herrenberg, Jettingen, Leonberg, Mötzingen, Nufringen, Renningen, Rutesheim, Weil der Stadt, and Weissach, within the district of Böblingen.
There were 132,021 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 | Rudolf Decker | CDU | ||
| 1980 | ||||
| 1984 | ||||
| 1988 | ||||
| 1992 | Wolfgang Rückert | |||
| 1996 | ||||
| 2001 | ||||
| 2006 | Sabine Kurtz | 42.7 | ||
| 2011 | 39.1 | |||
| 2016 | Bernd Murschel | Green | 31.9 | |
| 2021 | Peter Seimer | 32.7 | ||
| 2026 | Albrecht Stickel | CDU | 34.8 | |
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.
| Election | Member | Party | Member | Party | Member | Party | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1976 | Werner Grunert | SPD | |||||||
| 1980 | Oskar Marczy | FDP | |||||||
| 1984 | Joachim Schütz | Grüne | |||||||
| 1988 | Birgit Kipfer | ||||||||
| 1992 | Richard Eckert | REP | Johannes Buchter | Grüne | |||||
| 1996 | Heiderose Berroth | FDP | |||||||
| 2001 | |||||||||
| 2006 | Bernd Murschel | Grüne | |||||||
| 2011 | |||||||||
| 2016 | Sabine Kurtz | CDU | |||||||
| 2021 | Hans Dieter Scheerer | FDP | |||||||