Nordhausen I

Nordhausen I 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 3. It comprises the entirety of the district of Nordhausen with the exception of the city of Nordhausen, which compromises the constituency of Nordhausen II.^[1]

Nordhausen I was created in 1990 for the first state election. Since 2019, it has been represented by Birgit Keller of The Left.

	Member	Party	%
1990	Klaus Zeh	CDU	40.7
1994	Egon Primas	CDU	43.2
1999			47.5
2004			41.7
2009			29.0
2014			33.0
2019	Birgit Keller	LINKE	32.3
2024	Joerg Prophet	AfD	37.3

State election (2024): Nordhausen I ^[2]
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	%	±%
	AfD	Joerg Prophet		9,494	40.3	17.0	7,993	33.5	11.6
	CDU	Carolin Gerbothe		8,793	37.3	8.5	5,933	24.9	1.9
	BSW						4,322	18.1
	Left	Tim Rosenstock		3,379	14.4	17.9	3,089	12.9	21.7
	SPD	Juliane Schinkel		1,877	8.0	0.3	1,260	5.3	2.7
	Greens						345	1.4	1.9
	APT						238	1.0	0.2
	FDP						225	0.9	3.1
	FW						123	0.5
	Familie						121	0.5
	BD						83	0.3
	Values						57	0.2
	Pirates						44	0.2
	ÖDP						24	0.1	0.2
	MLPD						18	0.1	0.2
Informal votes				589			257
Total valid votes				23,543			23,875
Turnout				24,132	72.0	9.4
	AfD gain from Left		Majority	701	3.0

State election (2019): Nordhausen I^[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	%	±%
	Left	Birgit Keller		7,009	32.3	1.0	7,533	34.6	3.3
	CDU	Carolin Gerbothe		6,256	28.8	4.2	5,000	23.0	8.2
	AfD	René Strube		5,054	23.3		4,776	21.9	13.3
	SPD	Dagmar Becker		1,793	8.3	6.6	1,737	8.0	6.1
	Greens	Rüdiger Neitzke		868	4.0	0.5	816	3.7	0.3
	FDP	Otmar Ganter		653	3.0	2.8	879	4.0	0.3
	MLPD	Conrad von Pentz		78	0.4		59	0.3
	List-only parties						972	4.5
Informal votes				372			311
Total valid votes				21,711			21,772
Turnout				22,083	62.6	11.7
	Left gain from CDU		Majority	753	3.5

State election (2014): Nordhausen I^[4]
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	Y Egon Primas		6,131	33.0	4.0	5,803	31.2	0.7
	Left	Angela Hummitzsch		5,802	31.3	3.7	5,829	31.3	2.8
	SPD	Dagmar Becker		2,765	14.9	8.0	2,622	14.1	7.1
	AfD						1,596	8.6
	Free Voters	Uwe Wenkel		1,131	6.1		422	2.3	0.6
	FDP	Franka Hitzing		1,068	5.8	5.7	683	3.7	5.0
	NPD	Alexander Lindemann		830	4.5	0.4	656	3.5	0.4
	Greens	Christian Darr		828	4.5	0.4	747	4.0	0.9
	List-only parties						257	1.4
Informal votes				360			300
Total valid votes				18,555			18,615
Turnout				18,915	50.9	5.1
	CDU hold		Majority	329	1.7	0.3

State election (2009): Nordhausen I^[5]
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	Y Egon Primas		6,509	29.0	12.7	6,859	30.5	12.2
	Left	Birgit Keller		6,203	27.7	2.3	6,403	28.5	0.5
	SPD	Dagmar Becker		5,130	22.9	4.1	4,761	21.2	5.4
	FDP	Franka Hitzing		2,557	11.4	5.4	1,948	8.7	4.7
	Greens	Heinrich Christian Lorenz		1,089	4.9	1.4	1,089	4.8	1.7
	NPD	Mark Richter		929	4.1		889	4.0	2.4
	List-only parties						514	2.3
Informal votes				417			371
Total valid votes				22,417			22,463
Turnout				22,834	56.1	5.4
	CDU hold		Majority	306	1.3	10.4

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