Saale-Orla-Kreis I
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Saale-Orla-Kreis 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 33. It covers the southern part of Saale-Orla-Kreis.[1]
Saale-Orla-Kreis I was created for the 1994 state election. Since 2019, it has been represented by Uwe Thrum of Alternative for Germany (AfD).
As of the 2019 state election, Saale-Orla-Kreis I covers the southern part of Saale-Orla-Kreis, specifically the municipalities of Bad Lobenstein, Burgk, Dittersdorf, Dreba, Gefell, Görkwitz, Göschitz, Hirschberg, Kirschkau, Knau, Löhma, Moßbach, Neundorf (at Schleiz), Oettersdorf, Plothen, Pörmitz, Remptendorf, Rosenthal am Rennsteig, Saalburg-Ebersdorf, Schleiz (excluding Crispendorf), Tanna, Tegau, Volkmannsdorf, and Wurzbach.[1]
Members
The constituency was held by the Christian Democratic Union (CDU) from its creation in 1994 until 2019, during which time it was represented by Siegfried Wetzel (1994–2014) and Stefan Gruhner (2014–2019). It was won by Alternative for Germany in 2019, and is represented by Uwe Thrum.
| Election | Member | Party | % | |
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| 1994 | Siegfried Wetzel | CDU | 44.7 | |
| 1999 | 48.7 | |||
| 2004 | 38.0 | |||
| 2009 | 28.9 | |||
| 2014 | Stefan Gruhner | CDU | 42.1 | |
| 2019 | Uwe Thrum | AfD | 29.0 | |
| 2024 | 40.7 | |||
Election results
2024 election
| State election (2024): Saale-Orla-Kreis I[2] | |||||||||
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| Notes: |
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| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | Party votes | % | ±% | ||
| AfD |  Y Uwe Thrum |
11,391 | 47.4 |  18.4 |
9,826 | 40.7 | 13.5 | ||
| CDU | Katrin Gerdorf | 7,953 | 33.1 | 4.9 |
5,562 | 23.0 | 0.7 | ||
| BSW | 3,731 | 15.4 | |||||||
| Left | Ralf Kalich | 3,026 | 12.6 |  12.5 |
2,898 | 12.0 | 19.9 | ||
| UBV | Lennart Scheffczyk | 853 | 3.6 | ||||||
| SPD | Moritz Kalthoff | 793 | 3.3 | 3.6 |
735 | 3.0 | 3.4 | ||
| Greens | 281 | 1.2 | 1.2 | ||||||
| FW | 255 | 1.1 | |||||||
| FDP | 243 | 1.0 | 4.0 | ||||||
| APT | 200 | 0.8 | 0.1 | ||||||
| Familie | 117 | 0.5 | |||||||
| Values | 110 | 0.5 | |||||||
| BD | 92 | 0.4 | |||||||
| Pirates | 57 | 0.2 | 0.2 | ||||||
| ÖDP | 38 | 0.2 | 0.2 | ||||||
| MLPD | 26 | 0.1 | 0.2 | ||||||
| Informal votes | 329 | 174 | |||||||
| Total valid votes | 24,016 | 24,171 | |||||||
| Turnout | 24,345 | 76.7 | 8.8 |
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| AfD hold | Majority | 3,438 | 14.3 | 13.5 |
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2019 election
| State election (2019): Saale-Orla-Kreis I[3] | |||||||||
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| Notes: |
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| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | Party votes | % | ±% | ||
| AfD | Uwe Thrum | 6,643 | 29.0 | 6,235 | 27.2 | 15.1 | |||
| CDU |  N Stefan Gruhner |
6,452 | 28.2 | 13.9 |
5,116 | 22.3 | 15.3 | ||
| Left | Ralf Kalich | 5,755 | 25.1 | 6.7 |
7,328 | 31.9 | 3.3 | ||
| SPD | Werner Christel | 1,575 | 6.9 | 4.8 |
1,473 | 6.4 | 4.0 | ||
| FDP | Felix Schaum | 1,035 | 4.5 | 0.4 |
1,158 | 5.0 | 2.6 | ||
| Free Voters | Christian Meyer | 731 | 3.2 | ||||||
| Greens | Sabine Reichmann | 659 | 2.9 | 2.1 |
542 | 2.4 | 1.0 | ||
| MLPD | Johannes Rupprecht | 37 | 0.2 | 52 | 0.2 | ||||
| List-only parties | 1,052 | 4.6 | |||||||
| Informal votes | 286 | 217 | |||||||
| Total valid votes | 22,887 | 22,956 | |||||||
| Turnout | 23,173 | 67.9 | 11.5 |
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| AfD gain from CDU | Majority | 191 | 0.8 | ||||||
2014 election
| State election (2014): Saale-Orla-Kreis I[4] | |||||||||
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| Notes: |
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| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | Party votes | % | ±% | ||
| CDU | Stefan Gruhner | 8,410 | 42.1 | 13.2 |
7,604 | 37.6 | 4.6 | ||
| Left | Ralf Kalich | 6,345 | 31.8 | 5.2 |
5,778 | 28.6 | 0.3 | ||
| AfD | 2,446 | 12.1 | |||||||
| SPD | Kai Vöcking | 2,338 | 11.7 | 10.2 |
2,110 | 10.4 | 8.6 | ||
| Greens | Janina Geiler | 997 | 5.0 | 689 | 3.4 | 0.1 | |||
| FDP | Sandra Scherf-Michel | 981 | 4.9 | 1.9 |
479 | 2.4 | 4.8 | ||
| NPD | Danny Ptotenhauer | 903 | 4.5 | 0.6 |
580 | 2.9 | 1.2 | ||
| List-only parties | 525 | 2.6 | |||||||
| Informal votes | 429 | 192 | |||||||
| Total valid votes | 19,974 | 20,211 | |||||||
| Turnout | 20,403 | 56.4 | 1.2 |
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| CDU hold | Majority | 2,065 | 10.3 | 8.0 |
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2009 election
| State election (2009): Saale-Orla-Kreis I[5] | |||||||||
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| Notes: |
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| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | Party votes | % | ±% | ||
| CDU | Y Siegfried Wetzel |
6,344 | 28.9 | 9.1 |
7,264 | 33.0 | 12.9 | ||
| Left | Ralf Kalich | 5,843 | 26.6 | 1.0 |
6,238 | 28.3 | 2.8 | ||
| SPD | Rüdiger Wohl | 4,820 | 21.9 | 5.5 |
4,182 | 19.0 | 4.8 | ||
| Independent | Andreas Scheffczyk | 2,599 | 11.8 | 3.6 |
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| FDP | Frank Stephan Bergner | 1,495 | 6.8 | 2.2 |
1,578 | 7.2 | 3.2 | ||
| NPD | Udo Illig | 865 | 3.9 | 902 | 4.1 | 2.8 | |||
| Greens | 776 | 3.5 | 0.7 | ||||||
| List-only parties | 1,086 | 4.9 | |||||||
| Informal votes | 458 | 398 | |||||||
| Total valid votes | 21,966 | 22,026 | |||||||
| Turnout | 22,424 | 57.6 | 2.6 |
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| CDU hold | Majority | 501 | 2.3 | 10.1 |
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2004 election
| State election (2004): Saale-Orla-Kreis I[6] | |||||||||
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| Notes: |
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| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | Party votes | % | ±% | ||
| CDU | Y Siegfried Wetzel |
8,084 | 38.0 | 10.7 |
9,781 | 45.9 | 4.6 | ||
| PDS | Klaus Möller | 5,449 | 25.6 | 4.3 |
5,437 | 25.5 | 4.9 | ||
| SPD | Stefan Fricke | 3,497 | 16.4 | 3.7 |
3,027 | 14.2 | 3.5 | ||
| Independent | Andreas Scheffczyk | 3,283 | 15.4 | ||||||
| FDP | Thomas Witt | 971 | 4.6 | 842 | 4.0 | 2.8 | |||
| List-only parties | 2,222 | 10.4 | |||||||
| Informal votes | 914 | 889 | |||||||
| Total valid votes | 21,284 | 21,309 | |||||||
| Turnout | 22,198 | 55.0 | 5.6 |
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| CDU hold | Majority | 2,635 | 12.4 | 15.0 |
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1999 election
| State election (1999): Saale-Orla-Kreis I[7] | |||||||||
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| Notes: |
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| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | Party votes | % | ±% | ||
| CDU | Y Siegfried Wetzel |
11,867 | 48.7 | 4.0 |
12,384 | 50.5 | 5.4 | ||
| PDS | Hannelore Fleischmann | 5,189 | 21.3 | 7.1 |
5,048 | 20.6 | 5.0 | ||
| SPD | Wolfgang Linke | 4,889 | 20.1 | 6.0 |
4,350 | 17.7 | 10.2 | ||
| VIBT | Andreas Scheffczyk | 1,761 | 7.2 | 727 | 3.0 | ||||
| REP | Manfred Annemüller | 658 | 2.7 | 0.9 |
307 | 1.3 | 0.5 | ||
| List-only parties | 1,720 | 7.0 | |||||||
| Informal votes | 404 | 232 | |||||||
| Total valid votes | 24,364 | 24,536 | |||||||
| Turnout | 24,768 | 60.6 | 16.0 |
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| CDU hold | Majority | 6,678 | 27.4 | 8.8 |
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1994 election
| State election (1994): Saale-Orla-Kreis I[8] | |||||||||
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| Notes: |
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| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | Party votes | % | ±% | ||
| CDU | Siegfried Wetzel | 13,712 | 44.7 | 13,928 | 45.1 | ||||
| SPD | 7,998 | 26.1 | 8,614 | 27.9 | |||||
| PDS | 4,366 | 14.2 | 4,819 | 15.6 | |||||
| FDP | 1,612 | 5.3 | 1,079 | 3.5 | |||||
| New Forum | 1,365 | 4.5 | 364 | 1.2 | |||||
| Greens | 1,076 | 3.5 | 1,170 | 3.8 | |||||
| REP | 539 | 1.8 | 547 | 1.8 | |||||
| List-only parties | 351 | 1.1 | |||||||
| Informal votes | 790 | 586 | |||||||
| Total valid votes | 30,668 | 30,872 | |||||||
| Turnout | 31,458 | 76.6 | |||||||
| CDU win new seat | Majority | 5,714 | 18.6 | ||||||
References
- 1 2 "Landtagswahlen 2019 - Wahlkreise und dazugehörige Gemeinden".
- ↑ "Wahlen in Thüringen". wahlen.thueringen.de. Retrieved 2025-08-08.
- ↑ Landtagswahl in Thüringen am. 27 Oktober 2019
- ↑ Wahlen in Thüringen 2014
- ↑ Wahlen in Thüringen 2009
- ↑ Wahlen in Thüringen 2004
- ↑ Wahlen in Thüringen 1999
- ↑ Wahlen in Thüringen 1994