Leipzig II

Location of constituency in Saxony

Leipzig II is one of the 299 single member constituencies used for the German parliament, the Bundestag. One of sixteen districts covering the state of Saxony, it covers the southern and central parts of the city of Leipzig. The constituency was created for the 1990 election, the first following German reunification. The first two elections in 1990 and 1994 were won by the Christian Democratic Union (CDU). The constituency was then gained by the Social Democratic Party of Germany (SPD) in 1998 but was one of several districts in Saxony which the CDU regained at the 2009 election.^[1] The current representative is Thomas Feist.

Results

2009 election

Party		Constituency results				List results
		Candidate	Votes	% share	+/-	Votes	% share	+/-
	Christian Democratic Union	Thomas Feist	41,101	28.8	+3.2	37,304	26.1	+2.9
	The Left	Mike Nagler	36,117	25.3	+2.8	36,431	25.5	+3.0
	Social Democratic Party of Germany	Harry Otto Adolf Voß	32,841	23.0	-12.3	26,133	18.3	-14.2
	Alliance '90/The Greens	Monika Lazar	17,345	12.2	+5.0	20,998	14.7	+4.7
	Free Democratic Party	Cornelius Janßen	10,505	7.4	+2.6	16,983	11.9	+4.3
	National Democratic Party of Germany	Holger Odenthal	3,094	2.2	-0.2	3,119	2.2	-0.0
	La Rouche Movement	Karsten Werner	1,674	1.2	+0.4	1,203	0.8	+0.4
	Marxist–Leninist Party of Germany	N/A	N/A	N/A	N/A	376	0.3	+0.1
	Republicans	N/A	N/A	N/A	N/A	248	0.2	-0.0

List of district representatives

Election	Name	Party
1990	Gerhard Schulz	CDU
1994	Gerhard Schulz	CDU
1998	Gunter Weißgerber	SPD
2002	Gunter Weißgerber	SPD
2005	Gunter Weißgerber	SPD
2009	Thomas Feist	CDU

References

1. 2009 constituency results, bundeswahlleiter.de, accessed 15 August 2013