Mainz (electoral district)

Location of constituency in Rhineland-Palatinate

Mainz is one of the 299 single member constituencies used for the German parliament, the Bundestag. One of fifteen districts covering the state of Rhineland-Palatinate, it consists of the city of Mainz and the neighbouring areas.

The constituency was created for the 1949 election, the first election in West Germany after World War II. The constituency was held by the Christian Democratic Union (CDU) until the 1969 election, when it was gained by the Social Democratic Party of Germany (SPD). The CDU regained the seat at the 1983 election holding it until an SPD gain in 1998. The current representative, Ute Granold, regained the constituency for the CDU at the 2009 election, but will not be a candidate at the 2013 election.

Boundaries

Party		Constituency results				List results
Party		Candidate	Votes	% share	+/-	Votes	% share	+/-
	Christian Democratic Union	Ute Granold	68,081	36.3	-2.9	61,777	32.8	-1.2
	Social Democratic Party of Germany	Michael Hartmann	57,338	30.6	-10.4	43,203	23.0	-10.4
	Alliance '90/The Greens	Tabea Rößner	23,696	12.6	+6.9	29,475	15.8	+3.8
	Free Democratic Party	Rainer Brüderle	22,054	11.8	+3.1	29,045	15.4	+2.5
	The Left	Karl Voßkühler	10,737	5.7	+2.0	13,922	7.4	+2.8
	Ecological Democratic Party	Felix Leinen	2,384	1.3	N/A	1,305	0.7	N/A
	National Democratic Party of Germany	Ingo Helge	2,043	1.1	-0.1	1,153	0.6	-0.2
	The Violets	Erwin Schott	822	0.4	N/A	N/A	N/A	N/A
	BüSo		304	0.2	N/A	N/A	N/A	N/A
	Pirate Party	N/A	N/A	N/A	N/A	4,553	2.4	N/A
	The Republicans	N/A	N/A	N/A	N/A	2,265	1.2	-0.0
	Family Party of Germany	N/A	N/A	N/A	N/A	1,035	0.5	-0.3
	Others					375	0.2	N/A

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