Gera – Jena – Saale-Holzland-Kreis was one of the 299 single member constituencies used for the German parliament, the Bundestag. One of nine districts covering the state of Thuringia, it covered the cities of Gera and Jena and the Saale-Holzland district.
The constituency was created for the 2005 election, expanding the Gera – Saale-Holzland-Kreis constituency by adding the city of Jena from the abolished Jena – Weimar – Weimarer Land constituency. Both the predecessor constituencies, which had been created for the 2002 election, had been won by the Social Democratic Party of Germany (SPD), and they won the new constituency in the 2005 election. However at the 2009 election the constituency was one of two in Thuringia gained by The Left and in 2013 it was one of all nine in the state won by the Christian Democratic Union (CDU). The last representative was Albert Weiler.[1] For the 2017 election, the constituency was dissolved and not replaced. The area was assigned to neighboring constituencies. Gera went to Gera – Greiz – Altenburger Land, Jena to Jena – Sömmerda – Weimarer Land I and the Saale-Holzland district to Saalfeld-Rudolstadt – Saale-Holzland-Kreis – Saale-Orla-Kreis.[2]
Results edit
2013 election edit
| Party | Constituency results | List results | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Candidate | Votes | % share | +/- | Votes | % share | +/- | ||
| Christian Democratic Union | Albert Weiler | 59,731 | 36.1 | +7.4 | 57,690 | 34.8 | +7.2 | |
| The Left | Ralph Lenkert | 44,657 | 27.0 | -3.4 | 42,367 | 25.6 | -4.3 | |
| Social Democratic Party of Germany | Volker Blumentritt | 30,310 | 18.3 | -3.0 | 26,279 | 15.9 | -1.3 | |
| Alliance '90/The Greens | Olaf Müller | 7,863 | 4.8 | -2.3 | 11,435 | 6.9 | -1.2 | |
| Alternative for Germany | Michael Heinz Kaufmann | 9,126 | 5.5 | N/A | 10,988 | 6.6 | N/A | |
| Pirate Party | Gerald Albe | 3,958 | 2.4 | N/A | 4,669 | 2.8 | -0.6 | |
| Free Democratic Party | Thomas Nitzsche | 2,755 | 1.7 | -8.0 | 4,653 | 2.8 | -7.5 | |
| National Democratic Party of Germany | Gordon Richter | 4,225 | 2.6 | -0.4 | 4,365 | 2.6 | -0.1 | |
| Free Voters | Claudia Scholz | 1,356 | 0.8 | N/A | 1,499 | 0.9 | N/A | |
| Ecological Democratic Party | Merlyn von Hugo | 1,189 | 0.7 | N/A | 1,093 | 0.7 | -0.3 | |
| Party of Reason | Jörg Brechlin | 351 | 0.2 | N/A | N/A | N/A | N/A | |
| The Republicans | N/A | N/A | N/A | N/A | 300 | 0.2 | -0.2 | |
| Marxist–Leninist Party of Germany | N/A | N/A | N/A | N/A | 241 | 0.1 | -0.0 | |
References edit
- ^ 2013 constituency results, bundeswahlleiter.de, accessed 26 September 2017
- ^ New constituencies since 2017, bundeswahlleiter de, accessed 26 September 2017