Weimar II
Weimar II 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 32. It covers most of the city of Weimar.[1]
Weimar II was created for the 1994 state election. Originally named just Weimar, it was renamed before the 2014 election after a small part of the city of Weimar was transferred to Weimar I – Weimarer Land II. Since 2019, it has been represented by Steffen Dittes of The Left.
Geography
As of the 2019 state election, Weimar II covers most of the city of Weimar, specifically the city districts (Ortsteile) of Ettersberg-Siedlung, Gaberndorf, Gelmeroda, Innenstadt, Legefeld/Holzdorf, Niedergrunstedt, Nördliche Innenstadt, Nordstadt, Oberweimar/Ehringsdorf, Possendorf, Südstadt, Südweststadt, Taubach, Tröbsdorf, Weimar-Nord, and Weimar-West.[1]
Members
The constituency was held by the Christian Democratic Union (CDU) from its creation in 1994 until 2009, during which time it was represented by Frank-Michael Pietzsch (1994–2004) and Peter D. Krause (2004–2009). It was won by The Left in 2009, and represented by Thomas Hartung, who defected to the Social Democratic Party (SPD) in 2010 and served the remainder of his term as a member of that party. The CDU's candidate Jörg Geibert regained the constituency in 2014. It was again won by The Left in 2019, and is represented by Steffen Dittes.
Election | Member | Party | % | |
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1994 | Frank-Michael Pietzsch | CDU | 38.5 | |
1999 | 47.5 | |||
2004 | Peter D. Krause | CDU | 37.9 | |
2009 | Thomas Hartung[lower-alpha 1] | LINKE | 28.4 | |
SPD | ||||
2014 | Jörg Geibert | CDU | 31.1 | |
2019 | Steffen Dittes | LINKE | 28.6 |
Election results
2019 election
State election (2019): Weimar II[2] | |||||||||
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Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | Party votes | % | ±% | ||
Left | Steffen Dittes | 8,396 | 28.6 | ![]() |
10,838 | 35.4 | ![]() | ||
CDU | ![]() |
7,314 | 24.9 | ![]() |
5,254 | 17.2 | ![]() | ||
AfD | 4,355 | 14.2 | ![]() | ||||||
Greens | Ann-Sophie Bohm-Eisenbrandt | 5,811 | 19.8 | ![]() |
4,004 | 13.1 | ![]() | ||
SPD | Thomas Hartung[lower-alpha 2] | 4,890 | 16.6 | ![]() |
2,849 | 9.3 | ![]() | ||
FDP | Hagen Hultzsch | 2,684 | 9.1 | ![]() |
1,662 | 5.4 | ![]() | ||
MLPD | Cornelia Jungk | 297 | 1.0 | 71 | 0.2 | ||||
List-only parties | 1,562 | 5.1 | |||||||
Informal votes | 1,530 | 327 | |||||||
Total Valid votes | 29,392 | 30,595 | |||||||
Turnout | 30,922 | 68.7 | ![]() |
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Left gain from CDU | Majority | 1,082 | 3.7 |
2014 election
State election (2014): Weimar II[3] | |||||||||
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Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | Party votes | % | ±% | ||
CDU | Jörg Geibert | 7,806 | 31.1 | ![]() |
7,320 | 29.0 | ![]() | ||
Left | Dirk Möller | 7,104 | 28.3 | ![]() |
7,036 | 27.9 | ![]() | ||
SPD | ![]() |
4,795 | 19.1 | ![]() |
3,010 | 11.9 | ![]() | ||
Greens | Manfredo Koessl | 3,037 | 12.1 | ![]() |
3,629 | 14.4 | ![]() | ||
AfD | 1,863 | 7.4 | |||||||
FDP | Christian Lachnitt | 803 | 3.2 | ![]() |
812 | 3.2 | ![]() | ||
NPD | Jan Morgenroth | 770 | 3.1 | ![]() |
503 | 2.0 | ![]() | ||
Pirates | Michael Kurt Bahr | 748 | 3.0 | 451 | 1.8 | ||||
List-only parties | 585 | 2.3 | |||||||
Informal votes | 400 | 254 | |||||||
Total Valid votes | 25,063 | 25,209 | |||||||
Turnout | 25,463 | 55.4 | ![]() |
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CDU gain from SPD | Majority | 702 | 2.8 |
2009 election
State election (2009): Weimar[4] | |||||||||
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Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | Party votes | % | ±% | ||
Left | Thomas Hartung | 8,466 | 28.4 | ![]() |
7,520 | 25.1 | ![]() | ||
CDU | ![]() |
7,717 | 25.9 | ![]() |
7,726 | 25.8 | ![]() | ||
Greens | Carsten Meyer | 5,112 | 17.2 | ![]() |
4,433 | 14.8 | ![]() | ||
SPD | Thomas Notzke | 4,896 | 16.4 | ![]() |
5,663 | 18.9 | ![]() | ||
FDP | Matthias Purdel | 2,491 | 8.4 | ![]() |
2,367 | 7.9 | ![]() | ||
NPD | Ralf Markert | 1,094 | 3.7 | 965 | 3.2 | ![]() | |||
List-only parties | 1,236 | 4.1 | |||||||
Informal votes | 574 | 440 | |||||||
Total Valid votes | 29,776 | 29,910 | |||||||
Turnout | 30,350 | 58.9 | ![]() |
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Left gain from CDU | Majority | 749 | 2.5 |
2004 election
State election (2004): Weimar[5] | |||||||||
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Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | Party votes | % | ±% | ||
CDU | Peter D. Krause | 10,195 | 37.9 | ![]() |
10,305 | 37.7 | ![]() | ||
PDS | Dirk Möller | 7,164 | 26.7 | ![]() |
6,424 | 23.5 | ![]() | ||
SPD | Matthias Bettenhäuser | 4,867 | 18.1 | ![]() |
4,257 | 15.6 | ![]() | ||
Greens | Petra Streit | 3,412 | 12.7 | ![]() |
3,415 | 12.5 | ![]() | ||
FDP | Christoph Burmeister | 1,240 | 4.6 | ![]() |
1,020 | 3.7 | ![]() | ||
List-only parties | 1,907 | 7.0 | |||||||
Informal votes | 1,415 | 965 | |||||||
Total Valid votes | 26,878 | 27,328 | |||||||
Turnout | 28,293 | 55.1 | ![]() |
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CDU hold | Majority | 3,031 | 11.2 | ![]() |
1999 election
State election (1999): Weimar[6] | |||||||||
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Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | Party votes | % | ±% | ||
CDU | ![]() |
13,810 | 47.5 | ![]() |
14,263 | 48.9 | ![]() | ||
SPD | Irene Ellenberger | 6,333 | 21.8 | ![]() |
5,635 | 19.3 | ![]() | ||
PDS | Dirk Möller | 6,240 | 21.5 | ![]() |
6,035 | 20.7 | ![]() | ||
Greens | Ulrike-Lilly Koßmann | 1,605 | 5.5 | ![]() |
1,388 | 4.8 | ![]() | ||
REP | Frank Welsch | 625 | 2.1 | 186 | 0.6 | ![]() | |||
FDP | Maria-Elisabeth Grosse | 471 | 1.6 | ![]() |
296 | 1.0 | ![]() | ||
List-only parties | 1,361 | 4.7 | |||||||
Informal votes | 426 | 346 | |||||||
Total Valid votes | 29,084 | 29,164 | |||||||
Turnout | 29,510 | 60.3 | ![]() |
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CDU hold | Majority | 7,477 | 25.7 | ![]() |
1994 election
State election (1994): Weimar[7] | |||||||||
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Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | Party votes | % | ±% | ||
CDU | Frank-Michael Pietzsch | 13,395 | 38.5 | 13,143 | 37.7 | ||||
SPD | 10,531 | 30.3 | 10,138 | 29.1 | |||||
PDS | 5,617 | 16.2 | 5,799 | 16.6 | |||||
Greens | 3,277 | 9.4 | 2,594 | 7.4 | |||||
FDP | 1,931 | 5.6 | 1,514 | 4.3 | |||||
List-only parties | 1,683 | 4.8 | |||||||
Informal votes | 904 | 784 | |||||||
Total Valid votes | 34,751 | 34,871 | |||||||
Turnout | 35,655 | 74.1 | |||||||
CDU win new seat | Majority | 2,864 | 8.2 |
Notes
- Hartung was elected in 2009 for The Left, but defected to the SPD parliamentary group in August 2010.
- Hartung entered the Landtag on the SPD list after the resignation of Wolfgang Tiefensee in December 2019.
- Hartung entered the Landtag on the SPD list after the resignation of Uwe Höhn in September 2017.
- Hartung was elected in 2009 as a candidate for The Left, but contested the constituency in 2014 as candidate for the SPD. The swing given is compared to the SPD's performance in 2009.