Nordhausen 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 3. It comprises the entirety of the district of Nordhausen with the exception of the city of Nordhausen, which compromises the constituency of Nordhausen II.
Nordhausen I was created in 1990 for the first state election. Since 2019, it has been represented by Birgit Keller of The Left.
Geography
As of the 2019 state election, Nordhausen I covers the entirety of the Nordhausen district except for the city of Nordhausen. It comprises the municipalities of Bleicherode, Ellrich, Görsbach, Großlohra, Harztor, Heringen/Helme, Hohenstein, Kehmstedt, Kleinfurra, Lipprechterode, Niedergebra, Sollstedt, Urbach, Werther, and the village of Buchholz (since 2018 part of Nordhausen municipality).
Members
The constituency was held by the Christian Democratic Union (CDU) from its creation in 1990 until 2019, during which time it was represented by Klaus Zeh (1990–1994) and Egon Primas (1994–2019). It was won by The Left in 2019, and by the AfD in 2024, and is represented by Joerg Prophet.
Election | Member | Party | % | |
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1990 | Klaus Zeh | CDU | 40.7 | |
1994 | Egon Primas | CDU | 43.2 | |
1999 | 47.5 | |||
2004 | 41.7 | |||
2009 | 29.0 | |||
2014 | 33.0 | |||
2019 | Birgit Keller | LINKE | 32.3 | |
2024 | Joerg Prophet | AfD | 37.3 |
Election results
2024 election
State election (2024): Nordhausen I | |||||||||
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Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | Party votes | % | ±% | ||
AfD | Joerg Prophet | 9,494 | 40.3 | 17.0 | 7,993 | 33.5 | 11.6 | ||
CDU | Carolin Gerbothe | 8,793 | 37.3 | 8.5 | 5,933 | 24.9 | 1.9 | ||
BSW | 4,322 | 18.1 | |||||||
Left | Tim Rosenstock | 3,379 | 14.4 | 17.9 | 3,089 | 12.9 | 21.7 | ||
SPD | Juliane Schinkel | 1,877 | 8.0 | 0.3 | 1,260 | 5.3 | 2.7 | ||
Greens | 345 | 1.4 | 1.9 | ||||||
APT | 238 | 1.0 | 0.2 | ||||||
FDP | 225 | 0.9 | 3.1 | ||||||
FW | 123 | 0.5 | |||||||
Familie | 121 | 0.5 | |||||||
BD | 83 | 0.3 | |||||||
Values | 57 | 0.2 | |||||||
Pirates | 44 | 0.2 | |||||||
ÖDP | 24 | 0.1 | 0.2 | ||||||
MLPD | 18 | 0.1 | 0.2 | ||||||
Informal votes | 589 | 257 | |||||||
Total valid votes | 23,543 | 23,875 | |||||||
Turnout | 24,132 | 72.0 | 9.4 | ||||||
AfD gain from Left | Majority | 701 | 3.0 |
2019 election
State election (2019): Nordhausen I | |||||||||
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Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | Party votes | % | ±% | ||
Left | Birgit Keller | 7,009 | 32.3 | 1.0 | 7,533 | 34.6 | 3.3 | ||
CDU | Carolin Gerbothe | 6,256 | 28.8 | 4.2 | 5,000 | 23.0 | 8.2 | ||
AfD | René Strube | 5,054 | 23.3 | 4,776 | 21.9 | 13.3 | |||
SPD | Dagmar Becker | 1,793 | 8.3 | 6.6 | 1,737 | 8.0 | 6.1 | ||
Greens | Rüdiger Neitzke | 868 | 4.0 | 0.5 | 816 | 3.7 | 0.3 | ||
FDP | Otmar Ganter | 653 | 3.0 | 2.8 | 879 | 4.0 | 0.3 | ||
MLPD | Conrad von Pentz | 78 | 0.4 | 59 | 0.3 | ||||
List-only parties | 972 | 4.5 | |||||||
Informal votes | 372 | 311 | |||||||
Total valid votes | 21,711 | 21,772 | |||||||
Turnout | 22,083 | 62.6 | 11.7 | ||||||
Left gain from CDU | Majority | 753 | 3.5 |
2014 election
State election (2014): Nordhausen I | |||||||||
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Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | Party votes | % | ±% | ||
CDU | Y Egon Primas | 6,131 | 33.0 | 4.0 | 5,803 | 31.2 | 0.7 | ||
Left | Angela Hummitzsch | 5,802 | 31.3 | 3.7 | 5,829 | 31.3 | 2.8 | ||
SPD | Dagmar Becker | 2,765 | 14.9 | 8.0 | 2,622 | 14.1 | 7.1 | ||
AfD | 1,596 | 8.6 | |||||||
Free Voters | Uwe Wenkel | 1,131 | 6.1 | 422 | 2.3 | 0.6 | |||
FDP | Franka Hitzing | 1,068 | 5.8 | 5.7 | 683 | 3.7 | 5.0 | ||
NPD | Alexander Lindemann | 830 | 4.5 | 0.4 | 656 | 3.5 | 0.4 | ||
Greens | Christian Darr | 828 | 4.5 | 0.4 | 747 | 4.0 | 0.9 | ||
List-only parties | 257 | 1.4 | |||||||
Informal votes | 360 | 300 | |||||||
Total valid votes | 18,555 | 18,615 | |||||||
Turnout | 18,915 | 50.9 | 5.1 | ||||||
CDU hold | Majority | 329 | 1.7 | 0.3 |
2009 election
State election (2009): Nordhausen I | |||||||||
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Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | Party votes | % | ±% | ||
CDU | Y Egon Primas | 6,509 | 29.0 | 12.7 | 6,859 | 30.5 | 12.2 | ||
Left | Birgit Keller | 6,203 | 27.7 | 2.3 | 6,403 | 28.5 | 0.5 | ||
SPD | Dagmar Becker | 5,130 | 22.9 | 4.1 | 4,761 | 21.2 | 5.4 | ||
FDP | Franka Hitzing | 2,557 | 11.4 | 5.4 | 1,948 | 8.7 | 4.7 | ||
Greens | Heinrich Christian Lorenz | 1,089 | 4.9 | 1.4 | 1,089 | 4.8 | 1.7 | ||
NPD | Mark Richter | 929 | 4.1 | 889 | 4.0 | 2.4 | |||
List-only parties | 514 | 2.3 | |||||||
Informal votes | 417 | 371 | |||||||
Total valid votes | 22,417 | 22,463 | |||||||
Turnout | 22,834 | 56.1 | 5.4 | ||||||
CDU hold | Majority | 306 | 1.3 | 10.4 |
2004 election
State election (2004): Nordhausen I | |||||||||
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Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | Party votes | % | ±% | ||
CDU | Y Egon Primas | 8,639 | 41.7 | 5.8 | 8,801 | 42.7 | 6.9 | ||
PDS | Birgit Keller | 6,206 | 30.0 | 7.7 | 5,971 | 29.0 | 8.7 | ||
SPD | Dagmar Becker | 3,899 | 18.8 | 7.9 | 3,249 | 15.8 | 7.8 | ||
FDP | Franka Hitzing | 1,244 | 6.0 | 4.5 | 816 | 4.0 | 3.1 | ||
Greens | Horst Kox | 717 | 3.5 | 646 | 3.1 | 1.9 | |||
List-only parties | 1,117 | 5.4 | |||||||
Informal votes | 817 | 922 | |||||||
Total valid votes | 20,705 | 20,600 | |||||||
Turnout | 21,522 | 50.7 | 9.5 | ||||||
CDU hold | Majority | 2,433 | 11.7 | 9.1 |
1999 election
State election (1999): Nordhausen I | |||||||||
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Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | Party votes | % | ±% | ||
CDU | Y Egon Primas | 11,998 | 47.5 | 4.2 | 12,573 | 49.6 | 6.0 | ||
SPD | Dagmar Becker | 6,741 | 26.7 | 5.3 | 5,990 | 23.6 | 9.0 | ||
PDS | Ursula Fischer | 5,635 | 22.3 | 4.7 | 5,147 | 20.3 | 4.8 | ||
REP | Andreas Links | 502 | 2.0 | 150 | 0.6 | 0.5 | |||
FDP | Claus-Peter Roßberg | 391 | 1.5 | 2.0 | 231 | 0.9 | 1.7 | ||
List-only parties | 1,253 | 4.9 | |||||||
Informal votes | 454 | 377 | |||||||
Total valid votes | 25,267 | 25,344 | |||||||
Turnout | 25,721 | 60.2 | 15.3 | ||||||
CDU hold | Majority | 5,257 | 20.8 | 9.5 |
1994 election
State election (1994): Nordhausen I | |||||||||
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Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | Party votes | % | ±% | ||
CDU | Egon Primas | 12,915 | 43.2 | 2.5 | 13,182 | 43.7 | 1.3 | ||
SPD | 9,524 | 31.9 | 10.2 | 9,795 | 32.5 | 6.4 | |||
PDS | 5,279 | 17.7 | 4.4 | 4,706 | 15.6 | 4.3 | |||
Greens | 1,107 | 3.7 | 5.8 | 840 | 2.8 | 4.7 | |||
FDP | 1,047 | 3.5 | 4.6 | 784 | 2.6 | 6.7 | |||
List-only parties | 870 | 2.9 | |||||||
Informal votes | 1,131 | 826 | |||||||
Total valid votes | 29,872 | 30,177 | |||||||
Turnout | 31,003 | 75.5 | 8.3 | ||||||
CDU hold | Majority | 3,391 | 11.3 | 7.7 |
1990 election
State election (1990): Nordhausen I | |||||||||
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Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | Party votes | % | ±% | ||
CDU | Klaus Zeh | 10,857 | 40.7 | 11,416 | 42.4 | ||||
SPD | 5,790 | 21.7 | 7,014 | 26.1 | |||||
PDS | 3,543 | 13.3 | 3,038 | 11.3 | |||||
Greens | 2,537 | 9.5 | 2,027 | 7.5 | |||||
FDP | 2,163 | 8.1 | 2,495 | 9.3 | |||||
Independent | 988 | 3.7 | |||||||
DSU | 557 | 2.1 | 242 | 0.9 | |||||
UFV | 249 | 0.9 | 152 | 0.6 | |||||
List-only parties | 524 | 1.9 | |||||||
Informal votes | 773 | 549 | |||||||
Total valid votes | 26,684 | 26,908 | |||||||
Turnout | 27,457 | 67.2 | |||||||
CDU win new seat | Majority | 5,067 | 19.0 |
References
- ^ "Landtagswahlen 2019 - Wahlkreise und dazugehörige Gemeinden".
- https://wahlen.thueringen.de/datenbank/wahl1/WAHL.asp?wahlart=LW&wJahr=2024&zeigeErg=WK&auswertung=1&wknr=003&gemnr=&terrKrs=&gemteil=000&buchstabe=&Langname=&wahlvorschlag=&sort=&druck=&XLS=&anzahlH=0&Nicht_existierende=&x_vollbildDatenteil=&optik=&aktual=&ShowLand=&ShowWK=&ShowPart=
- 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
- Wahlen in Thüringen 1990