248 Bad Kissingen | |
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Electoral district for the Bundestag | |
State | Bavaria |
Population | 267,300 (2019) |
Electorate | 214,061 (2021) |
Major settlements | Bad Kissingen Bad Neustadt an der Saale Haßfurt |
Area | 3,114.8 km2 |
Current electoral district | |
Created | 1949 |
Party | CSU |
Member | Dorothee Bär |
Elected | 2009, 2013, 2017, 2021 |
Bad Kissingen is an electoral constituency (German: Wahlkreis) represented in the Bundestag. It elects one member via first-past-the-post voting. Under the current constituency numbering system, it is designated as constituency 248. It is located in northwestern Bavaria, comprising the districts of Bad Kissingen, Haßberge, and Rhön-Grabfeld.[1]
Bad Kissingen was created for the inaugural 1949 federal election. Since 2009, it has been represented by Dorothee Bär of the Christian Social Union (CSU).[2]
Geography
Bad Kissingen is located in northwestern Bavaria. As of the 2021 federal election, it comprises the districts of Bad Kissingen, Haßberge, and Rhön-Grabfeld.[1]
History
Bad Kissingen was created in 1949. In the 1949 election, it was Bavaria constituency 37 in the numbering system. In the 1953 through 1961 elections, it was number 232. In the 1965 through 1998 elections, it was number 234. In the 2002 and 2005 elections, it was number 249. Since the 2009 election, it has been number 248.
Originally, the constituency comprised the independent city of Bad Kissingen and the districts of Landkreis Bad Kissingen, Ebern, Haßfurt, Hofheim, Königshofen, and Mellrichstadt. In the 1965 through 1972 elections, it also contained the district of Bad Neustadt an der Saale. It acquired its current borders in the 1976 election.
Election | No. | Name | Borders |
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1949 | 37 | Bad Kissingen |
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1953 | 232 | ||
1957 | |||
1961 | |||
1965 | 234 |
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1969 | |||
1972 | |||
1976 |
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1980 | |||
1983 | |||
1987 | |||
1990 | |||
1994 | |||
1998 | |||
2002 | 249 | ||
2005 | |||
2009 | 248 | ||
2013 | |||
2017 | |||
2021 |
Members
Like most constituencies in rural Bavaria, it is an CSU safe seat, the party holding the seat continuously since its creation. It was first represented by Gustav Fuchs from 1949 to 1961, followed by Alex Hösl from 1961 to 1980. Eduard Lintner was representative from 1980 to 2009, a total of eight consecutive terms. Dorothee Bär was elected in 2009, and re-elected in 2013, 2017, and 2021.
Election | Member | Party | % | |
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1949 | Gustav Fuchs | CSU | 42.4 | |
1953 | 57.9 | |||
1957 | 66.7 | |||
1961 | Alex Hösl | CSU | 64.7 | |
1965 | 69.0 | |||
1969 | 68.2 | |||
1972 | 67.1 | |||
1976 | 70.0 | |||
1980 | Eduard Lintner | CSU | 69.1 | |
1983 | 72.5 | |||
1987 | 68.4 | |||
1990 | 65.2 | |||
1994 | 61.6 | |||
1998 | 56.5 | |||
2002 | 63.4 | |||
2005 | 57.5 | |||
2009 | Dorothee Bär | CSU | 53.7 | |
2013 | 57.9 | |||
2017 | 51.1 | |||
2021 | 39.1 |
Election results
2021 election
Federal election (2021): Bad Kissingen[3] | |||||||||
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Notes: |
Blue background denotes the winner of the electorate vote.
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Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | Party votes | % | ±% | ||
CSU | Dorothee Bär | 67,458 | 39.1 | 12.0 | 65,063 | 37.6 | 7.0 | ||
SPD | Sabine Dittmar | 32,844 | 19.0 | 0.1 | 30,540 | 17.6 | 1.8 | ||
AfD | Freia Lippold-Eggen | 17,130 | 9.9 | 0.6 | 18,434 | 10.6 | 0.9 | ||
Greens | Manuela Rottmann | 16,467 | 9.5 | 2.5 | 15,874 | 9.2 | 2.5 | ||
FW | Frank Helmerich | 14,102 | 8.2 | 12,639 | 7.3 | 4.9 | |||
FDP | Karl Schenk Graf von Stauffenberg | 12,206 | 7.1 | 1.4 | 15,211 | 8.8 | 0.1 | ||
Left | Claus Scheeres | 4,475 | 2.6 | 2.8 | 4,820 | 2.8 | 3.2 | ||
dieBasis | Marco Garnache | 3,783 | 2.2 | 3,355 | 1.9 | ||||
Tierschutzpartei | 1,862 | 1.1 | 0.2 | ||||||
PARTEI | Sonja Johannes | 2,438 | 1.4 | 1,416 | 0.8 | 0.2 | |||
ÖDP | Michaela Reinhard | 1,266 | 0.7 | 0.5 | 777 | 0.4 | 0.2 | ||
Pirates | 558 | 0.3 | 0.0 | ||||||
BP | 476 | 0.3 | 0.0 | ||||||
Unabhängige | 418 | 0.2 | |||||||
Independent | Michael Kaiser | 371 | 0.2 | ||||||
Gesundheitsforschung | 263 | 0.2 | 0.0 | ||||||
Volt | 236 | 0.1 | |||||||
Team Todenhöfer | 206 | 0.1 | |||||||
NPD | 204 | 0.1 | 0.4 | ||||||
V-Partei3 | 162 | 0.1 | 0.1 | ||||||
The III. Path | 149 | 0.1 | |||||||
Bündnis C | 143 | 0.1 | |||||||
Humanists | 113 | 0.1 | |||||||
du. | 109 | 0.1 | |||||||
LKR | 32 | 0.0 | |||||||
DKP | 25 | 0.0 | 0.0 | ||||||
MLPD | 20 | 0.0 | 0.0 | ||||||
Informal votes | 1,624 | 1,059 | |||||||
Total Valid votes | 172,550 | 173,105 | |||||||
Turnout | 174,164 | 81.4 | 2.1 | ||||||
CSU hold | Majority | 34,614 | 20.1 | 11.9 |
2017 election
Federal election (2017): Bad Kissingen[4] | |||||||||
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Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | Party votes | % | ±% | ||
CSU | Dorothee Bär | 86,603 | 51.1 | 6.8 | 75,788 | 44.6 | 9.3 | ||
SPD | Sabine Dittmar | 32,383 | 19.1 | 0.8 | 26,904 | 15.8 | 2.3 | ||
AfD | Andrea Klingen | 17,753 | 10.5 | 19,650 | 11.6 | 8.3 | |||
Greens | Manuela Rottmann | 11,980 | 7.1 | 0.8 | 11,359 | 6.7 | 0.3 | ||
FDP | Nicolas Thoma | 9,534 | 5.6 | 2.8 | 15,084 | 8.9 | 4.1 | ||
Left | Frank Hertel | 9,071 | 5.4 | 0.8 | 10,085 | 5.9 | 1.4 | ||
FW | 4,075 | 2.4 | 0.3 | ||||||
ÖDP | Michaela Reinhard | 2,083 | 1.2 | 1,089 | 0.6 | 0.1 | |||
PARTEI | 1,078 | 0.6 | |||||||
NPD | 926 | 0.5 | 0.8 | ||||||
Pirates | 610 | 0.4 | 1.6 | ||||||
BP | 494 | 0.3 | 0.2 | ||||||
DM | 313 | 0.2 | |||||||
Gesundheitsforschung | 283 | 0.2 | |||||||
V-Partei³ | 273 | 0.2 | |||||||
BGE | 195 | 0.1 | |||||||
DiB | 188 | 0.1 | |||||||
MLPD | 38 | 0.0 | 0.0 | ||||||
BüSo | 26 | 0.0 | 0.0 | ||||||
DKP | 16 | 0.0 | |||||||
Informal votes | 1,795 | 1,300 | |||||||
Total Valid votes | 169,407 | 169,902 | |||||||
Turnout | 171,202 | 79.2 | 8.0 | ||||||
CSU hold | Majority | 54,220 | 32.0 | 6.0 |
2013 election
Federal election (2013): Bad Kissingen[5] | |||||||||
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Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | Party votes | % | ±% | ||
CSU | Dorothee Bär | 88,911 | 57.9 | 4.2 | 82,760 | 53.9 | 6.6 | ||
SPD | Sabine Dittmar | 30,564 | 19.9 | 2.0 | 27,931 | 18.2 | 3.4 | ||
Greens | Hans-Josef Fell | 12,127 | 7.9 | 1.3 | 9,874 | 6.4 | 1.4 | ||
Left | Stefan Bannert | 6,930 | 4.5 | 3.6 | 6,946 | 4.5 | 4.0 | ||
FDP | Erhard Stubenrauch | 4,391 | 2.9 | 5.7 | 7,342 | 4.8 | 9.1 | ||
AfD | 4,988 | 3.2 | |||||||
FW | Christine Wehe | 4,259 | 2.8 | 4,129 | 2.7 | ||||
Pirates | Benjamin Wildenauer | 3,562 | 2.3 | 2,980 | 1.9 | 0.2 | |||
NPD | Horst Fuchs | 2,789 | 1.8 | 0.3 | 2,018 | 1.3 | 0.2 | ||
ÖDP | 1,119 | 0.7 | 0.0 | ||||||
Tierschutzpartei | 919 | 0.6 | 0.1 | ||||||
REP | 884 | 0.6 | 0.4 | ||||||
BP | 756 | 0.5 | 0.2 | ||||||
DIE FRAUEN | 311 | 0.2 | |||||||
Party of Reason | 239 | 0.2 | |||||||
DIE VIOLETTEN | 167 | 0.1 | 0.1 | ||||||
PRO | 125 | 0.1 | |||||||
RRP | 67 | 0.0 | 0.4 | ||||||
MLPD | 40 | 0.0 | 0.0 | ||||||
BüSo | 27 | 0.0 | 0.0 | ||||||
Informal votes | 1,822 | 1,733 | |||||||
Total Valid votes | 153,533 | 153,622 | |||||||
Turnout | 155,355 | 71.3 | 2.5 | ||||||
CSU hold | Majority | 58,347 | 38.0 | 2.2 |
2009 election
Federal election (2009): Bad Kissingen[6] | |||||||||
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Notes: |
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Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | Party votes | % | ±% | ||
CSU | Dorothee Bär | 85,574 | 53.7 | 3.8 | 75,708 | 47.3 | 5.8 | ||
SPD | Susanne Kastner | 28,487 | 17.9 | 6.5 | 23,712 | 14.8 | 7.0 | ||
Greens | Hans-Josef Fell | 14,723 | 9.2 | 3.1 | 12,475 | 7.8 | 2.2 | ||
FDP | Adelheid Zimmermann | 13,592 | 8.5 | 4.0 | 22,188 | 13.9 | 4.6 | ||
Left | Stefan Bannert | 13,000 | 8.2 | 3.8 | 13,717 | 8.6 | 3.7 | ||
Pirates | 2,807 | 1.8 | |||||||
NPD | Johannes Hühnlein | 3,305 | 2.1 | 0.4 | 2,504 | 1.6 | 0.3 | ||
REP | 1,580 | 1.0 | 0.6 | ||||||
FAMILIE | 1,339 | 0.8 | 0.1 | ||||||
ÖDP | 1,242 | 0.8 | |||||||
Tierschutzpartei | 804 | 0.5 | |||||||
Independent | Helmut Schätzlein | 712 | 0.4 | ||||||
RRP | 703 | 0.4 | |||||||
BP | 495 | 0.3 | 0.1 | ||||||
DIE VIOLETTEN | 264 | 0.2 | |||||||
PBC | 259 | 0.2 | 0.2 | ||||||
CM | 196 | 0.1 | |||||||
DVU | 70 | 0.0 | |||||||
BüSo | 56 | 0.0 | 0.0 | ||||||
MLPD | 33 | 0.0 | 0.0 | ||||||
Informal votes | 2,659 | 1,900 | |||||||
Total Valid votes | 159,393 | 160,152 | |||||||
Turnout | 162,052 | 73.8 | 5.7 | ||||||
CSU hold | Majority | 57,087 | 35.8 | 2.7 |
References
- 1 2 "Constituency Bad Kissingen". Federal Returning Officer.
- ↑ "Results for Bad Kissingen". Federal Returning Officer.
- ↑ Results for Bad Kissingen
- ↑ Results for Bad Kissingen
- ↑ Results for Bad Kissingen
- ↑ Results for Bad Kissingen