208 Neustadt – Speyer
Electoral district for the Bundestag
Neustadt – Speyer in 2017
State	Rhineland-Palatinate
Population	287,900 (2019)
Electorate	219,416 (2021)
Major settlements	Neustadt an der Weinstraße Speyer Schifferstadt
Area	866.1 km2
Current electoral district
Created	1965
Party	CDU
Member	Johannes Steiniger
Elected	2017, 2021

Neustadt – Speyer 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 208. It is located in southeastern Rhineland-Palatinate, comprising the cities of Neustadt an der Weinstraße and Speyer, the district of Bad Dürkheim, and the southern part of the Rhein-Pfalz-Kreis district.^[1]

Neustadt – Speyer was created for the 1965 federal election. Since 2017, it has been represented by Johannes Steiniger of the Christian Democratic Union (CDU).^[2]

Geography

Neustadt – Speyer is located in southeastern Rhineland-Palatinate. As of the 2021 federal election, it comprises the independent cities of Neustadt an der Weinstraße and Speyer, the district of Bad Dürkheim, and the municipalities of Schifferstadt, Otterstadt, and Waldsee and the Verbandsgemeinde of Römerberg-Dudenhofen from the Rhein-Pfalz-Kreis district.^[1]

History

Neustadt – Speyer was created in 1965. In the 1965 through 1976 elections, it was constituency 160 in the numbering system. In the 1980 through 1998 elections, it was number 158. In the 2002 election, it was number 211. In the 2005 election, it was number 210. In the 2009 and 2013 elections, it was number 209. Since the 2017 election, it has been number 208.

Originally, the constituency comprised the cities of Neustadt an der Weinstraße and Speyer and the districts of Landkreis Neustadt an der Weinstraße and Landkreis Speyer. In the 1972 through 1998 elections, it comprised the cities of Neustadt an der Weinstraße and Speyer, the municipalities of Bad Dürkheim and Haßloch and the Verbandsgemeinden of Deidesheim, Freinsheim, Lambrecht (Pfalz), and Wachenheim from the Bad Dürkheim district, and the municipalities of Römerberg and Schifferstadt and the Verbandsgemeinden of Dudenhofen and Rheinauen from the Landkreis Ludwigshafen district. It acquired its current borders in the 2002 election.

Members

The constituency has been held by the Christian Democratic Union (CDU) during all but one Bundestag term since its creation. It was first represented by Bernhard Vogel from 1965 to 1969, followed by Georg Gölter until 1972. Peter Büchner of the Social Democratic Party (SPD) was elected in 1972 and served a single term. Former member Gölter regained the constituency in 1976. He was succeeded by Theo Magin in 1980, who served until 1994. Norbert Schindler was representative from 1994 to 2017. Johannes Steiniger was elected in 2017 and re-elected in 2021.

Election results

2021 election

Federal election (2021): Neustadt – Speyer[3]
Notes:		Blue background denotes the winner of the electorate vote. Pink background denotes a candidate elected from their party list. Yellow background denotes an electorate win by a list member, or other incumbent. A Y or N denotes status of any incumbent, win or lose respectively.
Party		Candidate		Votes	%	±%	Party votes	%	±%
	CDU	Y Johannes Steiniger		51,770	30.2	9.8	41,322	24.0	11.2
	SPD	Isabel Mackensen-Geis		48,158	28.1	2.7	47,121	27.3	5.6
	Greens	Hannah Heller		20,869	12.2	4.6	23,949	13.9	5.1
	AfD	Thomas Stephan		17,204	10.0	1.8	17,499	10.2	2.5
	FDP	Bianca Hofmann		14,624	8.5	1.8	21,823	12.7	1.6
	FW	Stefan Krumm-Dudenhausen		9,698	5.6	2.2	6,380	3.7	1.6
	Left	Stefan Huber-Aydemir		4,535	2.6	2.1	4,880	2.8	3.2
	Tierschutzpartei						2,576	1.5
	dieBasis	Jürgen Schwerdt		2,722	1.6		2,413	1.4
	PARTEI						1,232	0.7	0.2
	Volt	Sebastian Sklubal		1,268	0.7		937	0.5
	Independent	Jonas Wittner		802	0.5
	Pirates						577	0.3	0.1
	Team Todenhöfer						512	0.3
	ÖDP						324	0.2	0.0
	V-Partei3						182	0.1	0.2
	Humanists						178	0.1
	NPD						177	0.1	0.2
	DiB						152	0.1
	LKR						62	0.0
	MLPD						26	0.0	0.0
Informal votes				2,178			1,506
Total Valid votes				171,650			172,322
Turnout				173,828	79.2	0.8
	CDU hold		Majority	3,612	2.1	12.5

2017 election

Federal election (2017): Neustadt – Speyer[4]
Notes:		Blue background denotes the winner of the electorate vote. Pink background denotes a candidate elected from their party list. Yellow background denotes an electorate win by a list member, or other incumbent. A Y or N denotes status of any incumbent, win or lose respectively.
Party		Candidate		Votes	%	±%	Party votes	%	±%
	CDU	Johannes Steiniger		69,504	40.0	7.9	61,407	35.2	8.4
	SPD	Isabel Mackensen[lower-alpha 1]		44,032	25.3	3.3	37,894	21.7	4.1
	AfD	Wolfgang Kräher		20,593	11.9		22,070	12.7	7.7
	Greens	Misbah Khan		13,156	7.6	0.5	15,389	8.8	0.3
	FDP	Markus Dürr		11,734	6.8	4.1	19,251	11.0	5.3
	Left	Maximilian Keck		8,207	4.7	0.2	10,537	6.0	1.2
	FW	Marion Schleicher-Frank		5,929	3.4	0.6	3,683	2.1	0.4
	PARTEI						1,539	0.9
	Pirates						774	0.4	1.8
	NPD						559	0.3	0.8
	V-Partei³						475	0.3
	ÖDP						363	0.2	0.1
	BGE						329	0.2
	New Liberals	Thomas Cohnen		305	0.2
	Independent	Shanna Nuss		261	0.2
	MLPD						67	0.0	0.0
Informal votes				2,704			2,088
Total Valid votes				173,721			174,337
Turnout				176,425	80.0	5.0
	CDU hold		Majority	25,472	14.7	4.6

2013 election

Federal election (2013): Neustadt – Speyer[5]
Notes:		Blue background denotes the winner of the electorate vote. Pink background denotes a candidate elected from their party list. Yellow background denotes an electorate win by a list member, or other incumbent. A Y or N denotes status of any incumbent, win or lose respectively.
Party		Candidate		Votes	%	±%	Party votes	%	±%
	CDU	Y Norbert Schindler		77,345	47.9	3.2	71,072	43.7	7.7
	SPD	Heike-Maria Mrosek-Handwerk		46,217	28.6	3.4	41,982	25.8	3.4
	Greens	Jutta Paulus		13,054	8.1	0.5	13,915	8.5	1.7
	Left	Wolfgang Förster		7,244	4.5	3.3	7,871	4.8	3.5
	FW	Marion Schleicher-Frank		4,528	2.8		2,835	1.7
	FDP	Hartmut Lardon		4,355	2.7	6.6	9,337	5.7	11.0
	AfD						7,995	4.9
	Pirates	Vincent Thenhart		4,189	2.6		3,660	2.2	0.4
	NPD	Dörthe Armstroff		2,728	1.7	0.0	1,778	1.1	0.1
	FAMILIE	Mark Anthony von Garnier		1,099	0.7	1.3
	REP						943	0.6	0.6
	Party of Reason	Georg Semmler		811	0.5		611	0.4
	ÖDP						427	0.3	0.0
	PRO						332	0.2
	MLPD						45	0.0	0.0
Informal votes				3,865			2,632
Total Valid votes				161,570			162,803
Turnout				165,435	75.0	0.7
	CDU hold		Majority	31,128	19.3	0.1

2009 election

Federal election (2009): Neustadt – Speyer[6]
Notes:		Blue background denotes the winner of the electorate vote. Pink background denotes a candidate elected from their party list. Yellow background denotes an electorate win by a list member, or other incumbent. A Y or N denotes status of any incumbent, win or lose respectively.
Party		Candidate		Votes	%	±%	Party votes	%	±%
	CDU	Y Norbert Schindler		71,481	44.6	0.2	57,953	36.0	1.6
	SPD	Wolfgang Ressmann		40,404	25.2	12.9	36,117	22.4	10.7
	FDP	Hartmut Lardon		14,870	9.3	4.7	26,987	16.7	5.1
	Greens	Frank Peters		13,748	8.6	3.8	16,485	10.2	2.1
	Left	Stefanie Beck		12,546	7.8	4.0	13,486	8.4	3.5
	Pirates						3,030	1.9
	FAMILIE	Margarete Nickel		3,140	2.0		2,217	1.4	0.2
	NPD	Dörthe Armstroff		2,710	1.7	0.7	1,935	1.2	0.2
	REP						1,918	1.2	0.8
	Independent	Viktor Kunz		1,283	0.8
	PBC						453	0.3	0.2
	ÖDP						426	0.3
	DVU						116	0.1
	MLPD						44	0.0	0.0
Informal votes				3,870			2,884
Total Valid votes				160,182			161,168
Turnout				164,052	74.2	6.6
	CDU hold		Majority	31,077	19.4	12.7

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