Dusseldorf In the federal election there are a total of 299 constituencies. In each constituency, a direct mandate is given to the candidate with the most first votes. An overview of which prominent politicians have already secured or lost their direct mandate on the evening of the election.
The CDU has lost the constituency of Chancellor Angela Merkel in Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania to the SPD. The CDU candidate Georg Günther is with 20.6 percent shortly before the end of the count, well behind his SPD competitor Anna Kassautzki (24.4 percent). Merkel had in Constituency West Pomerania-Rügen – West Pomerania-Greifswald I In 2017, 44 percent of the first votes were won. She has won the direct mandate in the extreme northeast eight times since 1990. Five of the six constituencies in Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania are likely to go to the SPD this time, in one the AfD candidate lies wafer-thinly in front of the SPD applicant. In 2017, the CDU took all direct mandates there.
Defense Minister Annegret Kramp-Karrenbauer (CDU) has in Saarland no direct mandate obtained. In the constituency of Saarbrücken, she lost 25.1 percent of the vote against Josephine Ortleb (SPD), which came to 36.9 percent, as the state election control announced on Sunday evening. Kramp-Karrenbauer wanted to recapture the direct mandate in the Saarbrücken constituency for the CDU after it went to the SPD in 2017. Kramp-Karrenbauer can still move into the Bundestag via the state list. She is number one. “AKK”, as it is not only called in Saarland, does not currently have a mandate in the Bundestag.
Christian Lindner
The FDP chairman Christian Lindner again clearly missed a direct mandate in the federal election. The 42-year-old came to 16.8 percent on Sunday in the Rheinisch-Bergisches Kreis (North Rhine-Westphalia) after counting 308 out of 309 voting districts – and ended up in fourth place. As the top candidate of his party, he nevertheless entered the Bundestag via the state list. The direct mandate in the constituency near Cologne was won again by the CDU politician Hermann-Josef Tebroke with 30.0 percent. SPD candidate Kastriot Krasniqi came to 22.7 percent, Green candidate Maik Außenendorf gained 18.0 percent.
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Karl Lauterbach
The SPD politician Karl Lauterbach gets the direct mandate for the constituency of Leverkusen – Cologne IV and thus remains in the Bundestag. The health expert, who is present throughout Germany due to the corona pandemic, was unable to catch up in front of the CDU candidate, the North Rhine-Westphalian Integration State Secretary Serap Guler, on late Sunday evening.
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Bundestag President Wolfgang Schäuble, as the top candidate for the CDU in Baden-Württemberg, has again the direct mandate for his Offenburg constituency fetched. In the federal election he could, according to the city 33.14 percent of the vote to unite. The 79-year-old doctor of law has been in the Bundestag for almost 50 years. As Federal Minister of the Interior, he negotiated German unity.
Olaf Scholz
SPD Chancellor candidate Olaf Scholz moves as a member of the Constituency Potsdam – Potsdam-Mittelmark II – Teltow-Fläming II in the Bundestag. After counting almost all of the votes, Scholz is included 34.0 percent unattainable in front of the Green Chancellor candidate Annalena Baerbock (18.8 percent). While Scholz got significantly more first votes than his party (27.0 percent), Baerbock did worse than the Greens (19.0). Scholz has not been a member of the Bundestag since 2011.
Jens Spahn
Federal Minister of Health Jens Spahn (CDU) has again the direct mandate in Constituency Steinfurt I / Borken I secured. After counting all districts, the minister comes up in the federal election 40 percent of votes. This puts him well ahead of his SPD competitor, Sarah Lahrkamp, who received 28.3 percent of the vote.
Friedrich Merz
The former Union faction leader Friedrich Merz has in Hochsauerlandkreis (North Rhine-Westphalia) won the direct mandate. After counting 318 out of 319 voting districts, Merz was in the Bundestag election 40.4 percent far ahead of the SPD candidate Dirk Wiese (32.2 percent).
Merz, born in Brilon in the Sauerland, had initially not applied for a direct mandate after four electoral terms (1994 to 2009). Now the economic and financial expert is returning to the Bundestag after a long break. In 2018 and 2021 he had also sought the CDU federal party chairmanship, but failed.
Philipp Amthor
The CDU member of the Bundestag Philipp Amthor has the direct mandate in his constituency in Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania lost to the SPD politician Erik von Malottki. 20.7 percent of voters gave Amthor in constituency 16 their first vote, as announced on the home page of the regional return officer on Monday morning. Amthor ended up only in third place, behind von Malottki (24.8 percent) and the AfD politician Enrico Komning (24.3 percent),
Andreas Scheuer
Federal Transport Minister Andreas Scheuer is returning to the Bundestag despite a massive loss of votes. in the Passau constituency he receives 30.7 percent of the first votes, but that is 16.8 percentage points less than four years ago. The CSU politician does worse than his party, which falls from 40.5 to 32.5 percent of the second vote.
Heiko Maas
Federal Foreign Minister Heiko Maas (SPD) has a direct mandate from Federal Economics Minister Peter Altmaier (CDU) Saarlouis constituency removed. Maas comes up in the only duel between two federal ministers after counting 17 of the 18 municipalities 36.8 percent of the first votes and increases by 4.7 percentage points. Altmaier, the 2017 winner, slipped from 38.1 to 28.0 percent. Altmaier is also running for second place on the Saarland CDU state list.
Julia Kloeckner
The Rhineland-Palatinate CDU state chairman and top candidate Julia Klöckner has it Direct mandate in the Kreuznach constituency not achieved. Joe Weingarten from the SPD got 33.0 percent of the first votes in the federal election on Sunday after the votes were counted. According to the regional returning officer, Klöckner only achieved 29.1 percent. Weingarten entered the Bundestag in 2019 as the successor to Andrea Nahles.
Helge Braun
The Hessian CDU top candidate for the federal election, Helge Braun, has lost the fight for the direct mandate in the constituency of Giessen. According to the preliminary final result, the head of the Chancellery received 29.6 percent of the first votes on Sunday and was thus narrowly defeated by his SPD opponent Felix Döring, who got 30.4 percent. In the previous election in 2017, Braun had won the direct mandate in the constituency.
Dorothee Bear
Despite her weakest result so far in the first votes, the deputy CSU chairman Dorothee Bär has her direct mandate in Bad Kissingen constituency defended. The Digital Minister of State united 39.1 percent of the first votes. That is twelve percentage points less than in the 2017 federal election.
Cem Ozdemir
The ex-Greens boss Cem Özdemir has the direct mandate for the Greens in Stuttgart after all votes have been counted fetched. According to the city, he sat down from the im Constituency Stuttgart I against the CDU MP Stefan Kaufmann. Up until this general election, only the CDU and SPD had won direct seats in Baden-Württemberg.
Saskia Esken
The SPD chairwoman Saskia Esken moves into the Bundestag without a direct mandate. The CDU politician Klaus Mack (48) received most of the first votes in her constituency of Calw. According to the district of Calw, the mayor of Bad Wildbad achieved 33.8 percent in the traditional CDU stronghold after all votes were counted. Saskia Esken came second with 17.23 percent; it was thus able to slightly improve its result compared to the previous federal election (2017: 16.9 percent).
Robert Habeck
The Greens federal chairman Robert Habeck won a direct mandate for his party for the first time in Schleswig-Holstein after counting the most votes. According to the district administration, the 52-year-old was in Flensburg-Schleswig constituency with 27.7 percent of the first votes clearly ahead of the CDU member of the Bundestag Petra Nicolaisen (55) with 23.9 percent. It was practically impossible to catch up with the lead. 282 of 304 electoral districts were counted (as of 10:10 p.m.).
Habeck himself has already declared himself the winner. “I am overwhelmed by the trust placed in me,” said the Greens boss. “It is a privilege to represent constituency 1, my homeland, as a directly elected member of parliament. I will do all I can for the region in Berlin. ”The former Schleswig-Holstein Environment Minister has been leading the Greens since 2018 together with Annalena Baerbock.
Hans Georg Maassen
Ex-Federal Constitutional Protection President Hans-Georg Maaßen (CDU) clearly failed with his candidacy for a direct mandate in the Bundestag. The controversial CDU politician came in after all votes were counted South Thuringian constituency 196 to 22.3 percent of the first votes, his SPD opponent, the Olympic champion and ex-biathlon national coach, Frank Ullrich, won the direct mandate with 33.6 percent of the first votes.
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Anja Karliczek
Anja Karliczek (CDU) has again the direct mandate in Constituency Steinfurt III secured in North Rhine-Westphalia. After counting all districts, the incumbent Federal Research Minister comes in the Bundestag election with 34 percent of the first votes. This puts it just ahead of SPD candidate Jürgen Coße, who received 31.1 percent of the vote. This emerges from preliminary information from the Steinfurt district on Sunday evening.
Marco Wanderwitz
The Federal Government’s Eastern Commissioner, Marco Wanderwitz (CDU), has lost his direct mandate in Saxony. In his Constituency of Chemnitz surrounding area – Erzgebirgskreis II According to the overview of the state election control, he was overtaken by AfD candidate Mike Moncsek on Sunday evening, who got 28.9 percent of the first votes. Wanderwitz got 23.7 percent. He had represented his constituency in the Bundestag since 2002.
Tino Chrupalla
AfD federal chief Tino Chrupalla has his direct mandate in the federal election in Goerlitz constituency defended. According to the regional election administration, the 46-year-old got 35.8 percent of the first votes on Sunday. There were 53,971 votes for the master painter in absolute terms. In 2017 he caused a surprise when he wrested his direct mandate from today’s Saxon Prime Minister Michael Kretschmer (CDU). Chrupalla got 49,834 votes (32.4 percent), Kretschmer 48,256 (31.4).
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