Erzgebirgskreis I (original) (raw)
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Federal electoral district of Germany
| 163 Erzgebirgskreis I | |
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| Electoral districtfor the Bundestag | |
 Erzgebirgskreis I in 2025 |
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| State | Saxony |
| Population | 256,600 (2019) |
| Electorate | 210,941 (2021) |
| Major settlements | Aue-Bad SchlemaAnnaberg-BuchholzMarienberg |
| Area | 1,560.9 km2 |
| Current electoral district | |
| Created | 2009 |
| Party | AfD |
| Member | Thomas Dietz |
| Elected | 2021 |
Erzgebirgskreis I 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 163. It is located in southwestern Saxony, comprising most of the Erzgebirgskreis district.[1]
Erzgebirgskreis I was created for the 2009 federal election. Since 2021, it has been represented by Thomas Dietz of the Alternative for Germany (AfD).[2]
Erzgebirgskreis I is located in southwestern Saxony. As of the 2021 federal election, it comprises the entirety of the Erzgebirgskreis district excluding the municipalities of Hohndorf, Jahnsdorf, Neukirchen, Oelsnitz, Thalheim, and Zwönitz and the Verwaltungsgemeinschaften of Burkhardtsdorf, Lugau, and Stollberg.[1]
Erzgebirgskreis I was created in 2009 and contained parts of the abolished constituencies of Bundestagswahlkreis Freiberg – Mittlerer Erzgebirgskreis and Annaberg – Aue-Schwarzenberg. In the 2009 election, it was constituency 165 in the numbering system. In the 2013 through 2021 elections, it was number 164. From the 2025 election, it has been number 163. Its borders have not changed since its creation.
The constituency was first represented by Günter Baumann of the Christian Democratic Union (CDU) from 2009 to 2017. He was succeeded by Alexander Krauß in 2017. Thomas Dietz won the constituency for the Alternative for Germany (AfD) in 2021.
| Election | Member | Party | % |
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| 2009 | Günter Baumann | CDU | |
| 2013 | 50.2 | ||
| 2017 | Alexander Krauß | CDU | |
| 2021 | Thomas Dietz | AfD |
| Federal election (2021): Erzgebirgskreis I[3] | |||||||
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| 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. |
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| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | Party votes | % | ±% |
| AfD | Thomas Dietz | 50,571 | 31.7 |  1.5 |
48,794 | 30.6 | |
| CDU | N Alexander Krauß |
40,550 | 25.4 |  9.3 |
31,340 | 19.6 | |
| SPD | Silvio Heider | 23,650 | 14.8 | 5.8 |
28,848 | 18.1 | |
| Left | Clara Bünger[a] | 12,787 | 8.0 | 7.2 |
12,078 | 7.6 | |
| FDP | Ulrike Harzer | 11,914 | 7.5 | 0.2 |
16,210 | 10.2 | |
| FW | Andreas Schmiedel | 8,210 | 5.1 | 5,079 | 3.2 | ||
| Greens | Sebastian Walter | 4,001 | 2.5 | 0.1 |
5,194 | 3.3 | |
| Tierschutzpartei | 2,966 | 1.9 | 0.4 |
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| PARTEI | Carsten Staat | 2,422 | 1.5 | 1,650 | 1.0 | ||
| dieBasis | Grit Weiß | 2,313 | 1.5 | 1,958 | 1.2 | ||
| Bündnis C | Simon Haustein | 2,069 | 1.3 | 1,940 | 1.2 | ||
| The Homeland | 914 | 0.6 | 1.1 |
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| Gesundheitsforschung | 673 | 0.4 | |||||
| Pirates | 397 | 0.2 | 0.1 |
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| Team Todenhöfer | 323 | 0.2 | |||||
| The III. Path | 291 | 0.2 | |||||
| ÖDP | 256 | 0.2 | 0.1 |
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| Volt | 248 | 0.2 | |||||
| V-Partei3 | Jennifer Schilling | 520 | 0.3 | 166 | 0.1 | ||
| Independent | Sandro Reichel | 488 | 0.3 | ||||
| Humanists | 150 | 0.1 | |||||
| DKP | 102 | 0.1 | |||||
| MLPD | 58 | 0.0 |  0.0 |
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| Informal votes | 2,261 | 2,121 | |||||
| Total valid votes | 159,495 | 159,635 | |||||
| Turnout | 161,756 | 76.7 | 1.2 |
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| AfD gain from CDU | Majority | 10,021 | 6.3 |
| Federal election (2017): Erzgebirgskreis I[4] | |||||||
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| 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. |
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| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | Party votes | % | ±% |
| CDU | Alexander Krauß | 56,716 | 34.7 | 15.5 |
50,759 | 31.0 | |
| AfD | Karsten Teubner | 49,465 | 30.2 | 47,952 | 29.2 | ||
| Left | Klaus Tischendorf | 24,808 | 15.2 | 5.4 |
23,090 | 14.1 | |
| SPD | Sören Wittig | 14,707 | 9.0 | 3.1 |
15,452 | 9.4 | |
| FDP | Tino Günther | 11,820 | 7.2 | 0.7 |
12,106 | 7.4 | |
| Greens | Sebastian Walter | 4,334 | 2.6 | 0.5 |
3,661 | 2.2 | |
| The Homeland | 2,727 | 1.7 | 2.4 |
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| Tierschutzpartei | 2,354 | 1.4 | |||||
| FW | 2,343 | 1.4 | 0.2 |
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| PARTEI | 1,424 | 0.9 | |||||
| Pirates | 531 | 0.3 | 1.6 |
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| BGE | 493 | 0.3 | |||||
| ÖDP | 378 | 0.2 | |||||
| DiB | 269 | 0.2 | |||||
| V-Partei³ | 213 | 0.1 | |||||
| MLPD | 121 | 0.1 | 0.0 |
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| BüSo | 98 | 0.1 | 0.1 |
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| Independent | Jörg Held | 1,702 | 1.0 | ||||
| Informal votes | 3,149 | 2,730 | |||||
| Total valid votes | 163,552 | 163,971 | |||||
| Turnout | 166,701 | 75.5 | 5.9 |
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| CDU hold | Majority | 7,251 | 4.5 | 25.1 |
| Federal election (2013): Erzgebirgskreis I[5] | |||||||
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| 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. |
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| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | Party votes | % | ±% |
| CDU | Y Günter Baumann |
79,318 | 50.2 | 9.9 |
73,098 | 46.0 | |
| Left | Andrea Schrutek | 32,472 | 20.6 | 3.1 |
30,741 | 19.4 | |
| SPD | Wolfgang Gunkel | 19,143 | 12.1 | 1.2 |
20,114 | 12.7 | |
| AfD | 12,119 | 7.6 | |||||
| FDP | Heinz-Peter Haustein | 10,246 | 6.5 | 8.7 |
5,828 | 3.7 | |
| The Homeland | David Schröer | 8,425 | 5.3 | 0.3 |
6,398 | 4.0 | |
| Greens | Bert Meyer | 5,051 | 3.2 | 0.6 |
3,964 | 2.5 | |
| Pirates | Sebastian Hacker | 3,263 | 2.1 | 3,008 | 1.9 | ||
| FW | 2,551 | 1.6 | |||||
| PRO | 613 | 0.4 | |||||
| BüSo | 183 | 0.1 | 0.6 |
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| MLPD | 133 | 0.1 | 0.2 |
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| Informal votes | 3,800 | 2,968 | |||||
| Total valid votes | 157,918 | 158,750 | |||||
| Turnout | 161,718 | 69.6 | 5.1 |
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| CDU hold | Majority | 36,846 | 29.6 | 13.0 |
| Federal election (2009): Erzgebirgskreis I[6] | |||||||
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| 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. |
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| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | Party votes | % | ±% |
| CDU | Günter Baumann | 63,211 | 40.3 | 1.8 |
60,413 | 38.5 | |
| Left | Andrea Schrutek | 37,166 | 23.7 | 2.7 |
39,545 | 25.2 | |
| FDP | Heinz-Peter Haustein | 23,820 | 15.2 | 5.2 |
22,051 | 14.1 | |
| SPD | Sebastian Vogel | 17,168 | 11.0 | 8.1 |
18,846 | 12.0 | |
| The Homeland | Ulrich Pätzold | 7,930 | 5.1 | 1.5 |
7,876 | 5.0 | |
| Greens | Hartmut Kahl | 5,896 | 3.8 | 1.8 |
5,919 | 3.8 | |
| Independent | Markus Peuschel | 1,580 | 1.0 | ||||
| BüSo | 1,157 | 0.7 | 0.2 |
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| REP | 618 | 0.4 | 0.1 |
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| MLPD | 373 | 0.2 | 0.1 |
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| Informal votes | 2,884 | 2,857 | |||||
| Total valid votes | 156,771 | 156,798 | |||||
| Turnout | 159,655 | 64.5 | 12.4 |
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| CDU win new seat | Majority | 26,045 | 16.6 |
^ Bünger entered the Bundestag on the Left list after the resignation of Katja Kipping in January 2022.
^ a b "Constituency Erzgebirgskreis I". Federal Returning Officer.
^ "Results for Erzgebirgskreis I". Federal Returning Officer.