Schwarzwald-Baar (electoral district)

Schwarzwald-Baar is one of the 299 single member constituencies used for the German parliament, the Bundestag. One of thirty eight districts covering the state of Baden-Württemberg, it covers the Schwarzwald-Baar-Kreis and the municipalities of Gutach (Schwarzwaldbahn), Hausach, Hornberg, Oberwolfach and Wolfach, all located in the Ortenaukreis district. It was coterminous with the Schwarzwald-Baar-Kreis district before the 2002 election.

Location of constituency in Baden-Württemberg

The constituency was created for the 1980 election, largely replacing the former Donaueschingen constituency, which had existed since 1949. Like its predecessor constituency, all elections in Schwarzwald-Baar have been won by the new Christian Democratic Union (CDU). The current representative is Thorsten Frei, who won the seat for the first time in 2013.[1] Among the candidates he defeated was the former CDU representative Siegfried Kauder. Kauder had been deselected as CDU candidate and opted to run as an independent candidate,[2] but obtained only 3% of the vote, while Frei obtained the highest percentage share since the district's creation.[1]

Results

2013 election

2013 German federal election: Schwarzwald-Baar[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	Thorsten Frei		66,505	56.7%	9.3%	57,912	49.4%	13.0%
	SPD	Jens Löw		22,211	18.9%	0.2%	22,414	19.1%	1.3%
	Green	Cornelia Kunkis-Becker		8,984	7.7%	3.7%	10,613	9.0%	2.6%
	AfD	Dirk Caroli		4,603	3.9%	3.9%	6,697	5.7%	5.7%
	Left	Gotthilf Lorch		4,144	3.5%	2.7%	4,860	4.1%	2.7%
	Independent	Siegfried Kauder		3,579	3.0%	3.0%
	FDP	Marcel Klinge		2,946	2.5%	10.9%	6,933	5.9%	14.8%
	NPD	Jürgen Schützinger		1,963	1.7%	0.8%	1,737	1.5%	0.2%
	FW	Christel Bächle-Blum		1,845	1.6%	1.6%	1,084	0.9%	0.9%
	ÖDP	Christof Stocker		586	0.5%	0.5%	375	0.3%	0.1%
	Pirates						2,260	1.9%	0.1%
	Tierschutzpartei						926	0.8%
	PBC						453	0.4%	0.2%
	Pensioners'						339	0.3%	0.3%
	Volksabstimmung						229	0.2%	0.1%
	REP						208	0.2%	0.3%
	PDV						118	0.1%	0.1%
	pro-Deutschland						76	0.1%	0.1%
	MLPD						57	0.0%
	BIG						37	0.0%
	BüSo						17	0.0%
Informal votes				1,815			1,836
Total Valid votes				117,366			117,345
	CDU hold		Majority	44,296	37.8%

List of district representatives

Election	Name	Party
1980	Hansjörg Häfele	CDU
1983	Hansjörg Häfele	CDU
1987	Hansjörg Häfele	CDU
1990	Meinrad Belle	CDU
1994	Meinrad Belle	CDU
1998	Meinrad Belle	CDU
2002	Siegfried Kauder	CDU
2005	Siegfried Kauder	CDU
2009	Siegfried Kauder	CDU
2013	Thorsten Frei	CDU

References

1. Thorsten Frei gewinnt den Wahlkreis haushoch, Südkurier, 23 September 2013
2. Streit in der CDU: Volker Kauder droht Bruder Siegfried mit Rauswurf, Der Spiegel, 16 July 2013
3. https://www.bundeswahlleiter.de/en/bundestagswahlen/2013/ergebnisse/bund-99/land-8/wahlkreis-286.html