Werra-Meißner – Hersfeld-Rotenburg
Werra-Meißner – Hersfeld-Rotenburg is one of the 299 single member constituencies used for the German parliament, the Bundestag. One of twenty two districts covering the state of Hesse, it covers the whole of the counties of Werra-Meißner and Hersfeld-Rotenburg. The constituency elects one representative under the mixed member proportional representation (MMP) system. Under the current constituency numbering system, it is designated as constituency 169.
Location of constituency in Hesse
The constituency was created for the 2002 election from parts of the abolished Hersfeld and Werra-Meißner electoral districts. In the elections from 2002 through to 2013 election, it was won by the Social Democratic Party of Germany candidate Michael Roth.[1]
2013 election result
| Party | Constituency results | List results | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Candidate | Votes | % share | +/- | Votes | % share | +/- | ||
| Social Democratic Party of Germany | Michael Roth | 54,630 | 43.1 | +2.7 | 46,913 | 36.9 | +2.5 | |
| Christian Democratic Union | Helmut Heiderich | 51,386 | 40.5 | +5.9 | 45,872 | 36.0 | +5.8 | |
| The Left | Johanna Scheringer-Wright | 7,277 | 5.7 | -2.7 | 7,584 | 6.0 | -3.8 | |
| Alliance '90/The Greens | Armin Jung | 6,333 | 5.0 | -0.7 | 8,868 | 7.0 | -1.1 | |
| Free Democratic Party | Manfred Lister | 2,513 | 2.0 | -7.3 | 5,014 | 3.9 | -9.3 | |
| National Democratic Party of Germany | Gisela Lück | 2,392 | 1.9 | +0.3 | 2,013 | 1.6 | +0.1 | |
| Pirate Party | Michael Balke | 2,283 | 1.8 | N/A | 1,954 | 1.5 | +0.1 | |
| Alternative for Germany | N/A | N/A | N/A | N/A | 7,096 | 5.6 | N/A | |
| Free Voters | N/A | N/A | N/A | N/A | 961 | 0.8 | N/A | |
| Die PARTEI | N/A | N/A | N/A | N/A | 521 | 0.4 | N/A | |
| The Republicans | N/A | N/A | N/A | N/A | 170 | 0.1 | -0.2 | |
| Others | N/A | N/A | N/A | N/A | 287 | 0.1 | N/A | |
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gollark: Current physical evidence is overwhelmingly in favour of it being globey. That doesn't mean that we have *proven* it must be a globe.
gollark: ... no, it's shown that *in our physical models*, this is the case, and I think in some cases they just start from that as an assumption.
gollark: It *cannot be proven* that this holds in all situations ever, because this is a statement about reality and not our models.
gollark: As far as anyone knows, yes.
gollark: Current physical theories say it can't. They seem to be right about this so far, but the models *do not create reality*, it goes the other way round.
References
- Die rote Ecke von Hessen, Hessische/Niedersächsische Allgemeine, 23 September 2013
- 2013 constituency results, bundeswahlleiter.de, accessed 3 July 2014
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