Bautzen 2/Budyšin 2

53: Bautzen 2/Budyšin 2
53: Bautzen 2/Budyšin 2
Electoral district; for the Landtag of Saxony
	Bautzen 2/Budyšin 2 in 2024
District	Bautzen
Electorate	47,316 (2024)
Major settlements	Elstra, Großröhrsdorf, Kamenz, and Pulsnitz
Current electoral district
Party	CDU
Member	Elaine Jentsch

Bautzen 2/Budyšin 2 is an electoral constituency (German: Wahlkreis) represented in the Landtag of Saxony. It elects one member via first-past-the-post voting. Under the constituency numbering system, it is designated as constituency 53. It is within the district of Bautzen. ^[2]

Geography

The constituency comprises the towns of Elstra, Großröhrsdorf, Kamenz, and Pulsnitz, and the municipalities of Arnsdorf, Crostwitz, Großnaundorf, Haselbachtal, Lichtenberg, Nebelschütz, Ohorn, Panschwitz-Kuckau, Räckelwitz, Ralbitz-Rosenthal, and Steina within the district of Bautzen.

There were 47,316 eligible voters in 2024. ^[3]

Members

	Member	Party	%
2014	Aloysius Mikwauschk	CDU	47.0
2019	Aloysius Mikwauschk		39.8
2024	Elaine Jentsch		44.0

Election results

2024 election

State election (2024): Bautzen 2/Budyšin 2^[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	Elaine Jentsch		15,593	44.0	4.2	12,701	35.6	0.2
	AfD	Ralf-Peter Hechtberger		14,028	39.6	9.2	12,578	35.2	4.2
	BSW						4,056	11.4
	FW	Günter Hutschalik		1,565	4.4	0.8	705	2.0	1.4
	Left	Ines Enns		1,380	3.9	6.6	792	2.2	5.8
	SPD	Jurij Petr Bulang		1,274	3.6	1.2	1,853	5.2	0.7
	FDP	Matthias Schniebel		722	2.0	4.0	357	1.0	5.4
	Greens	Mathias Höhle		503	1.4	2.0	825	2.3	2.1
	Freie Sachsen	M. Carsten Fuchs		387	1.1		795	2.2
	APT						327	0.9
	PARTEI						207	0.6	0.5
	BD						119	0.3
	Values						109	0.3
	Pirates						73	0.2
	dieBasis						57	0.2
	Bündnis C						41	0.1
	BüSo						38	0.1
	V-Partei3						32	0.1
	ÖDP						28	0.1
Informal votes				573			332
Total valid votes				35,452			35,693
Turnout				36,025	76.1	8.9
	CDU hold		Majority	1,565	4.4

2014 election

State election (2014): Bautzen 2^[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	Aloysius Mikwauschk		12,478	47.1		12,265	45.9
	Left			5,593	21.1		4,293	16.1
	AfD						2,717	10.2
	SPD			2,550	9.6		2,557	9.6
	NPD			1,899	7.2		1,546	5.8
	FDP			1,319	5.0		1,249	4.7
	Greens			924	3.5		840	3.1
	FW			887	3.3		487	1.8
	APT						265	1.0
	Pirates			452	1.7		237	0.9
	Independent	Konrad Skatula		418	1.6
	PARTEI						132	0.5
	BüSo						53	0.2
	Pro Germany Citizens' Movement						39	0.1
	DSU						36	0.1
Informal votes				629			433
Total valid votes				26,520			26,716
Turnout				27,149	54.5	1.7
	CDU win new seat		Majority	6,885	26.0

References

^ "Elected Member for Bautzen 2/Budyšin 2". Landtag of Saxony. Retrieved 10 January 2026.
^ "Saxony Electoral Districts". Retrieved 10 January 2026.
^ "Saxony Electoral Districts". Retrieved 10 January 2026.
^ https://www.tagesschau.de/wahl/archiv/2024-09-01-LT-DE-SN/charts/wahlkreis-detail/WK053-27.shtml
^ https://www.statistischebibliothek.de/mir/servlets/MCRFileNodeServlet/SNHeft_derivate_00005762/B_VII_2_2_5j_14_SN.pdf