Erzgebirge 1

12: Erzgebirge 1
12: Erzgebirge 1
Electoral district; for the Landtag of Saxony
	Erzgebirge 1 in 2024
District	Erzgebirgskreis
Electorate	56,630 (2024)
Major settlements	Lugau, Oelsnitz, Stollberg, and Thalheim
Current electoral district
Party	AfD
Member	Katja Dietz

Erzgebirge 1 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 12. It is within the district of Erzgebirgskreis ^[2].

Geography

The constituency comprises the towns of Lugau, Oelsnitz, Stollberg, and Thalheim, and the districts of Amtsberg, Auerbach, Burkhardtsdorf, Gornsdorf, Hohndorf, Jahnsdorf, Neukirchen, Niederdorf, and Niederwürschnitz within Erzgebirgskreis.

There were 56,630 eligible voters in 2024 ^[3].

Members

	Member	Party	%
2014	Rico Anton	CDU	41.6
2019	Rico Anton		37.6
2022	Robert Clemen
2024	Katja Dietz	AfD	37.4

Election results

2024 election

State election (2024): Erzgebirge 1^[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	%	±%
	AfD	Katja Dietz		15,918	37.4	6.4	14,781	34.6	5.1
	CDU	Stephan Weinrich		14,351	33.7	3.1	14,235	33.3	2.9
	BSW	Thomas Thamm		4,499	10.6		5,509	12.9
	FW	Peter Marcel Schmidt		3,342	7.9	2.9	1,158	2.7	1.4
	SPD	Silvio Heider		1,743	4.1	2.3	2,314	5.4	1.6
	Left	Barbara Drechsel		1,397	3.3	8.2	1,042	2.4	7.6
	Greens	Philipp Riese		538	1.3	3.5	698	1.6	2.5
	FDP	Marvin Siedel		396	0.9	2.7	311	0.7	2.8
	Freie Sachsen	W. Max Schmidl		389	0.9		1,333	3.1
	APT						424	1.0
	Bündnis C						234	0.5
	PARTEI						225	0.5	0.6
	Values						122	0.3
	BD						100	0.2
	dieBasis						64	0.1
	Pirates						63	0.1
	V-Partei3						38	0.1
	ÖDP						29	0.1
	BüSo						18	0.0
Informal votes				528			403
Total valid votes				42,573			42,698
Turnout				43,101	76.1	7.7
	AfD gain from CDU		Majority	1,567	3.7

2019 election

State election (2019): Erzgebirge 1^[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	Y Rico Anton		14,532	36.8	4.8	14,331	36.2	8.1
	AfD			12,236	31.0	20.8	11,698	29.6	19.0
	Left			4,524	11.5	12.3	3,974	10.0	9.2
	SPD			2,537	6.4	2.5	2,763	7.0	3.6
	FW			2,308	5.8	3.0	1,608	4.1	2.8
	Greens			1,891	4.8	0.5	1,656	4.2	1.1
	FDP			1,429	3.6	1.2	1,396	3.5	0.7
	APT						625	1.6	0.7
	PARTEI						464	1.2	0.8
	NPD						343	0.9	4.9
	Verjüngungsforschung						225	0.6
	The Blue Party						133	0.3
	ÖDP						85	0.2
	Awakening of German Patriots - Central Germany						71	0.2
	Humanists						54	0.1
	Pirates						53	0.1
	PDV						44	0.1
	DKP						29	0.1
	BüSo						21	0.1	0.1
Informal votes				569			453
Total valid votes				39,457			39,573
Turnout				40,026	67.9	18.6
	CDU hold		Majority	2,296	5.8	12.0

2014 election

State election (2014): Erzgebirge 1^[6]
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	Rico Anton		12,529	41.6		13,393	44.3
	Left			7,161	23.8		5,801	19.2
	AfD			3,058	10.2		3,197	10.6
	SPD			2,690	8.9		3,213	10.6
	NPD			1,616	5.4		1,758	5.8
	Greens			1,290	4.3		924	3.1
	FW			844	2.8		386	1.3
	FDP			720	2.4		847	2.8
	APT						285	0.9
	Pirates			220	0.7		200	0.1
	PARTEI						115	0.4
	DSU						41	0.1
	Pro Germany Citizens' Movement						35	0.1
	BüSo						13	0.0
Informal votes				489			409
Total valid votes				30,128			30,208
Turnout				30,617	49.7	11.4
	CDU win new seat		Majority	5,368	17.8

References

^ "Elected Member for Erzgebirge 1". Landtag of Saxony. Retrieved 8 January 2026.
^ "Saxony Electoral Districts". Retrieved 8 January 2026.
^ "Saxony Electoral Districts". Retrieved 8 January 2026.
^ https://www.tagesschau.de/wahl/archiv/2024-09-01-LT-DE-SN/charts/wahlkreis-detail/WK012-40.shtml
^ https://www.wahlen.sachsen.de/landtagswahl-2019-wahlergebnisse.php?_ptabs=%7B%22%23tab-stimmenverteilung%22%3A1%7D&wahlkreis=13
^ https://wahlen.sachsen.de/landtagswahl-2014-wahlergebnisse.php?wahlkreis=13&_ptabs=%7B%22%23tab-stimmenverteilung%22%3A1%7D