Leipzig 1
| 25: Leipzig 1 | |
|---|---|
| Electoral district for the Landtag of Saxony | |
Leipzig 1 in 2024 | |
| District | Leipzig |
| Electorate | 59,218 (2024) |
| Major settlements | Leipzig-Mitte excluding the suburbs of Zentrum-Nordwest and Zentrum-Nord, Neustadt-Neuschönefeld (Ost), and Reudnitz-Thonberg (Südost) |
| Current electoral district | |
| Party | De Linke |
| Member | Nam Duy Nguyen[1] |
Leipzig 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 25. It is within the city of Leipzig. [2]
Geography
The constituency comprises the districts of Leipzig-Mitte excluding the suburbs of Zentrum-Nordwest and Zentrum-Nord, the sub-district of Neustadt-Neuschönefeld (city district Ost), and the sub-district of Reudnitz-Thonberg (city district Südost) within the City of Leipzig.
There were 59,218 eligible voters in 2024. [3]
Members
| Election | Member | Party | % | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2014 | Ronald Pohle | CDU | 35.6 | |
| 2019 | 31.1 | |||
| 2024 | Nam Duy Nguyen | De Linke | 39.8 | |
Election results
2024 election
| State election (2024): Leipzig 1[4] | |||||||||
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| Notes: |
Blue background denotes the winner of the electorate vote.
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| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | Party votes | % | ±% | ||
| Left | Nam Duy Nguyen | 18,046 | 39.8 | 17.7 | 9,208 | 20.2 | 1.1 | ||
| CDU | Cornelia Blattner | 8,350 | 18.4 | 0.2 | 9,742 | 21.4 | 1.6 | ||
| Greens | Christin Melcher | 5,798 | 12.8 | 15.9 | 8,788 | 19.3 | 7.9 | ||
| AfD | Jörg Kühne | 4,876 | 10.8 | 0.6 | 4,589 | 10.1 | |||
| SPD | Dirk Panter | 3,574 | 7.9 | 2.3 | 6,187 | 13.6 | 3.3 | ||
| BSW | Eric Recke | 3,027 | 6.7 | 3,920 | 8.6 | ||||
| PARTEI | 733 | 1.6 | 1.9 | ||||||
| FDP | Nicolas Brendel | 934 | 2.1 | 2.0 | 644 | 1.4 | 2.9 | ||
| FW | Tobias Volte | 732 | 1.6 | 0.9 | 445 | 1.0 | 0.6 | ||
| APT | 383 | 0.8 | |||||||
| Freie Sachsen | 195 | 0.3 | |||||||
| Pirates | 176 | 0.4 | |||||||
| V-Partei3 | 123 | 0.3 | |||||||
| dieBasis | 90 | 0.2 | |||||||
| BD | 82 | 0.2 | |||||||
| Values | 64 | 0.1 | |||||||
| ÖDP | 53 | 0.1 | |||||||
| Bündnis C | 37 | 0.1 | |||||||
| BüSo | 20 | 0.0 | |||||||
| Informal votes | 336 | 194 | |||||||
| Total valid votes | 45,337 | 45,479 | |||||||
| Turnout | 45,673 | 77.1 | 16.2 | ||||||
| Left gain from CDU | Majority | 9,696 | 21.4 | ||||||
2014 election
| State election (2014): Leipzig 1[5] | |||||||||
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| Notes: |
Blue background denotes the winner of the electorate vote.
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| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | Party votes | % | ±% | ||
| CDU | Ronald Pohle | 9,520 | 35.6 | 9,409 | 35.1 | ||||
| Left | 6,018 | 22.5 | 5,635 | 21.0 | |||||
| SPD | 4,681 | 17.5 | 4,155 | 15.5 | |||||
| AfD | 1,933 | 7.2 | 2,166 | 8.1 | |||||
| Greens | 1,825 | 6.8 | 2,004 | 7.5 | |||||
| NPD | 1,003 | 3.8 | 1,138 | 4.2 | |||||
| FDP | 828 | 3.1 | 905 | 3.4 | |||||
| APT | 373 | 1.4 | |||||||
| FW | 424 | 1.6 | 274 | 1.0 | |||||
| Pirates | 414 | 1.5 | 366 | 1.4 | |||||
| PARTEI | 229 | 0.9 | |||||||
| BüSo | 94 | 0.4 | 58 | 0.2 | |||||
| Pro Germany Citizens' Movement | 46 | 0.2 | |||||||
| DSU | 36 | 0.1 | |||||||
| Informal votes | 313 | 259 | |||||||
| Total valid votes | 26,740 | 26,794 | |||||||
| Turnout | 27,053 | 43.5 | 10.0 | ||||||
| CDU win new seat | Majority | 3,502 | 13.1 | ||||||
References
- ^ "Elected Member for Leipzig 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/WK025-40.shtml
- ^ https://wahlen.sachsen.de/landtagswahl-2014-wahlergebnisse.php?_ptabs=%7B%22%23tab-stimmenverteilung%22%3A1%7D&_cp=&wahlkreis=27