Leipzig Land 3

23: Leipzig Land 3
23: Leipzig Land 3
Electoral district; for the Landtag of Saxony
	Leipzig Land 3 in 2024
District	Leipzig (district)
Electorate	54,499 (2024)
Major settlements	Bad Lausick, Colditz, Grimma, and Naunhof
Current electoral district
Party	Free Voters
Member	Matthias Berger

Leipzig Land 3 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 23. It is within the district of Leipzig.^[2]

Geography

The constituency comprises the towns of Bad Lausick, Colditz, Grimma, and Naunhof, and the municipalities of Belgershain, Großpösna, Otterwisch, and Parthenstein within the district of Leipzig.

There were 54,499 eligible voters in 2024.^[3]

Members

	Member	Party	%
2014	Svend-Gunnar Kirmes	CDU	42.3
2019	Svend-Gunnar Kirmes	CDU	29.9
2024	Matthias Berger	FW	36.6

Election results

2024 election

State election (2024): Leipzig Land 3^[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	%	±%
	FW	Matthias Berger		14,882	36.6	23.5	5,393	13.2	6.4
	AfD	Jörg Dornau		12,479	30.6	1.1	12,627	30.9	1.6
	CDU	Volker Klostermann		9,021	22.2	7.7	11,939	29.2	4.0
	BSW						4,282	10.5
	SPD	Ingo Runge		1,686	4.1	2.4	2,647	6.5	1.3
	Left	Daniel Peisker		1,316	3.2	7.5	951	2.3	6.1
	Greens	Adriano Schwanke		677	1.7	3.8	992	2.4	2.9
	FDP	Philipp Alexander Loll		356	0.9	2.6	276	0.7	3.1
	Freie Sachsen	Mario Franz		298	0.7		774	1.9
	APT						340	0.8
	PARTEI						201	0.5	0.5
	BD						106	0.3
	Values						67	0.2
	Pirates						63	0.2
	dieBasis						57	0.1
	V-Partei3						38	0.1
	BüSo						29	0.1
	Bündnis C						25	0.1
	ÖDP						18	0.0
Informal votes				458			348
Total valid votes				40,715			40,825
Turnout				41,173	75.5	12.0
	FW win new seat		Majority	2,403	6.0

2014 election

State election (2014): Leipzig Land 3^[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	Svend-Gunnar Kirmes		11,218	42.3		11,725	44.1
	Left			5,353	20.2		4,444	16.7
	AfD			3,211	12.1		2,904	10.9
	SPD			3,056	11.5		3,122	11.7
	FDP			1,216	4.6		1,085	4.1
	NPD			1,086	4.1		1,228	4.6
	Greens			1,071	4.0		1,075	4.0
	APT						304	1.1
	FW						304	1.1
	Pirates			285	1.1		210	0.8
	PARTEI						99	0.4
	Pro Germany Citizens' Movement						40	0.2
	BüSo						33	0.1
	DSU						32	0.1
Informal votes				463			354
Total valid votes				26,496			26,605
Turnout				26,959	47.2	14.0
	CDU win new seat		Majority	5,865	22.1

References

^ "Elected Member for Leipzig Land 3". 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/WK023-38.shtml
^ https://wahlen.sachsen.de/landtagswahl-2014-wahlergebnisse.php?_ptabs=%7B%22%23tab-stimmenverteilung%22%3A1%7D&_cp=&wahlkreis=25