Mittelsachsen 3

19: Mittelsachsen 3
19: Mittelsachsen 3
Electoral district; for the Landtag of Saxony
	Mittelsachsen 3 in 2024
District	Mittelsachsen
Electorate	60,971 (2024)
Major settlements	Burgstädt, Lunzenau, Mittweida, Penig, and Rochlitz
Current electoral district
Party	CDU
Member	Thomas Schmidt

Mittelsachsen 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 19. It is within the district of Mittelsachsen.^[2]

Geography

The constituency comprises the towns of Burgstädt, Lunzenau, Mittweida, Penig, and Rochlitz, and the districts of Altmittweida, Claußnitz, Erlau, Hartmannsdorf, Königsfeld, Königshain-Wiederau, Lichtenau, Mühlau, Rossau, Seelitz, Taura, Wechselburg, and Zettlitz within Mittelsachsen.

There were 60,971 eligible voters in 2024.^[3]

Members

	Member	Party	%
2014	Iris Firmenich	CDU	51.3
2019	Iris Firmenich		37.1
2024	Thomas Schmidt		40.2

Election results

2024 election

State election (2024): Mittelsachsen 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	%	±%
	CDU	Thomas Schmidt		18,289	40.2	3.4	15,487	33.8	2.7
	AfD	Holger Zielinski		17,355	38.2	8.4	14,627	31.9	3.1
	BSW						6,404	14.0
	FW	Nico Geisler		2,897	6.4	0.7	1,263	2.8	1.6
	Left	Katja Reichel		2,657	5.8	4.0	1,265	2.8	6.4
	SPD	Mario Rolf Lorenz		12,238	4.9	1.9	2,746	6.0	1.4
	Greens	Wolfram Günther		1,061	2.3	3.2	1,050	2.3	2.5
	Freie Sachsen	Orest Meyer		478	1.1		1,325	2.9
	APT						415	0.9
	FDP	Nikita Soldatov		468	1.0	3.1	329	0.7	3.2
	PARTEI						256	0.6	0.6
	BD						164	0.4
	Values						109	0.2
	Bündnis C						107	0.2
	Pirates						73	0.2
	V-Partei3						57	0.1
	dieBasis						51	0.1
	BüSo						45	0.1
	ÖDP						31	0.1
Informal votes				744			383
Total valid votes				45,443			45,804
Turnout				46,187	75.8	7.3
	CDU hold		Majority	934	2.0

2019 election

State election (2019): Mittelsachsen 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	Y Iris Firmenich		12,127	37.1	14.2	11,647	35.6	10.2
	AfD	Holger Zielinski		10,222	31.3		10,017	30.6	21.0
	Left	Eyk Fechner		3,106	9.5	12.3	2,854	8.7	9.8
	FW	Rico Walter-Bretschneider		2,119	6.5		1,345	4.1	3.9
	SPD	Oliver Mende		2,078	6.4	3.7	2,362	7.2	3.7
	Greens	Renate Sauer		1,626	5.0	0.7	1,470	4.5	1.6
	FDP	Philipp Hartewig		1,376	4.2	0.3	1,321	4.0	0.2
	APT						525	1.6	0.5
	PARTEI						382	1.2	0.9
	Verjüngungsforschung						204	0.6
	NPD						174	0.5	4.2
	The Blue Party						114	0.3
	Pirates						75	0.2	0.6
	ÖDP						70	0.2
	Awakening of German Patriots - Central Germany						54	0.2
	Humanists						49	0.1
	PDV						31	0.1
	DKP						26	0.1
	BüSo						10	0.0	0.1
Informal votes				485			409
Total valid votes				32,654			32,730
Turnout				33,139	67.1	17.1
	CDU hold		Majority	1,905	5.8	23.7

2014 election

State election (2014): Mittelsachsen 3^[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	Iris Firmenich		12,996	51.3		11,670	45.8
	Left			5,529	21.8		4,728	18.5
	SPD			2,554	10.1		2,778	10.9
	AfD						2,441	9.6
	NPD			1,569	6.2		1,192	4.7
	Greens			1,088	4.3		752	2.9
	FDP			980	3.9		977	3.8
	FW						297	1.2
	APT						272	1.1
	Pirates			609	2.4		209	0.8
	PARTEI						88	0.3
	Pro Germany Citizens' Movement						43	0.2
	DSU						32	0.1
	BüSo						29	0.1
Informal votes				563			380
Total valid votes				25,325			25,508
Turnout				25,888	50.0	17.2
	CDU win new seat		Majority	7,467	29.5

References

^ "Elected Member for Mittelsachsen 3". 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/WK019-40.shtml
^ https://www.wahlen.sachsen.de/landtagswahl-2019-wahlergebnisse.php?_ptabs=%7B%22%23tab-stimmenverteilung%22%3A1%7D&wahlkreis=20
^ http://wahlen.sachsen.de/landtagswahl-2014-wahlergebnisse.php?_ptabs=%7B%22%23tab-stimmenverteilung%22%3A1%7D&wahlkreis=20