Vogtland 1

1: Vogtland 1
1: Vogtland 1
Electoral district; for the Landtag of Saxony
	Vogtland 1 in 2024
District	Vogtland
Electorate	61,178 (2024)
Major settlements	Plauen and Pausa-Mühltroff
Current electoral district
Created	2014
Party	CDU
Member	Jörg Schmidt

Vogtland 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 1. It is within the district of Vogtlandkreis.^[2]

Geography

The constituency includes the cities of Plauen and Pausa-Mühltroff and the municipalities of Rosenbach and Weischlitz within Vogtlandkreis.

There were 61,178 eligible voters in 2024.^[2]

History

Since the introduction of the sixty constituency system in 1994:

Election	No.	Name	Borders	Electorate
1994	2	Plauen	City of Plauen	55,426
1999	2		City of Plauen, excluding the now incorporated district of Großfriesen	53,769
2004	1		City of Plauen	58,093
2009				56,248
2014		Vogtland 1		53,832
2019				51,987
2024			City of Plauen Town of Pausa-Mühltroff Districts of Rosenbach and Weischlitz within Vogtlandkreis	61,178

Members

	Member	Party	%
2014	Frank Heidan	CDU	33.1
2019	Frank Schaufel	AfD	30.0
2024	Jörg Schmidt	CDU	38.4

Election results

2024 election

State election (2024): Vogtland 1^[3]
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	Jörg Schmidt		16,425	38.4	6.7	15,008	35.0	2.1
	AfD	Mathias Weiser		14,661	34.3	4.4	13,758	32.1	3.9
	BSW	Belinda Eißmann		5,321	12.4		6,279	14.7
	SPD	Juliane Pfeil		2,595	6.1	3.2	2,663	6.2	2.1
	Left	Maria Grünler		1,248	2.9	9.3	1,100	2.6	8.2
	Greens	Gerhard Liebscher		1,033	2.4	5.6	1,058	2.5	4.2
	Freie Sachsen						673	1.6
	FW	Reinhold Dörfler		1,022	2.4	1.1	555	1.3	1.4
	APT						461	1.1
	FDP	Lino Markfort		463	1.1	4.4	377	0.9	3.3
	PARTEI						351	0.8	0.7
	Values						167	0.4
	BD						99	0.2
	Bündnis C						72	0.2
	dieBasis						68	0.2
	Pirates						58	0.1
	V-Partei3						55	0.1
	ÖDP						27	0.1
	BüSo						23	0.1
Informal votes				353			269
Total valid votes				42,768			42,852
Turnout				43,121	70.5	6.6
	CDU gain from AfD		Majority	1,764	4.1

2019 election

State election (2019): Vogtland 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	Frank Schaufel		9,444	30.0	18.5	8,983	28.5	17.2
	CDU			9,364	29.8	3.3	9,967	31.6	4.7
	Left			3,856	12.3	8.6	3,529	11.2	9.1
	SPD			3,039	9.7	6.0	2,717	8.6	8.5
	Greens			2,655	8.4	1.2	2,218	7.0	2.1
	FDP			1,678	5.3	0.9	1,285	4.1	0.6
	FW			1,396	4.4	2.5	719	2.3	1.2
	APT						694	2.2	1.2
	PARTEI						520	1.7	1.0
	NPD						209	0.7	4.0
	Verjüngungsforschung						169	0.5
	The Blue Party						106	0.3
	AdPM						102	0.3
	ÖDP						77	0.2
	Pirates						68	0.2	0.6
	Humanists						56	0.2
	DKP						38	0.1
	PDV						34	0.1
	BüSo						14	0.0	0.1
Informal votes				395			322
Total valid votes				31,432			31,505
Turnout				31,827	61.2	14.7
	AfD gain from CDU		Majority	80	0.2

2014 election

State election (2014): Vogtland 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	Frank Heidan		8,140	33.1		8,943	36.3
	Left			5,137	20.9		4,999	20.3
	SPD			3,866	15.7		3,723	15.1
	AfD			2,832	11.5		2,784	11.3
	Greens			1,770	7.2		1,195	4.9
	FDP			1,086	4.4		865	3.5
	NPD			1,007	4.1		1,161	4.7
	FW			460	1.9		262	1.1
	APT						253	1.0
	Pirates			265	1.1		186	0.8
	PARTEI						169	0.7
	DSU						49	0.2
	Pro Germany Citizens' Movement						25	0.1
	BüSo						23	0.1
Informal votes				486			412
Total valid votes				24,563			24,637
Turnout				25,049	46.5	8.3
	CDU win new seat		Majority	3,003	12.2

References

^ "Jörg Schmidt, CDU | Der Sächsische Landtag". www.landtag.sachsen.de. Retrieved 7 January 2026.
^ ^a ^b "Wahlkreise". geoviewer.sachsen.de. Retrieved 7 January 2026.
^ https://www.tagesschau.de/wahl/archiv/2024-09-01-LT-DE-SN/charts/wahlkreis-detail/WK001-44.shtml
^ https://www.wahlen.sachsen.de/landtagswahl-2019-wahlergebnisse.php?wahlkreis=1&_ptabs=%7B%22%23tab-stimmenverteilung%22%3A1%7D
^ https://wahlen.sachsen.de/landtagswahl-2014-wahlergebnisse.php?_ptabs=%7B%22%23tab-stimmenverteilung%22%3A1%7D&wahlkreis=1