Aalen (electoral district)

26: Aalen
Electoral district for the Landtag of Baden-Württemberg
Aalen in 2026
District	Ostalbkreis
Electorate	123,249 (2026)
Major settlements	Aalen, Adelmannsfelden, Bopfingen, Ellenberg, Ellwangen, Hüttlingen, Jagstzell, Kirchheim am Ries, Lauchheim, Neresheim, Neuler, Oberkochen, Rainau, Riesbürg, Rosenberg, Stödtlen, Tannhausen, Unterschneidheim, Westhausen, and Wört
Current electoral district
Party	CDU
Member	Winfried Mack

Aalen is an electoral constituency (German: Wahlkreis) represented in the Landtag of Baden-Württemberg. Since 2026, it has elected one member via first-past-the-post voting. Voters cast a second vote under which additional seats are allocated proportionally state-wide. Under the constituency numbering system, it is designated as constituency 26. It is wholly within the district of Ostalbkreis.

Geography

The constituency includes the municipalities of Aalen, Adelmannsfelden, Bopfingen, Ellenberg, Ellwangen, Hüttlingen, Jagstzell, Kirchheim am Ries, Lauchheim, Neresheim, Neuler, Oberkochen, Rainau, Riesbürg, Rosenberg, Stödtlen, Tannhausen, Unterschneidheim, Westhausen, and Wört, within the district of Ostalbkreis.

There were 123,249 eligible voters in 2026.

Members

First mandate

Both prior to and since the electoral reforms for the 2026 election, the winner of the plurality of the vote (first-past-the-post) in every constituency won the first mandate.

Election		Member	Party	%
	1976	Eugen Volz	CDU
	1980
	1984
	1988
	1992	Gustav Wabro
	1996
	2001	Winfried Mack
	2006			49.1
	2011			46.4
	2016			35.4
	2021			29.8
	2026			42.6

Second mandate

Prior to the electoral reforms for the 2026 election, the seats in the state parliament were allocated proportionately amongst parties which received more than 5% of valid votes across the state. The seats that were won proportionally for parties that did not win as many first mandates as seats they were entitled to, were allocated to their candidates which received the highest proportion of the vote in their respective constituencies. This meant that following some elections, a constituency would have one or more members elected under a second mandate.

Prior to 2011, these second mandates were allocated to the party candidates who got the greatest number of votes, whilst from 2011-2021, these were allocated according to percentage share of the vote.

Election		Member	Party
1976		Alfred Geisel	SPD
1980
1984
1988
1992
1996		Ulrich Pfeifle
Nov 1997		Ursula Haußmann
2001
2006
2011
2016
2021

Election results

2026 election

State election (2026): Aalen
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 Winfried Mack		36,840	42.6	12.8	31,633	36.5	6.7
	AfD	Chris Hegel		18,287	21.1	11.7	17,847	20.6	11.1
	Greens	Bennet Müller		17,303	20.0	5.0	21,192	24.4	0.6
	SPD	Ariane Bergerhoff		6,366	7.4	2.6	4,803	5.5	4.5
	FDP	Felix Wanke		3,285	3.8	5.3	3,258	3.8	5.4
	Left	Carola Glaser		3,256	3.8	1.1	2,624	3.0	0.3
	FW						1,722	2.0	7.7
	BSW	Steffi Bunke		1,140	1.3		1,306	1.5
	APT						640	0.7
	Volt						474	0.5	0.1
	PARTEI						288	0.3	0.9
	Pensioners						157	0.2
	dieBasis						152	0.2	0.8
	Values						149	0.2
	Bündnis C						136	0.2
	Team Todenhöfer						93	0.1
	ÖDP						85	0.1	0.3
	Verjüngungsforschung						56	0.1
	PdF						44	0.1
	KlimalisteBW						35	0.0	0.6
	Humanists						33	0.0
Informal votes				794			544
Total valid votes				86,477			86,727
Turnout				87,271	70.8	7.0
	CDU hold		Majority	18,553	21.5	16.7

2021 election

State election (2026): Aalen

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	CDU	Winfried Mack	23,076	29.8	5.6
	Greens	Alexander Asbrock	19,353	25.0	0.9
	SPD	Carola Merk-Rudolph	7,738	10.0	2.0
	FW	Franz Josef Grill	7,530	9.7
	AfD	Jan-Hendrik Czada	7,352	9.5	5.0
	FDP	Manuel Reiger	7,060	9.1	2.9
	Left	Justin Niebius	2,091	2.7	0.4
	PARTEI	Marcel Christof	921	1.2
	dieBasis	Karlheinz Siegmund	721	0.9
	WiR2020	Franz Josef Gruber	486	0.6
	KlimalisteBW	Christoph Haberl	466	0.6
	Volt	Anne Lobecke	319	0.4
	ÖDP	Matthias Wolff	311	0.4	0.2
Majority			3,723	4.8
Rejected ballots			579	0.7	0.4
Turnout			78,003	63.9	6.7
Registered electors			122,157
	CDU hold		Swing

See also

• Politics of Baden-Württemberg
• Landtag of Baden-Württemberg