Dresden 2

41: Dresden 2
Electoral district for the Landtag of Saxony
Dresden 2 in 2024
District	Dresden
Electorate	55,694 (2024)
Major settlements	City-district Neustadt, and sub-districts Johannstadt-Nord, and Johannstadt-Süd (Altstadt)
Current electoral district
Party	Grüne
Member	Thomas Löser

Dresden 2 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 41. It is within the city of Dresden.

Geography

The constituency comprises the district of Neustadt; and the sub-districts of Johannstadt-Nord and Johannstadt-Süd of the district of Altstadt within the city of Dresden.

There were 55,694 eligible voters in 2024.

Members

Election		Member	Party	%
	2014	Christian Piwarz	CDU	34.5
	2019			32.4
	2024	Thomas Löser	Grüne	36.4

Election results

2024 election

State election (2024): Dresden 2
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	%	±%
	Greens	Thomas Löser		16,100	36.4	4.1	9,494	21.4	7.8
	CDU	Barbara Oehlke		9,175	20.7	2.2	10,569	23.8	4.2
	AfD	Andreas Harlaß		5,893	13.3	0.3	5,669	12.8	0.8
	BSW	Ulrike Rothe		3,972	9.0		3,777	8.5
	SPD	Sophie Koch		3,619	8.2	0.2	6,516	14.7	5.5
	Left	Anja Stephan		3,571	8.1	11.5	5,039	11.4	5.5
	Independent	Hendrik Dietrich		894	2.0
	PARTEI						805	1.8	1.6
	FDP	Carl Gruner		465	1.1	2.7	521	1.2	3.0
	Pirates						502	1.1
	FW	Stefan Schneider		377	0.9		250	0.6	1.1
	Freie Sachsen	Katja Kaiser		116	0.3		373	0.8
	APT						283	0.6
	V-Partei3						112	0.3
	dieBasis						97	0.2
	BD						93	0.2
	Values						90	0.2
	ÖDP						68	0.2
	BüSo	Boris Heider		75	0.2		39	0.1
	Bündnis C						38	0.1
Informal votes				270			192
Total valid votes				44,257			44,335
Turnout				44,527	79.9	6.5
	Greens win new seat		Majority	6,925	15.7

2019 election

State election (2019): Dresden 2
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 Christian Piwarz		14,449	32.4	2.1	13,589	30.3	7.8
	AfD	André Wendt		12,396	27.8	19.7	11,426	25.5	16.4
	Greens	Andrea Mühle		6,124	13.7	6.4	5,285	11.8	3.2
	Left	Franziska Fehst		4,830	10.8	7.2	4,065	9.1	8.8
	SPD	Kristin Sturm		3,414	7.7	11.4	3,613	8.1	4.9
	FDP	Andreas Mogwitz		3,358	7.5	2.8	2,939	6.6	2.3
	FW						1,567	3.5	2.2
	PARTEI						625	1.4	0.7
	APT						572	1.3	0.2
	NPD						229	0.5	3.7
	Verjüngungsforschung						208	0.5
	ÖDP						154	0.3
	Pirates						149	0.3	0.8
	The Blue Party						137	0.3
	Humanists						91	0.2
	Awakening of German Patriots - Central Germany						83	0.2
	DKP						39	0.1
	PDV						31	0.1
	BüSo						30	0.1	0.2
Informal votes				652			391
Total valid votes				44,571			44,832
Turnout				45,223	71.2	13.8
	CDU hold		Majority	2,053	4.6	10.8

2014 election

State election (2014): Dresden 2
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	Christian Piwarz		12,583	34.5		13,944	38.1
	SPD			6,983	19.1		4,757	13.0
	Left			6,587	18.0		6,565	17.9
	AfD			2,944	8.1		3,314	9.1
	Greens			2,655	7.3		3,144	8.6
	FDP			1,721	4.7		1,584	4.3
	NPD			1,291	3.5		1,520	4.2
	FW			1,007	2.8		477	1.3
	APT						415	1.1
	Pirates			595	1.6		413	1.1
	PARTEI						271	0.7
	BüSo			134	0.4		102	0.3
	Pro Germany Citizens' Movement						51	0.1
	DSU						32	0.1
Informal votes				514			425
Total valid votes				36,500			36,589
Turnout				37,014	57.4	0.2
	CDU win new seat		Majority	5,600	15.4

See also

• Politics of Saxony
• Landtag of Saxony