Eppingen (electoral district)

19: Eppingen
Electoral district for the Landtag of Baden-Württemberg
Heilbronn in 2026
District	Heilbronn
Electorate	108,321 (2026)
Major settlements	Abstatt, Bad Rappenau, Beilstein, Brackenheim, Cleebronn, Eppingen, Gemmingen, Güglingen, Ilsfeld, Kirchardt, Lauffen am Neckar, Massenbachhausen, Neckarwestheim, Pfaffenhofen, Schwaigern, Siegelsbach, Untergruppenbach, and Zaberfeld
Current electoral district
Party	CDU
Member	Michael Preusch

Eppingen 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 19. It is wholly within the district of Heilbronn.

Geography

The constituency includes the municipalities of Abstatt, Bad Rappenau, Beilstein, Brackenheim, Cleebronn, Eppingen, Gemmingen, Güglingen, Ilsfeld, Kirchardt, Lauffen am Neckar, Massenbachhausen, Neckarwestheim, Pfaffenhofen, Schwaigern, Siegelsbach, Untergruppenbach, and Zaberfeld, within the district of Heilbronn.

There were 108,321 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	Gotthilf Link	CDU
	1980
	1984
	1988	Gerd Zimmermann
	1992
	1996
	2001	Friedlinde Gurr-Hirsch		41.6
	2006			44.3
	2011			40.9
	2016			26.6
	2021	Erwin Köhler	Grüne	26.3
	2026	Michael Preusch	CDU	35.3

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.

Prior to 1984, there were no second mandate candidates elected from this constituency.

Election		Member	Party		Member	Party		Member	Party
1984		Wolfgang Bebber	SPD
1988
1992					Richard Drautz	FDP		Michael Herbricht	REP
1996
2001
May 2003		Ingo Rust
2006
2011
Feb 2015		Hans Heribert Blättgen
2016		Thomas Axel Palka	AfD
2021		Rainer Podeswa			Georg Heitlinger	FDP		Michael Preusch	CDU
Sep 2023		Dennis Klecker

Election results

2026 election

State election (2026): Eppingen
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	Michael Preusch		26,814	35.3	10.8	22,735	29.8	5.4
	AfD	Dennis Klecker		19,493	25.6	11.9	19,357	25.4	11.7
	Greens	N Erwin Köhler		14,676	19.3	7.0	18,023	23.7	2.7
	SPD	Bettina Fischer		5,442	7.2	4.0	4,132	5.4	5.7
	FDP	Georg Heitlinger		5,070	6.7	6.8	3,986	5.2	8.2
	Left	Emma Weber		2,826	3.7	1.1	2,180	2.9	0.3
	FW						1,540	2.0	1.1
	BSW						1,017	1.3
	APT						718	0.9
	Volt						531	0.7
	dieBasis						389	0.5	0.6
	PARTEI						357	0.5	1.4
	ÖDP	Carina Menakker		1,086	1.4	0.2	337	0.4	0.8
	Values	Horst Rothenhöfer		330	0.4		221	0.3
	Bündis Deutschland	Jochen Holzmann		265	0.3
	Bündnis C						236	0.3
	Pensioners						169	0.2
	Team Todenhöfer						102	0.1
	Verjüngungsforschung						52	0.1
	PdF						52	0.1
	KlimalisteBW						36	0.0
	Humanists						35	0.0
Informal votes				695			492
Total valid votes				76,002			76,205
Turnout				76,697	70.8	5.4
	CDU gain from Greens		Majority	7,321	9.7

2021 election

State election (2026): Eppingen

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Greens	Erwin Köhler	18,109	26.3	0.2
	CDU	Michael Preusch	16,824	24.5	2.1
	AfD	Rainer Podeswa	9,434	13.7	4.6
	FDP	Georg Heitlinger	9,252	13.4	3.8
	SPD	Jens Schäfer	7,665	11.1	2.3
	FW	Jan Rittaler	2,123	3.1
	Left	Emma Weber	1,790	2.6	0.5
	PARTEI	Milena Götz	1,267	1.8
	ÖDP	Klaus Ries-Müller	845	1.2
	dieBasis	Mathias Haag	753	1.1
	WiR2020	Jürgen Wilbo	729	1.1
Majority			1,285	1.8
Rejected ballots			575	0.8	0.3
Turnout			69,366	65.4	6.6
Registered electors			105,990
	Greens gain from CDU		Swing

See also

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