Ettlingen (electoral district)

31: Ettlingen
Electoral district for the Landtag of Baden-Württemberg
Ettlingen in 2026
District	Karlsruhe
Electorate	94,209 (2026)
Major settlements	Ettlingen, Karlsbad, Malsch, Marxzell, Pfinztal, Rheinstetten, and Waldbronn
Current electoral district
Party	CDU
Member	Lorenzo Saladino

Ettlingen 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 31.

It is wholly within the district of Karlsruhe.

Geography

The constituency includes the municipalities of Ettlingen, Karlsbad, Malsch, Marxzell, Pfinztal, Rheinstetten, and Waldbronn, within the district of Karlsruhe.

There were 94,209 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	Camill Siegwarth	CDU
	1980	Jürgen Eisele
	1984
	1988
	1992	Erwin Vetter
	1996
	2001			48.4
	2006	Werner Raab		46.7
	2011			41.0
	2016	Barbara Saebel	Grüne	29.5
	2021			33.5
	2026	Lorenzo Saladino	CDU	35.1

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 2011, this constituency did not elect any members on a second mandate.

Election		Member	Party		Member	Party
2011		Frank Mentrup	SPD
Mar 2013		Anneke Graner
2016		Christine Neumann	CDU
2021					Alena Trauschel	FDP

Election results

2026 election

State election (2026): Ettlingen
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	Lorenzo Saladino		23,939	35.1	10.8	21,288	31.0	6.8
	Greens	Kai Keune		17,850	26.1	7.4	21,344	31,1	2.4
	AfD	Thomas Kastell		10,969	16.1	6.6	10,874	15.8	6.4
	SPD	Anneke Graner		6,764	9.9	1.9	4,348	6.3	5.5
	FDP	Alena Fink-Trauschel		4,268	6.3	4.0	3,270	4.8	5.5
	Left	Lars Rinn		2,987	4.4	1.6	2,605	3.8	1.0
	FW						1,257	1.8	1.4
	BSW						896	1.3
	Volt	Markus Schulz-Ritz		1,503	2.2		861	1.3
	APT						723	1.1
	PARTEI						297	0.4	1.2
	Bündnis C						183	0.3
	dieBasis						159	0.2	0.8
	Pensioners						108	0.2
	Values						102	0.1
	Team Todenhöfer						95	0.1
	ÖDP						76	0.1	0.4
	Verjüngungsforschung						43	0.1
	KlimalisteBW						42	0.1	0.9
	Humanists						39	0.1
	PdF						35	0.1
Informal votes				793			428
Total valid votes				68,280			68,645
Turnout				69,073	73.3	5.7
	CDU gain from Greens		Majority	6,089	9.0

2021 election

State election (2026): Ettlingen

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Greens	Barbara Saebel	21,148	33.5	4.0
	CDU	Christine Neumann	15,297	24.2	4.6
	SPD	Aisha Fahir	7,457	11.8	2.0
	FDP	Alena Trauschel	6,457	10.2	1.7
	AfD	Michael Blos	5,979	9.5	4.6
	FW	Steffen Schmid	2,025	3.2
	Left	Jörg Rupp	1,759	2.8	0.3
	PARTEI	Leon Siebert	1,001	1.6	0.5
	dieBasis	Judith Richwien	643	1.0
	KlimalisteBW	Cordula Markert	604	1.0
	WiR2020	Karin Wappler-Ruff	434	0.7
	ÖDP	Georg-Maria Austermann	297	0.5
Majority			5,851	9.3
Rejected ballots			493	0.8	0.2
Turnout			63,594	67.6	6.3
Registered electors			94,043
	Greens hold		Swing

See also

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