Freudenstadt (electoral district)

45: Freudenstadt
Electoral district for the Landtag of Baden-Württemberg
Freudenstadt in 2026
District	Freudenstadt
Electorate	87,214 (2026)
Major settlements	Entirety of the district of Freudenstadt
Current electoral district
Party	CDU
Member	Katrin Schindele

Freudenstadt 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 45.

Geography

The constituency incorporates the entirety of the district of Freudenstadt.

There were 87,214 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	Norbert Schneider	CDU
	1980
	1984
	1988
	1992
	1996	Carmina Brenner
	2001			50.4
	2006			44.6
	Sep 2007	Norbert Beck
	2011			45.8
	2016			30.3
	2021	Katrin Schindele		27.3
	2026			41.5

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 2001, this constituency did not elect any members on a second mandate.

Election		Member	Party		Member	Party
2001		Michael Theurer	FDP
2006
Aug 2009
2011		Timm Kern	FDP
2016
2021					Uwe Hellstern	AfD

Election results

2026 election

State election (2026): Freudenstadt
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 Katrin Schindele		25,077	41.5	14.3	20,678	34.1	6.9
	AfD	Andreas Grammel		15,198	25.2	12.0	15,248	25.2	12.0
	Greens	Daniel Belling		9,815	16.2	8.5	13,332	22.0	2.7
	SPD	Betins Ahrens-Diez		3,677	6.1	2.3	2,673	4.4	4.0
	FDP	Veit Grünberg		2,660	4.4	10.4	2,694	4.4	10.4
	Left	Yannic Walheim		2,009	3.3	1.1	1,684	2.8	0.6
	BSW	Sabine Frank		1,126	1.9		978	1.6
	FW						934	1.5	3.0
	Bündnis C	Walter Schäuffele		852	1.4	0.3	626	1.0	0.1
	APT						568	0.9
	Volt						332	0.5
	Values						169	0.3
	PARTEI						163	0.3
	dieBasis						127	0.2	0.9
	Pensioners						107	0.2
	ÖDP						102	0.2	0.7
	Team Todenhöfer						73	0.1
	Verjüngungsforschung						31	0.1
	PdF						28	0.0
	KlimalisteBW						23	0.0	0.8
	Humanists						17	0.0
Informal votes				499			326
Total valid votes				60,414			60,587
Turnout				60,913	69.8	7.7
	CDU hold		Majority	9,879	16.3

See also

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