Mittelsachsen 2

18: Mittelsachsen 2
Electoral district for the Landtag of Saxony
Mittelsachsen 2 in 2024
District	Mittelsachsen
Electorate	58,262 (2024)
Major settlements	Augustusburg, Brand-Erbisdorf, Flöha, Frankenberg, Hainichen, and Oederan
Current electoral district
Party	AfD
Member	Romy Penz

Mittelsachsen 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 18. It is within the district of Mittelsachsen.

Geography

The constituency comprises the towns of Augustusburg, Brand-Erbisdorf, Flöha, Frankenberg, Hainichen, and Oederan, and the districts of Eppendorf, Großhartmannsdorf, Leubsdorf, Niederwiesa, and Oberschöna within Mittelsachsen.

There were 58,262 eligible voters in 2024.

Members

Election		Member	Party	%
	2014	Steve Ittershagen	CDU	42.2
	2019	Rolf Weigand	AfD	33.7
	2024	Romy Penz		39.8

Election results

2024 election

State election (2024): Mittelsachsen 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	%	±%
	AfD	Romy Penz		17,191	39.8	7.5	15,539	35.9	4.3
	CDU	Susan Leithoff		15,368	35.6	0.4	14,539	33.6	2.3
	BSW	Jörg Scheibe		4,893	11.3		5,533	12.8
	FW	Timo Ahnert		1,608	3.7	3.7	957	2.2	2.1
	SPD	Sven Kaden		1,573	3.6	2.9	2,391	5.5	1.5
	Left	Laura Kunze		1,279	3.0	6.5	954	2.2	6.6
	Greens	Markus Scholz		645	1.5	3.0	734	1.7	2.4
	FDP	Marko Trautmann		359	0.8	2.9	264	0.6	3.0
	Freie Sachsen	Wilko Winkler		282	0.7		1,194	2.8
	APT						429	1.0
	PARTEI						225	0.5	0.5
	BD						133	0.3
	Values						101	0.2
	dieBasis						85	0.2
	Bündnis C						75	0.2
	Pirates						56	0.1
	V-Partei3						51	0.1
	ÖDP						27	0.1
	BüSo						20	0.0
Informal votes				527			418
Total valid votes				43,198			43,307
Turnout				43,725	75.0	5.9
	AfD hold		Majority	1,823	4.2

2019 election

State election (2019): Mittelsachsen 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	%	±%
	AfD	Rolf Weigand		13,114	33.7		12,552	32.2	22.6
	CDU	N Steve Ittershagen		12,477	32.1	10.1	12,154	31.2	11.4
	Left	Jana Pinka		4,615	11.9	13.0	3,395	8.7	9.6
	FW	Holger Gustmann		3,175	8.2		2,080	5.3	3.9
	SPD	Alexander Geissler		2,406	6.2	4.7	2,642	6.8	4.5
	Greens	Markus Scholz		1,854	4.8	1.6	2,467	6.3	1.5
	FDP	Benjamin Karabinski		1,216	3.1	2.5	1,522	3.9
	PARTEI						552	1.4	0.6
	APT						516	1.3	0.3
	Verjüngungsforschung						213	0.5
	NPD						196	0.5	4.1
	ÖDP						145	0.4
	The Blue Party						142	0.4
	Pirates						107	0.3	.0.8
	Humanists						81	0.2
	Awakening of German Patriots - Central Germany						62	0.2
	BüSo						39	0.1	0.3
	PDV						38	0.1
	DKP						German Communist Party	26	0.1
Informal votes				475			403
Total valid votes				38,857			38,929
Turnout				39,332	69.3	17.5
	AfD gain from CDU		Majority	637	1.6

2014 election

State election (2014): Mittelsachsen 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	Steve Ittershagen		12,662	42.2		12,905	42.6
	Left			7,473	24.9		5,542	18.3
	SPD			3,262	10.9		3,427	11.3
	AfD						2,894	9.6
	NPD			1,964	6.5		1,400	4.6
	Greens			1,909	6.4		1,457	4.8
	FDP			1,687	5.6		1,195	3.9
	FW						429	1.4
	Pirates			587	2.0		320	1.1
	APT						302	1.0
	PARTEI						231	0.8
	BüSo			481	1.6		92	0.3
	Pro Germany Citizens' Movement						64	0.2
	DSU						45	0.1
Informal votes				635			357
Total valid votes				30,035			30,303
Turnout				30,660	51.8	10.8
	CDU win new seat		Majority	5,189	17.3

See also

• Politics of Saxony
• Landtag of Saxony