Rottweil (electoral district)

53: Rottweil
Electoral district for the Landtag of Baden-Württemberg
Rottweil in 2026
District	Rottweil
Electorate	102,830 (2026)
Major settlements	Entirety of the district of Rottweil
Current electoral district
Party	CDU
Member	Stefan Teufel

Rottweil 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 53.

Geography

The constituency incorporates the entirety of the district of Rottweil.

There were 102,830 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	Robert Gleichauf	CDU
	1980	Josef Rebhan
	1984
	1988
	1992
	1996	Hans-Jochem Steim
	2001			52.1
	2006	Stefan Teufel		48.4
	2011			45.9
	2016			33.0
	2021			26.7
	2026			37.7

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.

Election		Member	Party		Member	Party
1976		Erhard Eppler	SPD
1980
Jul 1982		Klaus Haischer
1984
1988
1992		Liane Offermanns	REP
1996		Christian Käs			Dieter Kleinmann	FDP
2001
2006
2011
2016		Emil Sänze	AfD		Gerhard Aden	FDP
Nov 2018					Daniel Karrais
2021

Election results

2026 election

State election (2026): Rottweil
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 Stefan Teufel		27,050	37.7	11.0	23,831	33.1	6.5
	AfD	Emil Sänze		17,629	24.5	11.7	18,028	25.1	12.3
	Greens	Artur Eichin		11,005	15.3	10.7	15,736	21.9	4.2
	FDP	Daniel Karrais		6,150	8.6	7.7	3,772	5.2	11.0
	SPD	Ali Zarabi		3,854	5.4	2.0	3,100	4.3	3.0
	Left	Daniel Hettich		2,164	3.0	0.4	1,886	2.6
	FW						1,379	1.9	0.9
	BSW	Karl-Heinz Eith		1,338	1.9		1,184	1.6
	APT						702	1.0
	Volt	Marius Dettki		1,229	1.7		670	0.9
	ÖDP	Daniel Eggebrecht		630	0.9	1.1	326	0.5	1.5
	Values	Matthias Schultz		449	0.6		333	0.5
	Bündnis C	Mike Kreigelstein		344	0.5		242	0.3
	PARTEI						194	0.3
	dieBasis						189	0.3	1.1
	Pensioners						152	0.2
	Team Todenhöfer						67	0.1
	PdF						54	0.1
	Verjüngungsforschung						51	0.1
	Humanists						24	0.0
	KlimalisteBW						18	0.0	0.8
Informal votes				670			574
Total valid votes				71,842			71,938
Turnout				72,512	70.5	6.2
	CDU hold		Majority	9,421	13.2

See also

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